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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Update to Top Search Queries data

2012-01-26T05:36:00.000-08:00

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Update to Top Search Queries data: Webmaster level: All Starting today, we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engin...

How Group Buying Websites (Daily Deals) works 2 ?

2011-09-16T19:50:00.000-07:00

In the last post I presented some information about Group Buying ( Daily Deals ) websites like:

Group Buying websites (Daily Deals) definition and How does Group Buying ( Daily Deals ) websites really works, In this post I'll talk about the businesses that are better suited for group based promotions, a nice Buying websites (Daily Deals) revenue Calculator and present a Group Buying ( Daily Deals ) infographic from lab42.

let's start with what types of businesses that are best suited for Group Buying ( Daily Deals ) promotions?

The most common Daily Deals vouchers are about :
-Dining spots, such as restaurants, cafés, coffee shops, and other similar businesses.

-Spa , Hotels , Arts & crafts , fitness , Parts and Accessories.

The calculations of Group Buying ( Daily Deals ) revenue is easy if the local merchant keeps a good track of his costumers, this link includes a very nice Daily Deal revenue calculator, the calculator highlights some important elements the local merchant should consider it while evaluating is Daily Deals a profitable rewarding way of advertising for his business or not.

Example of the important elements :

- Voucher actual value.

- Voucher price.

- Voucher sales expected.

- No. of Redeemed before voucher expiration date is reached.

- Sales with additional purchases.

- Average additional purchase amount (beyond voucher value).

- No. of Redeemers that become regular customers.

- Your revenue per voucher sale.

- Daily Deals website share per voucher sale.

The sheet includes some important elements & will help the local merchants a lot in considering all related factors while calculating their revenue from Daily Deals promotions.

Also the Lab42 "What's the deal with Daily Deals?" Infographic highlights some statistics for the local merchants to take into consideration before deciding whether to use Daily Deals website to promote his business or not , Lab42 asked of 500 daily deals users ( in USA ), determining which sites they use the most, how diligent they are at checking for new deals, and how much money they’re spending on them and found the following:

1- Most purchased vouchers are for Restaurants, comes next Spa & Hotles vouchers.

2- 82% have returned to a business (at least one time) after purchasing their deal.

3- 61 % have let a deal expire before redeeming.

Lab42 says there are more than 660 deals sites online today, The most well known is Groupon, with 115 million subscribers, but saw a 50% dip in its web traffic since July, 2011, according to Hitwise, this dip will raise an important question, is Group Buying ( Daily Deals ) websites here to stay or soon will drop one after one out of the market ?

The Facebook leaves Daily Deals market news was chocking as it's just entered the market, Facebook started making offers in five cities starting in last April, including San Francisco, Atlanta and Dallas, and had a small sales team arranging deals with local merchants. But the company also ran offers that were set up by 11 other daily deal companies, including ReachLocal, GiltCity, HomeRun.com, PopSugarCity and Zozi.

“After testing for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks, We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.” said Annie Ta, a spokeswoman for Facebook in California.

Facebook’s exit means Groupon has one less major competitor as it prepares for a $750 million initial public offering later this year.

The Deals project was introduced because the daily discount market has been predicted to bring in $3.93 billion in 2015 – a huge leap from $873 million last year.

“It is surprising that Facebook ended their deals product after just four months,” said Vinicius Vacanti, co-founder of Yipit.com, which aggregates daily deals and tracks the industry. “On the other hand, Facebook Deals had been an underwhelming product and experience.”

Facebook’s decision not to pursue the business may mean the company thinks the approach lacks merit.

“The Groupon group buying phenomenon is a commodity. There are no barriers to entry. It’s just not going to work because everybody offers it and therefore the margins go down,” said Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at research firm Altimeter Group.

But Facbook leaving the market & Groupon 50% dip in its web traffic aren't quite perfect indicators to determine wether the Group buying websites ( Daily Deals ) will end soon or will see a growth as it is still new market and it's hard to predict what is going to happened.
At last you can check Agrawals blog as its a great source of evaluating the Daily Deals Market provided by my friend Ahmed Tarek Elasra

Resources :

- lab42
- arabian gazette
- CNN
-Hitwise
- Tomuse

How Group Buying Websites (Daily Deals) works?

2011-09-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

Group Buying Websites (Daily Deals) is one of latest trends in Web commerce, it's a way to use the Web to get a volume discount, Groups of consumers will band together to buy a particular good, and local Merchants will be forced to offer wholesale prices to these groups.
I'll try to gather all important information in a series of posts to explain all about Group Buying (Daily Deals) websites .

Group Buying websites (Daily Deals) definition:
Group buying ( Daily Deals) websites partner with local merchants to offer consumers products and services at significantly reduced prices on the condition that a minimum number of buyers would make the purchase.
Many of the group buying (daily deals) websites works by negotiating deals with local merchants and promising to deliver crowds in exchange of discounts. The group buying (daily deals) websites differ from other buying websites in how they work and what they do to reward users who share deals.

How does group buying ( Daily Deals) websites works?
The merchant agrees to offer customers a specific product or service at a greatly discounted rate (usually 50% off or more) if the group buying website can generate more than the specified minimum number of sales chosen by the merchant. Once the minimum number of sales is reached, the deal becomes activated and all the customers that signed up for the deal become eligible.

What if the minimum number of sales isn’t reached?
If the minimum number of orders isn’t reached then the deal is canceled, no one is able to take advantage of the deal.

How does group buying (daily deals ) websites really works ?
Group buying promotions are able to generate a large number of sales for the merchant in a short period of time. Usually these deals are only posted for a 24-hour period ( but here in Egypt it may take longer, sometimes the offer is posted for a week) and the viral nature of this promotion means that sales can be on the order of hundreds to thousands of orders in a single day/week.
For many local business owners equates this to an entire month’s worth of sales that are obtained in just a single day/week.
While the business owner is only making 25% of the profits (Grouping websites takes 50% of sales) business owner (local merchants) would normally earn for a typical sale but they are willing to take this short-term loss for the following reasons:

1-Cash flow boost:
Payments for vouchers are processed by the collective/grouping buying website within a very short period after the deal is closed, and the local merchant will soon receive a quick boost in cash flow for that month.

2-Not everyone will redeem their voucher:
People are lazy and not everyone will show up to turn in their voucher to the merchant and take advantage of the deal ( a very true fact, me myself bought some vouchers & never redeemed them, I will refer to the exact percentage of customers that never redeem the vouchers in the next post) .

3-Inexpensive, effective advertising:
Businesses spend a lot of money on advertising and yet it’s often very inefficient. Daily deals promoted by group buying websites are fairly inexpensive and they are much more effective at generating real sales rather than just increasing brand awareness.

4-New customers:
Local businesses are always looking to expand their client base and new customers are a necessity for doing so.
Daily deals are able to attract many new clients by offering discounts that get the first-time customer in the door.

5- Return customers:
Businesses that use group buying (Daily Deal) website for marketing their products or services are hoping that the new customers that sign up for their deal will like what the local merchant offers and become a return customer.
In the coming post I'll provide more information about:
- Types of businesses that are better suited for group based promotions.
- How to calculate a daily deal revenue?
- Group buying ( daily deals ) websites listings worldwide.

Interesting Info-graphic of Facebook statistics for 2010

2011-01-14T06:02:00.000-08:00

Smart Insights published a very interesting info-graphic for Facebook statistics year 2010.
Enjoy it ;)

Ultimate Guide to eMail Marketing Guidelines (Newsletters) - Part 1

2010-04-05T11:27:00.000-07:00

eMail Marketing ( Newsletters ) Definition :

Email is an inexpensive yet effective way to reach an expansive audience relatively quickly.

The basic email marketing definition is the use of email to promote products and/or services. A better definition of email marketing is the use of email to develop relationships with potential customers and/or clients.

Business today is finding email marketing with newsletters attractive for several reasons:

1-The cost of sending a direct mail piece by postal service runs over a dollar, email marketing can cost pennies.

2- A one percent response rate from direct mail is considered terrific. An email marketing campaign can have a five to ten percent response rate.

3- According to DoubleClick's Email Consumer Study, over 78% of online shoppers have purchased because of permission-based emails and 59% of email recipients have bought in a retail store as a result of a merchant email.

4-The benefits of email marketing range from increased sales and lead generation to stronger brand awareness and improved customer relationships.

eMail Marketing ( Newsletters ) Tips And Tricks:

1- Catchy Subjects For Email Marketing:
Writing catchy subject lines is a first step towards email marketing success. Subject lines forms an overall impression of an email.
As you know, people decide to open an email or not just by reading a subject line. So to be successful with email marketing, you must learn how to write catchy subjects.

2-Include Current Date:
This is a very effective way to put a current date in a subject line. Most people look for an updated information.
By looking at a date in subject field, you show them that the information in this email is up-to-date. Also a research show that putting a current date instead of a subscribers' first name generates more hits.

3- Make it Short and Interesting:
Just as you go through the list, including your name, your subscribers name and a current date all together will make a subject line too long. It is entirely up to you how to balance all of them.
But make sure you write a short and an interesting subject material. Show them some interest depending upon your business category in your subjects to grab their attention.

Only a few words of the subject line will appear in your recipient's reading pane so keep it under a total of 50 characters. This usually means about 5 to 8 words. Remember to keep the most important words first!

The downfall of any email marketing campaign is SPAM. Avoid using items in your subject line that will increase the likelihood of being caught in spam filters. This means avoiding words such as "sale", "free", "advertisement". Also, avoid using excessive punctuation, ALL CAPS and symbols ($%*).

4-Write good headlines:
The first thing that you need to remember is to write good headlines. Newsletters are basically made up of several articles put together. Each of these articles needs a headline, with the main article being your primary headline.
A headline should be a short but descriptive phrase that tells the reader what the article is all about.

Besides being descriptive though, the header should also engage the interest of the reader. It should convey a kind of mystery or anticipation so that the readers can be tempted to read the whole article.

5-Be efficient with your word:
Remember that most email programs offer a preview window of about 4 inches. If that space is taken up with a graphic header or a block of text, people are likely to delete it. Headers can graphically enhance email messages, but they also can be distracting. If you choose to use one, design it on a smaller scale so that the header and one or two lines of text are seen in the preview window. This increases the likelihood that the recipient will scroll down and read your email.

Keywords in Newsletter Titles :
guide, accents, advisory, advocate, alert, almanac, briefs, briefing, bulletin
channel, connection, context, digest, dimensions, examiner, facts , file
focus, forecast, forum, highlights, horizons, hotline, insider, interchange
intercom, journal, keynote, letter, light, link, list, log, monthly, news
notes, perspective, post, profile, report, reporter, resources, review, scene
scope, spotlight, survey, tab, times, topics, trends, update, viewpoint
views, voice, weekly, wire, world

6- Appeal to your readers:
Of course, good headlines will not really matter if you articles do not appeal to your readers. Always make sure that all the articles in your newsletter are related to the overall theme or purpose of the said newsletter.

For example, if you sell shoes, your newsletter can contain articles on jogging, fashion, back pain or even posture, and these are all topics that a reader may find interesting. By covering topics that indirectly or directly pertain to shoes, you are making a connection between your product and the articles. You can include a coupon in your newsletter, or simply insert a modest sized ad within the pages of your newsletter, and your prospects will be clever enough to make the connection between the article topics and your products.

7- Include Quality Content:
By focusing on the content of your newsletter, you will be supplying the prospects with information that they can use. Remember that this is not an overt sales mechanism. A newsletter should contain news, and it is another venue for you to get your brand in front of your customer.
So by including information on topics related to your product, you are indirectly marketing your product, and you are providing the subscriber with interesting and relevant content that really interests them. If you always give your subscribers something of value, then they will look forward to receiving your email.

Ideas for eMarketing Newsletters content:

A- Problem / solution.
B- How-to.
C- Top tips.
D- Opinion / analysis.
E- Look into the future.
F- Case study.
G- Seasonality.
H- Reviews.
I- Educational content.
J- "Best of".
K- Surveys / feedback request.
L- Event recommendations.
M- Resource links.
N- Amusing or inspirational stories and quotes.
O- Answering feedback.
P- Interviews.
Q- Quizzes.

8-Create a Clear Call to Action in Email Marketing Campaigns:
One of the crucial elements of an email marketing campaign is a clear call to action.
A- Lay out exactly what you want the recipients of your message to do, and
B- Design the message to make that path clear for the recipient, and easy to follow.

Also you must develop curiosity among your subscribers:
The general thumb of rule in writing a catchy subject lines is to bring curiosity in readers.
Using words like Secrets, 7 steps to, Are You Satisfied etc. Are some of the example words you can include in your subject material to develop curiosity in your subscribers.
Invoke their mind by putting such call to action words and phrases.

For Example, User Questions Mean Great Content for Newsletters

If you wonder about the "useful content" part, pondering what could be most interesting for your readers, Turn to your email archive and look for recent questions that your users had.

Chances are you can answer them easily, and chances are the answers make highly useful pieces of information for not only the person who submitted the query but for all your newsletter subscribers.

9- Use images:
Images are a good way to enhance the look of the message, but you should only use one or two per message. If there are multiple images or photos, include a link for the user to access them. Also, If you decide to include images, compress files to make them smaller (in storage size) so they don't take up a lot of space in the recipient's mailbox.

Because email software varies, be sure to have an HTML version and a plain-text version to send. Most email marketing software is able to determine which version is better suited for the recipient's inbox.

10- How to Monitor Email Effectiveness:

A- Experiment with Link Placement in Newsletters:

The place a newsletter or email marketing campaign a link appears at can be crucial for click-through.
Consequently, which link goes where can be crucial for the success (if measured in click-through rates) of any email marketing effort, That's why you should " Experiment with link placement in your newsletter" .

Use consecutive issues to vary the placement of standard links. Monitor click-through rates closely to determine which link works best in a certain position, and in which position a link works best.

B- Send the email to colleagues or friends:

Make them review the subject line and gain their opinions and insight., Use them as your test audience. Don't forget to send it to yourself - would you open it? Encourage everyone to be honest and objective.

C- For additional tracking data:

Send the same email out to random samples of your group with different subject lines. Track and evaluate which email generates more interest and use similar subject lines in future email marketing campaigns.

D-Watch your numbers:

Every time you send out a newsletter, you should get a nice report on how many people opened the email or clicked on a link etc. Use those reports to learn about reader interests. If a particular subject line caused open rates to rocket, you know where to focus more content in the future.

Examine your website reports, too. Which parts of the website are most popular? What words and phrases do people use to find you in the search engines? What words and phrases do they use in your on-site search facility?

All of this information gives clues as to the kind of content topics likely to interest people most.

If your system is clever enough, you might even track which search terms brought those people to your site who then signed up for your newsletter.

E-Go where your readers go:

Look at the pages they visit and learn what interests them. Check out relevant newsgroups, online forums, discussion lists, social networking sites, chatrooms, media sites, blogs etc. and pick out the topics that seem to generate a lot of interest and coverage among your readership.

11- At last Provide Clear Opt Out Instructions:
A- Make it Easy for Subscribers to Change Their Email Address
provide subscribers with an easy to way to change their address., The most simple approach is probably also the best:
- on the page that allows readers to unsubscribe, offer another field where they can subscribe a new address (carrying over all their data) and change the link to that page in the newsletter from "unsubscribe" to "unsubscribe/change address".

B- Any email marketing campaign is about building trust with your subscribers, so you always want to give them what they want. If your subscriber wants to opt out of your newsletter, do not make it hard for them to do so. All you will do is alienate them and very likely lose a customer prospect. If you let people opt out easily, then you will build a reputation that is respected in your niche. When people know that they are not trapped into receiving your newsletter, they may also decide to opt back in, Make Sure Unusbscriptions are Effective Immediately.

the following 2 parts will discuss Newsletters Design Templates & eMail Marketing Best Practices.

Sources :

-http://www.online.tusc.k12.al.us/
-About.com
-Ezinearticles.com
-ehow.com
-http://www.newarticle.com
http://www.email-marketing-reports.com

    * Beach, M. (1995). Editing your newsletter. 4th edition. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books.
    * Bivins, T. H. (1992). Fundamentals of successful newsletters: Everything you need to write, design, and publish more effective newsletters. Chicago, IL: NTC Business Books.
    * Floyd, E. (1997). Marketing with newsletters. St. Louis, MO: Newsletter Resources.
    * Harrower, T. (1998). The newspaper designer's handbook. 4th edition. Blacklick, OH: McGraw-Hill.

Google Analytics feature: Analytics Intelligence & Custom Alerts

2009-11-08T12:53:00.001-08:00

Analytics Intelligence a new feature in Google Analytics

2009-11-08T12:44:00.000-08:00

First of all God bless Google :D

Google launched a lot of features the past few months in Google Analytics and Google webmasters Tools. We will start to explain each feature in the coming few posts and will start immediately with recent launched feature “ Analytics Intelligence ”.

Analytics Intelligence was launched 2 days ago on 6 Nov. , as you notice the feature is still new , so we don’t have a great experience with Analytics Intelligence but we will provide you with the Basic information about Analytics Intelligence .

Analytics Intelligence will provide automatic alerts of significant changes in the data patterns of your site metrics and dimensions over daily, weekly and monthly periods. For instance, Intelligence could call out a 300% surge in visits from YouTube referrals last Tuesday or let you know bounce rates of visitors from Virginia dropped by 70% two weeks ago. Instead of you having to monitor reports and comb through data, Analytics Intelligence alerts you to the most significant information to pay attention to, saving you time and surfacing traffic insights that could affect your business. Now, you can spend your time actually taking action, instead of trying to figure out what needs to be done.

