Wednesday 25 February 2009

Can Articles Really Build Your List

A lot of people have asked me whether using articles gould really build their list.

The answer to this question is YES.

But how ?

I guess you know that getting customers to your site should always be ranked equivalent to the quality and the excellence of the product and the services that you provide. In other words, they should go hand in hand in providing your customers the satisfaction that they get in exchange for the money they have paid for them.

Basically, customer service should be good, if not fantastic, and that the customers are provided with the same satisfaction of buying the product

If the product is a load of bull….then it’s not worth reading further

But how does using an opt-in marketing method enhance your list.

In short, by using an opt-in list, or an opt-in marketing method, you are able to get the best out of marketing and customer service. With an opt-in list you get the opportunity to introduce your site and products on a good time basis. The opt-in marketing method is virtually low cost and not time consuming and you also get the consent of your website visitors to subscribe to your newsletters and other promotional materials such as catalogs and free promotions.

Besides, opt-in marketing would go through your list of subscribers and sends e-mail to each of them. It is important that your subscribers receive promotional items in a way that gets their interest and keeps them asking for more. The best way to do this is to keep on providing them with entertaining articles that contain great information and leaves them asking for more.

Articles that are well written, and which are full of content and has useful information will only help in building your list. This is obvious as more and more subscribers will sign up for your list. When they read the samples of your contents in your sites, they should be intrigued as to what kind of information would be coming next. So they have to understand that subscribing to your newsletter will mean that they are in the lookout for what comes next.

Many sites and companies have realized the potential and the importance of articles and how it helps search engine optimization. In other words, as more and more people head towards the internet for their information needs, you have to serve them the right information to them via articles in your site and which will only increase the flow of your traffic. With more traffic, the percentage of your sales will grow and Ofcourse more sales mean more profit.

Well written, information enriched and keywords packed articles for the content of their site are always in demand. These are the articles that provide the info that many are looking for across the net. If your site has them, more people will be going to your site for information and research.

Articles that are descriptive and well would only boost a sites reputation. If they are filled with many information you will be regarded as well informed and an expert on the subjects that you tackle. Your articles must be well researched so that the people will trust you. When you have gained their trust, they will always come for you for their needs on that subject.

In connection, you must write articles or commission them to tackle subjects that are closely connected with your type of business. If you have a site for a medicine tackling a certain disease, your articles must be about the diseases. Alternately, if you are selling items for home improvement, then you got to write articles with that subject in mind.

Most articles searched for are tips, guidelines, methods, manuals and such. If you provide these articles to your customers and you have their trust, they will always go to your site for help and advice as well as for your products.

With the loyalty of these customers, they may subscribe to your opt-in list to receive all the information that you send them. If you provide them with the answers for that need, they will be happy to be receiving your newsletters as well as other promotional materials to keep them well informed. There are chances that some of them may even recommend you to others when they find a certain article or something that is interesting.

You should provide links in your newsletter so that when other people are reading it and wants to read more, they may click on the link and go to your site. With the articles you have in your site that are good, they may decide to sign up as well for your opt-in list. This will build your list and make it bigger.

Lastly, if you are writing an article for your site, you can afford to be descriptive, and school-master like. But don’t ever write blog-posts with the same flavor as you write to your articles. Here you got to write as if you are writing to each one of the subscribers. They identify with your writing and are sure to leave a comment, before they leave. They return to find out whether you have replied to their comments, and that is how your subscriber list grows. Make sure to reply to their comments as well

Remember that you have to ensure that your subscribers are kept happy and interested in your newsletters and promotional materials. For that, it is a must that you got to keep posting good articles not only for your site, but also for your newsletter. If you are not interested in writing them or if you just don’t have the time, there are many available well experienced and knowledgeable writers available to help you out.

This is an investment that will pay for itself in time.

So get down and start building your list

Thursday 19 February 2009

Avoid Getting Your Adsense Account Terminated

How do you monetize your site?

A quick answer is by earning a few dollars per click from displaying Google Adsense adverts on it. A lot many people are now realizing that good money is made from this source of revenue.

Now just try and multiply those clicks for every page on your website and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that little effort you have made. Ofcourse, you need fresh content and a good amount of traffic, without which Adsense is basically useless.

Although Adsense may be a fast and easy way for all kinds of website publishers to display relevant text-based Google ads on their pages and earn money in the process. These text ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you can not only monetize but also enhance your content pages using Adsense.

Google Adsense has always dominated forums, discussions and newsletters all over the Internet and there are tales of fabulous riches to be made and millions made by those who are just working from home. It appears that Adsense has already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered one of the easiest, if not the easiest way to making money online. All you need is a good flow of traffic.

Obviously, the key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on pages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords. If the cost-per-click is higher (to the advertiser), the more you will receive per click from your site. In other words, it does not pay to target low cost-per-click keywords and place them on those pages of your site that do not receive hits.

With the number of people getting online and clicking away everyday, it is no wonder why Google Adsense has become an instant hit.

Google, being the undisputable leader in search engines is obviously placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines. Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep their shareholders and their clients happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.

For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will obviously result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated.

