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		<title>Here&#8217;s 4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your Website IN Through Googles &#8216;Back Door&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cinker</dc:creator>
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Google&#8230; one of the Internets MOST powerful search engines recently announced a new FREE service that makes it easier for you to improve your websites coverage within Googles index through its NEW collaborative crawling system.
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<p>Google&#8230; one of the Internets MOST powerful search engines recently announced a new FREE service that makes it easier for you to improve your websites coverage within Googles index through its NEW collaborative crawling system.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>On the down side though, Google does not &#8216;Guarantee&#8217; immediate inclusion, But, is still good news for those of you who have just finished building a website and are ready to submit to the top search engines.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>So, what&#8217;s this NEW service called that Google just released?</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>The real cool thing about &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221; IS it accepts RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds with the .XML extension as one of the accepted formats for submitting your websites Sitemap for inclusion in Googles index.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This is just one of the four formats Google accepts and is the one that I&#8217;m going to use for the rest of this article to show you how to generate your own .XML sitemap of your website for inclusion in Google.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s real easy to do so don&#8217;t worry about it being to complicated.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>So, with that said, lets go to Step #1.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #1. Sign up for &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This step is easy, simply follow the link provide below and sign up for a Free account. It should only take you a few minutes to do, then once your done, come back here and go to Step #2.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Go to: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #2. Generate your .XML sitemap.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>In this step your going to generate a .XML sitemap for your website using a Free online sitemap generator.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This Free online generator will build you a sitemap up to 500 pages. If you have a larger website with thousands of webpages you&#8217;ll have to use a paid service and/or software to generate yours.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Go to: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Enter your required information on the form provided.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #3. Upload your generated .XML sitemap to your server.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Once your generated sitemap is finished(your generated .XML file should be called site.xml.gz) it&#8217;s now time to upload it to your server using your FTP(File Transfer Protocol) program.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This is very important that you do this before submitting it to Google Sitemaps for inclusion.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #4. Submit your NEW .XML sitemap to &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Now that you have generated your &#8220;Sitemap&#8221; for your website and uploaded it to your server all you have to do now is to go to &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221; and submit your sitemap URL.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>(ex. http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.gz)</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Now, depending on Google, your sitemap should get downloaded within the next 24 hours, so be sure to check and see that it did and that there wasn&#8217;t any problems or errors.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Also, your going to want to be able to track your indexed webpages within the search engines, especially Google, so you can see how things are going, so I&#8217;ll leave you with one last resource that will do this for you.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Go to: http://www.uptimebot.com</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>All you have to do is enter your URL and click &#8220;GO&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>The results page will list the results from Google and 9 other popular search engines.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Well, there you have it&#8230; &#8220;4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your Website IN Through Googles &#8216;Back Door&#8217;&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Why Google Adsense Offers Tremendous Opportunities For Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cinker</dc:creator>
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<p>When it comes down to anything happening online, Google is certainly &#8216;king of the castle&#8217; it would seem. As well as stamping its authority for being the internets most powerful search engine utilized by surfers internationally, Google also has additional strings to its bow and provides services for email, more commonly known as gmail, sitemaps, news feeds and is even a provider for hosting it&#8217;s latest venture, Google Video where visitors can upload their videos so that others may view them online. </p>