Custom Alerts make it possible for you to tell Google Analytics what to watch for. You can set daily, weekly, and monthly triggers on different dimensions and metrics, and be notified by email or right in the user interface when the changes actually occur.

The Video will help you a lot Watch Analytics Intelligence .

Source: Google Analytics Blog

Introduction To Viral Marketing

2009-10-22T13:07:00.001-07:00

Bing Twitter Search Goes Live

2009-10-22T09:34:00.000-07:00

The official words are out coming from Microsoft’s President of Online Service Groups Qi Lu. The integrated Bing-Twitter search facility is also now out, well at least for U.S. users is reportedly now working.

Unfortunately It's not working here in Egypt , So I'm not able to try it myself , So I'm going to transform to you the experience of those who try it.

Arnold Zafra will explain in the coming few lines.
but first let me introduce to you Arnolad, Arnold Zafra is Search Corespondent : with background is in Web 2.0 and Search programming, and he writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers.

Arnold says :It’s not really integrated into Bing.com, but a subsite. Bing has access to all the Twitter public timeline. And that’s what user’s will be searching when they use the integrated Bing-Twitter search engine.

One promising feature of the search facility is its ability to display the most prominent links being shared on Twitter about your search topic. The so called “social caption” is also a cool feature as it gives you what people are saying about those links.

And yes there is also a Retweet button to share interesting Tweets that you find in search results.

Financial details of the deal is not yet disclose, if ever there is actually involved. The deal is non-exclusive so Twitter has the option to deal with Google should Bing’s Wave 2 not bring Twitter any good. They can always resort to Google’s Wave.

Source : SEJ

LinkedIn Hits 50 Million Users

2009-10-14T13:10:00.000-07:00

As of early this morning, LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and we’re growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach the first million members. This last million took only 12 days.

Where are these 50 million users? LinkedIn has been global since inception — about half of our total membership is international.
There are now 11 million users in Europe alone. India is currently our fastest-growing country with almost 3 million users, while the Netherlands has the highest rate of adoption per capita outside the U.S., at 30%.

While 50 million is an important milestone, LinkedIn are even more excited about how members are using the site. Around the globe, people turn to LinkedIn to create and manage their professional identities online. They reconnect with former colleagues and develop new relationships, enabling them to create and collaborate with a network of trusted individuals. Every day professionals use LinkedIn to define themselves —and their businesses — to the world.
If you didn't create a profile yet , Go create one on LinkedIn & share your connections with me.
My LinkedIn profile : Jilan Wagdy

Short brief about LinkedIn :
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As we mentioned above it hits 50 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

LinkedIn Services:
A mobile version of the site was launched in February 2008 which gives access to a reduced feature set over a mobile phone. The mobile service is available in six languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

In mid-2008, LinkedIn launched LinkedIn DirectAds as a form of sponsored advertising.

In October, 2008, LinkedIn enabled an "applications platform" that allows other online services to be embedded within a member's profile page. For example, among the initial applications were an Amazon Reading List that allows LinkedIn members to display books they are reading and a Six Apart, WordPress and TypePad application that allows members to display their latest blog postings within their LinkedIn profile.

Sources: Mashable LinkedIn blog wikipedia

Google Launches an Internet Stat Resource

2009-09-10T18:32:00.000-07:00

Google seems to have been working on a new online resource called Internet Stats. From the site official introduction:

“This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.”
Google Internet Stats is categorized into five broad topics:

* Consumer Trends
* Macro Economic Trends
* Media Consumption
* Media Landscape
* Technology

Each of these subjects are further sub-categorized into various aspects as well. For instance the technology cluster is further subdivided into Broadband, Speed, Devices, and Mobile. You can simply click on the sub-topics to get the available statistical data or use the site-wide search box.

Google has also listed the third-party vendors where the statistical data all came from. These include the likes of comScore, PriceWaterHouseCoppers, Nielsen and all the other stats vendors.

One good thing to note about the Google Internet Stats is the fact that most of the statistical data are pretty updated. Although the depth of information is not that comprehensive yet.

While awaiting any official announcement from Google about this statistical center, you might want to check it out and see for yourselves whether it will be of any use. You can check out the Google Internet Stats from this link : http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/

Source : SEJ

Gmail Is Down Again

2009-09-01T14:16:00.000-07:00

Google’s popular e-mail application Gmail is down Tuesday afternoon, in an outage affecting both free and paying users.

The outage began sometime around 1 p.m. Pacific time, and remains down, despite an oddly timestamped message on the company’s status dashboard, which says service is back for some and will be restored for all in the near future.

In a message posted at 11:28 a.m., the company wrote “Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.”

The outage comes just as Google has launched a rare advertising campaign to persuade companies to ditch Microsoft applications such as Outlook and Word for Google’s hosted Apps for Your Domain.

Gmail suffered a wide and long outage on May 14, which led many to worry about the reliability of so-called cloud computing services, where critical portions of companies’ businesses are handled by remote computing services, such as Google, Zoho and Salesforce.com.

The service remains available on remote client, such as Outlook or the iPhone’s mail client, via POP3 and IMAP.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but did acknowledge and apologize for the outage on its Gmail blog.

Source: wired

SEOmoz's Biennial Page Ranking Factors 2009 Released - part 1

2009-08-24T16:20:00.000-07:00

SEOmoz's biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors is finally launched. Every two years, SEOmoz survey 100 of the industry's top SEO minds. In 2009, 72 SEOs participated in the data gathering process, answering survey questions that consumed hours of time. The resulting document is an amazing aggregation of data about how search engines rank documents and, at least in my opinion, should be read by anyone serious about practicing search engine optimization.

Table of Contents

* On-Page (keyword-specific) Ranking Factors
* On-Page (non-keyword) Ranking Factors
* Page-Specific Link Popularity Ranking Factors
* Site-Wide Link-Based Ranking Factors
* Site-wide (non-link based) Ranking Factors
* Social Media/Social Graph Based Ranking Factors
* Usage Data Ranking Factors
* Negative Ranking Factors
* Factors Negatively Affecting the Value of External Links
* Geo-Targeting Factors

1-On-Page (keyword-specific) Ranking Factors

1. Keyword Use Anywhere in the Title Tag (66% very high importance).
2. Keyword Use as the First Word(s) of the Title Tag (63% high importance).
3. Keyword Use in the Root Domain Name (e.g. keyword.com -60% high importance).
4. Keyword Use Anywhere in the H1 Headline Tag (49% moderate importance).
5. Keyword Use in Internal Link Anchor Text on the Page (47% moderate importance).
6. Keyword Use in External Link Anchor Text on the Page (46% moderate importance).
7. Keyword Use as the First Word(s) in the H1 Tag (45% moderate importance).
8. Keyword Use in the First 50-100 Words in HTML on the Page (45% moderate importance).
9. Keyword Use in the Subdomain Name (e.g. keyword.seomoz.org - 42% low importance).
10. Keyword Use in the Page Name URL (e.g. seomoz.org/folder/keyword.html - 38% low importance).
11. Keyword Use in the Page Folder URL (e.g. seomoz.org/keyword/page.html -37% low importance).
12. Keyword Use in other Headline Tags (35% low importance).
13. Keyword Use in Image Alt Text ( 33% minimal importance).
14. Keyword Use / Number of Repetitions in the HTML Text on the Page (33% minimal importance).
15. Keyword Use in Image Names Included on the Page (e.g. keyword.jpg - 33% minimal importance).
16. Keyword Use in or Tags (26% minimal importance).
17. Keyword Density Formula (# of Keyword Uses ÷ Total # of Terms on the Page)
(25% minimal importance).
18. Keyword Use in List Items (23% very minimal importance).
19. Keyword Use in the Page’s Query Parameters (e.g. seomoz.org/page.html?keyword)
(22% very minimal importance).
20. Keyword Use in or Tags (21% very minimal importance).
21. Keyword Use in the Meta Description Tag (19% very minimal importance).
22. Keyword Use in the Page’s File Extension (e.g. seomoz.org/page.keyword)
(12% very minimal importance).
23. Keyword Use in Comment Tags in the HTML (6% very minimal importance).
24. Keyword Use in the Meta Keywords Tag (5% very minimal importance).

Comments on On-Page (Keyword-Specific) Ranking Factors:

Andy Beal : Keyword use in external link anchor text is one of the top SEO factors overall. I’ve seen sites rank for competitive keywords—without even mentioning the keyword on-page—simply because of external link text.

Andy Beard – Keyword Use in the Meta Keywords Tag – ignore them unless using a blogging platform which can use the same keywords as tags. Google ignores them.

Christine Churchill – Taking the time to create a good title tag has the biggest payoff of any on-page criteria. Just do it!

Duncan Morris – It’s worth pointing out that even though having keywords in the meta description doesn’t impact rankings they can play a significant role in the sites click through rate from the SERPs.

Peter Wailes – Domain name keyword usage gains most of its strength through what anchor text people are then likely to link to you with, not so much from inherent value, which is lower in my opinion.

Wait for part 2 (On-Page (Non-Keyword) Ranking Factors).
Source: Seomoz

Google AdSense Bug Prevents Changing Channel Names

2009-08-10T07:04:00.000-07:00

A bug that has been an issue for over two weeks now, is still an issue. The bug, first reported at Google AdSense Help forums explains that when some publishers try to change an existing channel, it simply does not work. The bug has been confirmed to be an issue in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The bug was first reported on July 26th and acknowledged by AdSensePro Jennifer two days later, where Jennifer said:

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'll take a look.

But since then, even after fifty-plus posts/complaints later, no one has fixed the issue or given an update on the status of the fix for the issue.

I am not sure how critical modifying channel names are for publishers, I assume not that critical, but there are quiet a few complaints on this issue and it does warrant a response.

Forum discussion at Google AdSense Help.

source: seroundtable.com

June 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

2009-07-23T04:43:00.000-07:00

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in June with 65.0 % of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (19.6 %), and Microsoft Sites (8.4% ). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 3.1 percent.

* Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.

Americans conducted 14 billion searches in June, down slightly from May. Google Sites accounted for 9.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites (2.8 billion), Microsoft Sites (1.2 billion), Ask Network (552 million) and AOL LLC (439 million).

* Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.

June 2009 U.S. Expanded Search Rankings

In the June 2009 analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the search market with 13.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.9 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 1.2 billion searches, up 3 percent from May, followed by AOL LLC with 736 million.
Facebook.com experienced the highest growth of the top ten expanded search properties with a 9-percent increase.

Source : comScore

Firefox 3.5 Reaches 1,408,303 Million Downloads And Still Counting

2009-06-30T12:43:00.000-07:00

Only a few hours into its general release, Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 is already approaching one million downloads. As of 22: 54 Cairo Local time ( GMT + 3 ), Firefox 3.5 had been downloaded 1,408,303 times. How do we know this? Because Mozilla has launched a real-time tracker, where you can see exactly how many times the browser has been downloaded.

Additionally, you can also see how many downloads there have been by country, the current number of downloads per second, and how download activity is trending. So far, the new browser has been downloaded the most by users in the US, Germany, France, and the UK.

While that is a huge start, it seems unlikely that the launch will match that of Firefox (Firefox) 3.0, which saw 8 million downloads in its first 24 hours. That’s not surprising given all of the hype for 3.0, but nonetheless shows the huge enthusiasm that Firefox fanatics still have for the browser.

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Social Networkers Lukewarm to Ads; Opt-In Most Appealing

2009-06-22T23:28:00.000-07:00

Only 40% of social networkers say they would be receptive to opt-in advertising on their networks, and an ever lower number (20%) find behavior-based campaigns appealing, according InsightExpress research, reports MarketingVOX.

The survey, which was undertaken to determine how willing people are to see advertising on social networks, generally finds low levels of overall interest in all forms of social network advertising.

In contrast to opt-in and behavior-based ads, however, acceptance of randomly generated ads varies according to which network they are viewed on, the survey found. Social networkers were least likely to say they wanted to see ads on sites where they already are prominent. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of users on Facebook, Myspace, Classmates.com, LinkedIn and Reunion.com would want to see randomly generated ads, but that number rises to 43% among users of CafeMom, Twitter and Flickr users, who appear to be more receptive.

“Recognizing the rapid growth of social networks and social networking audiences, advertisers have focused on creative engagement and how to apply their brands within a new environment,” said Drew Lipner, VP/group director-Digital Media Measurement at InsightExpress.

Facebook, MySpace are Gateways

InsightExpress found that 43% of the online population has reported using a social network site and 71% of these users maintain profiles on at least two or more. The research also reveals that Facebook and MySpace are the primary gateway social networks - the ones with which users begin exploring social networking before potentially branching off into other sites:

* Of social networkers that have only one profile, 46% chose MySpace and 36% chose Facebook.
* Those with two or three profiles were broken down thus: 78% are on MySpace, 71% on Facebook, 22% on Classmates.com and 11% are on LinkedIn.
* Of those with four or more profiles, 92% are on Facebook, 89% are on MySpace, 60% have a Classmates.com, 40% use Reunion.com, 33% have a LinkedIn, 11% have Flickr, and 10% have Twitter.

“The broad and exciting acceptance of social networking also reinforces the distinct need to develop targeted and relevant campaigns for this channel with the help of advanced measurement tools,” said Lipner.

Last month Netpop Research predicted potential opportunities for social network advertisers during the economic downturn.

About the research: The research was conducted by InsightExpress between Dec. 15, 2008 and Jan. 12, 2009 using RDD telephone sampling methodology. A total of 1,593 respondents completed the survey, and the results were weighted to reflect the online population.

Source: marketingcharts

Web Ads More Memorable in Context

2009-06-22T23:08:00.000-07:00

Web Ads More Memorable in Context

Ads that run on websites with related content are 61% more likely to be recalled than ads running on sites with unrelated content, according to Condé Nast and McPheters & Company, which recently released additional data from a relevent study about ad effectiveness in various media.
This new information is the result of a more in-depth analysis that looked at the effectiveness of internet banner ads that were aligned with the content of the websites they appeared on vs. those that were not.
Examples of ads in context are food ads running on food sites, entertainment ads on entertainment sites, etc.

The study also revealed that social network, shopping, and food sites generate the highest recall levels (29% to 39%).

Additional findings from the analysis:

* Recall of ads varies by site type.
* Search and portal sites generate the lowest recall levels.
* There are large differences in recall by product type.

“While we have long known that context is important for print advertisers, we welcome proof that the same is true online,” said Drew Schutte, SVP and chief revenue officer for Condé Nast Digital. “These results reinforce the importance of a marketer being associated with category-specific websites with established brands.”

About the study: The research used McPheters & Company’s AdWorks methodology to measure recall for 400 ads on a variety of websites. Ads were segmented by whether they appeared on websites with related content. Recall of ads was measured among internet users who were directed to surf the Internet at will for 30 minutes. McPheters & Company fielded the survey at CBS Vision’s Television City lab facilities in Las Vegas.

May 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings Report

2009-06-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

May 2009 core search rankings

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in April with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.1 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.0 percent), Ask Network (3.9 percent) and AOL LLC (3.1 percent).
* May data does not include search activity at Microsoft Bing, which was launched on June 1. Microsoft Bing.Com will be included with June Search queries data.
** Americans conducted 14.3 billion searches at the core search engines.
Google Sites accounted for 9.3 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.9 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion.

May 2009 U.S. Expanded Search Rankings

In the comScore May 2009 analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 13 billion searches. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 3 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (1.2 billion) and AOL LLC (721 million).
*May data does not include search activity at Microsoft Bing.Com, which was launched on June Microsoft Bing will be included with June qSearch data.

Source: comScore

Bing.Com Continues to Show Growth in Search Activity

2009-06-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

According to comScore Bing.Com Continues
to Show Growth in Search Activity.

Microsoft Sees Gains in U.S. Searcher Penetration and Share of Search Result Pages During the Second Week of Bing’s Debut.
ComScore today released a follow up study on the performance of Bing.Com, Microsoft’s new search engine, during the second week of its public launch. The results show that Microsoft has continued to increase its position in the search market following the initial week of Bing’s debut.

Microsoft Sites saw its average daily searcher penetration and share of search result pages in the U.S. continue to climb during the second week of Bing’s introduction. Microsoft Sites’ average daily penetration among U.S. searchers reached 16.7 percent during the work week of June 8-12, up 3 percentage points from the May 25-29 work week prior to Bing’s introduction. Microsoft’s share of search result pages in the U.S., a proxy for overall search intensity, increased to 12.1 percent during the period of June 8-12, also climbing 3 percentage points from the pre-introduction work week of May 25-29.

These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch.

source:Comscore

Finally you will have your username for your Facebook account

2009-06-09T15:42:00.000-07:00

From the beginning of Facebook, people have used their real names to share and connect with the people they know. This authenticity helps to create a trusted environment because you know the identity of the people and things on Facebook. The one place, though, where your identity wasn't reflected was in the Web address for your profile or the Facebook Pages you administer. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like "id=592952074." That soon will change.

We're planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.

Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You'll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop ("."). While usernames are currently available only for Romanized text, we're looking at how we might support non-Romanized characters in the future.

Think carefully about the username you choose. Once it's been selected, you won't be able to change or transfer it. If you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you may not be able to sign up for a username immediately because of steps we've taken to prevent abuse or "squatting" on names.

Source Facebook blog

Obama's speech in Cairo trends in Facebook , Google & Youtube .

2009-06-04T12:05:00.000-07:00

After analyzing Obama speech in Cairo search keywords we will find the following:
1- After 8 hours of the speech we found Google Hot Trend Hotness degree equals SPICY .

2- AS we discussed before in the previous post the most hot key words are :
obama cairo speech, obama cairo video, obama speech video, obama cairo speech time, obamacairo speech transcript .
3- If you checked them in Google Trends you will find the highest one for obama cairo speech as shown below.