So for those of whom, who are thinking of starting a career in Adsense, do not just think of the strategies you will be using to generate more earnings. You have to also consider the below mentioned points, before you actually get involved.

Hidden texts

Filling your advertisement page with text too small to read, has the same color as the background and using css for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords content and copy will earn you a penalty award that is given to those who are hiding links.

Page cloaking

There is a common practice of using bot sniffers to serve the bots of a different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading a page with a bot that a human user will never see is a definite no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you want but they may not want to go to.

Multiple submissions

Submitting multiple copies of your pages is another thing to avoid. For example, trying to submit a URL of an Adsense as two separate URL’s is the same as inviting trouble and even termination. Likewise, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are receiving submissions. It is better to check whether your domain is already submitted to a certain search engine before you try to submit to it again. If you see it there, then move on. Don’t just invite trouble by submitting there again.

Link farms

Be wary of who and what are you linking your Adsense to. The search engines know that you cannot control your links in. But you can certainly control what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. That is reason enough to try and avoid them. Having a link higher than 100 on a single page will classify you as a link farm so try and not to make them higher than that.

Page rank for sale

If you have been online for quite some time, you will notice that there are some sites selling their PR links or trading them with other sites. If you are doing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It is okay to sell ads or gain the link. But doing so based on the advertisement of your page rank (PR) is a way to get on search engines bad side.

Doorways

This is similar to cloaking pages. The common practice of a page loaded with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to another “user-friendly” page is a big issue among search engines. There are many seo firms offering this kind of services. Now that you know what they actually are, try to avoid them at all costs.

Multiple domains having the same content

In case that you are not aware that search engines also look at domains IP’s and registry dates and many other criteria. Having multiple domains with the same exact content is not something you can hide from them. The same goes with content that are repeated many times on separate pages or sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.

Most, if not many of the above techniques also apply to most search engines, and it is not entirely pointed to Google only. By having a mind set that you are building your Adsense together with your pages for the human users and not for bots, you can be assured of the great things for your ads and sites.

Alternately, should you decide to overstep you are only facing the wrath of the search engines and getting your Adsense account terminated altogether.

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Benefits Of Forum Posting

"Forum posting" is one of the easiest, cheapest and not to mention fastest way in which you can advertise affiliate products on the Internet.

However, there is a small cliché. In order to successfully implement this, you must be careful of the following..
  1. By just simply starting a thread with an affiliate link is a sure way to get your post and yourself banned from a particular forum. Furthermore, it is also not a good way to generate any sales.
  2. You don’t put up any affiliate links in a forum board, unless you have completed putting up several posts in the forum. There are forums, where you can’t even load a signature file before completing a minimum of at least 10 posts. Although most forums may not specifically mandate this, your real goal is to put up a signature file with a link to your site.
  3. You can start by finding a number of forums for your particular niche or marketing view-point.
You can find massive lists of forums at the following URL:

http://www.big-boards.com/

This is currently the largest forum directory on the Internet.

However, there are also other affiliate forums, which are equally prominent...

ABestWeb Forum

Warrior Forum

Digital Point Forum

eWealth

NetMarketingForum

AdlandPro

Money Online Biz-Whiz

Free Ad Forum

Affiliates World

First you have to select and shortlist a number of directories that match your specific marketing view-point or perspective and which also is in line with your affiliate product. Next, you would have to conduct a small research and identify whether they have any specific or excess rules relating to signature files.

For example, there are forum-sites which permit links in signature files and there are those ones which do not allow them. What you would have to do is to make sure that you are aware of these rules, before you begin posting in to that forum.

If not, you are just setting yourself up to be banned from that forum.

The next step is to make a list of the forums that you have created – that are not only relevant to the subject topic, but also allow commercial linking. Now is the time to begin developing a reputation on those forums.

In other words, make it a habit to post regularly and avoid meaningless arguments with juveniles (and some seniors included) and try and contribute useful information relating to the discussions.

I am sure that within a time span of one to two weeks, you are bound to have developed a reputation in the forum, given the fact that the forum receives a considerable amount of traffic.

And then you will truly begin to see the effects of "forum posting"

Saturday 7 February 2009

Don't Get Caught With Google Click Fraud

Many web site owners are getting their Google Adsense account due to click fraud.

In most cases, these terminated accounts have done nothing wrong to deserve the punishment. Considering the money that they are getting from Adsense, they would certainly want to get back into it.

Considering the money to be made with Adsense, it is no wonder that they would want to get back into it.

It is that same consideration why the "Google Adsense click fraud" is thought of and why many people are getting into it.

Click fraud is the act of clicking on ads for the purpose of costing the advertiser money. It is simply the same as paying out cash for false leads. Many people website owners are aware of this fraud and are sharing the same sentiment that this is the one big problem that Adsense is facing.

How do you prevent being involved in this so called "click fraud" ?

Majority of web hosts are offering access logs. Once this is offered to you, it is necessary that you hand it over to Google as well. This allows them to look for any suspicious activity on your site. Problems like this are very serious and giving it to them is saying that you would want to help them in any way you can in solving the problem.

It can also help if you have a click monitoring software. You must try and get one of these as there is absolutely no major factor preventing you from having one, mainly because most of this software is free.

