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Internet Marketing - The Amazing Ron Paul

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Wow, check out Ron Paul’s Internet Marketing campaign!

Without doubt, Ron Paul’s success on the Internet is nothing short of amazing. His team’s approach has been ground breaking in the way they’ve applied Internet Marketing techniques, not only to reach potential supporters, but to attract a significant number of contributors.

Although not currently one of the frontrunners, Ron Paul is now being called an “Internet Phenomenon” by many political strategists.

While the Internet Marketing strategies being used by Ron Paul’s team are not necessarily unique, the dedication his team has shown in reaching potential supporters online has been outstanding. By deploying a very aggressive Internet Marketing campaign, Ron Paul’s team has attracted a flood of contributors and a huge number of avid supporters.

In a very short period of time, Ron Paul’s team has developed an enormous Internet presence. In fact, anyone who’s been online in the past six months has certainly seen multiple references to Ron Paul on the news or social media sites.

If you consider the raw numbers, Ron Paul’s Internet Marketing strategy leaves his competition in the dust - and it’s a big reason he’s still in the race:

Consider the facts …

· Last month, Ron Paul’s site had well over a MILLION visitors, more than all other Republican candidates combined!

· In one day, Ron Paul’s team raised over $6 Million dollars on the internet.

· They raised approximately $20 Million Dollars in the 4th quarter of 2007 alone.

· On YouTube, there are 109,000 videos currently available about him.

· And in the past month there have been over 89,000 blog posts about him, according to Google.

The bottom line … Ron Paul’s focus on Internet Marketing is changing the face of political campaign strategies.

Ron Paul is not the only candidate making use of the Internet … on the other side of the aisle, Barack Obama’s team has deployed a very well designed Internet Marketing strategy - over 728,00 visitors last month - and has been very effective in reaching potential supporters and contributors in his own right.

An Objective View

My analysis of Ron Paul’s internet success is purely driven by curiosity; I have no political affiliation or opinion of Ron Paul’s political platform.

What intrigues me about Ron Paul’s Internet strategy is not only the response he’s received (over a Million visitors last month), it’s the number of contributors he’s attracted and the dedicated constituency he’s built on the Internet. With a major part of his communications being conveyed via the Internet, Ron Paul’s campaign team has demonstrated beyond any doubt that Internet Marketing is a formidable tool in building a successful political campaign strategy.

Perhaps the Ron Paul campaign chose to focus more on Internet strategies and less on other media simply due to budget constraints. Whatever the reason, their decision to use the Internet as an integral part of their campaign strategy is undoubtedly a big reason he’s still in the race.

This is not the first time we’ve seen a candidate deploy an Internet Marketing strategy as a part of a political campaign strategy - but it may be the first major campaign that has used the Internet as a primary part of their campaign strategy.

So, what does this say about future political campaigns and the tactics that will be developed to exploit the enormous potential of the Internet?

Political campaign teams can be very creative in developing marketing methods and I have no doubt we will learn a great deal concerning Internet Marketing by watching the successful political campaigns.

If ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, then the Internet Marketing strategies being developed by political campaign teams like Ron Paul’s will no doubt be leveraged by other organizations to help build their own visibility and success.

Ron Paul’s Internet Strategy

So, what does Ron Paul’s team do differently?

The short answer lies not in what his team does, as much as it does with how his team ‘works’ their strategy.

First, the Internet Marketing strategy Ron Paul’s team has implemented focuses on some very basic Search Engine Marketing tactics:

· Website optimization,

· Compelling content,

· Intuitive site navigation,

· Social Media,

· Press Releases,

· Videos,

· Blogging,

· RSS feeds

· Email Marketing, Newsletters, & Breaking News

Pretty straight forward, right? No real surprises here with the exception that Ron Paul’s team does not really use of PPC strategies to any great extent.

The real difference lies is the way Ron Paul’s team implements their tactics, especially when compared to other Presidential contenders’ strategies.

The body of the site contains very compelling content that is easy to find and leads you to endless amounts of interesting information concerning Ron Paul.

Maybe the most obvious difference is Ron Paul’s site is constantly being updated and changed; the team adds new information daily and continually works to improve their Search Engine visibility using well attended blogs, Press Releases, and Social Media.

