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February 2007 Monthly Archive

HOW TO CREATE A PROFITABLE LITTLE AD

A small ad can generate a greater return on your investment than any other type of advertising. You can also use it in a variety of media. For example, I often get profitable results from the same small ad in all of the following:

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Five Web Marketing Myths Exposed

Making money on the web is possible, but it takes more hard work than you think. Myth No.1: Build it and they will come Traffic is everything." As thousands of webmasters have already learned, you can have a catchy domain name and an impeccably designed website already on the web." You can even have it indexed by the search engines. "However, even after all that, a website may only get a handful of visitors a day." "After a few weeks of launching a website, you may catch up to the fact that getting people to your site takes a lot more hard work than you expected." It will take many different approaches to make your website known, and you'll have to pull all the stops:" list your website in the major directories, have it crawled by the search engines, create a signature file for your emails, publish a free newsletter, exchange links, stamp your domain name in your business cards, stationary, and promotional material, advertise in traditional media, etc. " But above all, it will take time, sometimes months or even years, before you're able to get significant traffic to your website, so prepare to be patient and don't give up.

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What is PageRank?

Pagerank is based on how many links to one website. PageRank is a value that represents how important a page is on the web. Robots or Spiders figures that when one page links to another page, it is casting a vote for the other page. Also the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote is. It matters because it is one of the most important factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results but It isn't the only factor that Search engines uses to rank pages. Not all links are counted by Search engines. .Some links can cause a site to be penalized by Search engines.

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Let's Flash!

Most of you have visited web sites filled with video-like animation, sound effects and music synchronized to the animation, enhanced interactivity, and stunning graphics - all of which appear to load and play almost instantly.

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How important are headlines?

Studies show that you have less than five seconds to get the attention of a reader. Think about your daily newspaper. Most people scan the paper. If the headline gets their attention, they will probably read the rest of the article. If it doesn't, they probably skip over that story, and continue scanning until they see something of interest.

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Use Logo Products to Increase Your Business

Giving away and selling logo products can increase business multi-fold. Take for example the inexpensive pen that someone uses to write a check, the key tag that they reach for with their car keys, or a magnet they see on the front of a file cabinet or frig. If it has your name on it, they will be back into your store for more of what they came for in the first place. Visit us at http://www.promoproducts4less.net/index.html, we have lots of ideas to help you increase your business.

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Creating A Quality Web Site Design!

In this article, I will attempt to cover the basics of creating a great quality web design template for your site. Now it's a known fact that the layout or "eye candy" as I put it will determine whether your visitors will stay more than 15 seconds or they will just become another statistic.

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Which fonts can I use on my website? What if I want to use others?

If you've done any word processing or desk-top publishing, you'll be used to using all sorts of fancy fonts - for headlines, logos, and banners. For your web pages, you'll have to do things differently.

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IS YOUR WEB SITE UNFRIENDLY? Part 1 of 9

First, let's pay a virtual visit to a web site that is my definition of unfriendly, although it doesn't have all the faults I will cover in this series of articles.

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Increase Your Sales By 25% By Implementing One Small Change

How much would you be willing to pay to learn how to implement a guaranteed 25% increase in your online sales? Given the current sales situation on your website, how much would that 25% increase in sales add to your bottom line? $250 per month? $500? $25,000?

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How to make a name for yourself on the 21st century Internet

Clearly, the Internet technology is going at a tremendous pace and you need to make a presence for yourself in this vast and lucrative market.

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"Making Money, Not Excuses"

Webmasters and small business owners who are lured online by the tremendous profit potential are often overwhelmed by the enormous amount of information they have to sift through, especially if they are trying to maintain their web site as well as market it and provide some customer service!

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ONE MILLION hits within 3 months..... without using Search Engines.

It's one thing to have a web site. It's another thing to get (qualified) traffic to it. About 8 years ago I attended a seminar on this new thing called "The Internet." The guys who ran the seminar told us a lot of stuff, but there's one thing they said that has always stayed in my head.

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A New System Of E-Commerce?

(Please feel free to to freely reproduce and distribute this article, so long as it is reproduced in full, including the hyperlinks, and no modification is made)

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Affiliate manager time savers

What's wrong with all of you affiliate managers? True, it's essential to focus on the super affiliates, because they are the drivers of most of the sales, leads, and clicks in affiliate marketing. But that doesn't mean that those affiliates who have not achieved super affiliate status should be treated as pariahs.

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Awards Programs: Handling The Winners

Someone has sent in their site to be reviewed as part of your awards program. If you've done everything correctly, this should happen several times per week or even per day. You could review them as they arrive, or you could set them aside and do it once a week or on some other schedule. This is completely up to you.

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Email tips and tricks

Excerpted from the upcoming book The Busy Person's Guide to a Profitable Website and PlanetLink's Enews - an email newsletter delivered for FREE to your computer. To subscribe, go to www.planetlink.com.

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Use Those Complex Affiliate Programs to Your Advantage

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in This Brand New Explosive Marketing Tool with a KAZILLION FUNCTIONS that promise you Wealth and Happiness in 6 months!"

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Color Psychology in Marketing

On the internet we don't deal with face to face selling. The internet is a visual and psychological medium. The words, or sales copy, on your website have by far the greatest psychological impact on your visitors and thus becomes your most important communication and sales tool.

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7 Tips For Ad Copy That Sizzles

Your ad must focus on the wants and desires of your prospects. What are their problems? What are their goals? What are their needs? Tell them how YOUR product or service can benefit them. Be as specific as possible!

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