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How to do keyword research for the Internet

If you own an e-commerce website or going to own one then you unquestionably need to be acquainted with the concepts of web promotion and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Both of these aims at indispensable motive of any e-commerce business and that is generating more traffic. More traffic means superior visibility, increased number of visitors to the site and henceforth more business and more revenues. Other way round is to look out for advertisements carried through PPC (Pay per Click), which requires an extensive advertising budget.

Keyword research is therefore enormously necessary for ranking a site higher in the search engine. Content is the king of the web and use of proper keywords makes it visible to the world. In simple vocabulary it can be explained that keyword research is searching for keywords that are capable of attracting potential customers for products or services offered on a website. It is well known fact that a large amount of the visitors reach a site through search engines, nearly 60-70%.

Lets take a look at the most important factor in selecting the keywords for a site i.e. KEI. Well KEI is a measure of how effective a keyword is for your web site. The derivation of the formula for KEI is based on three axioms:

1) The KEI for a keyword would increase if its popularity increases.
2) The KEI for a keyword would decrease if it becomes more competitive.

The KEI is calculated as a ratio between the popularity and competitiveness of the keyword. The KEI measure explains the popularity of keywords, higher the better.

Now the question arises, how to generate keywords? So far, Word tracker and Overture endow with the best source for keyword research. Word tracker offers keywords from a huge database of 340 million search queries using which one could build keyword lists for use in search engine optimization and pay per click advertising. It exactly displays the number of counts for which a keyword or a phrase is being searched with number of websites focusing on the same. It also depicts the KEI. The competition search helps to find the number of competitors for a particular keyword or a set of keywords most suited for a site.

The online Word tracker keyword research tool is very easy to use and generates results within minutes. One could start by choosing a generic keyword. The system will present list of these keyword (in hundreds) for which one has to only enter the keyword phrase describing product, services or business like Diamond jewelry, Real estates etc. An appropriate keyword from the list could be selected that generates whole lot of related keywords. Once the keywords are selected it will be added in a keyword basket where it could be further used for export or import new keywords. One could also do a competition search based on different search engines as required. The final list will be the keyword phrases and the associated KEI, count and competition through which one could select the keywords based on competition and traffic it would generate.

Overly broad keywords rarely work well. With "flower" as a keyword, your site competes with many thousands of other sites for attention. However, the more targeted "Florida flower vendor" phrase increases your chance of appearing near the top of the results list. If you really want to get specific, your site would always be at the top of a search on "Florida flower vendor" - if any users were to actually search on it rather then on simple "flower”. Find out what keywords people actually use to query search engines before you make a final selection.

Overture is the other giant that is considered important for keyword research. Using similar steps in Overture based keyword research tool you can determine your primary keyword. Major drawback in overture tool is that it does not differentiate between singular and plural words. This could lead to targeting wrong keywords as search engines differentiate between the two.

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Marketing Plan

What Information is Needed to Write a Marketing Plan
Creating a marketing plan for your business is crucial. Without one, it would be difficult for a business to generate revenue and successfully make a profit. It’s essential you devise a plan that will clearly define the value of your products or services, with the end result benefiting your customers.

Gathering What Counts
There are four major areas that you must have information about before creating a marketing plan: business resume`, target market, product message, and ‘how-to’ get the message to prospective customers (advertising).

Business Resume: Clarity is the objective of a business resume`. Within the text, list the strengths of your product or service. Think of it as molding your knowledge. After all, would you write a marketing plan about something you know nothing about?

Target Market: Five simple questions will assist you in identifying your target market. Who are they? What is their age? What is the average income? What is their status? Do they have children? It’s important that you evaluate your target market to determine ‘what’ product or service would sell the best.

Product Message: A product message is a ‘direct call to action.’ This message must create value in the minds of everyone, that hears it, and for every feature, you offer a direct benefit to the customer must be demonstrated.