Web Site Optimization

Overall, the Ron Paul team has deployed a very solid website in a short period of time. Not that every part of the site is perfect, but the good points far outweigh the bad. In fact, with just a few slight changes, the Ron Paul website could serve as a great model for other political candidates.

One somewhat insignificant difference, but one that I personally like about Ron Paul’s website, is that his team does not use an annoying Splash page as many other candidates do.

I know splash pages look good to the website owner, but they’re almost always a waste of time since most people just want to get to what they came to the site to see - in this case, information about Ron Paul!

The ‘home’ page Ron Paul’s team has designed is very intuitive and easy to navigate. They’ve placed breaking news, volunteer sign up, Blog access, and an excellent menu of choices that covers everything from Ron Paul’s position on the major issues to videos and recordings of his major appearances.

Looking at the foundation of the website, Meta Title tags are the same for all pages. Concerning the Meta Descriptions, they’re also identical across all the pages of the website, so the Search Engines choose their own descriptions to display with the Ron Paul listing. Not recommended, but it probably causes no real harm in this case.

Looking deeper, the site could use some fine tuning, adding Alt tag descriptions that contain more keywords would help; as well as adding unique Meta Descriptions for each page.

Links into the page are almost non-existent and I would recommend adding a number of related, quality inbound links to the site. It couldn’t hurt and would probably drive even more traffic to the website and/or Blog.

The site could also use some additional keyword research to help Ron Paul key in on the potential voters who are not familiar with him, and to present his message to more of them.

The Ron Paul interactive videos on top of the ‘Issues’ page are a great addition. It seems to me if more detail were added concerning Ron Paul’s stance on the issues, it would be a more valuable contribution to the site.

Although there are some obvious opportunities for improvement; given the website’s presentation, the information available, and ease of use, I give Ron Paul’s team very good marks in the SEO category.

Social Media Strategies

Ron Paul’s team’s approach to social media marketing has made him a Republican powerhouse. His campaign team understands social media and knows how to use it.

From photos and videos to networking, Ron Paul can be found across the Internet.

Most candidates’ teams have begun to use social media sites but most of them don’t seem to be very active on them. Ron Paul’s team excels

here because they are very active - they make continuous updates on his social media profiles all hours of the day.

Increasingly, as new generations enter the voting ranks, social media is becoming an indispensable part of successful political campaigns. The current generation of younger voters has grown up using the Internet as their primary means of communication. It’s second nature for them to use the Internet to gain and share information.

Currently on MySpace, Ron Paul shows over 273,000 friends, Facebook shows over 205,000, and YouTube has over 109,000 videos under his name.

On the Ron Paul Blog, links to submit posts to Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious and others are available. Also helpful, is the RSS feed button that’s displayed in the upper part of the left column. Having an RSS feed signup on the blog helps to promote the blog even further in the social media outlets.

When you look at the popularity of Ron Paul on the social media sites and compare the other candidates to him, he is definitely using the social networks more than other candidates to promote his grassroots efforts.

Blogging Strategies

Ron Paul has a very active Blog. His team consistently posts new information and breaking news all hours of the day. The Ron Paul team knows they have a very active and captive audience on the blog and they actively cater to them.

There’s an RSS button to easily subscribe to blog updates and links to YouTube and other social media are scattered throughout the page to promote Blog entries.

Overall, Ron Paul’s campaign team has done an outstanding job developing and deploying a very effective Internet Marketing strategy.

Summary

Internet Marketing is quickly becoming an integral part of nearly every political campaign.

Increasingly, the Internet is becoming a news and recruiting source that is irreplaceable in major political campaigns.

Pressed for campaign funds, both Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul have used the Internet as a very cost effective way to get their message across to potential contributors and voters.

Without their efforts on the Internet, it could be argued that very few people would have ever heard of either candidate. While both candidates are underdogs, they probably would not even still be in the race without their well orchestrated Internet Marketing campaigns.

How much of Ron Paul’s or Mike Huckabee’s success is due to their Internet Marketing efforts? There’s no doubt Internet viewers looking for information concerning these candidates have had no problem finding it on the Internet.