4- NPR asked it's visitor the following will they were waiting for the speech:

A) At 5:47 ET:
They asked :Do you think the president will send the right message?
Yes( 88% ), No( 6% ),No opinion ( 6% ).
B) At 6:26 ET :
15 minutes in to the speech: Do you like what you hear?
No ( 0% ), Yes ( 92% ), No opinion ( 8% ).
C) At 6:43 ET :
30 minutes in: Do you like what you hear?
No ( 7% ), Yes ( 93% ), No opinion ( 0% ).
D) At 7:10 ET :
Now that the speech is over, did you like what you heard?
No ( 0% ), Yes ( 100% ), No opinion ( 0% ).

5- Facebook search results for Obama's speech in Cairo :
we found 2 new groups the first one is The Great Speech of Barack Hussein Obama in Cairo to Muslims created by Fathy Osama Muhammed it has only 182 but we still in the beginning
the second one has only 2 members, there are another 2 events created .

6- As for Youtube it's a little bit early to tell the exact number of viewers, May me in day or two this data will be reveled.
Sources : coveritlive, Google Hot Trend, Google Trend for Searches.

Obama speech in cairo & Google Hot Trend

2009-06-04T04:17:00.000-07:00

These are the hottest keywords all over the internet:
time of obama speech in cairo, time in cairo, obama speech, obama speech cairo, obama cairo speech time

Peak:
2 hours ago ( 12:00 ) pm Cairo local time.
Wait for Obama’s speech in Cairo video viewers numbers & comments from all over the world in the next post.
As an Egyptian & a Muslim I found the speech very realistic, I hope promises turns into actions.

GOOGLE Vs BING - Microsoft Officially Announces its New Search Engine – Bing.Com

2009-05-31T12:08:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Officially Announces its New Search Engine – Bing.Com

Microsoft’s official announcement of its new search engine OR decision engine, has created quite a buzz. Bing, which is internally called Kumo is described by Microsoft as – “a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. “

Essentially, Bing would consists of four vertical search areas that would help users in making purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business. Search results for these areas could be better filtered down into images, videos, shopping, news, maps or travel.

Another way of looking at Bing is as a tool for navigating through the information overload commonly provided by pure web search engine results. According to Steve Ballmer: “When we set out to build Bing, we grounded ourselves in a deep understanding of how people really want to use the Web. Bing is an important first step forward in our long-term effort to deliver innovations in search that enable people to find information quickly and use the information they’ve found to accomplish tasks and make smart decisions.”

Bing will be publicly rolled out come June 3, 2009. Until then, we really couldn’t say whether it’s got what it takes to challenge Google search and its vertical search products. It’s a promising product, no one can deny that fact but until Bing managed to pull a faster, more relevant and useful search results that what Google is already offering, it might just be another alternative search engine which tried to kill Google search but failed.

On a related note, as soon as Bing is rolled out, some Microsoft web products will start carrying the Bing product branding. The new brand portfolio will include the following changes:

* Microsoft’s mapping platform, Virtual Earth, will now be branded as Bing Maps for Enterprise. More information can be found here.
* Technology from Microsoft’s April 2008 acquisition of Farecast is now a central part of Bing Travel. More information can be found here .
* Microsoft’s popular cashback program, now dubbed Bing cashback, with more than 850 merchants and more than 17 million products available, will be fully integrated into the Bing Shopping experience.

Watch out for this link on June 3, as Bing goes live to the public. In the meantime, you may want to read some more about Bing Decision Enginehere.
Source SEJ

When Viral Marketing goes wrong !

2009-05-25T12:02:00.000-07:00

The art of creating viral content is knowing the difference between a good idea, and a good idea that’s likely become viral.
It’s creating more than just videos. It’s quite a bit bigger, Websites, Blogs, Alternative Reality Games, Social Networking, Mobile games & even rich media, And often combination of these.
The power of Viral Marketing rests in the hands of the audience. But what makes one campaign rise to the top, and another disappears into oblivion?
The answer lies in your strategic approach. You must answer these two key questions:
A) Is it true to your brand?
B) And is it relevant to your target audience?

If your strategy in on target, you can create something deviate from traditional directions without violating the culture and values that define your brand.
And if your work is relevant, your audience will become advocates of your brand.
Whether it’s for a narrowly-defined niche or a broad expense of the public.

Viral Success doesn’t happen by magic. It has to be built, it’s not enough to just post creative no matter no matter how good it is, and hope it gets seen.
A smart seeding strategy and careful planning is the way to break through the clutter and reach the intended audience.

We are going to explain a viral marketing campaign & sees if it's really did the previous steps .

It's Nova Scotia new Smart phone Pomegranate .
Pomegranate phone website boasts a number of increasingly comic features (such as a video projector, live voice translator for 50 language, harmonica, coffee maker, and shaving razor, among many other standard features that current leading mobile phones have)
On the surface, the clever and slick animations of a do-everything competitor to the iPhone are fantastic. The phone claims to shave your legs, brew coffee, project video in full HD and so much more.
Thus begins Nova Scotia’s latest, slickest, and most expensive endeavour into using new media and social networking to pass the message of the ‘Come To Life‘ campaign to their unsuspecting target market. The viral campaign peddles this ‘it does everything’ phone with all the might that a $300.000 advertising budget can provide, The campaign was produced by Bristol Group, Egg Films/Hatch, and Breathe Media.

However, the site isn't meant to be a marketing site for a new smart phone, If you click the single link for "Release Date", you are whisked into a site extolling the virtues of our fair province, complete with extremely well put together videos about Nova Scotia.

A great viral campaign by Bristol, Hatch, and Breathe. World class, really. It achieves the desired effect of getting people to pass around the url to give their friends and colleagues a quick chuckle. The campaign was implemented in Boston, Toronto, Calgary, and Ottawa. On October 2008 , 200 pomegranates (the fruit, not the phone) containing the url (pomegranatephone.com) were passed around to people by street teams in Boston, Ottawa, and Toronto during their morning commute.
Yet, there appears to be a disconnect from the Pom site and the site containing the client’s message. It’s as if two different companies were hired, one for the flashy viral campaign, and another for the Come To Life mini-site.

Here is where it gets tricky. Critics of this campaign point to how the message is hard to locate in this viral. Even when you do get to the mini-site containing the video clips that are meant to pitch Nova Scotia to the target market, there appears to be a disconnect between the demographic target of the videos and the demographic target of the Pom’s viral.

The Pom’s viral appeals to a tech-savvy younger demographic that spends a lot of time on the internet and enjoys passing around virals. Other demographics that spend a lot of time on the internet and pass around junk mail and viral videos are employees, stay at home parents, and teenagers without much to do.

Yet, Bristol notes that the key demographic they are after is “influencers and business leaders in key markets”, a group that usually stays on top of trends and the latest in technology.

Bristol is correct in that influencers and business leaders stay on top of technology and trends. However, perhaps a fatal flaw here is that the Pom phone is neither a new technology nor a trend, so it would be of little interest to business leaders to visit the site or forward to their contacts. It is just a gag site, and we have already established who is attracted to gag sites. Leaders and influencers are too busy leading and influencing to spend time checking out gag sites.

So, ultimately, the main visitors that ended up on the site were teenagers from around the world, and expat young professionals who out-migrated from Nova Scotia seeking opportunities in other Canadian or international cities. They clicked, they chuckled, some sent it to their friends.

Some followed the viral into the Nova Scotia Come To Life message, and were disappointed. The video testimonials mainly showcase entrepreneurs, doctors, and enterprises. No representative age group was showcased doing the things these expats fled the province to do elsewhere. This brings us to the third and final component of this campaign.

Resources : metronews, brightwhite, yourworldtoday, Wikipedia, TVF

Susan Boyle & Google Hot Trends

2009-04-20T11:12:00.000-07:00

I'm going to talk again about hot trends , I really likes that tool.
After checking the key phrase Obama bow , We are going now to Analyze Susan Boyle key phrase.
Here in this post we are going to track a couple of numbers about Susan Boyle.

Let’s first start with Google Hot Trends:

The whole world was searching for these key phrase :
susan boyle, susan boyle titanic, susan boyle my heart will go on, susan boyle recording, susan boyle america
The hotness degree: SPICY

Second : let’s check YouTube

On 17th of April: the estimated views for Boyle’s performance has already been seen more than 47 million times in all, taking into account all of the reproductions of the original.

Visible Measures points out that this is more views than Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin, shoes getting thrown at President Bush, and Obama’s election night victory speech.
YouTube’s most popular video of all-time, sans Avril Lavigne, is Evolution of Dance, with more than 117 million views. At the pace the Boyle video is spreading, it certainly has a chance to eclipse that number.

Another interesting numbers:
Bush vs. Shoes has kicked up 33.2 million views. Tina Fey's spot-on impression of Sarah Palin, supported by Amy Poehler's unnerved Hillary Clinton, has raked in 34.2 million. President Obama's historic victory speech on election night has picked up 18.5 million.
The humble -- and previously unknown -- Susan Boyle, in less than one week, has trumped them all with more than 47.7 million views.
On 19th of April : As of 10pm ET Sunday, Visible Measures reports the following Susan Boyle stats:
– 650 total video placements found associated with Susan Boyle, including the original performance, interviews and fan responses.
–These clips have accumulated 93.2 million views, meaning that views nearly doubled this weekend
– On Saturday, 15.6 million views were counted
– On Sunday, a further 30 million views were logged
– Total comments approximately doubled since Friday to nearly 250,000.

At last Susan Boyle fan page on Facebook at 4 pm Cairo local time was having 1,180, 451 fans
Now it’s 9pm & the number is rising , it reached now 1,254,821 fans.

CURRENT MARKETING STRATEGIES, TACTICS AND BUDGET ALLOCATIONS ( eMarketing Strategies)

2009-04-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

Marketing Budget

Companies with small marketing budgets dominate in terms of study participants, with 62% reporting a budget of under $1 million, a significant increase from 40% last year. 12% report a budget which is slightly larger ($1 million to $4.9 million), a decline from 21% at the end of 2007. The greater presence of companies with smaller budgets may be related, at least in part, to a greater representation of small companies.

Emarketing Strategies, Tactics, Budget Allocations and Expectations

Marketers are relying on using digital tactics more often than traditional. Company Web Sites and Email are the most frequently used tactics, followed by Public Relations, Tradeshows (in-person) and Search Marketing. Marketers have not yet widely adopted the usage of Virtual Trade Shows (the tactic used least frequently of all studied) and traditional tactics such as Outdoor Media, Radio and TV Advertising are also used on a relatively infrequent basis.
Looking at overall usage changes from 2007 to 2008, it is clear that usage rates of digital tactics has remained essentially the same, while the usage of many traditional tactics has declined.
In terms of dollar allocation, traditional tactics and media still command the majority of the marketing budget.
While a greater proportion of respondents indicate using their Company Web Site more than any other tactic, this media receives, on average, the sixth-largest budget allocation, behind Tradeshows/Conferences (in person), TV Advertising, Inside Sales/Telemarketing, Direct Mail, and Print Advertising.

Marketers are more likely to indicate increased effectiveness with digital tactics than traditional, and the presence of digital media in the marketing mix is forecasted to increase. A greater proportion of respondents expect to increase spending on digital tactics when compared with those anticipating increases to traditional media.

Marketing Tactics Used

The data suggest that marketers are relying heavily on certain digital tactics.
The top two media used are Company Web Site (91%) and Email (81%), followed by some traditional tactics, such as Public Relations (72%) and In-Person Tradeshows (70%).
Marketers are also using Search Marketing (64%) at a greater rate than traditional tactics such as Direct Mail (60%), Print Advertising (55%), Inside Sales/Telemarketing (54%), Sponsorships (46%), and Executive Events (45%).
Respondents use Virtual Trade Shows least often (8%), yet it is worth noting that compared with other infrequently used tactics, such as TV Advertising (9%), Radio (10%), and Outdoor Media (11%), this digital tactic is a relative newcomer to the marketing arsenal.

B-to-B Marketing in 2009: Trends in Strategies and Spending (eMarketing Strategies)

2009-04-12T12:55:00.000-07:00

This is the Executive Summary of B-to-B Marketing in 2009: Trends in Strategies and Spending By MarketingProfs.

1- Budget reductions are expected – In terms of their budget expectations for the coming year, marketers at the end of 2007 were more likely to anticipate increased spending; this expectation has been replaced at the end of 2008 by an outlook rooted in the realities of an economic crisis. Anticipated increases often failed to materialize in 2008, and marketers are far more likely to expect budget cuts in 2009.

2-Marketers are sharpening their focus – In coping with the effects of reduced budgets, the majority of marketers indicate they plan to direct their activities to a more selective target audience. This is consistent with findings regarding increased usage of Web 2.0 tactics, as many of these tactics lend themselves much more to “one-to-one” communication and can therefore be very specific to their audiences.

3-New media are on the rise – Digital tactics, both Web 1.0 and 2.0, have generally held claimed usage levels while traditional media have declined. With company websites and email marketing (both Web 1.0) approaching saturation levels in terms of usage, attention is now shifting to interactive/social media. While some of these tactics are still in their infancy (in terms of marketers’ experience with them), as a group they are growing rapidly (off a small base) and beginning to share prominence with more traditional tactics.

4-Emphasis is particularly strong for Search Marketing, Webinars, Email and Company Web Site – Marketers most often cite these tactics among those slated for budget increases; they also see these tactics as having increasing effectiveness; and they expect these media to be more important in the 2009 marketing mix.

Implications:
The trend toward adoption of digital tactics, which started before the economic crisis, has been accelerated by the need for B2B marketers to “do more with less” in the current environment.
With a heighted focus on select targets, reduced budgets, and new media in the mix, we would expect that marketers will be faced with a few new challenges:

-An increased need to measure and track effectiveness of all marketing tactics and strategies to identify the optimum mix on an ongoing basis. The demand for both marketing effectiveness and efficiency will likely increase in the coming months, probably to a greater extent than ever before.

-The opportunity to leverage a deeper understanding of customer needs, afforded by the application of interactive/social media.

-The need to explore and learn from best practices for tactical implementation, as marketers continue to integrate traditional and digital tactics into their overall marketing mix.

Survey Participants: The composition of participants spans a wide spectrum of industries and company sizes, as detailed on the following pages. Small companies (i.e., those with less than $20 million in annual sales) represent 46% of the respondent base, while those with annual sales exceeding $1 billion represent 12%. This is a significant shift from the respondent base last year, when small companies represented 35% and those with $1 billion in sales represented 24%.
Related, at least in part, to the shift in the respondent base (by company size), 62% of respondents report marketing budgets under $1 million, compared to 40% in the previous year.

The majority of respondents are in professional services (32%) or high-tech products manufacturing (24%), distribute their products exclusively through direct channels (48%) or some combination of direct and indirect (46%), and are involved in B2B marketing exclusively (49%) or primarily (28%). The majority (82%) also indicate that they are in senior marketing positions.

Current Revenues

While survey respondents represent organizations of all sizes, small companies (<$20 million) account for the largest segment of survey participants at 46%, a sharp increase over the segment’s presence in last year’s study (35%). In contrast, just 12% represent companies with fiscal year revenues surpassing $1 billion, a significant drop from 24% about one year prior.
To Be Contained...

Obama Bow & Google Hot Trends

2009-04-09T13:09:00.000-07:00

Hot trends is great service, most of Search Engine optimizers used every day several times.
Google Trends which displays the top 100 hot searches of the past hour. It provides a 24-hour search volume graph as well as blog, news and web search results for the terms. Hot Trends has a history feature for those wishing to browse past hot searches. Hot Trends can be installed as an iGoogle Gadget. Hot Trends is also available as an hourly Atom web feed.

If you are a blogger or a writer, you are more than likely always looking to write about things that people will want to see.

The last few hours Google hot trends indicates the following Search Queries as: hot search query
Hotness: Medium, I expect the hotness to be Volcanic soon.

You will find that the buzz was about these keywords:
Obama bowing
Obama bow video
Obama Saudi Arabia
Obama bow Saudi
White house denies bow
Which I was trying to use here :), In the matter of fact it was really a strange bow!

Google Acquiring Twitter for More Than $250 Million Valuation?

2009-04-05T01:42:00.000-07:00

Either Google is acquiring Twitter this week or Michael Arrington is desperate for traffic and stirring up rumors. I think that given the buzz around the Twitter Google news, the former is in the making. Arrington posts on TechCrunch that two trusted sources have confirmed that Google and Twitter are in talks for Twitter to be acquired by the search and communications company.

If this is accurate, it’s a brilliant deal for Google - the value of Twitter is only going to go up over time. And it will be Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone’s second sale to Google - they sold Blogger to them just five years ago. But there’s one big question - where’s Microsoft in all this? Letting Twitter go to Google only hurts them, badly, in the long term search game. This is an asset they need to be competing for aggressively.

Of course, there are sound connections between Stone, Williams and Google, as the same team behing Twitter launched and sold Blogger to Google close to 5 years ago. I was under the opinon however that another Google acquisition of a Stone Williams property was never to happen again. We’ll have updates on this rumor throughout that day.

Source : SEJ

Search Marketing Spending and Trends

2009-04-02T07:40:00.000-07:00

Search dominated by paid placement, more SEO to come.

New data provided by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), based on research conducted by Radar Research, sheds light on how search marketing dollars are being spent.

In 2008, $13.5 billion was spent on search marketing. The space was mostly made up of paid placement and search engine optimization (SEO), with a sliver going to technology providers whose software assisted in the execution of search campaigns. Paid search ads saw 88% of the total pie, SEO only 11%.

The ratio of paid placement to SEO will change in the future.

