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		<title>7 Ways To Increase Web Site Traffic Now!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt Gaines</dc:creator>
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I am going to shift gears today and start with the 7 Ways To Increase Web Site Traffic! I know this is a topic everyone wants to learn more about. It is also the one thing that generally will wipe most newbie’s out of the business.
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<p>I am going to shift gears today and start with the 7 Ways To Increase Web Site Traffic! I know this is a topic everyone wants to learn more about. It is also the one thing that generally will wipe most newbie’s out of the business.</p>
<p>Internet &#8211; Business &#8211; Profit. To fully integrate all of these words successfully into one merging component you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic.</p>
<p>So, we all know that in the core of it all, traffic is the most essential thing that is an absolute to be successful in an internet based business. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and that your company’s internal organization is well taken care of, it is now time to get to the nitty gritty of things, Generating Traffic.</p>
<p>If you already have a site and you do not think that you&#8217;re getting the traffic that you&#8217;re supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider. If you are wanting to be contender in this very competitive industry, you should always be a step ahead of your competition, increasing your traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.</p>
<p>Timing is essential, that’s an old adage known to everyone. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for making your site traffic laden, it should always have been yesterday.</p>
<p>To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are seven surefire ways to increase your traffic starting right now!</p>
<p><strong>1) Invest in a good advertising campaign with search engines.</strong></p>
<p>Google’s Adwords, Yahoo’s Overture, and MSN Advertising (PPC -Pay Per Click) provide great advertising schemes that are very popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic it will cost some money and if you do not know what you are doing alot of it! While some would shy away from spending money to increase traffic, it is imperative in this case to do so to increase your traffic using these advertisers.<span id="more-55"></span></p>
<p>Adwords, Overture, and MSN are considered as 1st tier Advertisers.</p>
<p>Here are a few 2nd tier advertisers for reference:<br />
Miva – <a href="http://www.miva.com" target="_blank">www.miva.com</a><br />
Searchfeed – <a href="http://www.searchfeed.com" target="_blank">www.searchfeed.com</a><br />
ABCSearch – <a href="http://www.abcsearch.com" target="_blank">www.abcsearch.com</a><br />
7search – <a href="http://www.7search.com" target="_blank">www.7search.com</a><br />
Search123 – <a href="http://www.search123.com" target="_blank">www.search123.com</a></p>
<p>You can see for yourself the success that search engine advertising methods have reaped for so many companies. Lots of sites feature these advertising system and many have signed on to take advantage of the benefits. Just go to Google and do a search, the top few Ads and the Ads that run down the right side of the page are Adword Ads. Do not be left behind.</p>
<p>Just a side *Note*, I personally despise Google, but do used them and have had a couple of ads disabled by the dreaded &#8220;Google Slap&#8221;. They are getting very particular with what you can advertise; it is almost like they hate Affiliate and Network Marketers. Now with me saying that, you can with out a doubt make a killing using Adwords.</p>
<p>You have to know what you are doing and if you want to use this option you need to learn from one of the best, Perry Marshall. I truly think he is one of the Kings of Adwords, so if you want to go in that direction you will need his course (Educate Yourself!). He has an excellent course that will guide you completely step-by-step on how to use Adwords. Take a test drive and take a look at his FREE 5 day course, you can get it here:</p>
<p><a href="http://uclick-me.com/recommends/PerryMarshall" target="_blank">Perry Marshall&#8217;s Adword Course</a>.</p>
<p>I had to spend a good amount of time on search engine advertising, because I feel it is extremely important and it is one of the fastest methods to get traffic to your site right now!</p>
<p>Ok, let&#8217;s move on</p>
<p><strong>2) Exchange or Trade Links with other sites</strong></p>
<p>With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from your efforts by enhancing your sites relevance. Search engines look at sites to see how many other sites link together. If you have a popular site that links to you it increases the relevance of you site a bit. The more this happens the higher the rate. Now do not try and do this in one day, The search engines are pretty smart. It needs to be done gradually.</p>
<p>Also when one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected. You will also need to ensure that the site you are linking with is of the same type. You do not really want to link to a cooking site if your site is about metal working.</p>