<p>&#13;However, one of Google&#8217;s trump cards is Google Adsense, which is a multi billion dollar money spinner. The way Google adsense works is very straight forward and so simple that many entrepreneurs are probably wondering why they didn&#8217;t think of the service themselves. Google Adsense is essentially a method for merchants to raise additional income by way of displaying advertisements on their site. What makes it so unique though is that the merchant is displaying not his own ads but those of alternative companies.</p>
<p>&#13;The ads that are displayed will be determined by the content on the webpage that the ads are to be displayed on, so for example, if you own a plumbing business then it is highly likely that all of the ads being displayed will be to advertise the services of companies involved with plumbing.</p>
<p>&#13;That&#8217;s Crazy! Why Send Your Visitors &amp; Customers To The Competition?</p>
<p>&#13;Well yeah, on the face of it I can see why you&#8217;d be thinking that, it does seem a little unorthodox to want to drive your traffic away but get this, every time somebody clicks on one of the ads displayed on your website, guess what? You get paid for it, over and over again. If your website gets lots of traffic to it and your visitors like the ads displayed because the ads offer something of interest to them then it&#8217;s highly likely that your CTR or &#8216;click through ratio&#8217; will be very high, meaning you stand to really make some serious money from Google Adsense.</p>
<p>&#13;So How Much Do I Make Per Click?</p>
<p>&#13;This is how clever Google Adsense is as it utilizes a system of &#8217;smart pricing&#8217; whereby it will not pay you a set fee per ad but rather will decide your payout depending on the content on your site, the relevancy of the click, where the visitor was referred from, whether the click was valid or invalid, and many other considerations. Google has a very advanced algorithm to substantiate this data and there is no easy way to try and see what makes it tick.</p>
<p>&#13;What If I Want To Advertise Myself?</p>
<p>&#13;That&#8217;s what&#8217;s great about Google Adsense because it is a win win situation for both advertiser and publisher alike. Perhaps you run a business and your website is very recent and you have hardly any traffic coming to your site, If this is the case then you can very easily become an advertiser and run your ads on other content related sites, thereby reversing the roles and driving targeted traffic to your site and increasing your exposure and also increasing your chances of making more sales etc. Google has a service known as Google Adwords and it is simply a case of signing up for the program and then creating a campaign to display your ads. For this you will be charged every time a visitor clicks on one of your ads or you may opt to be charged by the amount of impressions your ad receives. There are a number of options available so it makes sense to do a little research before making your campaign live.</p>
<p>&#13;Whether you choose to be a publisher or an advertiser, Google Adsense is so easy to implement and can be functional in minutes as in most cases it is simply a task of copying and pasting some very basic html code that is provided by Google Adsense.</p>
<p>&#13;If you want to drive much more traffic to your website or you&#8217;re a publisher and you want to make easy additional cash for sitting back and waiting for someone to click on one of the ads on your site, then Google Adsense just may be the solution to your current needs.</p>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s 4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your Website IN Through Googles &#8216;Back Door&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cinker</dc:creator>
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Google&#8230; one of the Internets MOST powerful search engines recently announced a new FREE service that makes it easier for you to improve your websites coverage within Googles index through its NEW collaborative crawling system.
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<p>Google&#8230; one of the Internets MOST powerful search engines recently announced a new FREE service that makes it easier for you to improve your websites coverage within Googles index through its NEW collaborative crawling system.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>On the down side though, Google does not &#8216;Guarantee&#8217; immediate inclusion, But, is still good news for those of you who have just finished building a website and are ready to submit to the top search engines.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>So, what&#8217;s this NEW service called that Google just released?</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>The real cool thing about &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221; IS it accepts RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds with the .XML extension as one of the accepted formats for submitting your websites Sitemap for inclusion in Googles index.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This is just one of the four formats Google accepts and is the one that I&#8217;m going to use for the rest of this article to show you how to generate your own .XML sitemap of your website for inclusion in Google.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s real easy to do so don&#8217;t worry about it being to complicated.