“Internet users prefer organic listings to paid search. They generally find them more relevant—or simply more acceptable—than advertising,” said eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman. “Therefore, they tend to click on organic results more often than on paid search ads.”

SEO is also cost-effective and works across all search engines. In addition, an optimized site doesn’t drop off the first results page even when a marketer’s spending slows or stops, as paid search does.
“Marketers are realizing that even if optimization’s effects are not as obvious as paid search advertising,” added Mr. Hallerman, “SEO delivers longer-term results that support any search marketing campaign.”

Search marketing spending will thrive in the coming years. SEMPO estimates that $14.7 billion will be spent in 2009.

Other sources are not quite as bullish, but they only cover the US, so it not surprising that the figures are lower. Myers Publishing, Credit Suisse, Oppenheimer and Co. and Barclays Capital all had lower 2009 projections, $13.0 billion, $11.6 billion, $11.6 billion and $11.2 billion, respectively.

eMarketer currently estimates that search ad spending in the US will reach $12.3 billion in 2009. But revisted figures are due out soon. Watch for them.

Finally doodle in Egypt

2009-03-29T11:52:00.000-07:00

Finally doodle in Egypt; I liked the idea immensely because those who will design the logo are the orphan children. We are supposed to vote for the best logo that represents Egypt. The winning logo will be displayed on Google Egypt on "the orphans' day" (the first Friday of every April).

This year it will be on the third of April.
There are competitions held all over the world for children to design a logo of Google. Google has organized this competition for the first time in Egypt and the Arabian world in accordance with the celebration of the orphans' day on the third of April. A group of orphans were invited to participate in this competition, this day is planned to be full of joy and entertainment for children. More than 160 orphans participated in last year's competition (20th of march).
Picking the winning logo last year went through two stages:

First stage:
25 designs were chosen from 160 designs in 20th of March. The board included professors of design from the German university in Cairo (GUC).
Choosing only 25 designs was a very difficult process. The following standards were considered in picking these designs:
- the artistic sense
- the artistic creation
- the link between the logo and Egypt

Second stage:
Currently there is a public vote for picking the best logo to be displayed on the 3rd of April – vote now! , Click here for photos of the event

Many organizations participated in that event, such as German University In Cairo (GUC), Resala charity organization and the Egyptian actor Khaled Abo-Elnaga.

This is the logo I chose:
My Doodle Egypt
Check the Facebook Group: It was created by Wael Ghonim (MENA Product & Marketing Manager at Google).

The idea of doodle began in the year 2000 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked Dennis Hwang to design a ceremonial logo in the honor of Bastille Day. Dennis Hwang said that his favorite logo was the one he designed for Magritte's birthday.
From that day on, Dennis Hwang started designing ceremonial logos for international ceremonies, in addition to festivals. He is such a famous designer and we all follow up his works and look out for his designs. He designs around 50 logos per year.

Analysis For Incoming Traffic From Search Queries Is A Gold Mine

2009-03-26T01:46:00.000-07:00

Commenting on the previous post: search queries with 8+ words continue to rise
I decided to analyze my search quires because it drew my attention that any of the visits that I receive are a result of four-word search quires or more.
The visits on my blog (e-marketing strategies) were analyzed last week and noticed that my blog appears as a result of the search with the following quires:
1- Google EG : “Retail Statistics Egypt”.
2- Google SA : “Blogsphere.jeeran.com” (check my article: Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 1)

There are more than three-word search quires such as:
Google NL : “marketing penetration middle east.” The result of this search is this article: MIDDLE EAST vs GLOBAL INTERNET PENETRATION

Of course that is so far from what the visitor desired to find; as he wanted data about marketing in the Middle East and therefore he didn't stay on the blog for more than a minute. That gave me the idea to improve the content of the articles, since it appeared in the results of that search term. More attention is required for the articles concerned with "marketing in the middle east"; especially after the economic crisis and the need to search for markets all over the world.

More examples of the search quires are:
1-Google UK : “facebooks e-marketing strategies.”
2-Google USA : “e-marketer objections.”

The search quire that contained eight-words is:
Google EG: “statistics about number of internet bloggers in Egypt ”

To sum all that we may say that since the search quires increase, then the visitor needs more specified information, and needs more specified and regional articles than before. That is the reason of using four or eight words per search quire.
The visitor might not find his quest in your article this time, but definitely he will find it next time he visits your blog because you now know the requirements of your reader. It is your job now to use the chance and introduce the content that the reader seeks, especially that you come up in the results under the search terms he uses.

Last week, I analyzed the search quires and found that the field of marketing in Egypt and the Middle East is so vague (especially to foreigners). More information is required about that field, and hence I will concentrate my efforts on articles, statistics and presumptive figures about marketing in Egypt and applying it online.
One of the reasons that infused this idea is that my article (Egyptian bloggers full statistics) is read more than any of my other articles. That article was written in Arabic and was based on a research from the Centre of Decision Making - the Cabinet of Ministers. This article is highly read because of the lack of information about blogging in Egypt and the Middle East.
The bottom line is: analyze your Keywords and create a new content according to the search quires that your article appears in its results.

Tunisia’s Internet users spent over US$ 132.7 million in B2C e-commerce

2009-03-23T05:20:00.000-07:00

A new Arab Advisors Group major survey of Internet users in Tunisia revealed that 36.4% of Internet users in Tunisia use e-commerce. Based on the survey results, the Arab Advisors Group estimates that Tunisia’s Internet users spent US$ 132.7 million during the past 12 months in e-commerce transactions.
A new major survey of the Internet users in Tunisia was concluded by the Arab Advisors Group. The survey report, Tunisia Internet users and e-commerce Survey 2008 was released on August 20, 2008 and provides the results of a major comprehensive online survey of Internet users in Tunisia.
According to the survey results, 84.0% of Internet users in Tunisia have Internet access at home, 75.8% use Internet at work, while 24.0% use public hot spots. Naturally, access methods overlapped.

While the survey covered Internet users, it also probed the reasons behind why other members of the same households surveyed do not use the Internet. Based on the feedback of Internet users, computer illiteracy, lack of interest, lack of a perceived need to use the Internet and being too young to use the Internet are the main reasons for keeping non-Internet users in Tunisia from using the Internet.

The survey also revealed e-commerce adoption in Tunisia. 36.4% of Tunisia Internet users shop online or through their mobile phone. The Arab Advisors Group estimated the number of e-commerce users in Tunisia to be over 416000 and total e-commerce expenditure during the past year to be US$ 132.7 million.

“The majority of e-commerce users make electronic payments through credit cards. 64.8% of e-commerce users use credit cards as their e-commerce method of payment. Following credit cards, 27.4% of e-commerce users use prepaid Internet shopping card for their payments. ”
Source : {Arab Advisors Group}

Search Queries with 8+ Words Continue to Rise

2009-03-19T03:04:00.000-07:00

The use of keyword searches that are eight or more words long increased 20% in the period between February 2008 and February 2009, and search queries averaging five to more than eight words have increased 9%, according to data from Hitwise, which reports an overall trend toward longer searches at the major search engines.

The same time period showed that shorter search queries - those averaging one to four words long - decreased 2%. Searches of two words comprised the majority of searches, amounting to 23.47% of all queries.

The growing length of search queries was first reported last month, and appears to be a trend resulting from growing sophistication among web searchers and the need to use more specific terms to cut through web clutter.

Google Search Share Holds Steady at 72%

In related news, Hitwise also reported that Google’s share of searches in February 2009 held steady at 72% vs. January 2009. In this period, Google accounted for 72.11% of all US searches.
Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received 17.04%, 5.56% and 3.74%, respectively. The remaining 46 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.56 percent of US searches.

Check: Google continues to grow as a greater source of traffic to key US industries at Histwise

Yahoo Shows Rich Search Ads With Images and Video

2009-02-23T11:12:00.000-08:00

Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings, the company plans to announce Thursday.

Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links. Marketers usually devote part of their online budget to search — which shows text-only advertisements and links — and part to display, the banner and box advertisements that show images or video.

By introducing video and images, the new offering from Yahoo, called Rich Ads in Search, gives search some of the advantages of banner advertisements. “It moves the advertising experience from just the blue links, to a more engaging experience for advertisers,” said Tim Mayer, the vice president for search monetization and distribution at Yahoo.

Yahoo has been trying to win back paid search advertising from the market leader, Google. Yahoo’s market share in paid search has fallen from 13.8 % in 2004, to 10.5 % this year, according to the research firm eMarketer. In the same time period, Google’s market share has more than doubled, from 32.8 % in 2004, to 67.7 % this year.

Yahoo’s strength has been its display advertising, where it sells boxes and banners on its highly trafficked pages. However, as the recession has deepened, many advertisers have shifted money to search, which gives them direct, measurable results.

Yahoo’s strength has been its display advertising, where it sells boxes and banners on its highly trafficked pages. However, as the recession has deepened, many advertisers have shifted money to search, which gives them direct, measurable results.

Yahoo is charging a monthly fee for the service, versus the auction-based pricing of search advertising, which Mr. Mayer said Yahoo might use in the future. For now, it is allowing only certain large, brand-focused advertisers — which have existing commercials or logos — to participate in the program. SoBe, Pepsi and Home Depot were all part of the pilot program.

Carol A. Bartz, the new chief executive of Yahoo, has not specified her plans for Yahoo’s search business.

“Maybe we should divest of some things, maybe we ought to focus a little more on the company,” she said in a conference call last month with investors. “So, yes, everything’s on the table,”

But, she added, “this is not a company that needs to be pulled apart and left for the chickens.”

Facebook - Change Your Terms of Service Back NOW!

2009-02-18T10:13:00.000-08:00

Facebook changed its Terms of Service on February 4, 2009, to remove an important provision. As The Consumerist blog explains, "Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore."

After a lot of objections Mark Zuckerberg listened and wrotes, "Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information. Based on this feedback, we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.

WE DID IT .

MIDDLE EAST vs GLOBAL INTERNET PENETRATION

2009-02-13T10:54:00.000-08:00

1- 41 Million : The number of internet users in the Middle East as of June 2008.

2- 1.46 Billion : The number of internet users worldwide as of June 2008.

3- 21.3 % : Percentile internet penetration as a measure ot total population in the Middle East.

4- 21.9 % : Internet penetration as a measure ot total worldwide population.

5- 49.8 % : Internet penetration in the UAE, the Middle East's leading broadband market.

6- 0.2 % : Internet penetration in Iraq , the region's least connected country.

Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 3

2009-01-30T10:25:00.000-08:00

In this part we will take about the top 10 figures Egyptian bloggers mention on their Blogs.

After analyzing the 10 most important persons mentioned in Blogs we found
That 6 of them are political figures, 3 are cultural & artistic figures, and a religious one.
Three most important figures mentioned in the Blogs are President Mubarak and the Prophet Muhammad, God's blessings and peace be upon him, and Mr. Jamal Mubarak.

- The Top 10 figures are:

1- President Mubarak (repeated by 31.3%)
2- Prophet Muhammad, God's blessings and peace be upon him (repeated by 17.9%)
3- Mr. Jamal Mubarak (repeated by 9.6% )
4- The Lebanese singer Fairouz (repeated by 7.8% )
5- Mr. Hasan Nasr Allah ( Hezbuoallah leader, repeated by 6.2% )
6- President Gorge Bush (repeated by 6% )
7- Egyptian singer Muhammed Mounir (repeated by 6% )
8- The Egyptian late president the great leader Jamal Abd Al-Nasr (repeated by 5.4% )
9- The Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Najm (repeated by 4.9% )
10-The late president Saddam Hussien (repeated by 4.9% )

There is a large uneven in Blogs activity, There are blogs contains up to 595 posts, and others contains only one post.
As for the comments you will notice that most comments were irrelevant to the topic.

Egyptian bloggers uses all tools of blogging as text, images and videos
Amounted to a total proportion of Bloggers that uses only text are 37%.
the rest of Bloggers rely on a combination of various means of Blogging are approximately 61%.

The percentage of Egyptian Bloggers uses Arabic language in Blogging is 76.8% .
The English language is in second place with a rate of 9.5%, Most of these Bloggers uses Wordpress,wordspirit & Blogsome.

I think the most famous Egyptian Bloggers at all is Wael Abbas & Zainab Or Egyptian Girl there are others are well known but I think Wael is the most known one among them .
that is it for this post , I hope one day Arabian Bloggers will have their own version of Technorati.

Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 2

2009-01-21T01:11:00.000-08:00

We will talk in this part about Top blogging cities in Egypt.
This sample represents only Blogspot (1185 Random sample, 1312 Systematic sample)
Egyptian Blogs according to Egyptian governorates

1- As to the chosen sample 11850 blogs (47.2 %) expose its identity and place against (52.8 %) doesn’t.
2- Total Egyptian blogs publish from inside Egypt is 9380 Blog (79.2%) against 2470 Blog
(20.8 %) outside Egypt.
3- Egyptian Blogging governorates growth rate :

4-Development of blogging movement in Egypt:
A) Blogging was limited to 3 % (from the sample) till the end of 2004.
B) Then jumps with new Blogs from 3 % by 2004 to 18 % by 2005. (Increased by 15 %)
C) Blogs continuous rising at 2006 and reached 26 %. (Increased by 9 %)
D) Till it reached at the first quarter of 2008 14.2 % from total sample. (Increased by 14.2%)
E) It’s expected to reach 42.6% at the beginning of 2009.
I will stop here for part 2 and prepare the third and last part , then upload the source for Arabian blogger.

Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 1

2009-01-18T02:17:00.000-08:00

This post & the following 2 posts will give us an average statistics about Blogging in Arabian World and will focus on Egypt Blogs ( No. of blogs, Types, Subjects, Authors …etc)
Part 1 will give us a short brief about No. of Arabian blogs, Main Blogs, No. of Egyptian blogs & types of blogs).

In First the interest in blogging was so limited at 2001, then it starts to expand year after year until it become the most important method for youth to express themselves without any boundaries.
It was very normal for bloggers to interact with events in Egypt & as well as Arab world, the Demonstrations in the streets turned to virtual Demonstrations online.
I won’t speak here about blogging statistics all over the world you can check Technorati .

I’ll give you a short brief about Blogs in the Arabian World.

1-Arabian blogs is less then Iranian blogs.
2-Arabian Internet users are 9.7 % from total Arabian population, which is 1/3 from Iranian Internet users.
3-You will find most bloggers Use: Maktoob, Jeeran, Blogspot, Wordpress, and Blogspirit.
The following table represents number of Egyptian blogs distrbuted on Major Blogging domains.

4-Egyptian Blogs represents 30.7% from Arabian blogs.
5-Avg. 160,000 Blog by 75 Blogging Domains till April 2008.
6-Arabian Blogs Including Egyptian Blogs represent (0.07%) from Global Blogosphere ( Avg. 490,000 Blog).
7-The numbers of Egyptian blogs aren’t clear due to lake of archiving & lake of directories.
8-Figure 1 will show you that Egyptian blogs distrusted among several Blogging Domains.

9-You will find that 96.3% of blogs focuses in 4 Major Blogging domains three of them are Arabian like Jeeran, Maktoob, Albawaba & the last is Google Blogspot.
10-The rest of blogs are 3.7 % distributed on 71 Blogging Domains.
11-Figure 2 will show you types of blogs.

Wait for the Second Part.

Americans View 34 Percent More Online Videos

2009-01-15T01:54:00.000-08:00

Americans View 34 Percent More Online Videos in November 2008 Compared to Year Ago.

Hulu Sustains Strong Online Viewership on the Heels of October Surge

Hulu Retains #6 Ranking
In November, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.1 billion videos viewed (representing a 40 percent share of all videos viewed), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 439 million videos (3.5 percent), followed by Viacom Digital with 325 million (2.6 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 304 million (2.4 percent). On the heels of a surge in viewership in October, Hulu retained its #6 position with 227 million videos viewed (1.8 percent).

Google Sites Draws 98 Million Video Viewers in November
More than 146 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 87 videos per viewer in November. Google Sites attracted 98 million online video viewers, or approximately two out of every three Internet users who watched video during the month. Fox Interactive ranked second with 58.1 million viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites (40 million) and Microsoft Sites (35 million).

Other notable findings from November 2008 include:
* 77 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
* The average online video viewer watched 273 minutes of video.
* 97 million viewers watched 5.1 billion videos on YouTube.com (52.3 videos per viewer).
* 52.5 million viewers watched 371 million videos on MySpace.com (7.1 videos per viewer).
* The duration of the average online video was 3.1 minutes.
* The duration of the average online video viewed at Hulu was 11.9 minutes, higher than any other video property in the top ten.

comScore, Inc

Indirect Promotion, Black Hat SEO Tactics

2009-01-12T01:34:00.000-08:00

While I was searching the ultimate source of SEJ I found this useful articles by Ann Smarty,
You should check Ann Smarty's articles because its’ full of a useful backlinks & also useful comments so you will find a full resourses for the thing she is disccusing.
This Article is about ; Black Hat SEO : Indirect Promotion

She talks about how black-hats take advantage of trusted domains to promote their websites. Here is a quick example: #4 for [viagra] in Google (!).

The technique is really easy to follow:
• comment at a relevant blogspot post;
• promote your comment page with hundreds of inlinks.
A deep page hosted at a trusted domain ensures that you are not put under radar; and you will promote it free of fear of being caught as a spammer. The ‘nofollowed’ link from a trusted domain won’t give you any ‘link juice’ but it will result in a flow of ‘indirect’ search traffic for a really competitive term.
• Make use of indirect promotion: grow the power of pages linking to your site - by doing this you will not only indirectly promote your site but also strengthen your positions. Besides, with this method you are free to experiment without the risk to lose your main website.
• Take advantage of free hosted services (especially the ones owned by Google). Create several supporting blogs and sites hosted on free trusted domains and servers to steadily grow your power.
Both the tactics have several important advantages:
• they are comparatively risk-free;
• you are able to control the link juice you own;
• they are mostly free (all you need is hard work);
• they are hard to catch.