<p><strong>3) Use Viral Marketing</strong></p>
<p>Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or if ever low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company’s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people.</p>
<p><strong>4) Search and use proper keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content</strong><br />
Search engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking in high in search engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.</p>
<p>Again, <a href="http://uclick-me.com/recommends/PerryMarshall" target="_blank">Perry Marshall&#8217;s Adwords Course</a> goes through keyword creation which is very important. A good skill to learn no matter which way you go when it comes to search engines and advertising in general. If you ever on into CPA Network Arena you will need to be good at keyword creation.</p>
<p>Now if you have never heard of CPA Networks well that is a totally different ballgame, but if your curiosity gets the best of you <a href="http://uclick-me.com/recommends/CPANetworks" target="_blank">Click Here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site</strong></p>
<p>Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link. At most Article sites you have a resource box where you will be able to place a complete description of your site and business</p>
<p><strong>6) Join forums and form online communities</strong></p>
<p>Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you set up a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass it on to many people they trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.</p>
<p>Here is a little secret for any time you place you signature on forums or anywhere for that matter. Use a signature tag, this is where you place your name at the end of an article or post for a blog comment. Put you name with a brief description of you business and then your link.</p>
<p><strong>3 short lines:</strong><br />
Name<br />
Description<br />
Link</p>
<p><strong>7) Lastly, Offer newsletters</strong></p>
<p>If people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal following this can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you with your traffic.</p>
<p>Well I did not intend for this post to be so long, but I got carried away. I hope you got something out of it.</p>
<p>To Your Continued Success!<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
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		<title>Blogging For Cash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Believe it or not, but it’s actually possible to make money from blogging. One teenager has, in fact, earned $5,000 a month just from making posts on his blog! Of course, not every blogger is this lucky. It does take some skill, and some luck to make money from blogging.
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<p>Believe it or not, but it’s actually possible to make money from blogging. One teenager has, in fact, earned $5,000 a month just from making posts on his blog! Of course, not every blogger is this lucky. It does take some skill, and some luck to make money from blogging.</p>
<p>What it also takes is some knowledge of how exactly to generate income just by posting blogs. In this Post, I will go over three specific methods of making money on your blog: Adsense, Pay Per Lead, and Affiliate Links.</p>
<p><strong>So how exactly do I make money on my blog?</strong></p>
<p>You do it by working with another company that wants to use your blog as a form of advertising. It sounds like selling out, right? Not exactly. The advertising can be as in your face or subtle as you want. And it can still make you money, provided you have enough visitors to your blog.</p>
<p><strong>What is Adsense?</strong></p>
<p>Adsense is a program offered by Google. The program, if installed, will display ads provided by Google.</p>
<p><strong>How do I get Adsense?</strong></p>
<p>You’ll need to go to Google.com, first. At the bottom of the screen is a link for “Advertising Programs”. Click on that. Then click on the link for “Adsense”. Scroll down on the page that comes up and click “Click Here To Apply!”</p>
<p>You then fill out the form with information about yourself. After 12-48 hours, Google will notify you via email whether or not your site has been accepted. When you’ve been accepted, set up your ads by doing either of the following:</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> If your blog is hosted on Blogger.com, you can set up your AdSense ads by going to your profile, selecting settings&gt;template&gt;add an element. Then select AdSense and login with your account info. Next, you’ll configure your ads and save the template. That’s it.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> If you are self-hosting your blog, you’ll have to set up AdSense in more of a manual way. You’ll create your ads(which can be as small or as tall as you want) and then copy the HTML/Javascript code Google gives you. Then you’ll paste it into your blog (on the left, right, or top of the screen).</p>
