Many of you probably have heard about the popular phrase “Tag and Ping”. It’s when you write a post, and at the bottom o fthe page you put links that have a rel=”tag” coding in the a tag. What that does is tell blog bookmarking sites which categories to categorize your blog in. There are tools out there that will make tags for you, but the problem with that is they usually make the tag using the bookmarking website. An url like http://www.technorati.com/tags/internet+marketing. The problem with that is whenever the person’s done reading your post they’ll usually click these links (not knowing what a tag is).

When this happens they’re directed away from your website. There’s a solution. With free blogging systems such as blogger. You have to use a site like technorati to tag. When you have your own site, you can use that site to tag. Whenever someone clicks on the links then they’ll be directed to your blog.

Here’s how it works. Set up a website with your own domain and hosting. If you’re using a hosting that supports cpanel then you can install a blog software such as Wordpress. Once that’s installed then make a post, and instead of using the tags from technorati you’d use http://www.yourdomain.com/tags/internet+marketing rel=”tag” instead. So when they click on the link it won’t bring them to Technorati, but they’ll stay on your website. There’s also categories that wordpress supports. This is another option that you can use. Good Luck.

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That’s right. You control how successful (or unsuccessful) you are. It’s all about how you think. Your thoughts are the key factor to what happens in your life. Whatever happened in your life is a direct result of your thoughts. If you don’t like where you are right now

• Have a 10 year old car
• Can’t afford to take a vacation
• Have a mortgage that never shrinks
• Don’t live in a house you want to be in.

then you need to change your thinking. Learn more with this free ebook:

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Pay Per Click advertising has been gaining a lot of popularity lately. For those of you who don’t know what pay per click advertising is it’s when you put your ad on a search engines for different keywords that you pick and choose. When someone searches for one of the keywords or keyphrases that you have chosen for your ad to appear on it will show your ad to the right of the page.

Now you might be asking yourself “Why should you use it when there’s so many other sources of traffic out there?” It’s simple - it’s because with pay per click advertising whenever someone searches for your keyword, your ad appears at the exact moment that they search (if you pay high enough). So that means that more people are going to be clicking. It is the fastest way on the internet to get targeted traffic to your website.

Not only is it targeted traffic to your website. It’s the most targeted traffic that you can get on the internet. People find your ads by searching for relevant keywords that you pick and choose. If you have a website about ‘How To Train Your Dog’ then you would put keywords relating to this such as ‘train your dog’, ‘how to train a dog’, and so on. Your ads only appear on the pages you choose it to. So you won’t be getting any unwanted, untargeted clicks.

This is my favourite thing about PPC advertising - If you just launched your website (a monetized website), and you want to know how well it will convert then PPC is your exact answer. It’s your exact answer because it will give you a true picture of how well your website converts visitors into dollars. If you start using PPC advertising, and after so many click throughs you don’t receive any sales you will know that you need to change the site to make it convert.

You can also use PPC advertising for quick sign ups to your newsletter. I started using PPC to get signups for my mini- course, and the conversion rates were astounding. Almost 50% conversion rate. All I did was create a page with just the sign up form, and sent the PPC traffic directly to the page. PPC is the sure answer to get quick targeted traffic to your website.

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Mike Morin is the writer for the email marketing list blog
‘Build That List’. He is dedicated to helping website owners
get the most out of their visitors, and to make their
visitors repeat visitors.
CLick here ==> www.buildthatlist.net

I don’t know about you, but to me that’s a huge market. That’s just proof that there’s money to be made on the internet using email. No, no, no..I’m not talking about SPAM. SPAM is sending people emails that they didn’t ask for in the first place.

What I’m talking about is opt in lists. Lists of people who come to your website, fill out a form, and request for more information. They request you to send them emails. Isn’t that great? Not only does it feel moral, but these people will actually read your email. Unlike SPAM, where you see the headline - notice that it’s SPAM, and delete it right away.

That’s not the end of it either. Not only will they read your email, but in the back of their mind there will be something telling them “Hey. This guy knows a lot about this, you should read and believe what he says”. That is the power of email marketing.

The most important part is can you write an email that will convert. Can you send an email to someone which they open, go to the link and buy? You’re right. You don’t. But Cory Rudl, Joe Vitale, Allan Says, and a lot of other successful internet marketers do. Yanik Silver has over the years compiled all the greatest emails that has converted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. His book is called:

Million Dollar Emails

Purchasing this ebook for a simple $19 could help you write emails that generate tons of profit

Isn’t that amazing? Think about it. Before someone buys your product they’re going to see it at least five times. That’s the great thing about email marketing is that you have ‘their’ contact so you can ‘remind’ them about your product. You remind them to look at your product 5 times.

There’s one problem though. Can you get them to read your email, and click the link to your product (or affiliate link)? The main thing you have to look greatly on is the headline. If the headline is not attractive and personalized people are not going to read the email. It’s as simple as that.

Yanik Silver is one of the greatest email marketers of all time. If you want to learn about email marketing, he will be a great mentor.

Fortunately, he wrote an ebook focused on autoresponders.

Read More:
Autoresponder Magic

A lot of people get confused on what page or pages should they put their sign up form on. “Should I put it on my home page?” “Should I put it at the top of my forum?” “Should I put it on my blog?” “Where should I put it?”. The answer is simple. Put it on every page that you have. You might be asking, “well won’t it look too repetitive?” To some it might, but if you have your website optimized for the search engines then everyone’s not going to land on your homepage.