I particuraly liked this comment on Ann Samrty’s article :
rishil
lol Ann stop giving away tricks ;) Although I am not a black hat (nor Grey) in my early stages of learning SEO I used this technique to help some friends push up their sites - Although I didnt go as far as to hack into an authority site to host the end content. Before the use of nofollow, this was an excellent way to get content out of supplemental indexes - funny thing was between my friends and I, we sat down and thought out the comments, made them relevant and useful. That in itself earned major bonus points where many of the blog owners added us to their blogroll, links which still exist and grow in value 2 years
For twitter users - I think the same skill can be used there - add links to a profile set up for a product or by keyword - with the link to site you want to push… With a site like twitter, it shouldn’t be too hard to push certain searches – for example try searching for some brand names that promote their twitter profiles – mashable for instance – their twitter profile page is on the top of serps for “mashable”.
At the same time a similar tactic can be used to increase the incident of non search traffic - just run more comments across a number of relevant blogs… infact quite a few adsense publishers use that tactic. And with the commentluv plugin being taken up quite quickly by bloggers on WP – you have the advantage of double promotion…

You can check the whole commenst on :
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/black-hat-seo-lessons-indirect-promotion/6872/

StartUpArabia

2009-01-11T01:25:00.000-08:00

StartUpArabia is a really great important rich content weblog , its’ dedicated to Arab Technology startups and services, profiling and reviewing them, providing interesting market news and information, and sharing tips and advice for the entrepreneurs behind them.

It gives me a lot of information I didn’t know before, I found that Arabs got relevant for major westren webites, For Example:

Secondlife: Muxlim
TechCrunch: ArabCrunch
FriendFeed: Minixr

StartUpArabia is a community project to stimulate technology entrepreneurship in the Arab world and encourage people to innovate which also aims to create more visibility for technology companies from the Arab region.

StartUpArabia, founded in March 2008 , The site is in both English & Arabic languages, and is edited by Mohamed Marwen Meddah.

How to Use SEO for Firefox

2009-01-08T17:01:00.001-08:00

SEO Keyword Research Basics

2009-01-08T16:20:00.000-08:00

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2009-01-08T10:29:00.000-08:00

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About E-Marketing Strategies

2009-01-08T10:18:00.000-08:00

Search Engine Optimization is easily the best investment you could ever make in your online marketing program. At E-Marketing Strategies we offer reliable and reputable optimization services for your website so you can invest your time and energy elsewhere. If you are looking for a stand out search engine marketing service, E-Marketing Strategies is here to help you get the results you need for online business success!

Our SEO services include all of the essential elements of any website optimization campaign – Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Link Building, Pay Per Click (PPC) Management, Social , Affiliate Management Services , Website Review, Market Research, Keyword identification, comparisons, and strategic recommendations, Web Content Writing, E-Mail Marketing, Google Analytic Reporting, ,Campaign Tracking and more!

we will start with a careful analysis of your niche, study the competition and only then propose a step-by-step unique development plan for your website, whether it already exists or not. These first steps are crucially important for the company branding, so a Smart start makes half the deal.

Basing on your niche choice, we will research the marketplace of the major search engines and define the optimal keywords to compete for, OR revise the keywords you are already using and improve this list if necessary. Applying for an SEO consultation, you’ll get a report with our recommendations on this and the following aspects.

Next goes the on-page optimization, and while we’ve already chosen the keywords, and thus, set the objectives, it’s time to squeeze all you can from your landing pages. This includes refreshing the page titles, meta-tags, alt text of your images as well as creating or editing the content.
A team of professional copywriters in our staff will make sure the words on your site will interest both people and search robots.

The SEO report you get will include tips on how to make these factors work for you, so then you might easily handle on-page SEO yourself.

Finally, it’s time to build authority for your site, and it’s where Smart link building solutions will take their turn. Your neighborhood tells much about yourself not only in real life, but on the web also, so quality relevant links from a variety of trusted resources will show the topical community you are worth while their attention. Fortunately, the SERP position you strive for often depends directly on the funds invested.

November 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

2008-12-27T17:48:00.000-08:00

November 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, up 0.4 percentage points from October, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.4 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.3 percent), Ask Network (4.0 percent), and AOL LLC (3.8 percent).

Americans conducted 12.3 billion searches at the core search engines, down 3 percent from October. Google Sites handled 7.8 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.5 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1 billion.

November U.S. Expanded Search Rankings
In the comScore November 2008 analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 10.8 billion searches, flat versus October. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.6 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion and AOL LLC with 725 million.

Check the whole report :http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2652

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks

2008-12-23T14:42:00.000-08:00

Ping.fm is a very simple, useful service that enables you to send a message to 30+ social networks at once, using either standard e-mail, your mobile phone or popular IM services. Its simplicity apparently attracted two high-profile angel investors, according to a company blog post. The new backers are Reid Hoffman (who just became CEO of LinkedIn again) and Joi Ito.

We first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we warned it could well become merely ‘a feature of a feature’. Nonetheless, the site seems to be holding its own and has attracted enough users to start having problems scaling the service.

Ping.fm apparently had its share of problems and slow response times the past few weeks, and the new capital should help them obtain more stability. From the post:

This is mainly because of not having the resources to maintain the volume of users and overall traffic we are seeing. This investment will allow us to scale our hardware to improve the reliability of our service as well as continue to increase the awesome that is Ping.fm instead of babysitting smoking servers all day.

It’s unclear how much both men have invested in the pinging service. It’s also unclear if there will ever be mainstream adoption of Ping.fm, as it seems a bit reserved to power socnet users / early adopters.

(Source: ReadWriteWeb)

Seven Steps to Successful SEO

2008-12-11T10:29:00.000-08:00

30 Largest Social Bookmarking Site part 3

2008-12-05T10:05:00.000-08:00

21- ma.gnolia.com
Inbound Links : 13,701,444
Compete Monthly Visitors : 110,662
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 32,363
Alexa Ranking : 7,454
Page Rank : 7

22- Tailrank.com
Inbound Links : 5,320,211
Compete Monthly Visitors : 71,563
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 35,783
Alexa Ranking : 28,920
Page Rank : 7

23- ShoutWire.com
Inbound Links : 168,480
Compete Monthly Visitors : 101,738
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 55,337
Alexa Ranking : 10,552
Page Rank : 6

24- Simpy.com Inbound Links : 13,107,730
Compete Monthly Visitors : 62,645
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 49,205
Alexa Ranking : 10,948
Page Rank : 7

25- BlogMarks.net
Inbound Links : 9,748,453
Compete Monthly Visitors : 61,740
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 28,075
Alexa Ranking : 11,880
Page Rank : 6

26- BlueDot.us
Inbound Links : 1,159,780
Compete Monthly Visitors : 107,717
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 60,045
Alexa Ranking : 12,072
Page Rank : 6

27- Spurl.net
Inbound Links : 18,628,253
Compete Monthly Visitors : 42,300
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 3,483
Alexa Ranking : 14,300
Page Rank : 6

28- linkswarm.com
Inbound Links : 150,842
Compete Monthly Visitors : 14,504
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 10,476
Alexa Ranking : 47,267
Page Rank : 5

29- Spotback.com
Inbound Links : 97,564
Compete Monthly Visitors : 42,838
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 5,037
Alexa Ranking : 42,015
Page Rank : 5

30- MyBookmarks.com Inbound Links : 25,191
Compete Monthly Visitors : 10,934
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 7,727
Alexa Ranking : 108,226
Page Rank : 5

If you want to check the whole list visit : eBizMBA

30 Largest Social Bookmarking Site part 2

2008-11-23T11:43:00.000-08:00

11- Slashdot.org
Inbound Links : 13,555,035
Compete Monthly Visitors : 724,424
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 269,884
Alexa Ranking : 579
Page Rank : 9

12- kaboodle.com
Inbound Links : 100,266
Compete Monthly Visitors : 1,751,763
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 851,858
Alexa Ranking : 9,125
Page Rank : 6

13- Bloglines.com
Inbound Links : 50,717,948
Compete Monthly Visitors : 382,663
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 103,711
Alexa Ranking : 853
Page Rank : 9

14- newsvine.com
Inbound Links : 24,200,775
Compete Monthly Visitors : 315,857
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 203,761
Alexa Ranking : 3,977
Page Rank : 7

15- blinklist.com
Inbound Links : 23,770,576
Compete Monthly Visitors : 243,277
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 165,306
Alexa Ranking : 4,647
Page Rank : 6

16- netvouz.com
Inbound Links : 8,112,272
Compete Monthly Visitors : 75,507
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 54,325
Alexa Ranking : 15,048
Page Rank : 6

17- clipmarks.com
Inbound Links : 164,419
Compete Monthly Visitors : 196,107
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 147,131
Alexa Ranking : 6,740
Page Rank : 6

18- Furl.net
Inbound Links : 49,595,144
Compete Monthly Visitors : 148,975
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 57,547
Alexa Ranking : 4,112
Page Rank : 8

19- Mister-Wong
Inbound Links : 13,214,146
Compete Monthly Visitors : 25,416
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 3,432
Alexa Ranking : 1,889
Page Rank : 7

20- dzone.com
Inbound Links : 1,065,009
Compete Monthly Visitors : 100,784
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 117,897
Alexa Ranking : 5,187
Page Rank : 6

Wait For part 3.
If you want to check the whole list visit : eBizMBA

30 Largest Social Bookmarking Site part 1

2008-11-11T13:25:00.000-08:00

According To Wikipedia Social bookmarking is:a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

1- Digg
Inbound Links :382,792,751
Compete Monthly Visitors :22,578,945
Quantcast Monthly Visitors :10,300,000
Alexa Ranking : 124
Page Rank : 8

2- Yahoo! Buzz
Inbound Links :900,571
Compete Monthly Visitors :128,556,575
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 2,500,000
Alexa Ranking : 1
Page Rank : 6

3-Technorati.com
Inbound Links : 75,306,437
Compete Monthly Visitors : 3,231,709
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 1,400,000
Alexa Ranking : 216
Page Rank : 8

4- del.icio.us
Inbound Links : 171,593,051
Compete Monthly Visitors : 1,699,128
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 1,300,000
Alexa Ranking : 248
Page Rank : 8

5- Propeller.com
Inbound Links : 997,000
Compete Monthly Visitors : 1,454,912
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 2,180,176
Alexa Ranking : 2,308
Page Rank : 7

6- StumbleUpon.com
Inbound Links : 19,050,177
Compete Monthly Visitors : 1,313,586
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 695,239
Alexa Ranking : 300
Page Rank : 8

7- reddit.com
Inbound Links : 45,307,577
Compete Monthly Visitors : 2,587,503
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 344,383
Alexa Ranking : 852
Page Rank : 7

8- mixx.com
Inbound Links : 6,175,082
Compete Monthly Visitors : 507,100
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 475,000
Alexa Ranking : 1,880
Page Rank : 7

9- Fark.com
Inbound Links : 11,438,723
Compete Monthly Visitors : 306,597
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 1,767,165
Alexa Ranking : 1,958
Page Rank : 7

10- MyBlogLog.com
Inbound Links :1,742,265
Compete Monthly Visitors : 1,972,847
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 84,922
Alexa Ranking : 432
Page Rank : 7

Wait For part 2.
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BlogRush Is Shutting Down

2008-10-30T01:10:00.000-07:00

After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.

When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.

BlogRush didn't grow without its fair share of problems -- from security issues to abusive users trying to 'game' the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service's full potential.

Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn't work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)

I want to say "Thank You" to all of the great bloggers that at least gave BlogRush a test to see if it would work for them. We sincerely appreciate you giving the service a try.

We have received several offers & inquiries about acquiring BlogRush, but we are choosing not to go that route. While many might think this is crazy, we truly feel it's the 'right' thing to do for our users. Believe it or not, it's not always about the money. In fact, BlogRush will have lost a small fortune when it's all said and done, and it was by choice. There were many things we could have done to monetize the service but we wanted to make sure it was going to benefit our users first.

Last but not least I want to say that I hope the failure of this service doesn't in any way discourage other entrepreneurs from coming up with crazy ideas at 4AM (like I did with this one) and from "going for it" to just try and see if something will work. Without trying there can be no success. And as we all know, ideas are worthless without action. The Web wouldn't be what it is today without entrepreneurs trying all sorts of crazy ideas.

On behalf of the entire BlogRush team, we wish the best of luck to everyone with their own blogs, ideas, and crazy ventures.

Sincerely,

John Reese
http://twitter.com/johnreese

BlogRush, another way for Viral Marketing

2008-10-29T10:40:00.000-07:00

BlogRush is a new syndication network that drives targeted readers to your blog.
The blog rush widget works in a very simple way.

Add the widget to your blog and have your posts automatically promoted on related blogs across the Internet.

How Does it Work?

Understanding how BlogRush works isn’t difficult, although it can be a little confusing initially. Blogrush utilizes a viral concept which operates via a pyramid-style, multi level structure.
This simply means that you get more traffic when you refer more people (who in turn refer others) to sign up and use Blogrush.

1. Sign up for a free account and register your blog by submitting your blog feed and picking a category. Place the widget on your blog and 5 links to other relevant blogs will show up within the widget.
2. Earn one credit whenever a page on your blog loads: this means that your latest post will be shown 1 time on other blogs with the widget. For example if your blog has 100 page views, your latest post will be displayed 100 times within the widgets on other blogs.
3. Refer others to sign up and install the widget. The number of page views your referee gets will be added to the number of times your blog titles will be shown within other blog widgets. For example, Tom signs up under your referral link and his blog has 500 page views.
This means that your blog title will be shown 500 times on blogs within your category, in addition to the number of views you are already getting for displaying the widget on your own site. This goes on for 10 referral levels.

BlogRush is open to blogs of various niches, ranging from categories such as entertainment, technology, health or sports. Do however note that BlogRush is only available for English-language blogs with non-adult content.
Try BlogRush & Register Now.

Try to watch blogRush video it will explain how it works.

Top 20 Seo Tools

2008-10-21T14:17:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Optimization Process

2008-10-14T14:03:00.000-07:00

17 Useful SEO-Related FireFox Quick Searches from the awesome Ann Smarty

2008-10-10T05:48:00.000-07:00

Just Google her name "Ann Smarty" she is a specialist in SEO consults services & writes regular articles on searchenginejournal Every word she says worth Money.

Ann Samrty wrotes :

Last time I posted a tutorial on creating quick search (”smart keyword”) bookmarks in FireFox enabling you to quickly search any site or search engine right from the address bar. This time I am sharing my list of 17 quick searches that (if you are like me) you will find useful.

17 SEO related quick searches you might find helpful - with this list you don’t need to create a quick search bookmarks yourself. All you need is:

Right-click the link;
Choose “Save Link As…” and save;
Go: Bookmarks =>Manage Bookmarks => Import;
Choose the saved page… and you are done!

Alternatively, you can go to YubNub, install their search plugin and instantly access all the below quick searches (I created all the bookmarks there also).

Here is what you will find in the list:

Search Engine Journal: find latest search engine news and SEO tips at SEJ;
SearchEngineLand Quick Search to search Search Engine Land;
Mashable.com Smart Keyword Search;
Flickr Tag Quick Search;
Twitter Quick Search to look through discussions at Twitter;
Search through Archive.org to look up any site previous records;
WebmasterWorld.com Quicksearch to browse SEO-related discussions at WW forums;
Google and Yahoo Search to search both Google and Yahoo;
Search Google Insights to perform keyword research with Google Insights;
Google Trends for Websites to check Google Gtrends for any website;
Search Google Trends to research any term trends;
Domain Tools WhoIs lookup to access Whois information for any domain name;
TheFreeDictionary Quick Search to find related words and definitions;
Urban Dictionary Quick Search to look up a slang expression in Urban Dictionary;
Delicious Tag Search to search through tags and submissions at Delicious.com;
Google Webmaster Help Group to search through Google-related discussions and troubleshooting;
Seroundtable Smart Search to find recent SEM news at Seroundtable.com.

You can also check the list of FireFox quick searches shared by LifeHacker.

Top Paying AdSense Keyword Lists from Seobook

2008-10-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

Increase Your Low Traffic Blog's AdSense Earnings

2008-05-19T12:12:00.000-07:00

Using Wordpress as an emulsifier to generate extra cash using Adsense seems to be a no-brainer these days. Many have experimented with a multitude of Wordpress templates to try to portray a professional look, while at the same time, thinking that if a users thinks the site looks pro, that user would be more inclined to click the Adsense ads. This is completely not true.

I too have experimented a number of ways to try to increase my Adsense earnings, but many have fallen short. Sometimes the simplest approach is the best. From my experience I have learned what has an hasn't worked with increasing Adsense earnings. I will say one thing, if you don't have the traffic then you will definitely need a high click-through rate to even find any value in maintaining your Wordpress blog if your intentsions are soley for Adsense earnings. Below are a few tips:

Only use the textual ads. If you are using the link untits, use the horizontal version and no more than three links wide. My pay per click experience will tell you that the top three ads are ussually the highest bidders. This way you are weeding out the lower bidders and therfore increasing your possibiulity of higher earnings.

We have been taught that "blending" is the way to go with tricking users into thinking that the ads are actually part of your website. This is not true. I've actually achieved a jump in my CTR with ads that actually look like clickable links. It seems purley psychological...if it looks like a link, it must be a link and therefore I must click the link. So the take away from this is to have the urls in a color that looks as much as a link as possble.

