A Million in the making

5 Tips For Improving Your Email Open Rates

2008-10-16T05:40:00.000-07:00

Email marketing is all about communicating to your subscribers via email. However it is no good writing great emails if your subscribers are not even reading them.

Because of this fact you will need to be sure that you have a high open rate.

You want your subscribers to read your email not just send it to the trash bin. Here are some points to help you to do this:

1. Subject line: it is important to make this good. It needs to make your subscriber curious so that they will want to open your mail. Once they open it you have your chance to give them your message. Have you seen the mail you get from the various lists you belong to? Study them and see what they did to make you open their message. Put the person’s name in the subject line and if you are sending out a newsletter put the newsletter name in the subject line.

2. Quality of the email: remember to make your emails good. Write them well and be sure they do not have any spelling mistakes. Above all make sure that they do not have any hype. This will encourage your subscribers to open mail that comes from you.

3. Personalizing your email: As mentioned remember to put your subscriber’s name in the subject line. This will encourage them to open your email. Once opened you will want them to read it so try to personalize the email too.

4. Spam checking: spam filters can be set off by trigger words. Always check your mail before you send it. Some autoresponders offer this feature. It will save your mail from getting discarded before your subscriber even sees it.

5. Tracking open rates: This is very important. Make sure your autoresponder has this feature. It will only work with HTML emails. This tracking feature will also tell you which links in your email have been clicked. This is also useful as you can use this information to gage the amount of interest your subscribers have for certain products and services.

Each time you send an email you will need to be sure to check the open rates. Use a week’s time frame because sometimes it does take that long for subscribers to get around to reading your emails.

You can do split testing to see which links and subject lines are sparking more interest.

Again a good autoresponder will provide features to allow you to do this. Experiment with subject lines to see which ones get opened the most.

Keep careful records of your results so that you know exactly how to get the maximum open rate. Bear in mind that your open rates will also depend on the quality of your subscribers. The more targeted they are the better your open rates will be.

Studying your open rates is a vital part of your email campaign. With these few points you can easily tweak your emails to get a better open rate and response to your emails.

Like all marketing campaigns you will need to check and track your campaigns carefully for maximum success.

Save Money Online... Use Greasy Palm

2008-10-07T01:42:00.001-07:00

As the recession starts to bite, now, more than any other time, is the time to look to ways that can help you save money without giving up the things that you want.

Greasypalm is a good place to start. Its free to join, and offers you cashback for any purchases you make.

Essential things such as Car Insurance, Home Insurance etc, can create a big amount of cashback for you using GreasyPalm.

I recently switched my car insurance using a leading provider, but because I went through the link on GreasyPalm I got a massive £70 Cash back, thats over a QUARTER of my annual cost.

There are so many opportunities to earn cash back just by changing the way you do things.

Take a look and see what you think... Just for joining you will get £2.50 in your account straight away.

Free Signup to Brandable Ebooks & Software.

2008-09-15T01:40:00.000-07:00

Hi folks,

As I've always promised, I've been on the lookout for more freebies for you, and have come across these two sites.

Bonus Lifetime Gold Access to Resell Rights Mastery ($197 Value)

Access to hundreds of products and software for personal use and resale rights include. Free to join via this link only.

Jeff Dredricks Viral Ebook Explosion

100s of products that are rebrandable so you can distribute to the masses loaded with your own affiliate links.

Well worth checking out....

Whats the one thing that WILL bring traffic...

2008-08-27T03:59:00.001-07:00

Of all the things I've tried to bring traffic to my site, there is one thing that always works and continues to work whatever field you're in.

I've looked at SEO, trading links, leaving comments, forums and discussion groups, social media sites and more, and while they do all bring in traffic in there own right, the one thing that brings in more traffic than anything else is the offer of something for free.

The key is that "the something" you offer has to be of value to others.

Based on this, on my main site, Money Making Guide (http://www.moneymakingguide.co.uk), i decided to build a library of Free money making ebooks.

I scoured Forums, blog posts, and other giveaways to put together as many useful free ebooks as i possibly could and put them all in one place MMG's Massive Ebook Giveaway.

I did think about making this giveaway only available to those that signup, but again this often puts people off, so I decided against it this time.

Once I'd completed the page, I did use some of the techniques above to spread the word so to speak, but the increase in traffic I got was astounding.

Prior to the giveaway I was only picking up a small amount of traffic, and alongside that only small commissions.

My traffic suddenly increased tenfold, and because of this, so did my commisions. I'd been using products such as clickbank for a while with no luck at all, now because of the increased interest in my site, and the inclusion of a few products to purchase among the freebies, my clickbank commissions have started to increase as well.

I never actually thought, that by offering something that you can get in so many places on so many websites would have such an impact on my earnings potential.

Written your own Ebook? Include in it my next Giveaway for FREE !!

