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		<title>How to Use SEO to Your Advantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trentb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization (SEO) is a fancy term for a very simple concept – getting high rankings in the internet search engines to gain lots of free targeted traffic from them. It&#8217;s a very important internet marketing strategy. Utilizing keywords in your website content is one of the first steps for getting high rankings in [...]]]></description>
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<p>Search engine optimization (SEO) is a fancy term for a very simple concept – getting high rankings in the internet search engines to gain lots of free targeted traffic from them. It&#8217;s a very important <a href="http://intmktr.com">internet marketing strategy</a>. Utilizing keywords in your website content is one of the first steps for getting high rankings in the top search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. However, improper use of SEO terms can actually have a damaging effect on your website&#8217;s ranking on these search engines. Here are some tips to keep in mind&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Have Valuable Content</strong></p>
<p>Search engines prefer to pick up content that has been written by a human instead of being pre-generated by a computer. You want to write content that not only contains the proper keywords, but also contains actual value for your readers. This not only gets the visitors to your website to stay longer, but it also gets you a higher ranking in search engine listings. </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t want to overdo it with SEO terms either. Every page on your website should stick to one general topic so that you can plan out two or three keyword phrases that would best describe the topic. Look at the most frequently used search terms for your topic in order to get the best possible SEO keywords to use in your content. Having multiple web pages with various related keyword phrases for each can help you to spread your presence on search engines and help your visitors find the information they are looking for.</p>
<p><strong>Links and Title Tags</strong></p>
<p>Often, people tend to forget about the other areas of a website that can have an effect on their rankings. The words you use when creating a link are often picked up by search engines as being keywords for your site. Use your SEO keywords in links to improve your search engine rank. Linking to other parts of your site can also improve your overall traffic. </p>
<p>The title at the top of a website is known as the title tag for that page. Adding keywords to your title tag is another good way to optimize your website for search engines. Your title tags will double as a description of your website for search engine listings, so you want to make sure they contain the best keywords and a solid explanation of the page&#8217;s content. </p>
<p><strong>Know Your Visitors</strong></p>
<p>Web sites receive visits from people from all around the world, which is why <a href="http://www.contentcustoms.com/seo-copywriting" target="_blank">seo writers</a> need to utilize multiple keyword phrases to get the best search engine results. Not every person searches for something using the same vocabulary. You must know who your target market is so that you can better plan your SEO keywords to target the demographic. Using social tools like polls, forums and other interactive venues can help you get feedback from your audience as well as provide entertainment that will keep them coming back after their initial visit. </p>
<p>You can often use programs to track your site visitors in order to see which days you have the most traffic, which search terms have the most hits and where most of your website&#8217;s visitors are coming from. By using this data, you can plan your content accordingly to achieve the best results possible. </p>
<p>SEO keywords can help you to attract more visitors to your website via the most popular search engines. The trick to using them is to have valuable content and to insert two to three keyword phrases naturally in to every web page. Links and tags also have an effect on your rankings, so be aware of how you use them. It is important to learn about the people who are visiting your website and plan your SEO content accordingly.</p>
<p>This is a guest post written by Corry Cummings. He is the owner of <a href="http://www.contentcustoms.com" target="_blank">Content Customs</a> &#8212; A content creation company that specializes in high quality web content writing services.</p>