User small block text ads at the beginning, as a floating item and at the end of each of your posts. I've seen an increase in my CTR by simply closing an article with a small block of Adsense ads.

These simple techniques, when used properly can actually increase your CTR, which is a good thing if your site simply doesn't have the traffic. Increasing your chances of a click can be your money maker.

Sometimes it is tough to get started with converting your Wordpress template, but don't fret...Tony Rocks has actually created a template that they have successfully used to get double-digit CTRs with a number of their clients. The template is ugly, but if it brings home the bacon then it can't be all that bad.

The template is called SuperSense and it is free to download. All you need to do is activate the template in Wordpress and then add your Google Adsense publisher ID.Want to learn more about making friends and picking out the right gift? Visit http://www.emailfriends.com and discover what it takes to meet new people, make friends and make an impression with the perfect gift.

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Social Bookmarking Sites to promote your website

2008-05-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

Social bookmarking sites are a little different.
Some allow you to create a profile, while others will make you create an account so that you can just post links.
But once again, do not bombard these sites with link after link (or story after story)!
I don’t know if you know this or not, but I have read that search engines (especially Google) do not like to see a site go from nonexistent to thousands of visitors a day – overnight. It’s not all that natural or normal!

So, use a modest approach and do it over time. Spread your love over time ;-)
I suggest that you keep some kind of promotion journal (in a spreadsheet) so that you can keep track of each of your sites/products and what avenues you use to help create traffic.

http://bookmarks.yahoo.com

http://myweb.yahoo.com

http://www.google.com/notebook

http://favorites.live.com

http://www.digg.com

http://mystuff.ask.com

http://www.technorati.com

http://del.icio.us

http://www.stumbleupon.com

http://www.netscape.com

http://www.reddit.com

http://www.meneame.net

http://www.fark.com

http://www.ilike.com

http://www.mog.com

http://www.newsvine.com

http://www.furl.net

http://www.blinklist.com

http://www.dzone.com

http://www.clipmarks.com

http://www.pligg.com

http://www.kaboodle.com

http://www.bumpzee.com

http://ma.gnolia.com

http://www.rollyo.com

http://www.jaiku.com

http://www.9rules.com

http://www.startaid.com

http://www.shoutwire.com

http://www.bluedot.us

http://www.gather.com

http://www.simpy.com

http://www.nowpublic.com

http://www.plugim.com

w.stylehive.com
http://www.spurl.net

http://www.blinkbits.com

http://www.librarything.com

http://www.blogmarks.net

http://www.netvouz.com

http://www.diigo.com

http://www.wink.com

http://www.corank.com

http://www.popurls.com

http://www.mister-wong.com

http://www.backflip.com

http://www.rojo.com

http://www.shadows.com

http://www.bloghop.com

http://www.rawsugar.com

http://www.listible.com

http://www.thoof.com

http://www.tailrank.com

http://www.wists.com

http://www.bibsonomy.org

http://www.plime.com

http://my.xilinus.com

http://www.yoono.com

http://www.searchles.com

http://www.hugg.com

http://www.citeulike.org

http://www.kuro5hin.org

http://de.lirio.us

http://www.spotback.com

http://www.spotplex.com

http://www.fazed.org

http://www.kinja.com

http://www.connotea.org

http://www.markaboo.com

http://www.stylefeeder.com

http://www.i89.us

http://www.linkagogo.com

http://www.lifelogger.com

http://www.feedmelinks.com

http://www.tagtooga.com

http://www.buddymarks.com

http://www.claimid.com

http://www.clipfire.com

http://www.linkroll.com

http://www.bmaccess.net

http://www.aboogy.com

http://www.oyax.com

http://www.gravee.com

http://www.butterflyproject.nl

http://www.myhq.com

http://www.wirefan.com

http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com

http://www.a1-webmarks.com

http://www.connectedy.com

http://www.sitejot.com

http://www.linkatopia.com

http://www.myvmarks.com

http://www.getboo.com

http://www.mylinkvault.com

http://www.urlex.info

http://www.lilisto.com

http://www.philoi.com

http://www.syncone.net

http://www.syncone.net

http://www.30daytags.com

http://www.shoppersbase.com

http://www.linkfilter.net

http://www.voo2do.com

http://www.jeteye.com

http://www.hanzoweb.com

http://www.myprogs.net

http://www.reader2.com

http://www.fungow.com

http://www.feedmarker.com

http://www.zlitt.com

http://www.hyperlinkomatic.com

http://www.tektag.com

http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/

http://www.givealink.org

http://www.unalog.com

http://www.plum.com

http://www.ifaves.com

http://www.taggly.com

http://www.rrove.com

http://www.maple.nu

http://www.links2go.com

http://www.sync2it.com

http://www.saveyourlinks.com

http://www.web-feeds.com

http://www.ez4u.net

http://www.allmyfavorites.net

http://www.6-clicks.com

http://www.ambedo.com

http://www.cloudytags.com

http://www.dohat.com

http://www.chipmark.com

http://www.bookkit.com

http://www.wobblog.com

http://www.meme-stream.com

http://www.thinkpocket.com

http://www.yattle.com

http://www.tutorialism.com

http://www.carnatic.com/www/

http://www.2centsnews.com

http://www.gibeo.net

http://www.portachi.com

http://www.aworldofhelp.com

http://www.tabmarks.com

http://supr.c.ilio.us

http://www.sitetagger.com

http://www.trexy.com

http://www.openserving.com

http://www.allyourwords.com

http://thumblicio.us

http://www.newsweight.com

http://www.nextaris.com

http://www.pixelmo.com

http://www.listmixer.com

http://www.wurldbook.com

http://www.memfrag.com

http://www.feedalley.com

http://www.smelis.com

http://www.recipe-buzz.com

check : http://topadskey.blogspot.com

AdSense Optimization by Viedo

2008-05-18T16:56:00.000-07:00

Ways To Find A Profitable Niche To Dominate

2008-05-18T16:32:00.000-07:00

How to simply discover and find niches to monetize.

Successful businesses have learned that finding and exploiting a profitable "niche" is the key to profitability. This should not be a "guessing" or "I think" matter. You need to be as certain as possible that the niche you choose really has potential be cause it has been mostly ignored by everyone else. So how do you go about making this determination?

First, make sure you understand what a profitable niche is

A niche is merely a segment of a larger market. You have to identify it, target it and approach it with a highly-focused approach. Most niches only contain a small percentage of the total market, perhaps 1-3%. When you successfully identify a niche market, it becomes much easier to realize a good profit. If you have identified it properly, you will be marketing to a smaller, select group of prospects who really need the product or service you are offering because your competition has ignored them. There just isn't an available supply to meet the demands of the niche marketplace.

Start identifying the niche with keyword research

If you plan to do business on the Internet (and who doesn't today) start looking for your profitable niche by doing keyword research. Keywords are simply terms that apply as specifically as possible to your suspected niche. You can surf the Internet and come up with a good idea of "needs" that aren't being met. When you find one, you can use a keyword suggestion tool. Here's what that is: Let's say you think that there is an available niche for upholstery cleaning solutions. Do some research to locate keywords related to this subject such as upholstery cleaning, cleaning solutions and upholstery. If you don't find anything much, you have a good niche. When you locate a keyword that is frequently searched for which there is a short supply, you've learned something important.

Market trends can also be found on ebay and yahoo!

eBay and Yahoo! are good places to look at current market trends. Research the products on eBayt to see which ones are getting the highest bids. Find out which niche markets products are targeted to and what similar products are available. You may even be able to find out about other less-suspected niches at the same time.

Check out affiliate markets as well as the primary ones

The Internet has no shortage of affiliate programs used for networking purposes. Look over affiliate programs to determine just what products or services they are offering and which ones are selling best. Ask yourself just which niche each product is aimed at. You, too, can utilize affiliates and sell their products on your website in addition to your own. People make a great deal of profit on the Internet through affiliates.

Create traffic to your website through writing articles

You can write articles and submit them or have someone write them for you if you're not a good writer yourself. Good writers can be found on any of a number of websites for freelance writers such as GetAFreelancer.com, elance.com, freelancewritersguild.com and others. It costs very little to prepare articles and submit them to available Internet article directories. If you include keywords in your articles, they will lead people to you when they search the web with major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, AOL and others. You can determine which of your published articles have received the most "hits" and this can provide you with valuable information about your niches.

Check out bookstores online and offline

It's also a workable technique to check for suspected market niches in bookstores like Barnes & Noble or online via Amazon.com. Look for books that are targeted to your niche. If the shelves are crammed with them, it's probably not too good. However if the opposite is the case, and there are few books aimed at your subject, you may have identified a winner. The same method can be used by looking over the magazines at your local newsstand, reviewing advertisement for the general market so see if any are targeted to your niche, etc.

Persistence wins out

Nobody ever said that being successful is easy! Stay on top of these techniques and keep your mind open to others. Most of all, stick to your guns and don't be discouraged if your initial efforts don't produce immediate results. They will, in time!

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High Profit Adsense Keywords, Fresh Content and Back links Can Increase Your Adsense Income Today

2008-05-16T22:20:00.000-07:00

In this article you will learn the 3 most important things you can implement into your internet marketing campaign that will increase traffic to your website; increasing your Adsense income.

You just checked your Google Adsense account and realized that you earned .42 cents this week. You have followed the steps in that $50.00 e-book you just purchased but have not achieved any remarkable results.
Over the last several weeks I have reviewed a number of resources and articles on Google Adsense.

What I have discovered is there is a lot of money to be made with Google Adsense. The million dollar question is how?
Before I continue, for those who are not familiar with Google Adsense – Google’s definition of Google Adsense is - AdSense is an advertising program run by Google.
Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text and image advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on a per-click basis. Google utilizes its search technology to serve ads based on website content, the user's geographical location, and other factors.
Viewing many of the forums on Google Adsense I noticed a recurring theme: many of the Adsense advertisers are not making a lot of money.
Here are three things you can do today to increase your Adsense income.

Add Fresh Content

Simply developing a website and advertising it in the search engines is not enough to get the quality traffic you will need to increase your Adsense income. To be successful in Google Adsense marketing you must develop websites that contain focused and fresh content: articles, audios, videos, etc. Develop your website around a niche area/topic.

Write an article every day related to the topic of your website. If you are not comfortable writing articles or making audios or videos regarding your website you can always outsource this task to a ghost writer. Elance.com is one of several resources you can use to hire a writer to create content for your website.

How Much Are You Getting Paid Per Adsense Click?

Did you know there are Adsense search terms that will pay you $2.00 - $5.00 per click? Yes, they do exist. Imagine having a content rich site which receives 2500-5000 visitors per day. What if 1200 of those visitors click on your $5.00 per click Adsense ad? How much did you just earn? $6000! If you are not familiar with Keyword Elite test it free today. Keyword Elite will give you the ability to:

Learn How Competitive A Market Is By Analyzing Top Ranked Websites In Google!"
Automatically Create Laser Targeted Adsense Webpages
Uncover Hidden Niches And Keywords By Analyzing Your Pay Per Click Competition In Google, Yahoo, Miva, And Enhance
Generate High Paying Adsense Keyword Lists Of More Than 10,000 Keywords

So, what keywords should you target for maximum profit? Most of the terms will be in very competitive markets. Your goal is to locate a niche market. Go to my website at the end of this article to review resources that will help you develop niche markets.

Link Up

Back links to your site is probably the most important step you can do in increasing traffic to your website. Unfortunately, many people skip this step because it can be tedious.

Why is linking important?

A back link is a link from someone else’s website. Back links are extremely important if you want your website to rank high in the search engines. Search engines use the number of quality back links to determine your ranking in the search engine. The more high quality sites that link to you, the higher your ranking.

You can go to Google now and check to see how many sites are linking to you. In the search field type: link:www.yourdomainname.com. This command will search for all websites who are linked to you.

Now, this can be done for free, but I should warn you: it can be tedious. There are several great resources you can use to automate your back linking process.

Make it a priority to add something new to your website daily, and then watch your traffic and Adsense income grow.

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ADSENSE TIPS - Basic Idea To Increase Adsense Profits

2008-05-16T21:27:00.000-07:00

BASIC IDEA TO INCREASE ADSENSE PROFITS Before you start making money from Adsense, there are a few basics idea that you need to know and apply them so that your Adsense CTR will increase (if you're new in Adsense, then you might read about Adsense Terminology here). These are no big secrets, they are just some free tips that you will need in order to boost your Adsense revenue. So don't get fooled and pay for these tips here.

1. Use large rectanlge block for your Adsense ads in your website or blog. This large rectangle block ads has ben proven to be the most effective type of ads and generate the most CTR. Therefore if you're not using this then your're not maximizing your Adsense profits.
2. Blend your Adsense ads layout and colour to match with your website or blog's background colour. Use the same colour for both your website template and ads. This is to avoid your ads for being too attractive in your site, so that 'ads blind' visitors may click on them.
3. As for your Adsense ads link title, you can change the colour to be the same with your post title. Make it looks like it is one of your posts. You can use blue colour for your ads link title too, this is because blue colour indicates link in most websites.
4. Don't put all of your eggs in a single basket. This also means that the more websites or blgos you have, the better. If you want to concentrate just in a single website or blog, it will be fine, but you will need huge amount of traffic to generate big money for Adsense.
For example, you can have a site that generate $25, or do you want to have 10 sites that generate $5 each site. Sometimes quanity does plays an important role.5. There is no need for you to write your own original content, you can use other people's content which are ranked high in search engines. However, you must do this correctly or else you'll get banned by search engines.These are just a few basic tips that you need to know. These basic ideas definately will help your increase your Adsense profit, but they will not separate you from others, they will only help you start you to get started. These are no secrets, so spend on the information that everyone had known.

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Secrets Revealed - How To Create An AdSense Profit Machine

2008-05-09T16:35:00.000-07:00

Google AdSense is a top method for making a consistent profit online. It's easy and almost anyone can do it.

The problems that seem to face many new AdSense marketers are that it's hard to get websites set up. That's no problem nowadays with the many website creators out there. A few good solutions are Ewen Chia's My Free Website Builder and the SEO Website Builder.
The first thing that you'd need to do is proper keyword research. This is the most vital part of the process as it sets the foundations for what you'll do later on. You'd want to go for keywords that pay well. One way to find out these keywords is to go to a site like Top Paying Keywords. That's a really useful resource if you want to get the most profitable keywords to use for your website.
Once you have your keyword list, it's time to build sites based on those keywords. As mentioned earlier, you can use some website building solutions that come with pre-set templates to make website building easier. Or you can go about it the manual way by using a web editor like Frontpage or Dreamweaver.
The next step is to get content for your websites. You can grab content from article directories (as long as you leave the resource boxes of the articles intact!) or hire a writer to write it if you dislike writing or don't have the time for it.
Once your websites are ready, it's time to get some quality one-way backlinks to your site. This is so your website can achieve a high search engine rankings for your chosen keywords. You'd want to make your backlinks to be anchor text links. This means that you hyperlink your keyword phrase to link to your website.
Some ways to get backlinks include directory submissions, article marketing, forum marketing, and social bookmarking.

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The Evolution of Google AdSense

2008-05-05T17:20:00.000-07:00

The web has evolved into a complex "organism" which, to some, appears to have a life of its own. As the Internet has evolved, so too have online marketers and publishers.

The dot-com balloon is said to have burst but savvy publishers have grabbed the coat tails of the Google search monster and employ Google AdSense on content-rich websites.

Google AdSense, a pioneer for providing content-sensitive advertisements, has been a boon to webmasters looking for alternatives to amortize their web trafffic.

How Does Google AdSense Work? The concept is simple: The publisher or webmaster inserts a java script into a website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script pulls advertisements from Google's AdSense program. The ads are targeted and related to the content contained on the web page serving the ad. If a web surfer clicks on an advertisement served from Google, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying Google for the click.

Google handles all the tracking and payments, ultimately providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive, targeted ads, without the headache of having to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor clicks or track statistics, any of which could easily become a full-time job.
While Google AdSense, like many pay-per-click programs, is plagued by claims of click-fraud, it is clearly an effective revenue source for many reputable web businesses. There seems to be no shortage of advertisers in the AdWords program from which Google pulls the AdSense ads. Webmasters seem less concerned by the lack of information provided by Google and more interested in cashing their monthly checks from Google.

The Evolution of AdSense While Google's initial system was fairly rudimentary, only providing publishers the option of displaying a handful of advertising formats, the technology behind even the first ads was anything but simplistic. The technology used to employ Google AdSense goes far beyond simple keyword or category matching. A complex algorithm is used to determine the content contained on the web page serving the ad. Once the content is assessed, and appropriate ads that contain related content are served.
Early on, Google implemented a system that allows publishers to filter advertisements from competitors or sites which they deemed inappropriate. Google also allows vendors to specify an alternative advertisement, in the unlikely event that Google is unable to provide related content ads.
The Progression of Google has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters. Google now offers a system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters can choose from twelve text ad formats and can customize Google advertisements to complement their website and fit into existing webpage layout. The options provided allow webmasters to select and create custom color palettes that match an existing website's color scheme, making the ads a much more natural fit.

Many sites have been able to integrate ads into their site design using different ad formats.
Sample sites with integrated ads:
Investing Partners - http://www.investing-partners.com/

Podcasting Tools - http://www.podcasting-tools.com/

RSS Network - http://www.rss-network.com/
Online Reports Google recently took a huge step forward, providing publishers the ability to track their earnings based on webmaster-defined channels.