Due to the success of this, I am now planning on a 2nd giveaway. I have already put together a list of 50 + ebooks to add to the 50 i already had, as well as items such as free software, free squeeze pages, free PRL articles and so much more.

One thing I am also doing is offering the chance for anybody who has written there own ebook to have it included in the giveaway so they can benefit from the traffic potential that this giveaway will create.

All I'm asking in return is for a link to the giveaway on your site and a blog post about it.

If this interests you, leave a comment below and I'll contact you.

To our success.

Pay Per Click Advertising - The full Story

2008-08-26T05:25:00.000-07:00

Over the next few days I'm going to look at all the aspects of Pay Per Click Advertising.

This is going to be broken down into the following sections.

PPC Advertising & Solutions
PPC Affiliate Programs
PPC & Internet Marketing
PPC & SEO
PPC Appraisal
PPC Bid Management
PPC Campaign Management
PPC Marketing
PPC Search Engine Advertising

During the course of these articles I will also try and find as many free PPC offers as possible for you.

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PPC Advertising & Solutions

Engaging in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has its own benefits and drawbacks. But what exactly is PPC advertising and what it can do to your business?

There is a fast growing approach that businesses can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through Internet Marketing.

One tool that is causing internet marketing popularity is PPC advertising. This is a technique used in search engine marketing that requires one to pay a fee every time someone clicks an ad on your website. Usually this placement is done through a bidding process. If you are a top bidder for your keywords/phrases, you are sure to be on the number one spot on all search engines. Just be sure of the effectiveness of your ad copy to get the most number of clicks you need for your business.

Here are the benefits of PPC advertising are:

1. You need not be a genius in computer and technology to be able to run this ad campaign.
2. Immediate results are seen after a few days.
3. No need to make a website conform to the SEO rules.
4. Nothing to lose even if you do not top the pages of different search engines. You can still always choose PPC advertising.
5. You can make use any search engine available.
6. You can type in any keyword you like.

Cons of PPC advertising includes:

1. Fixed payments every month to the search engine you choose.
2. Pay for each click received by your website. At times, visitors are just competitors or people playing pranks on search engines. This hassle wastes money you put in to this advertising.
3. Inability to pay for the fees next month would mean removal of your website on the paid listings.
4. This advertising can only be used temporarily because it is difficult to handle in the long run.
5. Pay-per-click pricing can be costly for long periods of time, therefore, this should be stopped after an ad campaign.

But how exactly PPC advertising can increase traffic, leads and sales?

PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC. All visitors of your website are already considered as a qualified consumer or buyer of your product. PPC advertising leads your customers to you for a lesser cost.

INSTANT EXPOSURE, IMMEDIATE PROFITS. PPC search engines enable you to get your desired results fast. They will have your website live within just a few hours which means immediate increase in sale.

CONSISTENT TOP LISTINGS. This is to get your website on top of the sponsored search results for free. You just have to choose the keywords related to your site and business and place them within your web pages. After this, you are done.

PPC advertising enables advertisers to control their advertising campaigns. Advertisers have effectively targeted their audience and set their own price per click. PPC advertising networks provide the platform to identify the desired audience by geographic setting, topic and industry. These networks have a list of websites of the publishers where the ads will be placed.

Tools are provided by the networks to check how the pay per click limit is working for a certain advertiser. If its still competitive, would it be even listed among the paid search lists or does it generate sales? Of course, if the advertiser made the highest bid, the better chances the ad will be seen in the search engine. These networks too provide protection for the advertisers against click fraud. This advertising set-up allows advertisers to set a daily budget for his ads, thus, less spending for unnecessary clicks. Advertiser will never go over his budget.

In PPC advertising, what are important are the keywords and phrases. You have to select at least ten "very specific" keywords that would give you the best traffic in the search. Then, write the ad creatively but straightforward. Tell the truth about your product or service and do not lie. Good thing if your product or service will not disappoint those that are relying on your ad's promise - but what if it did otherwise? Important too is the clarity of the ad. Do not use very vague languages. Include important details like the price.

You should also remember to budget your bids. Do not go overbidding because you will only lose your money and do not go so low that your ads will never get the chance to show up. Check your profit against your spending. If you see no progress then most likely you have to drop your ad campaign.

More and more advertisers have been using PPC advertising and it will continue to grow faster than any online advertising techniques. From revenues of $2.6 billion in 2004 to $5.5 billion in 2009, cost per click will dramatically go up as well from $0.29 to $0.36.

PPC advertising is new in online marketing and it is going to continue in the years to come. For advertisers, this means increase revenues with fewer advertising expenses, savings, more sales, good return of investment (ROI) and effective ad campaigns in the days to come.

Money Making Guides AMAZING FREE Ebook GIVEAWAY

2008-08-09T12:12:00.000-07:00

I found this website the other day offering loads of free money making ebooks, no signup required, all thats requested is that the page gets Dugg, Stumbled etc to help keep it free

Hope its useful for you..

So here it is... ENJOY !!

