Back in May in Australia 2 prominent mainstream TV programs showcased that it was dead easy to make money on the Internet using the Easiest Home Business Ever (EHBE).
So keen to test it I signed up.
EHBE is a method of advertising that costs you loads of time and money. Firstly you have to pay a ridiculous fee monthly to get videos of information that is freely available on the internet or if you want the personal touch from any reputable business mentor.
Secondly, you have to give away something to get potential hits or sales to a product or service. They recommend you resell as an affiliate - duh, you don't need to pay $60 a month to learn how to do that as the affiliate companies supply all that information to you.
Their sales speil shows a young girl who says she has made $100 a day using their system???? Maybe, but that does not mean every Joe Blow will be able to do so - in fact she would be in the minority and I bet if you ask her how things are going since Freagle/EBHE has done a huge promo and had more advertising competitors sign up her sales would have dropped considerably and here is why.....
The majority of people who would have signed up would have signed up to get free stuff via Freagle. This means all these people what is free stuff. They don't what to buy a thing, zip, zilch from you or anybody else. All they do is hit your website to answer questions and then they often don't do that and just guess in the hope of getting points and by-pass our website totally.
That is how it works, these people wanting the freebies answer questionaires that require them to visit the advertisers website. This is where it begins and ends. They don't come back to buy from you they just want the points so they can get a freebie.
Now I don't have a problem with people wanting something for free. But, I have a problem with the people at Freagle leading the advertisers on saying they will get more advertising and more clients through this method.
The biggest flaw with the system is there is no back-linking to your business through the search engines as an advertiser. You rely wholly and solely on Freagle for your advertising. On the internet such a closed shop is bad economics when advertising and marketing.
Essentially The Easiest Home Business Ever (Freagle) is a total rip off for businesses - it makes poor marketing sense on the internet when there are so many options that are free and easy to use. Also it is well over priced.
You get stung in 2 ways, a monthly fee and the cost of your freebies. So, if you see and advertisement for The Easiest Home Business Ever (Freagle) - don't join as an advertiser. If you have loads of time to waste filling in questionnaires in the hope of getting a freebie just join to do that and go for the freebies.
1. Use keywords in HTML title tags. Probably the most significant factor for a site regardless of the competitive landscape, the title tag must be consistent with content in the page for best results. The more keywords in your title, the less effective this factor, be judicious.
2. Create quality anchor text for inbound links. At one time, according to some SEO professionals, quality anchor text was an essential component of a well-ranked site. After all, this is the text the user opted to see by clicking a link on another site. Most SEOs still contend that quality anchor text is a highly significant, positive ranking factor. If not for spiders, for visitors clicking in as well. Obviously the text should be relevant to the destination page for best results; that’s where your on page optimization comes in to play.
3. Increase link popularity. Link popularity takes into account the number of inbound links present. Link authority has less relevance, though it is still a factor depending on the competitive landscape. Link popularity is based on a global count of links from all sites. However, quality links are still critical to creating site authority; authority means ranking for more phrases than you intentionally target.
4. Hang in there. The age of a site is an important positive weighting factor according to many SEO professionals. It’s certainly a reasonable assumption. Failed sites are dropped as soon as the hosting subscription ends. If a site has been around for 10 years, the owners must be dong something right, especially if link popularity is steady developed over the years. Unfortunately for site owners, there’s no way to speed up the aging process – except hanging in there.
5. Increase the popularity of internal links. These links direct visitors to helpful, related content. They’re important in providing visitors with a positive on-site experience. Search engines view on-site link popularity as a sign that visitors like what they see and want to learn more.
7. Build deep links. Deep links are relevant to the topicality of the target page or keyword. The relevance of these inbound links matters to a site’s Google ranking. However, please note point 3. The sheer number of inbound links is a factor as well. Quality deep links carry more weight and add credibility to a site.
8. Connect with sites selling to the same demographic. Create a number of links with sites within your topical community. This helps visitors further their searches – something Google likes very much.
9. Keep old links. Google looks for web stability. The older the link, the more trust it has. It indicates a happy relationship with the site owner linking in who recognizes the value of sending visitors off-site. Google watchers suggest a three to four month time window for spiders to determine that this is a well-established, long-term link that has value to visitors of both sites.
10. Use keywords in body text. Make sure that keywords receive prominent display in headlines, headers, sub-heads. It’s important that the keywords used in HTML text on page match with keywords used in the site’s meta data and title tags.