Advertising: Advertising is an appealing and compelling invitation to buy your product or service. It is an investment that should never be an expense. Finding the right advertisement takes trial and error, what marketers` refer to as “test” advertising. First time out of the box and you can’t expect immediate results.

Every business needs an outline of how they plan to approach the market. Make certain that you address the following questions in the process.


1. What medium is the most popular among your target market? (TV or Radio)
2. What is the percentage of participants in watching or listening to these mediums?
3. Do they read the local paper or magazine?
4. Should you consider direct mail?

Think of writing a marketing plan as breaking down the important elements and charting a path to success. These strategies will be of great assistance when faced with possibility of failure. Business owners need to step into the world of marketing with confidence and knowing where to begin writing your marketing plan is a start.

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Marketing Research

How to Effectively Research Your Target Market

Market research is the collection and analysis of information regarding consumers (potential customers), competitors (same business type), and the effectiveness of marketing programs (i.e. direct mail marketing, newsletters, signage, etcetera). It’s an act of action before leaping into a business, and an educated move that determines the feasibility of a new business.

Through market research small businesses and corporations alike:

Test interest in new services and products

Improve customer service

Develop competitive strategies

Both startup businesses and established businesses need to define, evaluate, and plan a course to pursue their market. The end result of market research is a business that is more responsive to customers` needs and increase profits.

As your business develops, market research needs to be an ongoing part of your business.

Anyone who is familiar with writing a business plan knows how unpredictable the market can be. Another reason why market research needs to be integrated.

Three Essential Areas
Market research is time consuming. Don’t let anyone fool you! And if you own a small business you’ll find time an issue. But don’t give up. Even the simple things you do like talking to a customer about what he or she wants, or chatting with a supplier is conducting market research.

Gather information from these three essential areas.

Consumer

Information from and about your customers

Feedback on the likes and dislikes of your customers

What services or products did the consumers like best

Competition

Help you determine what works and what hasn’t worked

Give you ideas for improving

Provide insight into how to increase your market

Environment

Economic

Social

Political forces

All of this information shapes the way we do business. Keeping it close on hand allows you to stay abreast of and respond to particular trends or events that influence your small business.

Secondary Research Sources
Secondary research sources are easily obtainable. This is information that’s been collected by someone else just lying around for you to benefit from.

Journals

Newspapers

Surveys

Telephone books

Government publications

This form of secondary research information is accessible at the library or by researching the Internet. It’s the primary source you’re really after. Obtaining firsthand information from your customer or competition is current; thereby, making it the most valuable means of market research.

Market research doesn’t take a rocket scientist. Most of us do it everyday without realizing it. As a business owner, you should educate yourself in the market research tools available to you. What you learn from a little research could save your business.

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How to Write Foolproof Media Releases

Are you looking for inexpensive ways to promote yourself or your business? Well, read on about media releases, one of the most cost effective promotion vehicles available. Free publicity resulting from a media release sounds good, but how do you go about getting it? The first step is to write foolproof media releases.

Many people ‘gasp’ at the thought of committing the written word to the page. Don’t be scared, just apply these quick and easy steps to write foolproof media releases! Let’s get started!

Always remember when writing your media release that editors will likely give you a ’10 second’ glance to see if the topic is newsworthy. Make sure you cover all the media release basic essentials to ensure your media release isn’t ‘tossed’ before it gets even the 10-second once-over.

Before You Start Writing Your Media Release

Before you even begin typing, take a moment and determine ‘what is your story’ or ‘what is your angle’. What do you want to communicate and why? Some media release ideas are the launch of new product, change in your company that affects your customers, or an event that affects your industry.

Remember that a media release is not an advertisement; your story needs to be a newsworthy account about you or your company.

Essentials for Media Releases

You are ready to start writing, take the time to familiarize yourself with the essentials required in all media releases.

· “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE” on the top left of the page

· Contact name, title, address, phone number, fax number, email address

· Headline, bold and centered on the page (more on writing effective headlines later)

· Location and date

· No more than one page in length

· Be concise and grammatically correct (no spelling errors!)