As usual, all the information you have received should be turned over to Google. This will only show Google that you too are fighting against click frauds and are in no way a part of it.

Study your server logs and watch for any activity that seems suspicious. Report anything that you may find odd, may it big or small thing.

You may want to consider disabling ads for your own IP address and local geographic area. This will certainly prevent accidents and will not make Google mistake another user as you. You can do through a htaccess file. This will avoid Google mistaking as clicking on your own ads and be kicked out because of it.

Also try to keep your Google Adsense adverts off, when you have pop-ups and pop-unders running amok on your blog / site.

Another reason you ought to remember is to not display your adverts on content sites that promote any kind of illegal activity


Just also make sure that they are in no way tampering with the legal rights of other people or business.

For example if you see such a message being displayed on that site (included in this are the content that is considered adult and gambling ones). If you think that you may be breaking this rule, remove your content or Adsense at once from that web page.

Be truthful and confess up to Google about times when you might have clicked on your own as, whether accidentally or intentionally.

Also tell Google, when you have done something that is against the Terms of Service that they are implementing. Be honest about anything that you may have done that is wrong.

Confessing is way better than Google learning about it eventually. It would mean eventual termination and no getting back what you have worked so hard for.

Another point which is a bit on the safe side is to not tell your family or any of your friends about Google Adsense on your blog or website. This is mainly because, the chances are they may start clicking on them to help you make some money without you knowing it. Besides, they might be hoping that you would do the same thing to their blog or site as well. In fact, they may be doing more harm to your blog or site, instead of trying to help.

Finally, if someone you know came to know of your Google Adsense ads, try and make sure that they don’t make a habit to click on it. Ofcourse, they can definitely check on some of the adverts, as long as they don’t make it a habit. In short, it is a very touchy subject.

It would be wise to brief your friends and acquaintances on the important things about Adsense and what not to do with them.

Most pay per click networks have different measures in hand to protect website owners against click frauds. Other search engines can track more than 50 data points, IP address, browser’s information, user’s session info and pattern recognition. They also have systems available that detect fraud. Not to mention the specialized teams monitoring how things are going and helping advertisers stop click frauds.

Google offers suggestion on how to avoid click fraud. Using "negative keywords" can be used to keep your Adsense showing on products and services that are in no way related to yours. Adding tracking URLs to your links so you can track the traffic coming from Google.

In short, try not to be caught in the "Google click fraud".

Tuesday 3 February 2009

List Of Pinging Services

Pinging lets dozens of services which specifically track and connect blogs to know that your blog has been updated.

Subsequently, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents and thus increasing your blog’s popularity.

Althought Pingomatic and other ping services may be rather popular with bloggers, there are times you may have asked yourself this question – whether there are really any alternatives to these services ?

Mentioned below are alternative pinging services that ping or notify a number of blogging services, which subsequently keep track of weblogs and publish them.

  • Pingomatic - is one of the most popular and specialized services. It also creates a bookmark for each ping url.

  • Ping The Empire - Pings 18 common blog tracking services.

  • Blogomatic - Just enter the rss url and it submits to all the 12 listed services

  • Feedshark - Ping, submit, & promote your blog, feed for free to multiple services.

  • Pingoat - 52 blogging services, including special services and non english tracking services.

  • King Ping - Pings multiple services about 18 in all and is easy to check and uncheck boxes.

  • Blogflux Pinger - Pings 32 services, including several specialized and language specific services

  • BlogBlip - Submits to 15 popular blog tracking services.

  • Ping.ws - Pings 16 popular services.

  • PingQueue - Pings 16 preselected popular services.

  • Pong - Free desktop ping application that notifies blog tracking web services about updated blogs and feeds. It supports XML-RPC protocol and pings up to fourteen services at a time


A further comprehensive list of blog [XML-RPC] pinging services are given below;

· http://1470.net/api/ping
· http://api.feedster.com/ping
· http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
· http://api.moreover.com/ping
· http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
· http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
· http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
· http://bblog.com/ping.php
· http://bitacoras.net/ping
· http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
· http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
· http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
· http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
· http://coreblog.org/ping/
· http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
· http://ping.amagle.com/
· http://ping.bitacoras.com/
· http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
· http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
· http://ping.blo.gs/
· http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
· http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
· http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
· http://ping.feedburner.com/
· http://ping.myblog.jp/
· http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
· http://ping.blogg.de/
· http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
· http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
· http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
· http://ping.weblogs.se/
· http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
· http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
· http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
· http://rpc.britblog.com/
· http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
· http://rpc.newsgator.com/
· http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
· http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
· http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
· http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
· http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
· http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
· http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
· http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
· http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
· http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
· http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
· http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
· http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
· http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
· http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
· http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
· http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
· http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
· http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
· http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
· http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
· http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
· http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
· http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
· http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
· http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
· http://www.rssfwd.com/xmlrpc/api
· http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
· http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
· http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
· http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

There are more pings out there, and some may be even better than the above mentioned.

So, if you know of any ping services which you feel should be added to this list, please do post it so that I can add it to the above list

Happy Pinging !


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