The real question is how many potential voters will actually be affected by the Internet Marketing they come into contact with? Judging from over a Million visitors to Ron Paul’s website and the amount of contributors he’s been able to inspire, there can be no doubt many potential voters have been directly affected by the Internet Marketing strategy his team has deployed.

It’s now clear Political Internet Marketing is a very effective campaign tool and will continue to be an increasingly important part of successful political campaigns well into the future.

By Scott Porter

MarketBuilders

2008 All Rights Reserved

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About The Author

Scott Porter is President of MarketBuilders, a full service Internet Marketing firm. MarketBuilders uses targeted Internet advertising, top search results, sponsored advertising, Email marketing, Blogs, social media, Press Releases, copy writing, link building and optimized website design to provide businesses a significant competitive advantage on the Internet.

Scott Porter has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Marketing & Information Systems, and has over twenty years experience working with Fortune 100 firms to develop and promote marketing and information systems strategies.

by Scott Porter
Managing Partner
MarketBuilders

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Unbiased Review About Fat Loss 4 Idiots

Monday, December 29th, 2008

You must have gone through many Fat Loss 4 Idiots reviews in the past. But this article will help you get rid of myths about Fat Loss 4 Idiots and will explain what FL4I diet is actually.

This diet program uses calorie shifting method and is a nutrition based diet program. With this program, more stress is given to the diet we eat and less stress on exercise programs. You will have no difficulty in following this program. One can do exercise as well when they are on this diet program. If you combine exercise with Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet, you will be able to lose more amount of weight than you had expected when you joined this amazing diet program.

Since Fat Loss 4 Idiots works on Calorie shifting technique, so this diet program will help you increase your metabolism level by shifting your daily calorie intake. And with high metabolism, you will be able to lose weight easily and also can maintain the weight loss later.

With Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet, everyone does not lose 9 pounds in 11 days. There are some people who are able to lose 6-7 pounds in 11 days time. But with this there are some people even who are able to lose 9-10 pounds in 11 days time. There are some people for whom this diet does not work. But one should know that there are many people who have successfully lose their weights with Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet. And I think if you are even able to lose 4-5 pounds in 11 days time, that’s not a small weight loss by any parameter.

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Do it Yourself Search Engine Optimization - It Will Be Worth Its Weight in Gold

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

What other SEO pros don’t want you to know!

Have you ever wondered how the online marketing specialists do to promote a new website? How do they get a website from : “NO Page ranking” to Page ranking of 4 or 5? How do they manage to get thousands of traffic in a matter of a few months while you are still struggling getting your website with a PR of 1?

We call it “Piggybacking marketing” Interesting term isn’t it? Well, a Page ranking is only as good as what the major search engine considers as being an important page to index. Some famous directories, including craigslist, toober, stumblehere, Kijiji, backpage, oodle etc. have great recognition among the most recognized search engines out there. They worked very hard with meta tags, with specific keywords to attract the attention of these search engines, but also without being blacklist because of back end spamming, with abuse of keywords within their meta tags.

The one way to go around that is to post on these directories and piggyback on them to get indexed faster, because if these directories post your ad, the search engines will take your ad as being important and will index it. This is what SEO experts do not want you to see or understand. That is why you feel what you pay them is worth your investment.

Many of these SEO experts charge an arm and a leg to get your company name out there and to promote your services online. However, it is not about quantity of how many ads are posted, it is about quality, on where they are posted. The secret is to post your ads on directories that GOOGLE, YAHOO, MSN, LYCOS, and other pays attention to.

How overwhelming can it be, for an individual like you to post your business, or product, in thousands of directories when in reality, it can be done in just a few.

Yes, just a few directories with high PR and indexed often by Google will get you in the right places with the right traffic.

You’ve heard of Craigslist, Kijiji, Stumble here, Backpage, Oodle, etc..? Well, if you focus your effort on these one, and post on blog directories, and articles written about your industry to make you a pioneer/specialist, the SECRET is out.

Yes, you can be your own online optimizer. All secrets can be provided with a package included of all the tools you may need to optimize your site.All the tricks of the trade, and how to save time with our tools will make you reach your goals faster. Yes, it can be time consuming to go to every of these directories and post your ad. We found the highly traffic sites and put them all in one package. We will also provide you with Our Tracking system of all your work so you can keep track of all your marketing effort.