Money Making Guides AMAZING FREE Ebook GIVEAWAY

Over 50 ebooks available for FREE Download right now, No signups, nothing, just download and use however you see fit. They all come with MASTER GIVEAWAY RIGHTS, so you can sell them, give them away, put them in a folder and do nothing with them its completely up you.

If you're into making money online though, theres definitely something here for you.

Keyword Density

2008-07-29T01:10:00.000-07:00

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.

If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site.

Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.

Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

The accepted standard for a keyword density is between 3% and 5%, to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it.

Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site. It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.

Simple steps to check the density:

Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.
Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page.
Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.
When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.
Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.

Lightspeed, Toluna, Ciao... Top UK Survey Sites & Top US Survey Sites

2008-07-23T14:26:00.000-07:00

Making Money from Paid Surveys, can it be actually done?? Well yes, of course it can, the hard part is finding the sites/companies that offer legit, no fees to signup surveys.

Any site that does require you to "Pay to Join" is basically trying to rip you off. The reason for this is that the companies that produce the surveys are doing to get consumer opinion on an upcoming or recently produced product or service. Their not going to charge you for your opinion, they'll pay you for it, and in some instances they'll pay quite well.

To make any decent amount of money from Paid Surveys, the key is too join as many as possible, by doing this you will guarantee a regular and steady supply of surveys across the calender month.

Some Survey companies will only send a small amount of Surveys per month others will send a large amount, the key is to make sure you always have the option of participating when you want to.

I'm currently signed up to 10 survey companies and receive between 200 and 300 surveys per month.

If, for example, each survey pays £1 per survey then thats upto £300's per month. In reality you can earn alot more as the surveys tend to be worth more than a £1 each, the most I've been paid is $25 (about £12) for a 35 minute survey.

My list of Top Survey sites for you to join to start you online journey

Lightspeed Survey Panel - (UK)
Ciao-Surveys - (UK)
Toluna Test & Vote -(UK, Germany, Greece)
American Consumer Opinion Panel (ACOP) - (All Countries)
Survey Savvy - (All Countries)
Neilson Net Ratings - (UK & US)
Opinionistic - (UK)
IPSOS - (UK)
NetPanel - (US)
Winning Surveys - (US)

Sign up and see how much you can earn, there is a chance to start with you will get frustrated if you don't qualify for surveys, but stick with it and you will get the rewards..

Let me know your experiences by leaving a comment.

For more details on Surveys in your region please check out these pages

www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_paid_online_surveys_uk.htm

www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_paid_online_surveys_us.htm

www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_paid_online_surveys_int.htm

TechnoFav Train

2008-07-16T06:59:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! In the interests of friendship and promoting our blogs, the purpose of this tag train is to add all the blogs on this list to your Technorati favorites list. In return, everyone else will add you to their Technorati favorites list. Technorati Profile

Instructions

Go to http://technorati.com/faves/yourblogurl (replace yourblogurl with your Technorati id.)

Add each and every blog URL on this list as a favorite. Don't worry about Tags as it would take too much time. Click "Add".

Then copy everything between and including Start copy and End copy.

Paste it into a new blog post in "Compose" mode so all the links are preserved.

Add your blog's URL to the end of the list. If you intend to submit multiple blogs then put this list on all your blogs please to be fair to everyone else.

Post everything using the title "TechnoFav Train"

Next contact 5 friends who aren't on the list and get them to join. The more the better. I am aiming at 1,000 group members, but I'm confident we can find more than that. My secret goal is 5,000 group members and those of you who know me are aware of my promotional persistence. Can you imagine what that will do to all our

Technorati rankings?

Leave the URL of your post here as a comment and your blog will be updated on the masterlist.

Once a week, return to the masterlist and copy it over the list on your blog post.

Add the new blog URLs to your favorites. This last step is important because if you don't add new blogs to your favorites list, then those new blogs will end up removing you from their favorites list and then nobody wins.

Finally, increased Technorati ranking to all!