Let’s say you create a page for the new Dodge Charger. If your site is listed on google then google will link to your Dodge Charger page, not your homepage. So, if you have your internet user search for Dodge Charger on Google, then it brings them to your Dodge Charger page, and you only put the sign up form on your homepage. Guess what! They’re not going to see it. Odds are they’re going to read your article, and leave. There’s a chance that they might want to check out your Muscle Car homepage, but wouldn’t your chances be better if you put a sign up form on your Dodge Charger page? Of Course.

Just keep in mind that every page is a possible landing page, and that’s the key reason why you should have a sign up form on every single page.

If you’re like me then you’re signed up with dozens of newsletter/mailing lists. If you’re not, you should. You should go to the top internet marketers websites, and sign up for their newsletter. This way you can find out exactly how they do newsletters. What they write, and what works.

One thing’s for sure, free special reports are great to give to your newsletter subscribers. When you make special reports, you want to make sure it’s in PDF format. PDF is the common file type for majority of ebooks on the internet. If you make your special report in the PDF format that makes it look like an ebook! People will grab it right away, everyone loves free!

The downfall is Adobe charges over $200 for the software to create these PDF files. There are more options… Read about it in this free special report..

Click here to download (or right click “Save link as”)

Jim Edwards is one of the greatest article writers that I know. I have learnt a lot from reading his material. He shows you step by step how to make a great article that will bring flows of traffic to your website. Just to show you how great his articles are here’s one my favourite articles by him.

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Increase Sales By Flying Under Your Prospects’ “Radar
Defenses”

- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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How do you persuade someone to do what you want them to
do?

A whole world of marketing exists around us trying to do
that every minute of the day. Do you even notice it
anymore or, like your prospects, have you subconsciously
set up a system of “radar defenses” against the daily
bombardment of marketing messages?

Take a minute and count up the advertising methods which
fight for your attention (and money) every day. Just
the basic list includes:

· Yellow page ads

· Newspaper and magazine ads

· Postcards, catalogs, and direct mail circulars in your
“snail mail” box

· Radio pitches interrupting the flow of your favorite
songs

· TV ads - about 20 minutes worth per hour now

· Hundreds of storefronts, “mega” malls, and strip malls

· Highway billboards by the thousands

· Circulars hung on your doorknob

· Illegal signs on stop signs and telephone poles

· Legitimate email messages

· Spam email or UCE (unsolicited commercial email)

Just these 11 sources can overwhelm your brain with
marketing messages. Like trapped rats, people develop
defenses against this never-ending onslaught. They
throw up a wall or a “radar defense” that goes into
action the minute they smell a “pitch” or a sales job.
Don’t blame them. We all do it!

So how can you get around this psychological wall
against the constant sales and marketing messages? Well,
the answer does NOT lie in hitting people with more
frequent and obnoxious advertising or sly, sneaky
tactics. You might get them to trust you for a minute,
but it will backfire in the long run.

You must do two things instead:

1. First, you must establish credibility for yourself
and your business as an expert.

2. Second, you must reduce their fears about doing
business with you.

Doing these two things will get you past their defenses
and allow you the opportunity to persuade them to buy
your product.

So how do you accomplish these two “simple” things? What
will win someone’s attention, raise your credibility,
and lower their fear factor all at the same time? The
one-word answer really applies to most everyone.

Trust!

If a seller can get behind your defenses with
information which makes you trust them, then that
credibility will carry over into a sale much of the
time.

How can you get this credibility?

Well, take this next fact as online marketing “gospel,”
for many people have proven its effectiveness.

Fact: Publishing and promoting with free articles gives
you one of the most powerful opportunities available to
tip the buyer’s credibility scale in your favor.

How can we prove this works? Quite easily actually. Take
a break from reading this and go check out a newspaper
or magazine for a minute.

Which do you trust more, the ads or the articles? Most
people will choose the articles hands down. Why?
Because the articles don’t try to “sell” you anything.
Instead, they hand out useful information for
educational or other practical purposes.

Most of us grew up in a culture which says we can
believe and “trust” what appears in the standard “news”
or “information” format. In other words, if it appears
in print, then we can believe and trust the author.

So go ahead! Use this lifetime of conditioning to your
advantage in selling your products and services!

Very few things will create an atmosphere of trust and
confidence in people as reading one of your articles on
a subject that greatly interests them. It shows you
know your business. It also demonstrates you will do
more than just try to sell them something.

Publishing articles literally lets you fly under their
advertising “radar defenses.”

So remember these points when deciding whether or not to
use articles to promote your business:

1. Few things create as much trust and confidence in the
minds of potential customers as reading an article you
wrote on a subject which specifically and intensely
interests them.

2. Articles establish credibility quickly because, right
or wrong, we’ve all been trained to trust the “news.”

3. An article, or series of articles, will differentiate
you from the competition, who bombard people with
nothing but sales messages.

4. Providing content-rich, non-sales-oriented articles
will also help build and solidify your relationship with
existing customers so they give you repeat business.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-author of an amazing new ebook, “Turn Words Into
Traffic,” that will teach you how to use free articles
to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your
website or affiliate link!
Click Here ==> www.turnwordsintotraffic.com