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>So, with that said, lets go to Step #1.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #1. Sign up for &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This step is easy, simply follow the link provide below and sign up for a Free account. It should only take you a few minutes to do, then once your done, come back here and go to Step #2.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Go to: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #2. Generate your .XML sitemap.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>In this step your going to generate a .XML sitemap for your website using a Free online sitemap generator.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This Free online generator will build you a sitemap up to 500 pages. If you have a larger website with thousands of webpages you&#8217;ll have to use a paid service and/or software to generate yours.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Go to: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Enter your required information on the form provided.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #3. Upload your generated .XML sitemap to your server.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Once your generated sitemap is finished(your generated .XML file should be called site.xml.gz) it&#8217;s now time to upload it to your server using your FTP(File Transfer Protocol) program.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>This is very important that you do this before submitting it to Google Sitemaps for inclusion.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Step #4. Submit your NEW .XML sitemap to &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Now that you have generated your &#8220;Sitemap&#8221; for your website and uploaded it to your server all you have to do now is to go to &#8220;Google Sitemaps&#8221; and submit your sitemap URL.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>(ex. http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.gz)</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Now, depending on Google, your sitemap should get downloaded within the next 24 hours, so be sure to check and see that it did and that there wasn&#8217;t any problems or errors.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Also, your going to want to be able to track your indexed webpages within the search engines, especially Google, so you can see how things are going, so I&#8217;ll leave you with one last resource that will do this for you.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Go to: http://www.uptimebot.com</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>All you have to do is enter your URL and click &#8220;GO&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>The results page will list the results from Google and 9 other popular search engines.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Well, there you have it&#8230; &#8220;4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your Website IN Through Googles &#8216;Back Door&#8217;&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Google Adsense And Your Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cinker</dc:creator>
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Anyone who bought Google&#8217;s shares a few years back must be really happy now with the returns. But most of these investors know Google only as a search engine and nothing else. There&#8217;s no denial to the fact that Google started off as a search engine but the guys at Google were smart enough to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Anyone who bought Google&#8217;s shares a few years back must be really happy now with the returns. But most of these investors know Google only as a search engine and nothing else. There&#8217;s no denial to the fact that Google started off as a search engine but the guys at Google were smart enough to realize the true potential of internet and branched out the company into several other businesses.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
One of these subsidiaries of Google is called AdSense. Most of you must have heard of it but are not sure of what it is and how it helps people make a lot of money online. We&#8217;ll tell you here all that you need to know about Google AdSense and how you too can benefit from it.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
In layman&#8217;s terms Google AdSense is a marketing company. But you must rise above that level if you really want it to also work for you. It is not just any other ordinary marketing company. It is an online marketing company and its marketing techniques are to say the least very innovative. It is an advertising company that is paid only if people see the advertisements and click on it.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Google AdSense ads are one of the most convenient and hassle free ways of advertising on your website. You just have to sign up with Google AdSense, accept their terms and then just sit back and do your part of the bargain, that is blogging and posting relevant content on your blog. After Google places ads on your blog and the visitors click on it Google will pay you fee based on Pay Per Click basis.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