Masterlist

http://bigmoneylist.blogspot.com/

http://projectheavytraffic.blogspot.com/

http://silentrecollections.blogspot.com/

http://envisioned-reality.blogspot.com/

http://bloggeraddicter.blogspot.com/

http://it-informer.blogspot.com/

http://freeenglishresources.blogspot.com/

http://leoxa.com/englishforeveryone/

http://leoxa.com/everythingyouneed/

http://1gamestation.blogspot.com/

http://boxofficemovietrailer.blogspot.com/

http://the-voice-of-the-spirit.blogspot.com/

http://mikhaelwong2.blogspot.com/

http://bestcuisines.blogspot.com/

http://tennis-worldnews.blogspot.com/

http://mensfitnesszone.blogspot.com/

http://luxuriousretreats.blogspot.com/

http://leoxa.com/internetmarketingresources/

http://gadgetfestival.blogspot.com/

http://dji-adsense.blogspot.com/

http://dji-spam-blocking.blogspot.com/

http://harley-davidson-apparel.blogspot.com/

http://masteringmenjaro.blogspot.com/

http://www.computersolution.co.cc/

http://unleashgames.blogspot.com/

http://www.betterthanezrah.org/

http://www.betterthanezrah.com/

http://pierrezrah.blogspot.com/

http://www.mariuca.blogspot.com/

http://gunnerpress.frih.net/

http://danzyworld.blogspot.com/

http://kookaboo.blogspot.com/

http://solo-flight.blogspot.com/

http://iam-maimai.blogspot.com/

http://blacknickel.blogspot.com/

http://www.neuropatch.com/

http://expressforfree.blogspot.com/

http://dumbiryani.blogspot.com/

http://danyworld.blogspot.com/

http://cneil.blogspot.com/

http://garrabex.blogspot.com/

http://indiaforumstv.blogspot.com/

http://djisamsoe.qassia.com/

http://viralvideohits.blogspot.com/

http://binaraga101.blogspot.com

http://tingkahlakuselebriti.blogspot.com/

http://panduankesehatan.blogspot.com/

http://protectioninthefuture.blogspot.com/

http://binaraga101.blogspot.com

http://onlineincomemaker.blogspot.com

http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com

http://vicy-lifeisdifficult.blogspot.com/

http://www.livetv.theredirection.com/

Big thanks to Michael Wong from http://bigmoneylist.blogspot.com/ for starting this

Blogging for Profit and the planning thats required...

2008-07-15T02:02:00.000-07:00

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology.

However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons.

Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging.

The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.

To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you.

There are of course other ways to get paid to blog. PayPerPost and Social Spark both offer communities that offer small payments for blog posts.

Rather than diving in and taking every opportunity going in order to make a quick buck, you should take your time and only select the opportunities that are relevant to your blogs topics.

However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isn't easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention.

You need to be able to market your blog effectively.

Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project.

To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like technorati, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis.

However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site.

To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic.

A good article on this process can be read here

Traffic Building Techniques & Tracking there Success

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight.

Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months before you are able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period.

To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

Sometimes offering the reader something will draw them to your site, if its something useful to them, then the word may spread. For example see below....

MMG's Free ebook Giveway - $1000's of ebooks - FREE Download !!

Building your own Website - Part 1 - A Guide to Web Hosting.

2008-06-30T07:31:00.001-07:00

....and Web Hosting PackagesA look at Web Hosts and web hosting packages as a guide to what you need to set up your new website.

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FREE Ebook - Easy Clickbank Cash by Dylan Loh - Master Givea

2008-06-25T03:43:00.001-07:00

Discover how to target visitors into Purchasing Product using the headlines that you rightLearn how to keep those visitors coming back for more...Dylan Loh's reveals all in this amazing FREE ebook.

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The 3 Things To Avoid When Emailing Your List

2008-06-24T06:50:00.000-07:00

When you decide to have an opt-in list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional newsletters or catalogs. There are many things to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can make people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to get off from your list.

Aside from that, you also want to avoid any problems with the law and your internet service provider or ISP. There are now many laws and rules that are applied to help protect the privacy of the internet users from spamming and unwanted mails. With the popularity of the electronic mail as a medium for marketing because of the low cost, many company’s have seized the opportunity and have flooded many people’s e-mail accounts with promotional mail.

But, with an opt-in list, you avoid this annoyance because people subscribe to the list; they want to receive the newsletters and promotional materials. They have consented to being on the list by subscribing themselves, just don’t forget to put an unsubscribe feature everytime in your opt-in list so that you avoid any confusion. There may be times when an email account was provided when the real owner didn’t want to subscribe.

It is essential that you keep your list clean and manageable. Arrange it by using the many tools and technologies available for your opt-in list. Do not worry; your investment in this marketing strategy is well worth it with all the coverage you will get which will likely be converted into sales then to profit.

Keep yourself and your business out of trouble and potential run-ins with the law and the internet service providers. Keep your operation legit and clean. Your reputation as a legitimate businessman and a legitimate site depends on your being a straight and true marketing strategist. As a tip, here are three things to avoid when emailing your list.

1) Take notice of your unsuccessful sends. These are the e-mails that bounce. Bounced emails, also known as undeliverable messages, are those messages that, for whatever reason, were not successfully received by the intended recipient.

There are bounces that happen or occur because the server was busy at that time but can still be delivered in another time. There are also bounces because the inbox of the recipient is full at that time. There are those bounce messages that are simply undeliverable ever. The reason for this is that it may be an invalid email address, a misspelled email address, or an email address that was abandoned and erased already.

Manage your list by putting markings on those that bounce. Erase an email account from your list so that you have an accurate statistics and records as to how many are actually receiving your mail. You may also want to check the spellings of your email addresses in your list. One common mistake is when an N instead of an M is placed in the .com area.