Recent improvements to the Google AdSense reporting have resulted in webmasters having the capability to monitor an ad's performance with customizable online reports that can detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters now have the ability to track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Webmasters can quickly spot and track trends. The new flexible reporting tools allows webmasters to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, providing webmasters insight into what pages, ads and domains are performing the best.
Reporting is real-time, allowing webmasters to quickly assess the effectiveness of any changes. The new reporting makes it significantly easier for webmasters to optimize and increase click-through rates. Optional reporting allows webmasters to monitor traffic, viewing both ad impressions and page impressions.
Advertisers realize the benefits associated with having their ads served on targeted websites, increasing the likelihood that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product or service.

Truth Still Not Revealed Google still does not reveal what percentage of the advertising revenue earned is paid to the webmaster serving the ads, but they have made strides related to disclosure, recently lifting the ban preventing webmasters from disclosing the amount they earn through serving Google ads.

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2 Ways To Get Google Traffic Indirectly To Your Website

2008-05-05T16:55:00.000-07:00

Google is the most popular search engine. Thousands of searches are made each day on Google alone. Google is also a fast search engine, contains billions of pages and delivers good results. It's true that there are fluctuations in Google but that's the nature of search engines. It can be normal fluctuations or an algorithm change which can alter the search engine result pages.

You can enjoy top search engine rankings for quite a long time with Google but it can happen that you might suffer from a drop in rankings which can be temporary usually because of a glitch or these can also be permanent if you're banned mostly attributed to black hat seo techniques. I've seen all these things on Google and the best thing to do is not to panic right away. Your rankings can come back with time. I've even experienced rankings recovery after 2-3 months without changing anything.

What you should do is always find other ways of driving traffic to your websites like article writing and submission, doing valuable reciprocal link exchanges with related and relevant sites as these alone can bring traffic. Imagine you get a valuable reciprocal link on a related site which brings you five targeted visitors per day, now say you have 10 such links, you already receive 50 targeted visitors a day and 1500 monthly targeted visitors.

If you focus on some article promotion initially, you can at least give your site some value as far as traffic is concerned. As a result, you have better chances in getting targeted reciprocal links. You have to offer something similar in return to your link partners. Some people are saying reciprocal links have no value at all and they are removing them from their pages but targeted and reciprocal links with similar sites are still of great value. The Internet is an interconnection of websites and you have websites linking to each other to form the web. You can find a valuable website from another website. You click here and you are there and so on. Each link you have has the potential to give you traffic. Of course a homepage reciprocal link is definitely better and a reciprocal link in content articles is also great. These are some sort of partnerships you can potentially make with other webmasters. Just need to be creative.

If we consider the traffic generation ways above like article promotion and reciprocal link exchanges, you have to realise that you can get Google traffic by using these methods. With article promotion, if your article ranks high in another website, and people find your article, they can potentially click on your link in your author bio and gives you visitors. With reciprocal links, if a user finds your partner's website and happens to see your link say on the homepage or on a content page or even a link directory, you've got a visitor.

In my hosting stats, I saw visitors coming directly from my articles on other sites and visitors coming from my partners' websites mostly from homepages. You can still get Google traffic although not direct searches to your site but still it's good traffic. We can call that indirect Google traffic. When going after indirect Google traffic, you are at the same time working on your offpage search engine optimization meaning securing inbound links. With an article, you can get an inbound link with anchor text and with a homepage reciprocal link partnership or content article reciprocal link partnership, same thing.

Not only will these techniques get you indirect Google traffic but they can give you some boost in your search engine rankings for your keyword phrases or at least gives you a solid foundation in link popularity. Once you get some links to your site, you have high chances to get your website indexed in the first place which is the initial step in search engine marketing. If you're not indexed, you can't rank for anything.

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Having Multiple Sites For One Account and Buying Google Adsense “Secrets”

2008-05-05T16:27:00.000-07:00

Is it Possible for Me to Have More Than One Site For My Google Adsense Account?

Yes. In fact, the more sites you have displaying Google Adsense ads, the more money you will make. You don’t even have to notify Google of the new sites. Make sure though, that any new site you add conforms to Google Adsense Program Policies, because if your account gets terminated for any reason, you would not be able to display the Google Adsense ads on any of them.

All you have to do is copy and past the same ad layout code you previously copied and pasted to your original site.
The same rules apply when adding an Adsense for Search box to your new site. Simply choose all the parameters from the choices displayed, copy the code to the new site or new pages within the old site. As in the beginning, Google’s webcrawler will detect the code and you’re all set.

Will It Help Me to Buy Google Adsense “Secrets” E-books and Reports?
As with any money-making venture, there are pitfalls, pros and cons and some outright cons.

As popular as Google Adsense has become, it’s no surprise there is a wealth of information for sale. Try it. Google Google Adsense and you’ll see what I mean. There are those promising they make thousands and thousands of dollars a month from Google Adsense and they are willing to share their “secrets” with you – for a price.

The fact is Google Adsense will tell you everything you need to know – for free. They have a support site that covers virtually everything you would need to know about the program and experience will teach you the rest, although I admit I have seen a couple of interesting books on amazon.com.

There are a lot of people out there in cyberspace who will gladly answer your questions for free and there are many forums where you can post questions. You can even email the Google Adsense Support Staff if you have questions that their Support Site doesn’t answer.
Experience will probably be your best teacher anyway. And the good news is the Google Adsense program makes that experience painless in that you have nothing lose. So just take a chance on yourself for now. Learn everything you can to maximize your earning potential.

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Top 2 Ways To Get Higher Rankings in Major Search Engines

2008-05-04T14:56:00.000-07:00

Top 10 search engine rankings. Everybody wants it but a few achieve it. Search engines have always been an important source of traffic for many marketers. Achieving high search engine rankings should be one of your goals because it can be profitable in the long run.

But what is it that prevent some people from obtaining their coveted rankings?
It's true that some years ago, getting high rankings was very easy. You could just set up a site, heavily optimize it on the page itself and bam, you can appear in the top listings quickly and easily.
Nowadays, this has totally changed. It is becoming more and more difficult to secure and even maintain good rankings on the major search engine result pages(SERPs) like Google and Yahoo. Some of the reasons are:

(1) Competition

There is more and more competition. More and more websites are popping out everyday and everyone is trying to promote their websites, hence increasing pages and websites in the SERPs. An example, Google has more than 8 billion pages now in its index.

(2) Search Engine Algorithm Change

With the search engine algorithm changing, it can become more complex to figure out how to get top rankings or maintain your existing ones.

(3) Search Engines Are More Severe

Doing any foolish mistake with your site can be costly. You should be careful what you are doing when promoting your site. For eg, you can have hidden text or links on your site without you knowing and you can be penalized.
If it's not a mistake, you could be linking to websites that aren't good anymore, hence devaluing your site.
What should you do? Well, you can't do anything about competition neither algorithm change but you need to monitor who you link to and ensure that your site is clean everytime. And above all, links on as many similar and related sites are still highly valuable to get top rankings and you should constantly get them regularly because that's the core building block of good placement in the SERPs no matter what and to outrank your competition, that's what you should do. And you can be sure that good quality links will still be important in every algorithm change.

Here are top 2 ways to get links to your site and higher rankings in major search engines:

(1) Reciprocal Links:

It's being said that reciprocal links are decreasing in value but still though, they are worth getting. If you are exchanging links with sites which are of similar or related topics, it can do you more good than harm. So don't stop getting these type of links. A link is a link and it will benefit you in many ways you can imagine. A link will not only help you in better search engine placement but you will get traffic from that link alone.
I know that because I get lots of traffic from my link partners alone. If you can get one on the homepage, it's even better. So don't underestimate reciprocal linking. They still work. Many sites with high search engine positioning have reciprocal links to them, so they are still of great value. The web is simply a network of websites linking to each other in a way. Links are what form the internet.

(2) One-way Links:

On the other hand, one-way links are best because they are independent votes. Other websites link to you without linking back. Well these type of links are harder to get.
Some good ways to get them are:
(i) Build a useful site and allow others to link to you freely by providing them with the necessary materials like text links or banners. Text links are better because you can include your targeted keywords in them. Some people will even link to you just because your site has good content and will find a way to link to you usually just by taking your homepage title. I've seen that.
(ii) Buy some text advertising on other quality related sites. This will give you traffic and automatically benefit you in your rankings.
(iii) Write articles of interest to your audience and submit them to other websites which accept articles. In your author bylines, you have a link to your site. Well this will certainly help your traffic, link popularity and rankings. But to boost your rankings better, check out section (iv) which reveals how to use the article marketing strategy to get one-way inbound links with your targeted keyword in your anchor text.
(iv) Create a section on your site allowing others to re-publish your articles. Provide them with the exact html code so that they can just copy and paste that code on their sites easily. Don't forget to mention that the article and author bio should not be modified in any way if it's used. Hence by facilitating their tasks, you can be sure to get your articles distributed on the web much more faster.
In your author bylines, be sure to put an anchor text with your targeted keyword in the link to your site. This is how an author bylines can be extremely beneficial for your rankings. This is not just a url but a keyword targeted url. Imagine your reprint article page gets decent traffic, you increase your chances to get some people interested to re-publish your work on the net. With time, you will boost your link popularity and get higher rankings.
Well you work hard to produce quality content and it can pay itself many times over. One article can be published on hundreds of websites and if your url is automatically coded with an anchor text containing your targeted keyword, you will have 100 one-way keyword-rich inbound links. Now what's the value of that? I let you figure it out.
Getting high search engine rankings takes time, work and patience but if you are serious about your business and you are here to stay for long, you should devote some of your time everyday doing some search engine promotion. In the long run, you are going to reap the rewards of your on-going work.
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10 Ways To Indirectly Get To The Top Of Search Engines!

2008-05-04T14:43:00.000-07:00

There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top 20 spots of the major search engines.

That amounts to a lot of competition! I say if you can't get listed at the top, indirectly get to the top.

How do you do this? Look up the top 20 websites on the major search engines under the keywords and phrases people would find your web site.

The key would be to then advertise on those web sites.The most expensive way would be to buy ad spaceon those web sites. If you don't want to spend anymoney, you could use the ten strategies below.

These strategies may not apply to every web site.

1. Participate on their discussion boards. You could post questions, answer other peoples questions, and join in on conversations. Just include your signature file and link at the end of your messages.

2. Ask the web site owner if they would like a free e-book to giveaway to their visitors. You could have them link to your web site or include your ad in the free ebook.

3. Submit content to their web site. You could write articles for their web site and include your resource box and link at the end of the article. If they publishit, you'll indirectly be at the top of the search engines.

4. Write an excellent article review of their web site,products or services. Then publish the review on your web site. E-mail the web site owner and tell him orher about it. They may link to your web site so their visitors read it.

5. Ask the owner of the web site if they would want to trade advertising. If you don't get as much trafficas they do, you could throw in some extra incentives.

6. Propose a cross promotion deal with the web site.You both could promote each others products orservices together in one package deal. This means amention and link back to your web site.

7. Give the web site a testimonial for their product orservice. Include a little text link for your web site with the testimonial. You never know; it could end up on their ad copy.

8. Post your advertisement on their free classified adsection on their web site. You want to be sure you have an attractive headline so they will read your ad.

9. Post your text link on their free-for-all links page.You want to go back and post your link regularly soit stays towards the top.

10. Sign their guest books. You could leave a short compliment about their web site on their guest book. Just include your signature file and link at the end of your message.

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The Top 10 List of the Best Affiliate Networks

2008-04-25T16:48:00.000-07:00

First, if you’re new to affiliate marketing, some preliminary explanations may prove helpful in your quest for becoming a part-time or full-time affiliate marketer.

preliminary explanations may prove helpful in your quest for becoming a part-time or full-time affiliate marketer.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is quite simple to explain: you promote and market a product or company in return for a commission if a sale or lead is made from your marketing efforts. With online affiliate marketing you simply place your affiliate ID embedded links on your web pages and if a customer clicksyour link and proceeds to that designated company’s site and makes a purchase or signs up for a service, you earn a commission.
Affiliate marketing, if done right, can prove to be a very lucrative venture.

Commissions can run anywhere from a few pennies to thousands of dollars for just one click or sale.

Professional marketers develop affiliate relationships with hundreds of companies and build sites to promote these companies and products.
Needless to say, the advent of the Internet has been a golden opportunity for affiliate marketers to really expand their promotions and marketing. As more as more customers choose to buy online, advertising and purchases keep increasing at a maddening pace.
To accommodate all this online ecommerce we have seen the birth of large affiliate networks, operated by large corporations. Make no mistake, affiliate marketing is big business, accounting for billions in sales and commissions.

What is an Affiliate Network?

An affiliate network is a third party facilitator which brings affiliates and companies together. It connects Advertisers (companies with products or services to sell) together with Publishers (those who display and promote these products or services) so they can do business. The affiliate network does all the tracking, accounting and payment of commissions.
The following Top 10 list of the best Affiliate Networks is compiled by an actual full-time affiliate marketer who has worked these programs for over five years. This list is subjective and based on first-hand experience. It should be seen in this light and every marketer probably will have a different list or have these in a different picking order depending on the type and nature of their marketing.

But this list of the 10 Best Affiliate Networks will give you a general rundown on these affiliate networks and how they operate.

1. Commission Junction (www.cj.com)

Now owned by ValueClick, Commission Junction was one of the first affiliate networks. It is also one of the most important with many of the Top Fortune 500 companies listed here.
CJ is an international network with excellent stats and tracking (some of the best you will find), along with regular monthly payments makes this the obvious first choice for anyone wishing to try affiliate marketing.

For those new or old at affiliate marketing, CJ also holds regular seminars and training sessions.
Most merchants offer pay-per-lead or pay-per-sale, one of the best features is the performance bonuses and incentives. As most experienced marketers will know, selling 50k to 100k each month for merchants will bring in the big incentives or bonuses.
Commissions run as high as 50% but most are in 3% to 15% range. You have the option of direct deposit for your payments. One major plus, CJ will tell you which merchantsand ads are earning the most revenue for affiliates so you can easily choose which merchants are worth promoting.

2. ClickBank (www.clickbank.com)

ClickBank is another professional affiliate network withexcellent stats and tracking.

Easy to use and pays every two weeks.
ClickBank is slightly different from the other networks in that it deals mainly with digital download products. The commissions from ClickBank are usually much higher than the other networks, around 40% to 50% or more.
ClickBank has over 10,000 products but keep in mind, info-marketing products will have stiff competition from all the savvy and well established Internet marketers promoting these same products. Consider youself warned!
The most successful marketing tactic here is to first dominate your targeted niche with your blogs and sites, then find affiliate products to match your content or niche subject matter, whether it be gardening equipment, gaming laptops or Mediterranean cruises!.

3. LinkShare (www.linkshare.com)

LinkShare is another excellent affiliate network. It is one of the oldest affiliate networks on the web. LinkShare was recently acquired by the Japanese Portal Rakuten, with a price tag of $425 million.
Very good stats and reporting with their Synergy Analytics system. Many Top Fortune 500 companies are presented here so you will no trouble finding products and services to romote.LinkShare pays commissions as they receive them from merchants - monthly checks.

4. Affiliate Window (http://www.affiliatewindow.com/)

Affiliate Window is an UK based affiliate network which offers top brand companies and good commission rates. Pays once a month and has excellent stats.
Savvy affiliate marketers know promoting in other countries can be much easier than promoting in the American market place. Mainly because these other countries haven’t become saturated with online marketers, little competition means more sales.

5. Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/)

Amazon is another excellent affiliate network to join if you want to sell products from your site or blog. Amazon has excellent stats and the links are very easy to create and place on your web pages.
You also have the option of creating your own store with Amazon aStores. Amazon also now has context link ads and Widgets!
Commission rates are somewhat lower than the other networks but making sales thru Amazon is much, much easier. You will make more sales mainly because Amazon is a well known and trusted online company. Amazon now pays monthly.

6. Shareasale (http://www.shareasale.com/)

Shareasale is yet another easy system to work with good stats and simple to create links. With 1,700+ merchants to choose from, Shareasale is another good affiliate network to promote.
The control panel is easy to use and the reporting is very good. Usually pays the month following your sales.

7. Google (www.google.com/adsense/)

Many won’t think of Google as an Affiliate network but it does run affiliate products thru its Adsense program. Very few products but like everything from Google it is professionally run and top caliber all the way.
Please note, top marketers know affiliate links/products on their content pages will return 10 times what Google Adsense will give them. However, these marketers will also know using Google Adsense on less targeted pages throughout your sites or blogs will give you a healthy return.
Besides receiving that monthly check from a multi-billion dollar company like Google will put a smile on your face every time.

8. LinkConnector (http://www.linkconnector.com/)

LinkConnector is a relatively new affiliate network which launched in 2004. It has Pay Per Click, Pay Per Sale and Pay Per Lead. Good stats and reporting. Worth checking out for their different types of new affiliate technology such as Direct Linking which passes pagerank along to the merchant’s site.

9. CPA Empire (http://www.cpaempire.com/)

Great CPA (Cost Per Action) network especially if you do a lot of email marketing and promotions. Geared towards acquiring leads and sign-ups but does offer other merchants as well. Good stats and reporting.

10. Independents

Individual affiliate deals with different companies which may or may not be listed with the major networks above. Your independent affiliate deals will be some of your most lucrative since you can sometimes work out separate private commission rates and bonuses. Aim for residual income here. Don’t ignore this aspect of affiliate marketing as it will pay the highest dividends.
Keep in mind, all the above affiliate networks are iddlemen,they come between you and the merchant you’re promoting. For affiliates with a proven track record, who have shown they can deliver the customers and sales, a private deal cutting out the middleman/fees can prove very beneficial for both parties. If you’re fortunate enough to become known as a super affiliate, these private deals will become more common and more profitable.
Professional affiliate marketers use all of the above networks to create multiple income streams from their marketing efforts. In the process, they build a healthy monthly income for themselves and their families. There is no reason why you can’t do the same.
The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites, including two sites on Internet marketing.