So what&#8217;s in it for Google? Well, Google does not pay you the entire advertising fee to you but only a smaller percentage of what it gets. So Google also makes a good amount of money in all this exercise.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Now you must be thinking that why should you share the advertising revenue with Google when you are doing all the hard work of attracting visitors to your blogs? Well, that is because Google has a brand name which you perhaps don&#8217;t have right now. Apart from that Google being a huge organization has more credibility amongst the advertisers than an individual or a small company. So there&#8217;s nothing to fret about if you have to share the revenue generated out of advertising with Google AdSense. If you want to see what I am saying try and persuade 4 companies to advertise on your website and pay you on per click basis.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
The form which you have to fill in for subscribing to Google AdSense will ask for some of your information like bank account number, Social Security number, Tax account number, address etc. Feel free to give it them because your information will be encrypted and stored only to be retrieved in case of a legal issue.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Google AdSense also pays the subscribers for referrals. Referrals basically mean that you will get paid an amount of money if you refer someone else to become a subscriber of Google AdSense. Also if you place Google&#8217;s toolbar on your blog and somebody downloads it, then also you get a commission for that based on every download.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
While a lot of people have made a lot of money with Google AdSense, there are many others who just can&#8217;t stop complaining that it is just another fraud. The crux of the matter is that you have to be smart and write content that is search engine friendly while being informative or interesting to the reader at the same time if you really want Google AdSense to work for you.</p>
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<p>Jonathan Hook offers free tips on how to make money with your blog at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.e-bloggers.com"></a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.e-bloggers.com" target="_blank">www.e-bloggers.com</a>.  Click now and start earning money with your blog</p>
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		<title>Why Your Small Local Business Website Must Rank High In Google</title>
		<link>http://googlebackyard.com/2009/12/21/why-your-small-local-business-website-must-rank-high-in-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cinker</dc:creator>
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<p>Have you paid for a yellow pages ad? I recently had a quote for a half page ad and it was $10000 for the year. With more and more people turning online to find goods the yellow pages seem to me to be a bit of a rip off.</p>
<p>If you are a local small business, you probably do some marketing offline to gain customers. So most small businesses owners figure they will just hire someone to make a website and you will be in business online. </p>
<p>No, this could not be further from the truth. Having a website online isn&#8217;t going to help your business unless it shows up in the top 2 pages of Google. When someone searches for any information online through Google the top ten most relevant search results will come up, this could be out of 1000&#8217;s. </p>
<p> Ask yourself when you have ever searched online for any product or service do you ever look past page 2 of Google, I know I don&#8217;t, I rarely look past page 1.</p>
<p>If your a researcher doing your thesis or something looking through thousands of pages is good. If you are marketing your small business online you need to rank at the top. </p>
<p>Since the average small business website is after customers online you need to get on the first page, the odds are extremely high that if someone looks up say Carpet Cleaners in Sydney and your business doesn&#8217;t pop up on the first page then they are not going to click on your website to see what you have to offer. </p>
<p>This does not matter if you spent $10,000 on your website if it isn&#8217;t in the first page of Google your online marketing is doomed, but it&#8217;s not all bad news. The good news is that you can work at getting your local business to the first page of Google and it does not cost much at all.</p>
<p>So, not only do you need a website, you need a website that will be listed in the top page of Google when someone searches for your type of business. Otherwise your just wasting your money getting a website developed. </p>
<p> Would you like to learn how to get your website to the first page of Google. Check out the final article of my three part series or visit my website.</p>
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		<title>Link Building 101: How to Get Links to Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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High quality sites that link to your website can give it more credibility, increase traffic and improve your search engine optimization efforts. So, how do you get sites to link to you?
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<p>High quality sites that link to your website can give it more credibility, increase traffic and improve your search engine optimization efforts. So, how do you get sites to link to you?</p>
<p>&#13;Most people contact the sites they want to link with and ask them for a link. If the Webmaster ever gets back to them they will often decline. This is a slow laborious process at best. Although this manual method does work, there are much faster ways to quickly increase the number of sites linking to you.</p>