2) Always provide an unsubscribe feature in your site and an unsubscribe link in your mails. When someone in your list files a request to be unsubscribed, always take that request seriously. If you don’t take them off your list and keep sending them your e-mails, you are now sending them spam mail.

When you are reported as a spammer, you and your business can get into a lot of trouble. You can be reported to the authorities and maybe blacklisted by many internet service providers. You will lose a lot of subscribers this way and many more in potential subscribers.

3) Do not provide pornographic or shocking and disturbing content in your newsletters. It is hard to decipher the age of the recipient and many complaints may stem from these. Controversial issues also are to be avoided to not be branded by your subscribers. Stick to the nature of your site and business.

Always remember these tips in this article so that you can have a healthy relationship with your subscribers as well as be kept within the boundaries of what is allowed in sending mails to an opt-in list.

Traffic building techniques and tracking their success

2008-06-23T07:18:00.001-07:00

Using Google Analytics to track how successful your traffic generation tools and techniques are

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Surveys v's Referrals

2008-06-22T03:46:00.000-07:00

One of the sections of my main site, www.moneymakingguide.co.uk, focuses on offering Paid Online Surveys to people looking for make money online.

Paid Surveys are usually the first place people look when it comes to making an extra income online, especially if they don't know to much about the internet and all the other opportunities.

One of the main problems with providing a list of Survey Companies, is that for every genuine offer of a "Free to Join" Survey Company, there are about 10 Scam sites asking for money up Front.

To try and prove a point, and to show that decent earnings can be made, I signed up to the following Survey Companies that are advertised on my page.

Lightspeed.
Ciao.
Toluna.
Survey Savvy.
Opinionistic.
A.C.O.P.
Neilsen / NetRatings.
My Offers.

My aim over a 1 month period is to compare total earnings from completing surveys to total earnings reffering potential users to them.

Each week I will provide and update to how much I've earned and where I've earned it from.

Hopefully this will convince people that not all Surveys sites are scams and real money can actually be made from them.

I will rate each site as I go and on completion of the month provide a final league table showing amount earned, surveys completed, ave earnings per survey.

I will also provide details of the number of visitors to my Surveys Section of my website Money Making Guide. How many conversions I get and where the traffic is coming from.

Using Google Adwords To Drive Laser Targeted Traffic

2008-06-19T04:06:00.000-07:00

The biggest well known secret in generating wealth in the internet based business or e-commerce is Traffic. Everybody knows it; every site wants it and every site needs it. The point of websites is to be visited and viewed. Many elaborate designs, money and countless hours of developing a site to make them beautiful and attractive are utilized. Without traffic, it is for nothing.

With traffic comes a potential customer which basically means sales which in turn means profit. While many sites have collapsed in the past with the downturn of many internet based business, many smaller sites have generated good money by concentrating on a certain niche and some subniches.

This is a reason why e-commerce site laser target certain groups of people and drive them to their site to showcase their sites and products. Precision marketing is essential so that you could count on all the traffic on your site as potential customers.

Using Money to Make Money

It’s a common business notion that if you want to make money, you have to spend money. One good way of spending money for business gain is through advertising. Advertising brings in the people because through advertising, they know that there is such a company or product in existence. With the right type of advertising, you can see the spurt of traffic growth to your site. With a high volume of traffic, even if only a small portion or percentage turns out to be buying customers it is still a good average of profit generating income.

Right now, there is no other advertising scheme that would be worth every cent than using Google’s Adwords. The surge in popularity of Google’s Adwords is very evident as you can see so many sites sporting this ad scheme.

In using Google's Adwords, you pay a certain fee depending on the number of keywords your ad is keyword sensitive to. Each time a person does a search in Google, the keyword or keywords use generate ads in the side of Google which are generated by the keywords they have assigned for their ads.

This method laser targets the traffic a site wants for their site. This also ensures that you are readily visible in the first page of a search result. Paying Google for this ad scheme ensures that your target group of people sees your ads. You drive your laser targeted traffic to your site which provides for their needs and wants. You can also be sure that you can meet their demands and needs.

Aside from Google, you can also be featured in their other search networks, these includes sites like, AskJeeves, AOL Search and Netscape. These sites also show Adwords ads that react to searches done by visitors. There are also content networks, non-search engine sites that feature Google Adwords, which will also carry your ads. But this is subjected to the niche the site features. Your chosen keywords will determine which content network shall feature your ad. The frequency of your ad shall also be determined by your allowed budget.

Laser Targeting your Traffic

To get a good number or estimate of the traffic to buying customer ratio it is good to laser target your traffic. Knowing that your traffic are all potential customers and are interested in your products and company provides you with a more accurate statistics. This will show you how effective your utilizing of Google Adwords is.

Drive laser targeted traffic to your site by using keywords or keyword phrases for your Goggle Adwords that pertains to your company and to your products. There are many online internet tools that can help you in choosing keywords and keyword phrases that are currently in demand that could help drive laser targeted traffic to your site.