· At the bottom, provide a bio on the company, person etc. Provide brief details and remember to include a website address where readers can get more information.

O.k. the essentials are the easy part, let’s delve into the guts of your media release and the tools for writing effective content.



Effective Media Release Content

1. Headline – Some PR people say that you need to spend as much time writing the headline as you do on writing the entire content of the media release. The headline needs to capture attention, while at the same time convey the content of the media release. The headline may be the only thing an editor reads of your media release so ensure it’s a good one!

2. Paragraph structure – Make sure you make your most important statements in the first paragraph, waiting too long could mean your media release is never read! The headline along with your opening paragraph should tell a gripping story. Answer the five critical questions, who, what, where, when and why. The last paragraph is your call to action - make it clear and compelling.

3. Writing Style – Keep your audience for the media release in mind and ensure all information is factual and relevant to that audience. Provide statistics and/or relevant quotes that substantiate the information you are providing. Limit jargon and slang.

4. Distribute – Spend the time researching and creating a distribution list. Effective media releases do work; you just need to ensure that you send your media release to the right places. Check out industry associations, relevant publications (both print and online), newswire services, PRWeb, the opportunities are endless!

Writing a foolproof media release will take a little time and effort. The rewards of free publicity, resulting in even more customers and revenue are worth the investment! Why not try writing and distributing a media release today!

Marketing Tips Provided to You by:
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eMarketing Basics

How to Apply a Few eMarketing Basics to Improve Business Online
eMarketing, commonly known as an Internet marketing tool, refers to ‘how’ businesses market their services or products online. In this new age of technology, an Internet presence directly affects the success of a business. From an ecommerce site to an informational site, eMarketing begins at your homepage.

Utilize a Website
Every website has one goal and that is to heighten the interest of the reader. For the homepage to be an effective eMarketing tool, web content needs to follow the search engine optimized (SEO) techniques outlined by search engine domains like Google and Yahoo. Once landing on your site, the content will act as a sales letter.

Whether you operate a service or sell products, eMarketing is more affordable than the traditional means of marketing. Over 130,000,000 people surf the Internet daily. It would take a hefty investment to reach this number of people in the more traditional means of marketing.

Producing a website that ranks well in the search engines, will assist you in obtaining more visitors and visitors easily convert into customers at a rather amazing rate.

Cost Comparison
Printing promotional material can be quite costly. With a website, this cost is significantly lower because your site eliminates the need for brochures or an abundance of business cards. Instead of sending a new prospective literature in the mail, re-direct them to your website. It will guide potential customers through the basics of your business.

Studies show that the per-reader response rates of newspaper advertisements are low. This is due to the number of readers that scan over your add that really have not interest in your services or products. Online readers, however, are a direct result of search engines. These people want to know more about your services or products. The likelihood of turning visitors into customers is higher.

Advertising Campaign
With eMarketing, the cost of an advertising campaign is drastically lower. The same rules apply but with less effort. You’ll need to locate your target market, address their interest, and show how they can benefit.

Typical, ezines or announcements serve as an eMarketing campaign medium. Utilizing these mediums will improve your online business. Here’s how you can get started:

Ezines: Ezines are nothing more than an electronic newsletter. There are several services online that will assist you in writing an ezine. But use caution! It’s bad business to send an ezine to someone who hasn’t subscribed.

Announcements: Announcements are similar to a press release. Using the electronic transfer of news to an email box, you can announce new events, new services, and new products a lot faster.

Hottest eMarketing Tool
Today, e-books are the hottest marketing tool of the Twentieth Century. Once Internet Gurus grasp the concept of selling their services or products with an e-book, the market jumped. Adding an e-book to your tools of eMarketing is a smart move.

E-books consist of hidden links (as in, not apparent) that the inexperienced e-book reader can’t see. These links help promote affiliate programs and sell your services or products. The readers click through the e-book and find themselves at your site.