<p>For the first few days, the ads displayed by Google will be Public Service Announcements. After the ads have been up a few days, though, the ads will switch to ads that are relevant to your blog.</p>
<p><strong>How does Adsense work?</strong><span id="more-48"></span></p>
<p>Every time a visitor clicks an Adsense ad, you get a little bit of money (usually around 30-60 cents). The amount you get for each ad clicked depends on the number of unique visitors you receive on your blog. The more visitors, the more money that can be earned.</p>
<p>Google will then send a check or pay you through Paypal once you’ve made at least $100 from the ads.</p>
<p>It is important to remember that Google will penalize you if you click your own ads, or if you ask visitors specifically to click ads. So don’t do that!<br />
 <br />
BidVertiser:<br />
<a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com">http://www.bidvertiser.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Pay Per Click</strong></p>
<p><strong>How do I get Pay Per Click?</strong></p>
<p>Pay Per Click is basically just like AdSense, except you don’t just work with Google—you work with multiple companies.</p>
<p>BidVertiser is one such company you can sign up with to do Pay Per Click advertising. There is also Yahoo and MSN that utilize PPC.</p>
<p>You sign up with a site like Bidvertiser and then follow their instructions to set up the Pay Per Click ads on your site.</p>
<p><strong>How does Pay Per Click work?</strong></p>
<p>It works by paying you money each time someone clicks an ad that you display. You won’t get paid for multiple clicks from the same user in the same visitor, nor will you get paid for someone simply visiting your site. You only get paid for legitimate clicks.</p>
<p>Affiliate links are basically links which people pay you for. Companies will actually pay owners of popular blogs to post links on their blog. You can do as much Affiliate linking as you want.</p>
<p><strong>Affiliate Links</strong></p>
<p><strong>How do I get Affiliate Links?</strong></p>
<p>You can get Affiliate links by searching for “Affiliate Link Programs” on the internet. Once you find an Affiliate link program that looks good to you, sign up for it. Then you can follow their instructions for putting the link(s) on your blog.</p>
<p><strong>How do Affiliate Links work?</strong></p>
<p>Like the other two methods mentioned above, Affiliate links work by paying you money each time they are clicked. You get paid for each click per unique visitor.</p>
<p>So that’s it. There’s three legitimate ways to make money from blogging. It is important to keep in mind that the amount of money you are able to make depends on how many visitors your blog draws.</p>
<p>If you draw a lot, you’ll make a lot. If not, the money you earn will be modest. But it’s still extra money, so why not do it?</p>
<p>To your success,<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
<p>P.S. Making money using Adsense, Pay Per Click or Affiliate Link programs is easy and effective. Start monetizing your blog today!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Is your blog collecting dust and not getting enough traffic? It&#8217;s a common problem for bloggers. Their blogs are good, but no one is coming to visit.</p>
<p>They want to know how to increase traffic. Increasing traffic is actually easier than it seems &#8212; provided you know how. Let me go over 7 specific methods of increasing traffic. These are guaranteed methods to draw more visitors to your blog.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #1: Sign up for pinging services</strong></p>
<p>It seems pretty obvious, but most bloggers, even those who are more experienced, don’t sign up for pinging services. If you’re new to blogging and don&#8217;t know what pinging means, pinging basically means that when your blog is updated, a &#8220;ping&#8221; is sent out by the service to let pinging sites know that your blog has been updated.</p>
<p>People who are visiting sites with pinging services will then see your blog flash across the side of the screen as &#8220;newly updated&#8221;. Pinging services include Yahoo&#8217;s blogs, weblogs.com, Google Blog search, and ZingFast.</p>
<p>There is also a little know plugin that wordpress uses called Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger. This does the whole process for you. Create your post and click on the Publish button and it automatically pings all the site you have presellect for you. This is a great tool!</p>
<p><strong>Tip #2: Sign up for Technorati</strong></p>
<p>If you go to technorati.com, you&#8217;ll see an option on the left side of the screen to &#8220;Claim Your Blog&#8221;. Doing so allows you to get updated link counts, add your photo or branding to Technorati, and see your Technorati link.</p>
<p>Having your blog claimed on Technorati helps to increase traffic because the millions of people who go to that site will have a chance to see your blog on there.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #3: Sign up for FeedBurner, a RSS service</strong></p>
<p>What FeedBurner basically does for your blog is it helps you to promote your blog&#8217;s content, build your audience and measure your audience. In other words, it helps you increase your blog&#8217;s traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #4: Bookmark your blogs at places like delicious</strong></p>