All you want to do is increase PR and bring in traffic to your site. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars a year when you can do it all yourself, and do it better because it is your own business. All these SEO experts take hundred of clients at a time and promote all the business together, depending of course on how much each client spends for promotion. So if you spend just a few dollars a month, the SEO expert will put you in the bottom of the client list and you will see very mediocre results. If you do end up complaining, he will just come back and say: “Well, if you had a bigger marketing budget, I can help you better” .

We can help you with whatever industry you are in: For example, we can provide you with customized autoposter for the moving industry, health, business, etc… We will provide you with the Autoposters for all the major recognized directories on the net. Remember, abusing them can get you in trouble, so just a few posted ads each day will do the trick

Quantity of ads doesn’t necessarily increase your traffic; it will actually consider you as a spammer. Play it safe, this is the best strategy. So this is your new marketing journey, and the greatest thing is you can do it on your own, without being overwhelmed by all the pros out there. They learned it the same way as you will, but you will have all the tools they didn’t have since the beginning. Let us know how we can be of any help to you and your organization. You will be glad you did.

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How to Compare Prices Online

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Shopping online is now extremely popular as it’s easy to buy goods online and have them delivered straight to your door, and you can also often buy things online at lower prices than you’ll find in the high street. However, if you’re shopping online, the traditional rules still apply: you still need to shop around to find the best prices and deals!

Comparing Prices - Traditional vs. Online Shopping

Online stores are often able to offer products at lower prices than traditional shopping outlets because a website doesn’t have the same overhead costs as a chain of shops. High rents and rates in prime shopping locations, staff salaries and utility costs mean that very often traditional shopping outlets can’t compete with online prices. Many online stores are also able to buy goods in bulk, meaning that they get cheaper prices from suppliers, and they can then pass these savings on to their customers.

If you’re the type of person who likes to see products before buying them, this doesn’t mean that online shopping isn’t for you - you can browse in your high street to find the product that you like, but you can then make a note of the product name and model number and compare prices for that product online to see if you can get a better deal from an online retailer.

Check Hidden Costs When You Compare Prices Online

When you compare prices online, check that you’re comparing like with like - make sure that you know exactly what you’ll be paying. Sometimes the deal that initially looks the best might not be when you take into account all the charges that apply.

If you’re ordering goods from the UK, check that VAT has been added to the price. If the VAT hasn’t been added, you can be given the impression that an item is cheaper than it actually is.

If you’re buying from a foreign website, check to see whether there are import duties that need to be added to the price. These vary from country to country, and if these haven’t been included in the price, the total cost could be a lot higher than you expected.

You’ll also need to take postage and packaging charges into account when you compare prices between sites. Some retailers offer products at a heavily discounted price, but charge more for sending items through the post. However, other sites offer free postage and packaging on certain products or to certain locations and this can mean that the total cost of your goods will be much cheaper.

If the site that you’re considering ordering from offers free delivery, it’s worth checking to see what services you get if you pay a little extra for delivery.

For example, if you buy a fridge online from a site that offers free delivery, will the delivery men fit it for you? Check the company delivery policy to see what level of service is offered. Paying for delivery and having the item fitted may be more beneficial to you, depending on your circumstances.

Reputable online stores will have a clear and fair charging system for packaging and posting different sized goods.

Look for special offers and package deals

Some online stores offer great package deals, where if you buy a certain combination of products, you’ll get a better deal. You can also sometimes get accessories free of charge when buying a certain product, and some companies offer discounts to customers who are ‘members’ of their site.

Most online stores have special offers sections on their sites, where you’ll find goods at reduced prices, and don’t forget that online stores have ’sales’ in exactly the same way as high street stores.

How to Compare Prices - Use Price Comparison Sites

Jumping from website to website looking for the best deal can be a time consuming task, so let us do the work for you. Price comparison sites trawl the net for the prices offered by different online retailers for hundreds of items, so that you can compare them to see where you can get a great deal. Using a price comparison website can help you to save time and money when shopping online.