With your Google Adwords ad, you are ensured that every click to your ad is a potential customer that is precisely looking pr interested in what you have to offer. Make sure that your Google Adwords ad has the right keywords so that you can drive you're laser targeted traffic to your site.

Using Google Adwords to help boost the drive to increase laser targeted traffic will prove to be very beneficial as many other companies can attest to. The benefits are high with the cost relatively justifiable.

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If its Adwords Promotional Coupons that your after the best way to pick them up is to search for hosting packages that offer them.

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Google Adsense: Don’ts for Using the Google Adsense Program

2008-06-17T07:48:00.001-07:00

Google Adsense is a fun and easy way to make extra money. It’s important to follow the rules though as Google is serious about the integrity of this program. Not following the rules could result in your Google Adsense account being terminated. Here are a few Don’ts for using the program:

DON’T

Never, ever, ever click on your own ads. Google Adsense makes it very clear this won’t be tolerated.

Don’t ask your friends and family to click on your ads. Rather, earn money by referring them to the Google Adsense program.

Don’t participate in the Google Adsense program strictly for the money. This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It will take time and hard work to make a profit.

Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything the first day. Although the Google Adsense program is extremely user-friendly, it may take a little time to integrate all the facets of the program. Be patient and above all, have fun!

Hopefully, these helpful tips will ease you into using the program and help you avoid mistakes that could possibly cost you a lot of time or money.

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Google Adsense: Dos for Using the Google Adsense Program

2008-06-17T07:35:00.000-07:00

Google Adsense is a fun and easy way to make extra money. It’s important to follow the rules though as Google is serious about the integrity of this program. Not following the rules could result in your Google Adsense account being terminated. Here are a few Dos for using the program:

DO

Read the Terms and Conditions and Program Policies thoroughly.

Read everything you can about Google Adsense. Learn from others’ experiences and mistakes.

Learn how to optimize your site for the most enjoyable and profitable Google Adsense experience. Realize it does take some time and hard work. That’s why it’s so important that you write about something you care about. Hard work is even harder if you don’t like what you’re doing.

Visit other sites that are benefiting from Google Adsense. Click on the ads only if you are truly interested in the product or service being advertised. Read other people’s blogs and comment on them. Only offer a comment though if it is truly sincere.

Hopefully, these helpful tips will ease you into using the program and help you avoid mistakes that could possibly cost you a lot of time or money.

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Social Bookmarking Traffic Generation

2008-06-16T02:12:00.000-07:00

Continuing with the majot hype about getting massive traffic from Web 2.0 sites like Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious and more. Here's a way you can instantly drive 1000's of visitors to your site.

A bit of work is required at first but once its done you wont need to do it again and will forever benefit.

First of all go to Social Marker, there is a list of about 47 different social bookmarking sites. Down the right hand side, next to the ticks, click on the logo and register with each and every one. If you are already a member of some of these then there is no need to re-register.

This will probably take you about an hour to do.

Once you've registered to them all go back into each site and do a search on members who have the same niche interests as yourself and make friends with them. You should end up with anywhere between 10 and 200 friends for each of the sites you've registered with.

After you've added as many friends as you can, go back to Social Marker

Enter the title of your article / web page, the link (url) and any associated text and tags, click submit in the top right hand corner.

Social Marker will now submit your article / web page to each of the sites. Not only will it show up in your account but in all your new friends accounts that you have connected with, giving you massive exposure.

If you have a tracking mechanism on your site, such as Google Analytics, then you will be able to tell which Social site is pulling in the most visitors for you, how many stay and have a look around and most importantly what % end up as a conversion or registering to your blog.

By providing continued good quality content, chances are you could really start benefiting from Social bookmarking sites.

Add the following bookmarking tool to your site to allow others to easily submission to all sites by others too.

By increasing the amount of people that you have in your community on these sites, you will also increase the amount of views each of your articles gets, and therefore increase the amount of conversions, Sales, etc that you get from your website.

If you want to join my communities my links for each of the sites are listed below.

Once you've joined them, leave a comment with your ID's and I'll add myself to your community too.

http://mmg08.stumbleupon.com/
http://digg.com/users/MMG08
http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/setveh75
http://del.icio.us/network/mmg08
http://twitter.com/MMG2008

Remember, the bigger your community, the more chance of success you'll have.

Earn Money Testing Products at your own home

2008-05-30T05:05:00.000-07:00

You can get Products sent out to you to Test at home, all you have to do is give your honest opinion in your feedback and you get paid for it.

Sometimes you get to keep the products as well.

All you have to do is become a member and its FREE to join

MITM Recommends Test & Vote

Well worth checking out.

Free Money Making Ebook !!

2008-05-30T04:58:00.000-07:00

Another FREE Ebook for you.

Derek Gehl has opened up his vault and decided to allow his subscribers to give away this fantastic ebook and in doing so is opening the door to all his secrets to making money online

6 Steps to Guaranteed Internet Success

With this ebook

You'll discover how to...