<p>You can set up an account and profile at delicious. Then, using that, you can add links to your blog along with excerpts from your blog. Anytime someone visits your profile on delicious, they will see a link to your blog and excerpts.</p>
<p>There are other social bookmarking sites that you can use in much the same way. The bottom line is, using these social bookmarking sites can help you increase traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #5: Post comments at other blogs</strong></p>
<p>No, this doesn&#8217;t mean you should go and spam other blogs with comments that are only there to promote a site. It means that you should visit similar blogs to your own, post legitimate comments and then sign your name (along with a link to your blog).</p>
<p>This way, people know you aren&#8217;t there just to promote your site—you’re there to post a good piece of feedback and also say where you’re from.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #6: Ask owners of other blogs to post a link to yours</strong></p>
<p>Find other blogs that are similar to yours. If they seem to be decently popular (that is, they have a good amount of comments for each post), you can try to contact the owner of the blog to add a link to your blog if they have a links section.</p>
<p>To make them really want to do this, you can offer to link back to their blog on your blog. People do this reciprocal blog linking all the time and it does help to increase traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #7: Use keywords in your blog</strong></p>
<p>Like regular web pages, having a good keyword density on a blog is a terrific way of getting search engine spiders to notice your page.</p>
<p>(FYI: Search engine spiders are programs from search engines that browse sites and report back their findings to the search engine database, which then lists that site. The more keywords on your site, the more likely it is for a search engine spider to pay a visit) </p>
<p>If your average blog posting is around 200 words, try to use 2-6 keywords per blog post. 2-6 keywords in a blog posting of 200 words is a keyword density of between 1 and 3 percent, a respectable number. Remember that you don’t want to use too many keywords, as that will make your blog look bad.</p>
<p>Also be sure that the keywords used are relevant to your blog. Before even making a blog posting, decide what the post will be about and then select a keyword or two to use in your post. Then do it. It’s a surefire way of getting more traffic to your site!</p>
<p>To your success,<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
<p>P.S. Signing up with a service like Technorati is a quick, painless way of increasing traffic to your blog. So sign up today!</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Over the past few years, blogs have become incredibly popular. Just about everyone who uses the internet also has a blog. You want to get in on the action, but do not have your own website or not the techie type and you&#8217;re not sure how to get your own blog.
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<p>Over the past few years, blogs have become incredibly popular. Just about everyone who uses the internet also has a blog. You want to get in on the action, but do not have your own website or not the techie type and you&#8217;re not sure how to get your own blog.</p>
<p>Luckily for you, sites like Blogger.com wordpress.com and many others have made it easy to set-up and make posts on a blog. Let&#8217;s go over everything from signing up for a blog on Blogger.com to choosing a template (look) to finally making a first post.</p>
<p><strong>What is Blogger.com?</strong></p>
<p>Simply put, Blogger.com is a site that hosts blogs for free. This makes it even easier for you to have a blog because there is no need to set up a web site and host the blog yourself. All you have to do on Blogger.com, once you&#8217;ve signed up, is login to your blog, write a blog post and click submit. It‘s that simple.</p>
<p><strong>What will my web address be on Blogger.com?</strong></p>
<p>Your web address will be http://yourname.blogspot.com. One thing that people dislike about Blogger and other free blog sites is that they don’t have as great of a freedom in choosing a name. You are limited to choosing only what is available. So if you’re looking for http://mattgaines.blogspot.com, you probably won’t be able to find that.</p>
<p><strong>Signing up for a blog on Blogger</strong></p>
<p>The first thing you&#8217;ll do is go to blogger.com. Next, you&#8217;ll scroll down the page and click on the button labeled “Create Your Blog Now”.</p>
<p>You will then be taken to a page where you will enter an email address(used to log into your blog), a password, and a word verification. You&#8217;ll also have to check &#8220;I Accept Terms of Service&#8221;. Click continue.</p>
<p>Next, you will be taken to a page where you will choose the blog title, blog address, and another word verification (which is done to prevent auto-signups). When you type in your blog address, you can click a link that says &#8220;check availability&#8221;.</p>