E-books are an eMarketing medium that needs careful planning. It makes no sense to develop an e-book on dogs if you sell household appliances. To be successful at eMarketing with e-books, you need to write content related to your business.

Bottom Line
eMarketing has saved businesses thousands of advertising dollars. It’s an effective marketing tool that every business should take advantage of. With a better understanding of how eMarketing can help improve your business, you can prepare for an eMarketing campaign that will exceed all of your expectations.

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The Nine Common Characteristics of Internet Millionaires

Unleash the secrets of Internet Millionaires. Learn the tools Internet millionaires use to explode their success.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #1: Blame versus Learn. Internet millionaires learn from situations. They do not fall into the trap of blaming others. They ask what went wrong in a situation and how can they learn from it? How can they fix it so the situation does not happen again?

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #2: They are decisive. They quickly seize opportunities. They take action. They don’t sit around and hope things happen. Be the first to take advantage of a good opportunity.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #3: They trust their gut and intuition. They also seek the intuition of people they trust. Trust yourself. This is a skill that you need to constantly work on.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #4: They are single focused. Don’t spread your interests too thin. For example, if you invest time, money, and effort into real estate, trading stocks, and selling products then you will become stressed. Focus on one area and strive to be number one in that area.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #5: They are marketing focused. Marketing is at the heart of any business.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #6: They are education focused. Understand the importance of continuing education. Constantly learn from your own business as well as attend seminars. Go see how businesses have actually achieved success. What business operations did they implement? How did they focus on marketing? How did they deal with their client list? How did they promote their product or services? Obtain the concrete evidence to help you.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #7: They aren’t afraid to make mistakes. Don’t worry about making mistakes, just get started. Do whatever it takes to make your goal happen. You may make mistakes, but you can fix them later.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #8: They model and swipe. This does not mean stealing ideas. It means that you model the ideas from others. Tweak the ideas to suit your needs. For example, let’s say you have found a website format that you like. You can model the format for your website. You put your own website content into this website format. Another example is to model email messages that you found to be effective or interesting.

Internet Millionaire Characteristic #9: They build a team to achieve success. Don’t become a millionaire by working alone. It is extremely difficult and almost impossible to become an Internet millionaire without any help. You need a team of supporters such as content gurus, tax attorneys, and other support staff. In addition, Internet millionaires outsource tasks to gurus. Don’t try to be guru on every business aspect by yourself.
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How to Get Targeted Search Engine Traffic Quickly

Here’s the “How-To-Do-It Guide” for driving search engine traffic right to your website.

I only speak about methods I have used and that worked well for my business. There are a lot of people out there who will steer you in the wrong direction because they are just regurgitating old information that might have worked years ago. I’ll help you discover what’s happening right here, right now. Let’s get started with the plan.

Your first step is to define your target market. The better you are able to define your niche, the better your future clients will be able to find you and your products or services.

Next, you want to get very specific about what you’re going to market on your webpage and make sure that it’s congruent with our next step. When a person finds you on a search engine, you have a window of only 3 to 5 seconds to convince them that you are exactly what they were looking for. Make it crystal clear what you offer. If your meaning is unclear, the prospect will jump to the next site and you’ll lose that business.

The following step is to brainstorm your keywords - keeping in mind your target audience. How would they search for me? What would they look for? Don’t focus on how you identify yourself. The closer you are to your target audience, the more hits you will get, which equates to more customer traffic. The more specifically you target, the better off you are. You’re not going to have success if you list yourself too generically, there is too much competition and you’ll be lost in the crowd.

Once you have established your target market, define what specific categories you should be linking to and add them as part of your navigation page. A linking strategy is very important for building your link reputation. Links to your page will count towards link reputation and link popularity.