<p>&#13;None of the strategies I&#8217;m about to give you should be used to do anything that violates the search engine&#8217;s TOS or Terms of Service. An easy way to stay in the good graces of all of the search engines without having to memorize their mile long TOS is to create high quality sites that are relevant to the keywords you are targeting and don&#8217;t do anything deceptive. It&#8217;s really that simple.</p>
<p>&#13;So, the Goal is to get as many &#8220;quality&#8221; sites linking to you as possible. So, what makes a &#8220;quality&#8221; site? Google has a rating system called page rank or PR. It is a scale that measures the &#8220;quality&#8221; of a website between 0 and 10 with zero being that the worst and 10 being the best.</p>
<p>&#13;The exact method of how they do this is a trade secret but it is believed that they base the score off of the number of links to a particular site along with the quality of those sites linking to the particular website. So in other words, it&#8217;s better to have 100 sites with a 10 PR link to your site than 100 sites with a 1 PR.</p>
<p>&#13;So, that leads us to the million dollar question, what is better quantity or quality? The easy answer is both. You want to monitor the quality of links you are targeting but you don&#8217;t want to decline a link from someone just because they don&#8217;t have a PR 10.</p>
<p>&#13;The following are some of the fastest ways to build the number of inbound links to your site.</p>
<p>&#13;Articles</p>
<p>&#13;Webmasters are always hungry for fresh content for their websites and blogs. You can write articles that are related to your website or industry and post them on article directories. The article should contain a small bio about yourself with a link to your site. Webmasters then place your article on their sites and blogs on the condition that they leave your links in place. The best part is that most article directories are free.</p>
<p>&#13;Press Releases</p>
<p>&#13;There are online press release distribution services that will distribute your press release to thousands of online news outlets. All you have to do is create a press release that contains your important keywords along with links to your site and then submit it.</p>
<p>&#13;Once your press release is distributed, many of the sites who receive the release will appear as sites linking to your site.</p>
<p>&#13;Blogs</p>
<p>&#13;Be sure to include your link in your blog posts when relevant. Ask other bloggers to link to your site and reverence it. If you don&#8217;t have a blog you can get one. There are many free services.</p>
<p>&#13;Pay-Per-Click (PPC) &amp; Paid Links</p>
<p>&#13;An easy way to get links to your site is to pay for them. You can do this by purchasing a link for a set amount of time (day, week, month, etc.) or you can pay per click.</p>
<p>&#13;Link to Yourself</p>
<p>&#13;If you have multiple websites or domain names don&#8217;t forget to link the together. This is assuming that they are real sites and not just a bunch of UGS (Useless Gateway Sites) that you threw together.</p>
<p>&#13;Affiliate Programs</p>
<p>&#13;Affiliate Programs provide Webmasters with codes that they put on their website to track any sales that they refer. When a webmaster puts this code on their website it creates a link to the site they are promoting so as you are building your affiliate business you are also building your inbound links.</p>
<p>&#13;The above link building strategies are meant to give you a general overview. With a little well directed effort consistently applied, you will have an impressive number of sites linking to you in a very short time.</p>
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		<title>Relationship of Google Adsense and Your Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>One of these subsidiaries of Google is called AdSense. Most of you must have heard of it but are not sure of what it is and how it helps people make a lot of money online. Well tell you here all that you need to know about Google AdSense and how you too can benefit from it.</p>
<p>In laymans terms Google AdSense is a marketing company. But you must rise above that level if you really want it to also work for you. For more details go to www.googleincomememachine.com .It is not just any other ordinary marketing company. It is an online marketing company and its marketing techniques are to say the least very innovative. It is an advertising company that is paid only if people see the advertisements and click on it.</p>
<p>Google AdSense ads are one of the most convenient and hassle free ways of advertising on your website. You just have to sign up with Google AdSense, accept their terms and then just sit back and do your part of the bargain, that is blogging and posting relevant content on your blog. After Google places ads on your blog and the visitors click on it Google will pay you fee based on Pay Per Click basis.</p>
<p>So whats in it for Google? Well, Google does not pay you the entire advertising fee to you but only a smaller percentage of what it gets. So Google also makes a good amount of money in all this exercise.</p>
<p>Now you must be thinking that why should you share the advertising revenue with Google when you are doing all the hard work of attracting visitors to your blogs? Well, that is because Google has a brand name which you perhaps dont have right now. Apart from that Google being a huge organization has more credibility amongst the advertisers than an individual or a small company. So theres nothing to fret about if you have to share the revenue generated out of advertising with Google AdSense. If you want to see what I am saying try and persuade 4 companies to advertise on your website and pay you on per click basis.</p>