<p>This will tell you whether or not the desired name is available. If the first name you wish to have is not available, keep typing in different variations of the name until you find one that is available.</p>
<p>After you have put in all the information, click &#8220;Continue&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Choosing a Template</strong></p>
<p>After you click &#8220;Continue&#8221;, you’ll be asked to choose a template. The template can be changed at any time after you sign-up for the blog, so you don’t have to choose an &#8220;official&#8221; template now. </p>
<p>If you scroll down, you’ll see a variety of different templates. Click on the one that you like best and then click &#8220;Continue&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Your First Blog Post</strong><span id="more-40"></span></p>
<p>After you&#8217;ve chosen a template, you&#8217;ll see that your blog has been created and that there is a button to &#8220;Start Posting&#8221;. Click that button.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll be taken to a page that is similar to the posting page at a message board. There is a &#8220;Title&#8221; field, where you can put in the title of this particular blog posting. Then there is a bigger field, which is the body of your post. Type all you want in this &#8220;Body&#8221; field, as there is no limit. </p>
<p>Note that there are options above the field to bold, italicize, underline or spell check the text. There is also the option of changing the size and color of the text, plus the ability to add bullet points, numbered lists and even pictures. For now, you&#8217;ll just do a simple &#8216;Welcome&#8217; post.</p>
<p>In the &#8216;Title&#8217; field, type &#8216;Welcome!&#8217; In the &#8216;Body&#8217; field, type your message. You could start with a simple introduction, talking about yourself and the purpose of the blog. When you&#8217;re done typing the message, click the &#8220;Publish&#8221; button. It is worth noting that you can choose to save the post as a draft, if you want to go back and later finish the post.</p>
<p>After you&#8217;ve clicked &#8220;Publish&#8221;, you&#8217;ll see that your blog has been published successfully. Click the &#8220;View Blog&#8221; link to view the results of your work. You&#8217;ll now see your post.</p>
<p><strong>Logging into Blogger after the first post</strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll go to Blogger.com and click on the &#8220;Old Blogger&#8221; link at the top right of the page. Type in the email address and password that you signed up with.  You’ll be taken to the &#8220;Dashboard&#8221; of your blog. If you want to enter a new post on your blog, click &#8220;New Post&#8221;.<br />
Then follow the instructions mentioned in the previous section. Or if you want to edit the<br />
template, add/edit elements to your page, you’ll click &#8220;Settings&#8221; and then &#8220;Template&#8221;. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s all there is to it. Blogs, whether they are hosted at blogger.com or another free blog site like wordpress.com, livejournal.com, are incredibly useful and fun. For more Free blogs just go to Google and search for &#8220;free blog sites&#8221;</p>
<p>To your success,<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
<p>P.S. Blogger makes setting up and running a blog very easy for those who have never done it before. So what are you waiting for? Sign-up for a free blog at Blogger.com today and enjoy<br />
posting!</p>
<p>P.S.S. I will be getting into lead generating soon so stick around!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gaines</dc:creator>
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<p>Here are a few ways to start increasing the traffic to your site by getting it rank higher on the search engine pages. First page in position 1, 2, or 3 would be perfered.</p>
<p>Google Matt Gaines and you will see I am ranked in the #2 position. I am working on getting that #1 slot. You can do the same with your blog. Just follow the simple steps below.</p>
<p><strong>How do I get pinging on my blog?</strong></p>
<p>You’ll have to register with a site that offers weblog pinging. The most popular pinging program around is weblogs.com. Other programs offered include Yahoo’s Blogs, BlogRolling, and Technorati.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a plugin called Ultimate plugins Smart Update Pinger, which will automatically ping sites for you once you publish your post. It will ping the sites only on initial post and not any edits or updates you may do to that particular post.</p>
<p>Once you’ve decided on a pinging service or plugin, you’ll have to follow the instructions to install it on your blog. When you’ve done that, your blog will start getting pinged and visited by search engine spiders.</p>
<p><strong>What is linking?</strong></p>
<p>Linking is basically having another blog or site link to your blog. When search engine spiders visit that site and see a link to your site, they’ll visit your site. Linking is effective both for sites with blogs and those without it.</p>
<p><strong>How do I get linking?</strong></p>