There are a lot of different search engines - six in particular that give you about 90% of all web-traffic. Of those Google has the most web traffic so we’ll focus on it. Google has a link page rank feature which rates the importance of your page. You’ll want to download their toolbar http://toolbar.google.com. This will allow you to view the ranking of every site you visit and how important it is in the almighty eye of Google. This is a key ingredient in determining linking strategy. Google ranks itself as a 10 on their scale of 0 to 10 (the higher the ranking, the more important a page). This is determined essentially by who is endorsing and linking to you.

You must map out how you’re going to get Google give to you a high page rank. For Google, the most important attribute is the title tag. You want to make sure you use your most targeted key word in the beginning of your title tag. Google will typically list the first 83 characters so the title is where you put your most valued key word(s) so it can be easily accessed.

The next maneuver is to focus on your link relevancy. Link relevancy is how well the text on your pages relates to your title tag, also taking in consideration the content of neighboring web pages. The analysis of all of this data enables Google to return results that are relevant to user queries. You want to be sure you are listed in user queries so make your content match your title, match your links, and match your products and or services. Remaining consistent and obvious is your key to directing traffic to your site.

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Adsense – The Powerful Passive Income Generator

Webmasters have a revolutionary new method of collecting income from their websites.

Whereas in the past advertising revenue was reserved for those sites with large a coming and going of visitors, now even teenagers are making a quick buck with their online hobby blogs. People place adsense on their online family photo albums, their blogs and their business sites. The minimum you would get, even with a small amount of traffic, is for adsense to pay for your hosting costs.

Adsense revolutionized the world of paid advertising; banner advertising is based on the number of visitors you attract to your site, so the number of “banner impressions” dictate the revenue you receive. Google Adsense is quite different; it is the number of visitors that actually click on the advertising that determine how much you earn.

There is also a great disparity between payouts; because advertisers bid up the price for certain keywords, some ads pay more than others. As such, a site with few visitors but expensive keywords in their google ads can potentially still pull in a hefty payout.

Google really has taken the web by storm; attracted to passive income, more and more people are seriously capitalizing on their Google adsense advertising. Some of the highest earners manage to attract enough visitors to make a four figure monthly income, just from using adsense alone! This is not one of those get-rich-quick schemes and Google’s adsense success is largely thanks to the fact that Google already enjoyed a fantastic reputation before introducing the program. They are a publicly traded company with physical headquarters. This, and the fact that anyone can apply to use adsense for free, has caused millions of people to sign up. For google it was a smart move, because now they extend their presence to countless websites and generate millions of dollars in advertising revenue. People were never reluctant to sign up, because the program is free. Google benefits by more people using adsense, so offering it for free was the best thing they could do.

One of the driving forced behind the program are its relevance to each and every page on a website; the program picks up keywords appearing in the website copy and automatically displays relevant ads. This increases the chances of people clicking through, and the webmaster collecting more revenue.

People are leveraging their income by operating several websites and attempting to attract as many targeted visitors as possible; in many instances we can observe that people work hard at a site, then once it is established they can largely leave it alone, yet still collect significant checks.

A major concern for entrepreneurs was the danger of a competitors ads showing up on their site; thanks to the adsense feature where it only displays relevant advertising. However this problem was solved by offering webmasters the option of filtering out unwanted ads. They can submit the URL of the competing site in their account, and any ads from the website will be blocked.

Google recently came out with a new feature: small targeted keywords based on the site’s content are displayed; then as people click on those, a page opens showing a variety of pay-per-click ads based on that keyword. This gives webmasters the chance of displaying more advertising in less space.

Adsense also adds creditability to your website; the more focused the content, the better the ads will be and this encourages people to built high quality websites. These make the net a better place and generally provide a free service; site owners can afford to share their expertise or passions because they can receive indirect revenue’s. The visitor does not pay for the information; instead the advertisers do, making the website’s existence possible in the first place.

It is no surprise Google adsense is the most widely used form of advertising; they have created a program that is beneficial to both advertisers and users with their “no click no pay” mechanism, or more popularly called “pay-per-click”. Advertisers do not pay for ads that are not drawing visitors, and website owners are paid more for each click than they would if the system were based on the number of people viewing the ads, instead of clicking on them.