<p>The form which you have to fill in for subscribing to Google AdSense will ask for some of your information like bank account number, Social Security number, Tax account number, address etc. Feel free to give it them because your information will be encrypted and stored only to be retrieved in case of a legal issue. For more details go to www.googleatmcash.com .Google Adsense also pays the subscribers for referrals. Referrals basically mean that you will get paid an amount of money if you refer someone else to become a subscriber of Google AdSense. Also if you place Googles toolbar on your blog and somebody downloads it, then also you get a commission for that based on every download.</p>
<p>While a lot of people have made a lot of money with Google AdSense, there are many others who just cant stop complaining that it is just another fraud. The crux of the matter is that you have to be smart and write content that is search engine friendly while being informative or interesting to the reader at the same time if you really want Google AdSense to work for you.</p>
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		<title>Why Google and Yahoo Foot Prints are Eliminating Everything but Your Business Card</title>
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In the old days I used to carry a laptop with an overhead digital projector.   And sometimes a portable printer.   I looked like a mercenary walking in.  I still on occasion use the projector.  But not much&#8230;same goes for my sales collateral, presentation, brochure, letterhead, portfolio and media packet. [...]]]></description>
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<p>In the old days I used to carry a laptop with an overhead digital projector.   And sometimes a portable printer.   I looked like a mercenary walking in.  I still on occasion use the projector.  But not much&#8230;same goes for my sales collateral, presentation, brochure, letterhead, portfolio and media packet.  </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
First off it&#8217;s so much easier.  I don&#8217;t arrive at a client&#8217;s office needing a baggage cart.  I show up with my notepad, digital camera and recorder; all fit nicely in my pockets.   I don&#8217;t carry a phone onsite since I am not an obstetrician or plumber.  In fact I walk in with what appears to be just me because it is just me.    </p>
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Sometimes they give me a quizzical look as if to say &#8216;didn&#8217;t you forget something?&#8217;   But unless they specifically ask, I don&#8217;t specifically tell.   If we are at a conference table, I take out my pen and my small paper notepad and put it directly in front of me.  To one side I lay my pocket recorder, and to the other my trick digital camera which I take from my shirt pocket.  I&#8217;m not totally low tech&#8230;</p>
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I then take out my business card or maybe several if we are in a group.  I lay them on the notepad.  By this time more than a few in the room are watching and wondering what I will do next.  Maybe perform some sort of magic trick and up will pop a laptop and projector and sales portfolio packet.  As we do the obligatory handshakes and settle in, I slip my card across the table to my hosts.  And smile.  </p>
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&#8220;Do you have a resume or client list we can review?&#8221; is often the first question since they don&#8217;t know what else to ask.   </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
&#8220;No,&#8221; I answer, &#8220;both are provided by Google and Yahoo.&#8221;</p>
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&#8220;Really?&#8221; they ask with raised eyebrows, &#8220;do you have a special deal with them?&#8221;</p>
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&#8220;No, just Google or Yahoo my name in quotes&#8221; I reply.   </p>
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&#8220;And your resume is online?&#8221; they continue.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
&#8220;No, just my history and work.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
At this point someone is curious enough to open up their laptop.  They Google or Yahoo my name and look up, nodding their head affirmatively.   What they see is what I have done.  I could compile one myself in a resume format but why bother.  My footprint or search results go on page after page.  Depending on Google&#8217;s algorithmic moods, it can go on for dozens of pages. </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
As they click down the pages their eyes scan my article topics and they can see I write mainly business articles but also personal development, humor, sports, motivation and politics.   I tell them my websites are simply self publishing blogs that store and house my article archives.   </p>
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If they continue to scroll they will see many different websites where my articles are posted.   All types of industries; auto, construction, health, real estate, pet care and even a few not so PG sites fortunately pretty far down the list&#8230;ha.   Some political sites, some personal development sites and even an inspirational site or two.   And a few radical ones, a few right wing ones and a few Jesus ones.  </p>
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The advantages for me are many.  First I don&#8217;t look like a salesman warrior loaded down with gadgets and briefcases inspiring fear as I prepare for battle.  If I need a promo sheet, I have one folded up in my pocket just in case.  I can use the wasted set up time to chat or start asking questions.  </p>