Online price comparison http://www.savebuckets.com searches and compares prices at hundreds of shops to help find the best prices.

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How to Make $3000 a Month Online

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Buying products wholesale and re-selling them online is one of the best ways to earn a real, steady income online. So many methods out there like AdSense and selling ebooks can earn you a few hundred dollars a month but it requires a lot more work that you might think.

I’ve tried every method out there and I make good money at all of them. But I’ve narrowed in on a few products that I’ve found great sources to buy wholesale and I sell hundreds a week on ebay. There’s almost no thinking involved. The hardest part is finding legitimate sources of wholesale sites.

Be forewarned…I’ve spent hundreds of dollars buying almost every wholesale guide out there. Most of these are almost worthless…a few aren’t bad. Finding genuine sources for buying products wholesale is the most important step you can do. Most wholesale guides offer contact information to legitimate wholesalers…the problem is they’re selling products noone would want to buy from you. So it’s not enough to find good sources of wholesale products…they’ve got to be good sources of GOOD wholesale products.

Sites like tradekey.com or alibaba.com aren’t bad to start. When I first started searching for wholesalers I scoured these sites and managed to find some decent products to sell.

Another method for locating wholesale sources is by calling up manufacturers that deal with the wholesale products that you’re interested in selling.

I’ve compiled a guide with ALL the legitimate wholesalers I’ve come across in every different category. Remember, the popular fields like consumer electronics are VERY competitive. Everyone is selling iPods online…you want to be the guy selling iPod accessories online! Finding a good wholesaler for that will make you rich.

The first products I started really selling online were USB flashdrives. I bought a lot of 50 as a test because I really didn’t think they’d sell. I bough each from a US wholesaler for 4$ each, including shipping and listed 25 on eBay immediately. I sold all 25 in 2 weeks at an average price of $17….and the best part was, I couldn’t find anyone else selling these online! The next month I bought 200….

Finding wholesalers that can supply you with niche products at great prices is the most key to success.

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How a Newbie Can Make Money Online Today

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Do you need some extra cash today or right now? Well, I have some good news for you. Even a newbie can come on the internet and set up a quick system that will make money online today. You just have to know what to do. This article will briefly outline what to do for you.

One of the quickest and easiest ways to make money online is by finding an affiliate program that pays directly into your Paypal account and is set up and ready to go. There are digital products and ebooks that anyone can sell online immediately. With the largest and most well known affiliate processors (like ClickBank), you will have to wait at least a couple of weeks and maybe even months until they cut the checks and you actually get paid. But there are other online products you can sell and actually get the commissions into your Paypal account immediately - yes with these programs you truly can make money online today!

This is what to do: Do an internet search for “$7 reports ” or “$7 downloads” or “$7 mall.” You will find website bookstores with low cost reports. Nearly all of the reports can be re-sold right away — and you often earn 100% of the profits immediately sent into your Paypal account! You don’t even have to set up a website because you will be provided your own affiliate tracking URL . So when you send someone to the site from your unique URL — and that person makes a purchase –the commission goes directly to you — immediately.

There are may ways to get traffic to your instant affiliate “report for sale” site. Some of the best ways are to send ads out to opt-in email lists. Some of these you can even send out a test ad for very low cost as low as $5 USD and a few you can even send a test ad out for free. Of course if you have your own email list, you can mail info out on the reports to your list. You can also use free traffic exchanges. Placing ads on forums in the appropriate places, as well as having a signature link in your forum does well. Posting free ads on craigslist and backpage and other high traffic classified ad sites can also drive some traffic to your site.

Usually for every 50-100 clicks that you get on your link (use a link tracker such as clickaudit.com to keep track of how many clicks you have through your URL) - you will make one sale. It’s pretty simple — more quality traffic equals more sales. So if you spend some time today driving traffic to one of these sites, you truly can make money online today - and have it in your account today too!

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Make Money From Affiliate Marketing Online

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Affiliate business works like this: Companies and individuals pay other people to advertise their programs, products and services on websites, in ezines, on pay-per-click advertising, in forums, in directories and anywhere else they can, whether on internet or offline. Affiliate marketing online is about getting the kind of traffic that is targeted at your products. Another part of internet business is to write articles that show the importance or benefits of your products and include them on the website as an additional page. Online Business is one of the best work at home opportunities around. It is a great way to make income that can be used or invested back into your business.