All in all Google adsense has developed itself into a powerful tool, used by large corporations and the kid next door. They have truly revolutionized how the web thinks about advertising and made the process more profitable for site owners, while less costly for advertisers.

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Link Building Strategies

Well, an effective link building strategy is not building some 50-100 back links with sites with ‘X’ PR. It is more of getting links from the informative websites that is visited often by the people who could be your future customers. In broad sense the websites related to your focus industry.
Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site's relevancy in search engines.

There are three types of links that will increase the link popularity of your site; internal, incoming and, to a lesser extent, outgoing links.

Let's take a look at each one in more detail.

Internal Links

Internal links are amount of links to and from pages in a site. Cross-linking your important related pages is recommended for a better search engine visibility. This assists search engine spiders to find and index your most key pages faster, particularly if some pages are hidden deep within your site.

Site Maps

Site maps or sitemap are visual models of your site's content that enables users to find exact content or page on your website. Site maps are like interactive table of contents, with links leading to most or all the pages on your website. Site maps are organized hierarchically, breaking down the site's information into progressively more specific subject areas.

Incoming Links

Incoming link popularity refers to links pointing to a site from other related sites. In addition, there are two types of incoming links:

1. Linking from your own sites

Crass linking as we discussed above is very much recommended for a better crawl of your site by spiders. You must select keywords that describe the site you're linking to. You have to do this because some of the major search engines, such as Google, place a great importance on the text used within, and close to, links.

2. Linking through other sites

There are two ways of finding sites to link to yours. The best way to get other sites to link to yours is to ask them politely. And the best way to find likely candidates is to ask web sites that link to your competition.

To find out which sites are linking to your a particular competitor, visit a search engine such as Google and enter, "link:" followed by the competitors domain name (with and without "www").

For example:

Link:google.com

link:www.yahoo.com

To check the link popularity of your own sites, simply use your own domain name.

Once you got the list of related sites, add a link to these on your site. Follow it by sending an email to each web site owner acquainting them that you have linked to their website and request them for a link back to your site.

Another important way to find list of sites that accept site submissions. To find such sites, visit a search engine, such as Google, and search for:

"add url" "your keywords"

Quotation marks are must as it ensures the search engine only return pages with the exact search phrases you search for. Also try replacing, "add url" with one of the following sets of search phrases:

add site, add link, submit url, submit site, submit link

Outgoing Links

Outgoing links refers to links pointing to other related sites from your site. Search engine spiders will crawl your site's outgoing links and determine that the content of the sites you link to are related to the content of your own site.

Link Keywords

It is important to name your internal and outgoing links carefully. Since keywords play a major part in determining the relevancy of a Web page, it is essential that they are also included in link text.

Link Quality

The quality of the links is just as important, if not more, than the number of links to your site.The types of sites you should concentrate on getting links from include major search engines (Google.com), popular search portals (MSN.com), web directories (Yahoo.com and Open Directory Project - dmoz.org), high trafficked sites (eBay.com and Amazon.com), news sites (CNN.com), and sites related to your site's theme.

The most important link building strategies includes:

Marketplace Understanding

First try to understand your marketplace. Make a list of all the market sectors you service, ranking them in terms of their importance. Choose a minimum of 3-4 niches and make a list of 250 websites under each niches. Go for link exchange only after this list is complete.

Content is King...

Content is what your potential customers will look for. It is content that will give your search engine rankings and would also help in getting links. There is no substitute for a good content, so unavoidable.

Content and proper optimization

Make sure the contents on your website is optimized properly with proper focus on keywords and nice heading, title and description. If you lack time then better hire someone to do the same.

Online Press Releases

Issuing online press releases is more of a one-to-many approach. You submit your release to a newswire and they distribute your news to thousands of journalists and editors on their database. Such releases can be picked up and covered by both national and local media and are certainly worth. Try Prweb.com or in the UK, Sourcewire.com.