<p>You get it by visiting sites/blogs that are relevant to what your site is about. Then you contact the owners of those sites/blogs, asking them to post a link to your site on their site. In return, you will probably have to link to their site on your site. That way, both of you are able to benefit from the linking.</p>
<p><strong>Why is the use of keywords important to my blog?</strong><span id="more-35"></span></p>
<p>Spiders love to visit sites with a good amount of keywords. People who read your site won’t mind the use of keywords if they are lightly spread throughout the content of your pages.</p>
<p>The key to this is to make a list of keywords relevant to your blog posting and then to try to use those keywords throughout your content.</p>
<p>It is important to make sure, however, not to overuse keywords. Spiders have been trained to ignore sites with excessive amounts of keywords, so if you use a whole lot of keywords in the hopes of getting spiders to visit your site, it’s not going to do you any good.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, using between 2-6 keywords per 200 word piece of content is a good ratio. It’s pleasing to both readers and search engine spiders.</p>
<p>That’s really all there is to it. Apply the above techniques to your blog and you will net your site a quick search engine listing.</p>
<p>To your success,<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
<p>P.S. There is no quicker way to get your site listed than to use a blog. So install a blog on your site today and you’ll be listed sooner than you could have imagined!</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Here is an interesting topic about posting I thought you should know about.</p>
<p>Keeping people interested in your blog, whether it is a business or personal blog, is key to attracting a lot of regular visitors. Many blogs have died because people have just lost interest.</p>
<p>The main reason for the lack of interest is simply a lack of posts by the blogger. Regular, frequent posting, which will boost your blog’s ranking in search engines, is essential to the survival of any blog.</p>
<p>You might be asking yourself, what is frequent posting? How many blog entries should I make on a given week? How do I make frequent consistently good posts? What are the reasons for me to post frequently? In this newsletter, we will go over all of the above.</p>
<p><strong>What is frequent posting?</strong></p>
<p>Frequent blog posting is posting enough to keep your readers interested. Obviously, people will not want to come back to a blog that hasn’t been updated in months.</p>
<p>They want to see consistent posting so that they know coming back to check the blog next week to see if there are more posts won’t be a waste of time.</p>
<p><strong>How many blog entries should I make each week?</strong></p>
<p>This is one of the tougher questions to answer. It really depends on the purpose of your blog. If it’s a personal blog, a weekly or twice weekly update is an excellent idea.</p>
<p>A political/sports/music/religion blog should have 3-4 posts per week. Business blogs should have at least 2 posts, but preferably 4 each week.</p>
<p>The thing to remember is that quality counts. Posting frequently just for the sake of posting frequently tends to result in subpar posts which people won’t care about.</p>
<p>It is important to find a balance—frequent, quality posts that won’t result in burnout on your part. Why create 4 poor quality posts each week when you could post 2 quality posts per week?</p>
<p><strong>How do I create quality postings on a consistent basis?</strong><span id="more-26"></span></p>
<p>It’s all about following a consistent pattern of writing. Maybe you’re not a natural writer and this is difficult. That’s why we’ll give you an outline to help you.</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> Pick a topic that is interesting to you and to your readers. Maybe if your blog is a personal blog, you could write about the latest happenings in Hollywood.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Carefully think about what you’ll write about the topic. It makes it easy to make quality blog postings if you know exactly what you’ll write. Plot out everything about the post before even beginning to write it.</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Before writing your content, pick out some keywords that are relevant to your blog. If you naturally use keywords throughout your post, you will please search engine spiders which will get your blog ranked higher on search engines. Your visitors won’t mind the use of keywords if they are used in a tasteful way.</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Begin writing your post. Don’t limit yourself to a particular amount of words. Just do what’s natural. And if any blog post is hard for you, just take a timeout and relax. You should be able to finish the post a bit later on, after you’ve had some time to think things through, you should be able to finish the post with no problems.</p>
<p><strong>Why is frequent posting important?</strong></p>
<p>Blogs are meant to be outlets for individuals or businesses. They are used to get an opinion out on something and to engage readers. </p>
<p>Readers need to have something that makes them want to keep coming back to a blog. That something is usually quality, frequent posts.</p>