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		<title>Internet Marketing Business Website for Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trentb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Make Money Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website for sale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most sought after keyword phrases in the internet marketing world is&#8230; Make Money Online. Just about every internet marketer is either currently trying to rank in the top 10 of Google for that phrase or they have tried it in the past (whether they admit it or not). The problem is the [...]]]></description>
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<p>One of the most sought after keyword phrases in the internet marketing world is&#8230; Make Money Online. Just about every internet marketer is either currently trying to rank in the top 10 of Google for that phrase or they have tried it in the past (whether they admit it or not). </p>
<p>The problem is the phrase is so competitive that it makes it extremely difficult to rank for and there&#8217;s only 10 spots worth getting, so that makes it darn near impossible. So, most people either give up after a while or they continue fighting a losing battle for years and years. Very few marketers ever achieve high rankings for this elusive keyword.</p>
<p>However, there is another option for you if you&#8217;re set on having a top 10 make money online website. What can you do? You can purchase a site that is already there! It&#8217;s not often that an opportunity like this comes around but it is here now. This is a rare chance for you to instantly own a top 10 site for such a competitive keyword phrase.</p>
<p>My friend and well known internet marketer, Jeff Schuman, is selling his website. I am handling the sale for him because I have a lot more experience in that particular area.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a very well established site with awesome stats, rankings, earnings, etc&#8230; There&#8217;s a lot I could say about it but I have already said it in the auction description, so I encourage you to check it out if this is something you might be interested in.  </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the Flippa auction: Ended.</p>
<p>I think I covered everything in the listing, but feel free to ask any questions you might have and I will be very happy to answer them.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to your internet marketing business success!</p>
<p>See ya soon,<br />
Trent Brownrigg</p>

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		<title>Is Blogger or WordPress Better for Blogging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trentb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One you have decided to start a blog, there&#8217;s a strong chance you will ask the same question that most beginning bloggers ask&#8230; Is Blogger or WordPress a better choice to use? In this post I will discuss some pros and cons of each. 1) Blogger Blogger.com has some good benefits; probably the most obvious [...]]]></description>
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<p>One you have decided to start a blog, there&#8217;s a strong chance you will ask the same question that most beginning bloggers ask&#8230; Is Blogger or WordPress a better choice to use?  In this post I will discuss some pros and cons of each.</p>
<p>1) Blogger</p>
<p>Blogger.com has some good benefits; probably the most obvious one is that it&#8217;s completely free. It&#8217;s also incredibly easy to set up and use. It only takes a few minutes to get a blog up and running, even for beginners and people with no tech skills at all.</p>
<p>They also have some easy add-on &#8220;gadgets&#8221; to easily customize your blog. With a few mouse clicks you can add a list of followers, a search box, Google Adsense code to monetize your blog, photos, videos, links, create a poll, etc&#8230; There are several things you can add.</p>
<p>The biggest downside of using Blogger is that they own the blog, not you. So they can shut it down at any time for many different reasons, and it does happen to people quite often. You are also limited to what you can do with it because you don&#8217;t actually own it. And there&#8217;s a lot less options than there are with having your own domain, hosting, and a different blogging platform such as WordPress, which I will now discuss.</p>
<p>2) WordPress</p>
<p>There are actually two ways to create a WordPress blog, but one is far better than the other and that option is what I will mainly be discussing. The first way is to create a free blog on WordPress.com and it will be hosted on their servers. This is similar to Blogger, only worse for most internet marketers, so I am not even going to go into much detail on that option. </p>
<p>When you hear someone say, &#8220;WordPress blog&#8221; they are almost always talking about the wordpress.org blogging software that you use with your own domain and web host. This is by far the better WordPress option and is the one that gives you full functionality with almost unlimited things you can do with it. You own this type of blog so it&#8217;s yours to do as you wish. But this option is not totally free because you do have to pay for hosting and a domain, the actual WordPress software is free to download though. </p>
<p>If you choose the free wordpress.com version they don&#8217;t allow you to place commercial advertisements on your blog. It would be for personal use only and no affiliate links or contextual ads are allowed. There are other restrictions as well. This is bad for internet marketers and that&#8217;s why I say not to use them. If you host the blog yourself with the wordpress.org version on your own hosting account, you can do whatever you want with it.</p>
<p>Another great thing about WordPress.org is that there are thousands of great themes and plugins available for practically anything you want to do. Almost anything you want to add or change about your blog most likely there&#8217;s a plugin to do it. The downside is that it can be confusing to configure and learn what to do with all this stuff if your technical skills are minimal.</p>
<p>Overall, I would say there&#8217;s no doubt that using the wordpress.org software with your own domain and hosting is definitely the best option long term. However, you don&#8217;t have to choose one or the other – you can use both! </p>
<p>Why not build your main blog on whichever you feel is the best option for you after reading this post and then create another one on the other platform to use as a 2nd tier blog to help feed your main one? That&#8217;s a great way to do it. Or run two blogs that share slightly different information and target different keywords within the same niche. No need to limit yourself to one or the other when you can do both to keep from putting all your eggs in one basket.</p>
<p>Having a blog has become an integral part of building a successful internet marketing business so pick a platform and get one started right away!</p>