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Second, I have a very cool business card that is simple, direct and just the right colors.  It&#8217;s me.  Third, they will never hear my cell beep or catch me stealing a glance down to see who called.  What an insult.  Fourth, I don&#8217;t distract everyone by looking for an outlet and setting up my gear.  Ten years ago I would set up a mini office to impress.  Today I don&#8217;t set up anything to impress.  Google and Yahoo are nice enough to do that for me.  </p>
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There&#8217;s an old sales tactic that asserts if you can get the prospect to do something active they become more involved and more likely to buy.  Doing a simple Google or Yahoo search isn&#8217;t much but it is active.   It&#8217;s also something they can do when I leave or whenever and wherever they wish.   It&#8217;s something they can duplicate anywhere and something I have no direct control over.  Because of all this, it&#8217;s credible.  And (in)credible</p>
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Another important point to note is that I have a clean record.  Not even a divorce, knock on wood.  So by boldly stating &#8216;Google my name&#8217; it shows that I am confident that no prison record will pop up.  Unfortunately this tactic is not a good one if you do have a prison record&#8230;</p>
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If you Google my name you will find articles of mine in the London Daily News but no record of my being an inmate at San Quentin.  That&#8217;s because I have had articles in the London Daily News but have never been an inmate at San Quentin.   A simple Googling proves both.  Thank you Google and thank you Yahoo for making my life so much easier.  </p>
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You ever try to get a three prong plug into a two prong outlet without an adapter?</p>
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<p>Jack D. Deal uses his Google and Yahoo foot prints daily.  He is also the owner of Deal Business Consulting. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jddeal.com">Related articles</a>may be found at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jddeal.com">http://www.jddeal.com</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.freeandinquiringmind.typepad.com">http://www.freeandinquiringmind.typepad.com</a></p>
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<p>It doesn&#8217;t take long in the world of Internet marketing before you recognize the importance of good market research when it comes to the health and ultimate success of your business. While you can spend big money hiring people to do market research for you, or spend significant time and energy attempting to conduct it on your own, few methods are more user-friendly and effective than Google Trends.</p>
<p>&#13;Google is known worldwide for its useful tools, from its highly popular search engine to Gmail to a number of research and analyst tools. Google Trends is part of this family of free tools, and it tends to receive rave reviews from all users, regardless of the level of experience or type of business the user possesses.</p>
<p>&#13;Users of Google Trends claim it greatly improves their methods for conducting research online, which in turn helps them to be more productive and efficient in their businesses. They actually end up saving time and money as they learn about search engine trends on a global level.</p>
<p>&#13;How Does Google Trends Work?</p>
<p>&#13;Google released the tool to the public in 2004. Its purpose was to give users a method for viewing and monitoring online search results. Users can gain an understanding of how search results shift and change over a period of time. Another benefit to Google Trends is that it provides supporting information and relevant news stories that are related to the particular search term you enter. Instead of having to find the information on your own, it is all presented very neatly in an easy-to-understand format.</p>
<p>&#13;For example, after you plug a search term into the tool, it provides a line graph displaying time and search volume, as well as the countries, cities and areas that have searched for your specific term the most. By doing this, you can easily identify the types of products and solutions your target market is seeking. You can also learn exactly what search terms they are using, so that you have an understanding of how to best utilize your SEO tactics.</p>
<p>&#13;If you are interested in doing a comparison search between different terms, you can submit up to five words on the same graph by entering the terms separated by a comma. Being able to view the results for each term side-by-side is a great way to determine which words are going to be most powerful in your optimization of websites, articles, blogs and other online content you may use.</p>
<p>&#13;Far too many online businesses fail because they leave out the vital step of market and product research. Many who begin to use Google Trends discover that they did not know their target market as well as they thought. By using the tool to determine the best products and SEO terms, you are better able to meet your potential customers&#8217; needs, rather than just throwing products out there hoping people will want them.</p>