<p>Gaining and maintaining visitors isn’t the only reason to post often in your blog. Catching the eye of a search engine—and achieving a high ranking—is another valid reason for posting frequently.</p>
<p>Most likely, each posting in your blog features some keywords or keyword phrases scattered throughout it. Logic says that the more natural keywords you have on a blog, the better.</p>
<p>Thus, the more posts you make on your blog, the more keywords you have on there. And the more keywords you have, the more likely a search engine bot is to crawl your site.</p>
<p>The more your site is crawled by bots, the more likely it is that you will have a high ranking on a search engine.</p>
<p>To your success,<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
<p>P.S. Frequent blog posting can be easy as long as the person who is posting takes the time to plot out what they’ll write about. So take a few minutes to think about your post and then just do it!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I thought it would be a good idea to start off about blogging, it is another tool to assist you in your list building and Business.</p>
<p><strong>Blogging, what is it?</strong> You’ve heard talk about blogging but are one of those people who don’t quite understand what it is. That’s alright, as we’ll go over what a blog is, the history of blogs, and what they are used for you will start to understand why they are important to your online business.</p>
<p><strong>What is a blog?</strong></p>
<p>A blog is essentially like a journal where people can post their thoughts and have them read and commented on by anyone.</p>
<p><strong>What is a blogger?</strong></p>
<p>A blogger is someone who creates a blog and posts information on it.</p>
<p><strong>Brief history of blogs</strong></p>
<p>Weblogs, simply known as blogs now, haven’t been around for that long. The roots of the blog can be traced back to 1994 when people kept online journals (diaries) in which they wrote about things in their life.</p>
<p>Our current blog has been around for an even shorter period of time. In 1998, Open Diary created a site in which its users could post blogs that had the ability to be commented on by other people.</p>
<p>The popular free blogging site called Blogger was created in 1999 by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. Blogger was later purchased by Google in 2003.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that blog sites have been in existence since 1998, they have only been popular for 5 or 6 years. In 2001, how-to-blog manuals were published and the phenomenon has only taken off since that point.</p>
<p><strong>What are blogs used for?</strong><span id="more-17"></span></p>
<p>In the very beginning, blogs were usually used to talk about a person’s life. People would make blog posts about things happening in their life, thus using the blog as a public journal.</p>
<p>Over time, the use of the blog evolved. People began using the blog to post their opinions about everything from politics to religion to sports to music, among other things.</p>
<p>Nowadays, blogs are even used to make money—one 20-year-old makes $5,000 from Google per month because he has Google Ads on his blog. Businesses have also begun to effectively use blogs for their own purposes.</p>
<p>Why are blogs important to your online business?</p>
<p>Millions of people from all over the world read blogs every day. Those who have a blog are given a lot of exposure—there is the potential for them to have millions of unique readers each day.</p>
<p>Can you imagine having a million people see your business’ name each day? That sounds pretty incredible, doesn’t it? Yet, that’s exactly what could happen if you create and maintain a successful, well-read blog. And that’s actually a pretty easy thing to do.</p>
<p>So how exactly can you use the blog to help your online business? Well, you can use it in a variety of ways.</p>
<p>You could:</p>
<p>• Use the blog to discuss things related to your field of business. For instance, if your business provides web hosting services, you could discuss things related to web hosting, thus showing potential customers how much of a guru you are.<br />
• Let your employers have their own blogs to talk about your services/products. The more active blogs that reference your business, the more exposure you’ll get.<br />
• Use your business blog to keep current customers updated on new services/products available.<br />
• Post news about your business, as well as start rumors about potential happenings in your online business.<br />
• Get feedback from current and potential customers on your products/services. For instance, you could make a post on a new product, giving details about it. Then your existing customers or potential customers could give their opinion on it.<br />
• Promote your online business on your blog by making blog posts with information on what your business offers.<br />
• Install Adsense on your blog and make extra revenue from ads clicked, thereby helping your business to be more profitable.</p>