>> Earn healthy commissions by recommending other peoples' products, even if you've never sold a thing in your life.

>> Start earning money immediately, by quickly and easily acquiring the rights to sell other people's products

>> Take home hefty profits selling name-brand products, while someone else does the hard work of storing and shipping them for you.

These strategies will work for ANYONE, no matter *what* stage you're at with your Internet business.

Are you just getting started? Learn how to get a profitable website up and running -- often within 24 hours -- even if you have NO idea what to sell.

Already making money online? Discover how to add additional streams of income to your growing business, to achieve your goal of financial freedom even faster!

6 Steps to Guaranteed Internet Success

Hopefully you'll find this ebook as useful as I have.

Google Adwords Promotional Codes

2008-05-30T04:49:00.000-07:00

A lot of people search online for Free Google Adwords promotional codes. Why?

Because everyone is looking for any type of discount to get them starting in the advertising campaign and to help keep down there advertising costs.

There are many other PPC companies out there, such as Bidvertiser (see previous post), that offer Free clicks, so why do most people always seem to revert back to Google?

Firstly, its simply because they do seem to be the best, you can use Google Adwords and Google Adsense together, Driving traffic to your site and earning from clicks on the Google adsense ads you display on your page.

Google has become the pre eminent online advertising source for many people so it's no wonder so many people are looking for Google Adwords promotional codes.

The amount of money you pay to advertise online can make or break your business. Far too many people are losing the battle but it doesn't have to be that way.

There are many ways that you can get Free Google Adwords Credits, the first and most common way is through a hosting company. Most Hosting companies offer varying amounts of Free Credits when you sign up to them. For a full list (click here). A couple that offer $50 of Credits to both Google and Yahoo are:

MITM Recommends: Host Monster

MITM Recommends Blue Host

If you already have a website but don't yet have a Google Adwords account then by searching for "Free PPC Coupons". The best site I've found so far is Adgridwork you are required to make a $5 deposit but get $50 in return.

If anyone knows of any other sites like this, or you are running one yourself, please post it below.

There are other ways to get reduce your Adwords cost down to nothing, if you are interested in this, then please Adword Profits.

Its not a scam, and its not illegal, it just involves some very clever thinking and using the Adwords and Adsense part of Google against each other by converting lost cost click from your Adwords account, to high paying clicks in your Adsense account.

I'll be honest with you, the people that learn how to do this quickly are going to make a fortune, those that don't will be left behind. Which group do you want to be in?

If you really want some Google Adwords promotional codes, they are not too hard to find. But you're trading pennies for a lot of dollars if that's where you stop.

If Adwords profits is something that takes your fancy then send me a copy of your proof of purchase and in return I will give you one years FREE access to "Google Adsense Affiliate".

This normal costs $147 a year and it can be yours for free.

Ebay - Ebook Campaign

2007-11-05T10:34:00.001-08:00

The more I search the internet looking for money making opportunities and ideas the more ebay and ebooks keeps popping up.

Now, I'm not stupid and I realise that big money will not be made by selling ebooks on ebay, infact, if anything it will be very little.

What intrigues me more is the possibilty of follow up sales.

The package (I've only got 1 at the moment) Consists of 10 ebooks for £1.50 with a bonus 3 Free ebooks.

The ebooks I currently have in my package are as follows:

Adsense Revenue Exposed
Affiliate Success
How to make money using Paid Online Surveys
Internet Marketing for Beginners
90 day Ebay Powerseller challenge
Making Money with Autoresponders
Making Money Today, Tomorrow, Forever
Internet Money Secrets
Search Engine Optimisation Made Easy
(I need one more, so if you have any for me, please let me know where I can download it)

Bonus: (Free)
Web 2.olgoy
Keyword Research Tools
Internet Business Survival Guide

I've read a couple of ebooks on Ebay Marketing and learning from this I'm hoping that this package will be enough to entice people in.

On this particular occasion its not really the money that I'm interested in, although anything extra is a nice bonus, its the opportunity to build my list of email addresses.

Of all the ebooks I've read on all the different internet marketing strategies & affiliate marketing the same things keep reappearing. Quality and original content (of course), SEO, and building a good list for repeat business and selling.

Once I've got together my package(s) of ebooks I'll follow the guidelines around selling on Ebay and see how I do.

If anyone has any hints or tips, I'd be more than grateful to hear what you have to say.

Fingers crossed eh.

Diary of an Investor

2007-11-04T11:13:00.000-08:00

This is Diary of an Investor from a friend of mine,

I started investing about 20 years ago when the BT and British Gas flotations happened although I quickly sold the shares for the cash.

My first real investment was Blacks Leisure when they were down and almost out, I had spotted them at 3p but delayed buying until 11p.

I held them a few years watching them go up and then down again and finally up where I sold at a reasonable profit.