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How to use syndicated content to increase traffic ?

2008-04-25T15:22:00.000-07:00

The New Marketing Tool - RSS

Any web marketer worth his salt knows that web traffic is the key to success when it comes to making money online. People often talk about Internet, product and money.

But the circle is not complete without the key aspect: traffic, and loads of it.

To me, RSS is the brand new web marketing tool; powerful because so few use it and popular because search engines simply love it.
When you visit popular websites, you may have come across a simple link at the bottom of the page labeled subscribe to RSS or XML.

So, what is RSS?

Of course you already know it is Real Simple Syndication. But that's only so far as the name goes. To many, there is nothing really simple about RSS. In fact, people feel intimidated by it, which is one of the reasons why it is so under-utilized on the web.

RSS is nothing but a recent flash of news that you send out from your website to people who have subscribed to it. Of course, that's a simplistic definition, but in it lies the key to the power of RSS. So, let us examine it a little closely.

First of all, as I explained, RSS is a simple news flash. That means, you will be using it as a channel of communication between your website and customers who subscribe to it.

For example, suppose you are an avid golfer and you want to share something about the game with other fans like yourself. An RSS feed helps you do just that. You fill in the new piece of information and everyone subscribed to your RSS immediately gets the flash.

RSS helps you in many ways:

1-It establishes your credibility as an expert in your field.
2-A regularly updated RSS feed keeps your website fresh and green.
3-It increases efficiency. You can send out new announcements and reach your customers effectively and quickly through RSS feeds. So it can be used as an advertising or marketing tool.
From the point of view of subscribers, there are even more advantages:
4-It increases productivity. Customers can hook up to your RSS and enjoy the benefits of having fresh content on their website. As and when you feed new content, their websites get updated too.
5-The information you provide is something that your clients want. They asked for it, so they look forward to receiving it. Little wonder RSS feeds can pull high volumes of loyal targeted traffic, which is great for your search engine rankings.
6-Most importantly, RSS is spam free, unlike emails. Unsubscribing is hassle free too.

RSS, as originally designed by Netscape, was initially used by websites that needed to update their content regularly (news websites, for instance) and Blogs. Today however, it is widely used as a marketing tool to increase search engine traffic. This unforeseen development led to its popularity.

Using RSS feeds to increase search engine traffic:

RSS feeds can enhance your website traffic dramatically. Search engines love cross-links and they pay particular attention to websites that are richly linked from the outside.
Additionally, RSS directories, where you can list your RSS feeds, also drive loads of search engine traffic to your website. RSS directories collate RSS links and place them in different categories and sections.

This is something similar to web hosting, but instead of websites, you have RSS links in these directories. Clicking on a link will take you to the source of that feed.
RSS feeds have another advantage. In any business, you would like to know how your competitors are doing. You would also like to check out how your own product or business is performing.

An RSS directory helps you find out how many people are interested in your services or products.
Posting to RSS directories may be a little costly, but as you can see, the advantages far override the investment. If you are starting out, you may use free services and move on to paid services as your site starts picking up.
RSS has made it far easier to disseminate information. That is why it has become an effective and respectable means of reaching out to large slices of customers.

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Adsense Art: I Want A Website, Not a Stupid Blog!

2008-04-25T14:12:00.000-07:00

Adsense Art: I Want A Website, Not a Stupid Blog!

Make Money With Every Visitor In Your Blog

2008-04-23T21:15:00.000-07:00

You can make your blog one of the busiest blogs online when you apply the tricks and techniques on how to get more people to visit your blog. All it takes is a little creativity and start to make money with your blog.

Enticing more people to visit your blog is pretty much like marketing in itself. First, you have to know what your readers will want to read and know about. Then, you have to respond to these needs to give them a primary reason to visit your blog for the first time. Just because you hooked them in does not necessarily mean they’ll stay with you. With the number of blogs out there, your visitors will just go on to the next one and forget about yours. This is where creativity plays a key role.

It will help you keep them coming back. It is only by building a loyal base of readers that your blog will truly succeed and you can make money off it.
You can only make money through your blog if it gets visited by a lot of people. As you create your blog and every time you write your posts, keep this in mind. As mentioned, creating a successful blog is like creating an answer to a need, and of course, you need to know what those needs are first. How do you find out what your readers need?

Naturally, you have to ask them. Create a survey. Keep it brief and stick to questions that are relevant but fairly easy to answer. If the survey takes a lot of time to answer, people will not want to answer it, unless you’re willing to pay them for taking the survey, which, as someone who is just starting to make money through your blog, you would not initially want to do.

The trick is to carefully phrase your questions so that you will get real and useful information out of them. Once you know what your readers want, choose which one you can use as the main topic for your blog. You would want to write about something you’re pretty knowledgeable about, because otherwise, you won’t have much to share that would be of interest to others. Also, make sure your blog has one main topic around which your posts will revolve. This will help you build a community of readers.
After deciding on a topic for your blog, start writing your posts. When you’ve got some spare time, or you’ve got a topic in mind, write down spare posts so you can easily update your blog even if you you’re busy. Readers who notice that you haven’t been posting lately might stop visiting your site, thinking that they probably wouldn’t read anything new anyway. During the first few visits, the secret to hold on to them as your readers lies in the content of your blog. However, as time passes, their interest may fade, especially if they don’t learn or see anything new and entertaining on your blog.

When you’ve reached this point, don’t fear. It’s your chance to make something big out of your blog. Not to mention, make money out of it. Keep this in mind: all it takes is a bit of ingenuity to make them come back for more. Be innovative. Come up with new and exciting treats for your readers. Post pictures. Launch online games. Ask them to participate in your blog. Give them a chance to be part of your blog, and not just be a passive reader. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Through this, you will be able to build a community of readers that can be additionally enticing for new visitors and for old readers as well.

To make money out of your blog, don’t underestimate the power of social networks and online communities. Word of mouth plays as much role online as it does in the actual world we live in. Yes, you need to advertise as well. This is a given if you want to make money and be successful online. But the key to your success as a blogger lies in your readers. They can spread the word and give good reviews about your blog. They can ask others to check out your site. The more people you get talking about your blog, the more chances you have to make money out of it.
If you are thinking of setting up your blog, go ahead. It certainly pays to blog. Just remember all the things mentioned above because they will surely help you be a successful blogger and to make money out of blogging.

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It Makes Sense to Add AdSense to Your Blog

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Google AdSense is easy to install on a web page or blog and constitutes additional source of income without spending anything. You have to apply on-line for Google AdSense Program and generally approval comes from Google within two days. Those having AdWord account can use AdWord e-mail address and password for AdSense account also.

After acceptance of application, Google confirms creation of your Adsense account thru e-mail. You get a code for AdSense text ads and another code for AdSense search.

These codes are to be installed on web page or blog and within minutes the page will start displaying ads from Google, and a Google search bar. AdSense is available in dozen languages worldwide.

The code for AdSense can be placed on any of your web pages. I think placing it on your blog will give you distinct advantage because blogs have several points in their favor. They are easily indexed by search engines. Recently two of my simple blogs were indexed by Google within 2-3 days of submission of URL's which I think is quite fast. With Yahoo! it is even easier - just add the URL of your blog to your My Yahoo page and Yahoo! will start accessing it immediately. GoogleAlert is a free tool that can be used to know when your blog is indexed by Google.You can have your blog up and running in minutes free of cost from several sites that provide this service. I personally use blogger.com. With blogs you do not need to worry about designing websites, registering domain name or hiring web site hosting service. You simply write your content on the blog and it is ready for publication.

An excellent article by John Taylor on creating blog is re-published here:

http://sanjay-j.com/art1ab33.html With AdSense wide range of options is available - number of ads for display, shape and size of display, color schemes.

More than 200 colors are available from which you can choose color for border, background and text.

24 pre-set color palettes are readily available; in addition you can have your own custom-palette to match with the appearance of your web page. Similarly, color schemes are available for Google search bar. When the web page is opened, Google ads are placed which match with the content of the page and are highly relevant. Google finds right ads for the web page from 100,000 AdWord advertisers.

Several options are available for the ads that you would like to be displayed on your page. Ad filters can be activated which will block up to 200 URL's of your choice which you do not want to show on your page.

You may like to filter away ads from your competitors. You can even choose your own default ads for display. Google uses sensitive content filters to prevent display of sensitive material. If you find that your page is not really getting relevant ads, it may be time to look critically at the content of the page, particularly the keywords used in text, links and tags. Little SE optimization of the page should resolve this problem.

Sometimes Google places public service ads when no target ads are available. To suppress public service ad, it is possible to specify your own image ad or HTML page ad which will appear in place of public service ad. This ensures that some ad is always present there. Or, if you like, the space reserved for Adsense ads can be made to collapse.

AdSense tracker is another useful feature which tracks the ads on your pages and generates report for you. The reports can be customized based on requirement. Typically reports can give page impressions displayed, number of clicks and click-thru rates. It is also possible to check earnings any time. Web page owner can make use of all these facilities and try to get best results. With the help of Ad tracker lot of useful information can be obtained - which ads are doing well, which color combination gets better results, which location of the web page is best for showing ads and so on. This analysis can be used to improve traffic as well as click-thru rates.With AdSense you have virtually nothing to lose. If you have not yet installed AdSense on your website you can perhaps give it a thought. Any free space which can be created on your website to accommodate AdSense can be used to generate additional income.

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Myths and Facts about Google Adsense

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Myth 1: Since wide ads (336x280, 300x250 and 250x250) are effective in many websites, it must also be doing the same thing in my website.

Fact: Not really. Every website has its own characteristics; you cannot just follow what people said and then hope that your CTR will drastically increase. Try to do your own experiments with various ads and placements. Perhaps ads unit that are not effective in another website are your most profitable ads.

Myth 2: It's profitable to develop website that's targeting high paying keywords.

Fact: Perhaps, if you really are a Search Engine Optimization expert. It is correct that when these high paying keywords are clicked, you will get a huge amount of money. But do you realize how many people out there who also think the same thing? I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands; and you will face bloody competition to reach the top position in SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages). Without top position in SERPS, there will be no visitor; without visitor, there will be no one who clicks on your ads. I have another suggestion for this approach, read it in How to Increase Your Google Adsense CTR.

Myth3: High Traffic + High CTR = High Income.

Fact: It is a perfect equation if only there is no smart pricing. High income depends of several factors, such as smart pricing and what type of website you run. Some types of websites (such as forum) have high traffic but they do not generate many incomes from Google Adsense. Smart pricing also affects it. I have seen many websites with high traffic, high CTR, but totally low income.

Myth4: Be careful if your traffic suddenly increases (perhaps because a popular website features one of your articles), Google might think you are doing spamming.

Fact: Nonsense. Google is able to detect your visitors from their IP addresses (if you are not net savvy, just imagine IP address as your phone number; every time you make a phone call, it will be recorded on your phone company).

If you're doing spamming, there is big possibility that all these IP addresses will be exactly the same. Beside that, Google is able to detect who your referrer is (where your visitors know your website from). If they find out that a popular blog/website is linking to your website, they will surely understand. So, don't worry about this.

Myth5: If Google suddenly bans your Adsense account, there is no chance you will be able to defend yourself.

Fact: Some people agree with this, but some other give contradictory facts. Many webmasters complained that Google never gave them warnings and suddenly terminated their accounts. In fact, Google even didn't give them any explanations what their fault was. Strangely, some other webmasters gave contradictory facts.

Firstly, Google always gives two warnings before they finally close an Adsense account. Secondly, if you can prove that you never break Google Adsense TOS (Terms of Service) such as doing click fraud, then they will reactivate your account.

Myth6: Google Adsense will make you millionaire within a couple of months.

Fact: Wake up! It's not time for daydreaming! You must treat Google Adsense as a real business. And just like another real business, it takes times and efforts to be successful.

Myth7: Repeating visitors will stabilize your Google Adsense incomes.

Fact: Big mistake. In fact, repeating visitors even easily suffer ads-blindness. Since they regularly visit your website, they know where exactly you put your ads (except you rotate those ads everyday), and will avoid them. Getting new visitors everyday is more effective for your Google Adsense incomes.

Myth8: The only way to monetize your Google Adsense account is by placing their ads in every website/ blog you owned.

Fact: Fortunately, no! There are many ways to use your Google Adsense ID (known as “Publisher ID”) now. One of them is by using it for “revenue sharing”. What is that? There are some forums that ask you to enter your Publisher ID when you register in their websites. They will use this ID to generate Google Adsense ads that will be displayed in every thread you participate in. If these ads are clicked, they will split the income: 50% for you, 50% for them. One of the forum that provide this facility is forums.digitalpoint.com

Myth9: People who got tens (or even hundreds) of thousands dollars from Google Adsense must own a single website that is visited by millions of visitors a day.

Fact: Not all of them. In fact, many of them even admitted that they got those checks by developing many small websites. For them, it is easier to generate $40,000 from 40 small websites than generate $40,000 from a single website.

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Top 25 Google Adsense Tricks

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Google Adsense is perhaps the easiest way to attract advertisers from across the globe to your blog. Just submit your blog to Google for approval. If Google likes what it sees, it will place contextual ads linking to products likely to appeal to the readers. Each time a reader clicks a link, the advertiser pays Google a small fee, and Google splits that with you.

The next interesting question - How to Make Money with Google Adsense ? Here are The best Google Adsense Tips and Tricks for making more money (profit) from Google adsense program.

1. Strictly follow the rules mentioned in Adsense policies. You will always earn more revenue from Adsense by playing it clean.

2. Never modify the Google Adsense HTML code.

3. Don't ask your friends or visitors to click on your Google ads. Do not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. Don't label the Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements.".

4. Don't click on your own ads - Google is much smarter than you think. You should not reload your pages excessively. If you are testing your website layout with Google adsense, follow some precautions. Or you can use the unofficial Google Adsense Sandbox Tool that is accessible from Firefox, IE and other browsers to see what kind of Google ads will be served based on content (website address URL) or keywords.

5. Don't place ads in pop-up windows, error pages or even empty pages.

6. Don't start a "adsense asbestos" or "home equity loan rates" website merely to make money from accidental clicks (accidence). You will never make money out these "made-for-adsense-only" websites. Instead, write on topics what you are passionate about. Don't waste your money on high-paying adsense keywords lists.

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7. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content

8. For long articles, CTR improves if ads are placed somewhere in middle of the content - visitors read the long content and then they are looking for more resources.

9. Use Text Ads instead of Image Ads as users get more options. If you still want to display image ads, consider ad formats that support image ads - Choose either the 300x250 medium rectangle or the 160x600 wide skyscraper - or both, if you display multiple ad units on a page.

10. Google Ads without background color and borders always perform better. Make the border color and background color same as your page background color.

11. Always put ads above the main fold. Make sure that the ad unit with the highest clickthrough rate is the first instance of the ad code that appears in the HTML. Since the first ad unit is always filled before the rest, you want to make sure that ad unit is located in the best placement on your page.

12. Try setting the ad link URL color to a lighter shade. If your text is black, you may make the adlink as light gray.

m. Go Wide - The large rectangle is the best paying adsense format (336x280) - The Google Adsense Publisher team also feels that the best formats are the wider ones - the ad formats that contain the widest individual ads. Try using the 336x280 large rectangle, 300x250 medium rectangle, or 160x600 wide skyscraper.

13. Placing images next to ads or above ads does help in attracting user attention.

14. Blend AdLinks with other navigation links or place horizontal adlinks at the top of your webpage. AdSense publishers are permitted to click on link unit topics on their web pages, provided that they do not click on any Google ads on the resulting page.

15. Organize an Adsense Party for your friends and colleagues - Request them to navigate your website, watch their activity - it will provide vital clues about which regions on your website draw more user attention. Try putting ads near those areas. (Thanks Darren)

16. You can put upto 3 adsense units on a page. Try putting a large skyscraper on the right navigation sidebar of your website. That area is close to the browser scrollbar. You can also add 2 AdSense for search boxes, 1 adlink unit and 1 referral button per product (i.e., 1 AdSense referral button and 1 Firefox plus Google Toolbar referral button).

17. The first few lines of your content are an important factor for determining what Ads are served on your webpage. That's the right place to put keywords in bold (strong or tags) or header tags (h1, h2, etc).

18. Always select the setting to open Google Adsense search box results in a new browser window, so you won't lose your visitors. Click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox and this add target="google_window" to your form tag.

19. Maximum people think the search box is on the top right corner. So you know where to put it.

20. Don't syndicate full content. If people can read everything from the newsreader window itself, why would they visit your website where your ads are.

21. Use URL channels to determine performance of individual pages. I track my most popular pages with Google Analytics, Statcounter and create a channel for each of the URL. You can even track Adsense Clicks with Analytics

22. For low CTR pages, try changing titles or adding more content to get better focused ads

23. Block low paying advertisers with Filters. Why to loose a visitor for 0.01 cents. Use Overture or Google Adwords Keywords tool to discover keywords that are less popular with advertisers.

24. The AdSense for search Top Queries report shows you what your users are looking for, by listing the 25 most common searches conducted through your AdSense for search boxes. Use this report to identify additional topics to add to your site, or to keep track of your most sought-after information. Focus and improve that content.

25. Not everyone has a RSS reader. Use RSS to Email services like FeedBlitz, Bloglet or Rmail to let users subscribe to your blog by email.

Remember, you are the best judge when it comes to choosing ad formats. Even Google doesn't offer the best advise always. For instance, in the visual heat map, Google suggests that webmasters are best served by positioning ads on the upper left-hand side of a Web page. But on the Google homepage, you will find ads on the far right.
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