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		<title>Hot Internet Marketing Niche Blog for Sale!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trentb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am selling one of my blogs in the internet marketing sub-niches of blog flipping, site flipping, and domain flipping. These are hot niches right now and can be highly profitable. Only one day left on the auction &#8212; So hurry! It&#8217;s a highly ranked blog with good stats, authority, age, and original content. You [...]]]></description>
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<p>I am selling one of my blogs in the internet marketing sub-niches of blog flipping, site flipping, and domain flipping. These are hot niches right now and can be highly profitable.</p>
<p>Only one day left on the auction &#8212; So hurry!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a highly ranked blog with good stats, authority, age, and original content.</p>
<p>You can find all the information about it in the auction listing so there&#8217;s not a lot to add here.</p>
<p>Auction ended so I removed the link.</p>
<p>This is an awesome deal for anyone looking to get into a great make money online niche or to expand your current internet business.</p>

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		<title>What is a Joint Venture and Why Should You Do One?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trentb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Ventures can be a great thing for just about any internet marketer to do at one time or another. They can be a great way to boost your internet business to a higher level in a shorter amount of time with less work. Basically, joint ventures bring you success more quickly than you could [...]]]></description>
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<p>Joint Ventures can be a great thing for just about any <a href="http://intmktr.com">internet marketer</a> to do at one time or another. They can be a great way to boost your internet business to a higher level in a shorter amount of time with less work. Basically, joint ventures bring you success more quickly than you could do on your own if all parties involved hold up their end. The following post is a quick look at what joint ventures are and how they can benefit you.</p>
<p>First, let&#8217;s look at what are joint ventures (JV&#8217;s) are. They come in various forms but traditionally they are an agreement between 2 or more people or businesses. All the parties involved agree to work on a project together, or help each other out in one way or another. Usually part of the agreement is that the profits from the project will be shared equally by all parties. Of course, this means that all parties equally contribute to the project too. </p>
<p>JV&#8217;s can be something very simple such as promoting each other&#8217;s products on their websites or to their lists. They can also get more complicated such as building a whole business together. Therefore, JV&#8217;s are also all about forming and building relationships. </p>
<p>Now that you know what a JV is, I will explain why you should use them. Hopefully, you can already see the power of JV&#8217;s just from reading what they are and are beginning to see why they might be a good idea for you. With them you are able to take what you&#8217;re great at and combine it with what other people are great at. By combining your talents and resources you are be able to be even more productive and become more successful than you ever could on your own. </p>
<p>Even though you have to share the profits with all your partners you still end up making even more money when it&#8217;s all said and done. At least that&#8217;s the idea. Plus, you will be laying down the groundwork for future partnerships that will also make you even more successful.</p>
<p>One of the most important parts of joint ventures is to have parties who are all really good at something that the other people in the party aren&#8217;t so good at. Or at least have all parties with different resources that can be combined. For example, you might have a JV between 5 internet marketers; One that writes really well, one that is a great copywriter, one that knows how to market using social media, one that has a large email list you can market to, and one that specializes in search engine optimization. This covers most of the main tasks that must be completed in order for an online business to be successful. Therefore, this venture should be a success.</p>
<p>Are you starting to see how powerful they can be yet? By joining together you can achieve greater success in less time than you would ever be able to achieve on your own. There&#8217;s strength in numbers!</p>

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