Internet marketing is an excellent way to create income, and with the right attitude, you can earn affiliate commissions on autopilot. When you have mastered the basics of affiliate b either through an internet marketing course or get tutorial under a marketing guru on the internet, you can literally earn money online on automated or almost no updating needed. If you apply yourself and learn what affiliate marketing online is really all about a whole new world will open up for you.Online business is the best way to make easy money.

The best thing about internet business is that there is so little overhead and very negligible start up cost. With affiliate marketing you don’t have to go door to door canvassing, calling prospective or potential customers and harassing people or even actually talk face to face with people. All you need is the internet connection and some online marketing tools and you are on your way to earn money online.

Online business allows for an advertiser to advertise products from another website and the publishers will get paid a commission for sales or leads. Affiliate programs have become one of the easiest ways to advertise the products in the market. With affiliate products, advertisers can get maximum exposure to their website and products at minimum cost as oppose to traditional advertising methods which could cost up to thousands of dollars.

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How to Earn Multiple Income Streams Online

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

If you are planning on to earn multiple income stream online, then affiliate marketing is what you can make use of. By using the proven system and applying it to different niche market, you will be able to create multiple streams of internet income. This is the dream of everyone who wanted to have more money in their lives.

Affiliate marketing is easy because you do not have to deal with product creation or any sales page. This is because everything has been created by the affiliate merchant. All you have to do is to promote the right affiliate product. In order for you to earn multiple income stream online, you must then follow through a proven system and keep on repeating the very same process in different market.

For example, you can set up an affiliate business that runs on its own in diet market. Once this affiliate business can run on it’s own and then just have to repeat the same process again in other market like self-improvement and so on. Keep on doing the same thing again and again until you created multiple streams of internet income that you desire.

The key here is what is the proven system that works in affiliate marketing? In fact, it is not as difficult as you think. To give you the big picture, your affiliate business model should look like this:

1. Define and locate a hot market where people in the market are willing to spend and buy. You want a profitable, hot and responsive market.

2. Once you knew your market, find the right solution for your market’s problems. You should always provide solution for your market. You can do this by finding a suitable affiliate product to serve as the right solution.

3. Automate the system and drive massive amount of targeted traffic to your website or your affiliate merchant’s website. It is best if you can build a lead capture page and let your auto-responder do the work for you 24 hours. Focus in long-term traffic generation like article marketing and more.

These are the 3 simple steps that will give you the big picture of how your affiliate business should look like. All you have to do is to start with one market first, and then earn multiple income stream online by diversifying into other market.

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How to Flip Domains - 4 Ways to Make Money Fast on the Internet

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Flipping domains can be a lucrative business. But what does a domain flipper do to make money?
As in many types of business, there are various models or techniques for domain flipping.
Learn how to flip domains and reap the profits.

1. Register a new domain

Registering a new domain name is simple and relatively inexpensive. I wish I had registered “cars” or “trucks” or “computers” or other fundamental product names years ago. I could auction off those names for large sums now. But I suspect every single-word domain name in the dictionary is owned already. Still, people frequently come up with new unique combinations of two and three-word domain names, and you can too. If the name has value to someone, then you can sell it by auction or via a broker. But there is another alternative for new domain names. Who would have thought that “twitter” or “squidoo” would become a popular domain name? If you are creative with names, maybe you can make up the next “digg” or “reddit”.

2. Buy expired domain names

Domain names expire every day. And many of the search engines value older websites over new ones. The websites may already have links which the search engines also use in ranking. Finally, the website may also have traffic — another desirable item in website valuation. So if you pick up an expired domain and find the right buyer, you can pocket the profit.

3. Buy an established website domain name

Many websites can be purchased for a reasonable price. Their owners may tire of running a website, or be dissatisfied with the amount of money they are making. This may be because they lack the time, marketing skills, or web development skills to exploit the website. If you have these skills (or you can hire them at the right price), then you can bump up the revenue and keep the website, or sell it based on its new value due to the increased income.