But perhaps the best way of getting media coverage quickly is to use the knowledge, experience and contacts collected by others. Eric Ward's URLWire.com service is the best.. Through many years of online promotion for clients, Ward has built an impressive opt-in list of over 19,000 journalists, website reviewers and writers.

Monitor and evaluate

At the start of this article, I said that link building was not about the number of links you could get. Likewise monitoring and evaluating is not simply a matter of counting how many links you manage to get. What is really worth measuring is the benefit those links bring your business.

So as a minimum you should measure:

* How much increased traffic comes from links

* Which links bring the most traffic

* How much does your search engine traffic

* How much your sales increase as a result.

Here is one of the best tools to use...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Googles KeywordSandbox is no longer active

Just went to look at for some new keywords and look what they said...

Please wait a moment while we redirect your browser to the new external Keyword Tool.

The previous URL, http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox, is no longer active. Please note that the new Keyword Tool URL for external users is now KeywordToolExternal.

You'll be able to take advantage of Keyword Tool
features without logging into an AdWords account.

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URGENT: Google and AOL freakin suck...(READ This NOW)

Hi Friend,

If you are doing anything on the internet then
you need to pay close attention to what I'm about
to say about Google and AOL changes...

...but first. What do Google, ground
hogs and AOL have in common?

Nothing!

I just wanted to say Groundhogs
because it's Groundhogs Day.

Happy Groundhogs Day!

On a more serious note.

IMPORTANT NEWS: Google and AOL have made some
major changes in the last two weeks that you will
want to pay close attention to.

Google incorporated into its search engine a Googlebomb-sniffing
algorithm that somehow manages to identify and neutralise any concerted
effort to skew search results for a word or phrase.

Google's search engine originally worked according to a
simple principle: web pages were ranked according to the number
of links they received from other sites, with each link weighted
to reflect a site's popularity. That principle is still part of
the equation, but Google's software has become much more
complicated over the years.

Google's search engine operates according to an array of sophisticated
and secret algorithms crafted by the company's brilliant coders.

It's a machine that's been tweaked to do precisely what
Google instructs it to do, even if that might mean filtering
results to protect the company's reputation.

Regarding AOL, This one really tick's me off.

Getting emails through AOL is getting tougher. AOL made changes to
Goodmail. Goodmail is a 2 year old AOL concept on a method of stamping
email's destined for there users. The system was implemented in stages
with the latest stage coming online roughly 2 weeks ago.

Essentially AOL has shut down anything but whitelisted,
can-spam compliant, haebius or goodmail stamped email

Alot of people are getting emails stopped by them.

I was testing out a new server in Florida using a $36k
strong mail box (suppose to guarantee email to get through
- ya right), I personally saw 10k AOL emails blocked.

You may have know this part below but I wanted you to be aware.

Good guys, clean lists can get blocked too because someone could
accidently hit the report spam button right next to the delete button
and then aol blocks you. Read what aol says below:

"When an AOL member clicks "this is spam" for a piece of
email sent from one of your IPs, this is considered a "complaint"

IMPORTANT: What that means is a few people that
accidently click report spam can get you blocked.

Here are some things to help get through...

Are you abiding by CAN-SPAM act? Make sure that you put,
address, unsubscribe link and real phone number in the footer
of all emails. That will help you big time. :-)

To Your Success,

Matt Bacak

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Can you get a squeeze page high in the search engines?

I just made a few changes to promoting tips website.

I have been doing some research on some keywords
that I want to get it ranked high for. You know many
people believe that you can't get short one page
sites up high in the search engines.

That's full of crap just go to google.com and
search for promoting tips. You will notice that
my squeeze page is ranked #1 for that term.

See this site is a one page website that I
created with the only purpose to capture peoples
information, just email and first name.

Inside that I teach email marketing and ezine marketing.