<p>&#13;Once you witness the power of solid market research and product trending for yourself, you will likely never begin another product launch or website without incorporating them into your plan. The good news is that conducting this research doesn&#8217;t have to be difficult or even time consuming. Google Trends provides excellent search engine research with a few clicks of your mouse, helping you to propel your online business to the next level.</p>
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With the relative chaos that surrounded Google&#8217;s last major search engine algorithm update (Big Daddy) now on the ebb, there is now time to reflect -but not a lot of time. Google will continue to update its search engine algorithms, and sometimes in essential, infrastructural ways, as they seek to improve the quality of searches. [...]]]></description>
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<p>With the relative chaos that surrounded Google&#8217;s last major search engine algorithm update (Big Daddy) now on the ebb, there is now time to reflect -but not a lot of time. Google will continue to update its search engine algorithms, and sometimes in essential, infrastructural ways, as they seek to improve the quality of searches. Indeed, in all the fuss over Big Daddy the fact that the Jagger update (which temporarily gave msn.com a page rank of 2) preceded it by only two months. While this development is, of course, good in the sense that all who use the machine will have a better machine with which to search, it is a turbulent environment that can materially impact our online businesses -your business.</p>
<p>Operations that depend on Page Rank and that have spent the time and resources to cultivate a high one need some assurance that their work won&#8217;t be wiped out in a blink. What it requires are a few tactics to improve your chances for surviving Google updates. Here are a couple of tips farmed from several blogs and bulletin boards throughout the web. Essentially what the discussion boils down to is a concern over function.</p>
<p>&#8220;Google wants to present high quality web sites that are interesting to web surfers in its search results&#8221;, says free-seo-news.com. I think everybody can agree that this is true. However, what does it mean? What qualities does Google command its crawlers to analyze for when listing and ranking websites? Furthermore, are there things to be done outside of what we generally think of as SEO activity to improve our chances? Some suggestions for answers to these questions are as follows:</p>
<p>First, I can&#8217;t tell you exactly what it means, but there are definite qualities Google&#8217;s crawlers are programmed to analyze when listing or ranking a page, and while their optimization is never a guarantee in the face of beasts like Big Daddy, it certainly improves your chances.</p>
<p>Time and consistency are of the essence. Make sure the website gets regular updates. Keep things fresh. Let the Google-bots know there is stuff going on. As for time, well that kind of runs on its own. Keyword optimization is also growing necessity. The trick is to be strategic. As John Hill, an SEO Professional says in his article for seo-news.com, ‘If you have a ten page website in a highly competitive market then ranking for the major keywords will be close to impossible.&#8217; He suggests using tools to see which keywords relevant to your organization are already heavily contested, and to find alternate keywords to claim.</p>
<p>There are other ‘white-hat&#8217; SEO trade tricks, and they are well summarized in a number of places. If you are not familiar with them definitely become acquainted with the basics. Even if you hire someone to do it for you, know the essence of SEO, Google, and their functions. However, as stated above these tricks and techniques are not always a match for the algorithm updates. While staying on top of your website&#8217;s SEO is crucial, it is also a good idea to cultivate a customer base in a sphere outside of the Google search -that timeless discussion over eggs and baskets. Do not neglect a mailing list. Do not depend entirely on the search engines for customers. If people like what your website has to offer they may or may not bookmark it, email the link to friends or even link to it from their website. In other words, even with Google&#8217;s awesome capabilities, word-of-mouth is still the best of all marketing tools. Stay in the radar. Grow a mailing list and send out newsletters to those who have subscribed; not just any newsletter, a newsletter people can use. Think about it. How do you feel about subscribing and receiving fluff when what you want is information?</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve done your job providing good content and staying ‘present&#8217; to a growing number people, your website should be able to better weather the slowed search engine traffic from a Google algorithm storm. Based on bulletin board discussions surrounding Big Daddy it appears some websites spent as long as five or six weeks either listed ‘supplemental&#8217; or with radically diminished Page Rank. While that was an extreme situation, you&#8217;re aim should be to try and cultivate a customer or readership base large enough to compensate for such ‘lost&#8217; time so as to make those accidental Google pains less painful.</p>
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<p>Author: Karra Maxim Website: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bluepec.com" title="http://www.bluepec.com"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bluepec.com">http://www.bluepec.com</a> Karra writes for Blue PEC, a cheap web design agency.</p>
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