4. Use parked domains to generate revenue

Maybe you have parked some domains while you work on developing a website (or can also buy parked domains from others). However parked domains may show up in search engine results if the domain names have relevance to the search. Many domain name registrars and other websites provide domain name parking services that will put advertising (e.g. Google adsense) on your parked website’s page. The companies will charge you a fee for parking or share in the ad revenue (or both). You do not have go this route. You can take your parked domains and put your own ads on the pages and keep all the money.

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How to Use the Google Keyword Tool

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

I will go into the details of how to use this tool to start generating titles that make your topics profitable and optimized for maximum exposure.

Set It Up For The Proper Language

One of the first things you should do is to set up the tool for whatever country and language your major audience happens to be. You can find out what your biggest audience is regionally by checking the administrative panel of your website for the makeup of countries visiting your site. This is important, even for all English language sites because even English is spoken differently around the world. People in the UK will visit a site and see different spellings and instead of realizing that you are an American company, they might think you are just not a very good speller, and thus unprofessional. So, try to suit the tool to the language you want to highlight most.

At the very top of the tool you will see a sentence that says: “Results are tailored to English, United States.” There is a link next to that that simply says, “Edit.” Choose the link and change the main language and country, if necessary.

Search Descriptive Words Or Phrases

The tool can search three different ways, based on a keyword or phrase, based on a URL, or based on some content. For this section, we’ll concentrate on choosing to search by descriptive words or phrases by making sure that radio button is selected. Next, you want to enter the word or phrase that you’ve brainstormed to start the process of finding other ideas or words that might work for you. You will need to type in the letters in the capcha facility that keeps spammers off the site, but it doesn’t do anything to your search results.

After you get the results back, you can search through the list and look at the competition for the keyword or phrase, the approximate search volume for the month, and the average search volume. In general, what you want to find is a word that has a low level of competition with a high search volume. Of course, that’s nearly impossible to find these days as advertisers are very savvy. But, you can at least get a good idea of which ones are worth trying to use. If you use something with a high advertiser’s competition value and a high search volume, the odds of being in the top search results are practically non-existent because major players are hogging the traffic on those.

There are other search metrics that you can add to your list after it is generated. You have to use the drop-down box that says,”Choose columns to display” to add other columns. One other column that is great to see in the results list is Estimated Avg. CPC, which gives you an idea of the payout associated with the keyword or phrase in the Google Adwords system. Using low competition words with high CPC values is one way to generate more Google Adwords dollars on your own sites, as SEO articles will cue the Google server to serve up ads related to what’s on your page. If it sees high-paying words, the ads served that people can have the opportunity to click are often also high-paying ads.

If you find some additional keywords in the results that lead you to new keywords, don’t be afraid to pull them out of the list and run them alone in the Keyword Tool to see what comes up. You will find this helps you to brainstorm different ways to find words for your topic title that are going to bring in traffic and money to your sites.

Search Web Page URL

Another way to use the Keyword Tool to analyze the keywords being use on another web page. This is a great way to generate keywords off competitor’s sites without too much effort. If you know of sites similar to your own that are already doing a great job attracting traffic, then you should use this tool to find out what keywords they are using.

The way you do that is to switch the radio button from descriptive words or phrases to “website content.” It will then return a results list that will be sorted in groups by whatever the major keyword or phrase used happens to be. This is a very easy way to get a list of usable keywords, but do realize that keywords campaign change frequently as new trends are identified.

Generate Keywords For Already Written Articles

Maybe you’ve written articles already, but they’re not generating much attention. You can still use the tool to help you optimize the articles and change the titles. All you do is choose the “website content” radio button and use the link under the box for the URL to add your text into a box instead. Then, the tool will go through the topic and suggest keywords to use in it. All you have to do is change some words here and there and add a different title to get these stale articles to become stars in your writing lineup.

Just remember that you can’t put duplicate content on your website, or Google will penalize you. It doesn’t understand that you wrote the same articles, only that they appear plagiarized because more than one copy shows up. So, be sure to make the new articles sufficiently different so that you aren’t penalized by Google, or remove the old copies and replace them with new ones.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 9034 articles in print and 14 published ebooks.

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