<p>There are really a lot of possibilities to how you can use a blog to help your business, even more than those listed here. Blogs that are hosted on your site (by using a program like WordPress) can help your site achieve a higher ranking in search engines.</p>
<p> This is because blogs are search engine friendly (Google is known to list them after only a few days, whereas it takes regular web sites weeks to appear on a search engine).</p>
<p>Having a high search engine ranking is crucial to having a successful online business. Blogs help you to increase your ranking, which will increase your business.</p>
<p>This will really help youin setting up your Newsletter. Place a capture page on your Blog and start Building your list. This is becoming a very popular trend. List Building is really the heart and soul of any busniess. If you are not building a list you are throwing money out the window.</p>
<p>In closing you need to realize this ~ The great thing about blogs is that they are easy to use and also very effective. Start a blog today and watch your business’ notoriety grow.</p>
<p>To your success,<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
<p>P.S. Blogs offer your business the chance to be known by millions of people. If you’re looking for a surefire way to gain customers and increase revenue, try business blogging!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I am always looking for ways to make list building easier. Tools, software, and websites are everywhere you look. I like to take my time when choosing the method which will fits my style.</p>
<p>HA! what style <img src='http://www.mattgaines.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I like to use what works and I found a very interesting program I think it will help alot of people especially if you are a Twitter fanatic.</p>
<p>Here is an example of how it works, go to this link <a href="http://mattgaines.com/MagicListBot.php" target="_blank">Click Here Now</a> fill out the Twitter form and walla!</p>
<p>It really is that simple. You build your twitter followers and at the same time start a viral following. Pretty neat!</p>
<p>I hope this will help you!</p>
<p>Have a great day!<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I want to ensure that you get the most of this training, so I will not hype, exaggerate, miss lead you in any way. Trust is everything!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with some requirements:</p>
<p>This Is What Is Required&#8230;<br />
Everything Else Is Secondary&#8230;</p>
<p>by Joe Herlihy<br />
Speical note: Joe is no longer networking, coaching or available in general (He has retired)&#8230; we have his blessings and permission to use and distribute his system, and to quote him from his training calls.</p>
<p>This is the truth.  No sugar-coating, no nonsense and no deception.  And by the way, these basic principles are what it takes to succeed in any business in any industry.</p>
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The Five Simple Steps To Follow For Success<br />
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<p>1.  Only contact and recruit network marketers and others who have been in a home business.<br />
2.  Conduct yourself as a professional and with the utmost integrity at all times.<br />
3.  Join a legitimate home business where you can earn reasonably significant commissions and bonuses from the very beginning.<br />
4.  Do not spend either money, time or energy on anything that does not directly help you to sign up distributors and to make money.<br />
5.  Always require your downline members to do their own work and be completely responsible for themselves and their results&#8230; and always require the same of yourself.</p>
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The Four Things That You Require For Success<br />
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<p>1.  Competent, effective and repetitive training in how to contact, follow up with and recruit the right people the right way.<br />
2.  A steady supply of leads of the right prospects. (Targeted Leads)<br />
3.  The determination to consistently recruit new people at least until you have reached your monthly income goal.<br />
4.  The will to ignore the &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221;, most of which is dead wrong&#8230;. and the will to succeed.</p>
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It Really Is This Simple<br />
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<p>There are no problems in network marketing when you are consistently sponsoring new people and when your downline is consistently sponsoring new people.</p>
<p>When your group is growing, nothing else matters.</p>
<p>And the only way to grow is to consistently bring in new people.  If everyone does this&#8230; depth, income and duplication all take care of themselves.</p>
<p>Everything else that you are told about what to do, what you need, what to pay attention to, etc., etc&#8230; is secondary&#8230; and a great deal of it is unnecessary.</p>
<p>**** Only you can do this for yourself.<br />
**** Only you can want it for yourself.</p>
<p>This is the end of the first lesson. We will go over the General Instructions in the next Post.</p>
<p>Wishing You Great Success<br />
Matt Gaines</p>
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