At this time my portfolio value was little more than a couple of thousand pounds. I had a success with ASDA which was eventually taken over by Wal-Mart for 100% profit and I put the money, on a recommendation from a colleague, into ARM Holdings at around £10.

I kept them for about 6 months and sold them for over £32, so now I was hooked.

I have invested fairly regularly since my success with ARM and had some successes and some disasters, fortunately the successes are winning.

I currently hold 7 stocks as I am trying to have fewer stocks to manage but with greater values. Over time I have held over 40 different stocks.

Stocks I hold are:

Caledon Resources : An ex gold mining company which has now bought the Cook Mine from Xstrata in Australia and is now a coal producer. AIM held for 3 ½ years

Kenmare Resources: Based in Mozambique, after many years is now a producer of ilmenite rutile and zircon. Held for 2 years

Petrel Resources: An oil play in Iraq and Jordan. AIM Held just under 2 years

Nighthawk Energy: Oil and Gas company in USA. AIM. Held 3 months

Deltex Medical: Producer of monitors and probes assisting in fluid levels during operations. AIM. Held 3 years

Lloyds Bank: FTSE100 bank. Held 2 years

Experian: Credit checking company FTSE100. Held 6 months

Currently all are in profit apart from Experian which has been hit by the sub-prime woes in America. For similar reasons Lloyds is well off its highs although it is also held for its dividend yield of over 6.5%.

Nighthawk is my newest stock having held for only 3 months and showing a 22% profit already, although it is quite volatile and news driven as are all the resource stocks.

I have held Caledon for the longest period and seen it change from a risky gold explorer in China to a much less risky coal producer in Australia

Deltex is probably a longer play as it battles to get the NHS to order their product. The potential though is very good.

Petrel is awaiting the passing of the Hydrocarbon (Oil) law in Iraq which should lead to the awarding of contracts.

Current price of my stocks against buying price

PORTFOLIO	Buying price (average)	02/11/2007	P/L
CALEDON	26.27	43.00	63.68%
DELTEX MEDICAL	21.39	22.50	5.19%
PETREL RESOURCES	61.14	138.00	125.71%
NIGHTHAWK ENERGY	43.52	53.00	21.78%
LLOYDS TSB	486.68	517.00	6.23%
EXPERIAN	567.13	483.75	-14.70%
KENMARE	39.05	59.25	51.7

None of the above is to be considered advice to buy any of these stocks and any comments made are my personal opinion unless referenced

Million Dollar Wiki

2007-09-24T15:14:00.000-07:00

All you can say about this is hats off to the guy, its another example of how a simple idea can really just go bang and start earning fantastic amounts of money.

For those of you not familiar with this, basically million dollar wiki is an idea based upon the wikopedia site, however this time the pages (words or phrases) are being sold to individual owners to update with the information they want to show, rather than being updated by the general public.

Pages are being sold for $100 a time and are selling fast. Even the big time dot com moguls such as John Chow are getting involved and have purchased pages. Pages are bought for a "life time" although that life time is currently only 15 years.

Owners of there pages can add whatever content they like and use them how they like, and I'm sure with the media coverage this site is getting, it won't be long before they make there money back. In just 10 days John Chow reported that he already more than made his money back.

You might wonder, why buy a page on the million dollar wiki when you could just add a page to your own site called that, well the reason is traffic, Million dollar wiki is just starting to take off an receive a good steady rate of traffic, the more the word spreads about this the more traffic it will get.

The best way to make money from it ??? Afililate ads...

Super Affiliate Handbook Read here how the best way to make money as an affiliate.

I'll keep my eye on Million Dollar Wiki and keep you updated on its progress.

Free $20 Bidvertiser Coupon.

2007-09-22T07:56:00.000-07:00

Test out Bidvertiser for Free

If you are a new advertiser, Bidvertiser will give you $20 to test our there service. All you need to do is sign up for an account and they will put $20 in it for you.

When you sign up for an advertiser account it also signs you up as a publisher at the same time, so you can display there ads on your site also, and its all done through one account, which has advantages over Google where you have to switch between Adsense and Adwords.

Place your ad on thousands of sites with BidVertiser. Get $20 in FREE clicks.

Its FREE, so give it a go and see what you think.

Posted: September 22, 2007

The beginining....

2007-07-16T04:19:00.000-07:00

Welcome to a Million in the Making, I'm sure there are thousands of you like me out there that are sick and tired of reading about and hearing about all these get rich quick scheme's and how to make $30,000+ a month over the internet. The trouble is, deep down you just don't believe them.

The one thing that there isn't on the net, the forums and anywhere else, is a step by step FREE guide to getting started. All you here is get Content Quality and the traffic will come, get the traffic and the money will come. But how do you go about getting the Content Quality when you're only just starting out ???

I guess thats the million dollar question then, how do you get the content you need ??

I'm going to spend alot of my free time exploring all the possible ways and means that this can happen, hopefully, as my experience grows, so will my bank account.

I'm open to suggestions of where to start though....