Not Recommended
1. Don’t use session IDs in URLs. It sounds like a good idea on the surface, an easy way to track customer information, but here’s the problem. Each time a spider crawls the site, a new URL with session ID is created. The spider now has two, or three or more URLs all showing duplicate content. Go back to Go, do not collect $200. Don’t confuse this with pages that may have a couple GET variables in them; avoid that when you can, but just avoid having your pages containing session IDs.
2. Choose a reputable web host. The most potent negative ranking factor is server accessibility. If your server, located in Timbuktu, is inaccessible to spiders, it’s inaccessible to visitors. Down time soon becomes down and out time.
3. Avoid duplicate content. Googlebots employ filters to detect duplicate content. Now, if you opt to post some syndicated articles, you’re providing a service to visitors. However, a bot will recognize that content (it’s already appeared on 400 sites) and you’ll see a drop in traffic rank.
4. Jettison low-quality links. Google assesses the character of your site by the company you keep so keep good company by unlinking from (1) links farms, (2) sites with absolutely no quality content and (3) otherwise low-quality sites; e.g. FFA (free for all) sites.
5. Avoid any kind of links deception. Googlebots aren’t smart, but they can detect some paid links and a variety of links scams, including generated links. If a Googlebot suspects links fraud, your site may be penalized and sent to the basement or banned altogether.
6. Avoid a log-in before visitors and bots access “the good stuff.” Log-ins can easily confuse a bot who won’t be able to access quality content hidden behind a log in. Even though users with Google toolbars will be unknowingly suggesting new URLs to be crawled as they surf about, having teasers for the content your monetizing by subscription will help your SEO.
7. Avoid using frames. Horizontal and vertical framesets are commonly used by designers to present more than one page of a site on the screen at the same time. However, frames are also bot traps. They can get in but they can’t get out, making it impossible for them to index a site – at all! Tell your developer to look at using iframes if possible or absolutely necessary.
8. Avoid duplicate title/meta tags. Title/meta tags are a valuable resource for site owners to expand access points to a site. Using title tags ensures that more pages are indexed and listed in Google’s SERPs as distinct links. All good. Unfortunately, too many duplicate title tags on pages in which the content topic hasn’t changed, is redundant and a waste of the bots time. Use tag your pages uniquely and judiciously.
9. Do not keyword stuff. Even though search engines no longer give much weight to keyword tags, keyword stuffing continues. Select 20 to 30 keywords – top-tier and long-tail – and focus on them. Keep keyword density in body text at no more than 3%. The old 5% rule still led to on-site gibberish – obviously these figures vary by competitive landscape.
10. Do not let quality slip – even for a day. Spiders crawl sites with greater frequency and sophistication and index updates are common as changes to a site are implemented. During periods of construction, be sure to keep spiders out of staging areas that have yet to be completed or block with robots. These works-in-progress may cost you points in the ranking sweepstakes.
Google controls 46% of all searches. Doesn’t it make sense to give this search engine exactly what it wants and delete what it doesn’t want?
Rhetorical question.
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Thanks to WebProNews for this information.
2. Create quality anchor text for inbound links. At one time, according to some SEO professionals, quality anchor text was an essential component of a well-ranked site. After all, this is the text the user opted to see by clicking a link on another site. Most SEOs still contend that quality anchor text is a highly significant, positive ranking factor. If not for spiders, for visitors clicking in as well. Obviously the text should be relevant to the destination page for best results; that’s where your on page optimization comes in to play.
3. Increase link popularity. Link popularity takes into account the number of inbound links present. Link authority has less relevance, though it is still a factor depending on the competitive landscape. Link popularity is based on a global count of links from all sites. However, quality links are still critical to creating site authority; authority means ranking for more phrases than you intentionally target.
4. Hang in there. The age of a site is an important positive weighting factor according to many SEO professionals. It’s certainly a reasonable assumption. Failed sites are dropped as soon as the hosting subscription ends. If a site has been around for 10 years, the owners must be dong something right, especially if link popularity is steady developed over the years. Unfortunately for site owners, there’s no way to speed up the aging process – except hanging in there.
5. Increase the popularity of internal links. These links direct visitors to helpful, related content. They’re important in providing visitors with a positive on-site experience. Search engines view on-site link popularity as a sign that visitors like what they see and want to learn more.
7. Build deep links. Deep links are relevant to the topicality of the target page or keyword. The relevance of these inbound links matters to a site’s Google ranking. However, please note point 3. The sheer number of inbound links is a factor as well. Quality deep links carry more weight and add credibility to a site.
8. Connect with sites selling to the same demographic. Create a number of links with sites within your topical community. This helps visitors further their searches – something Google likes very much.
9. Keep old links. Google looks for web stability. The older the link, the more trust it has. It indicates a happy relationship with the site owner linking in who recognizes the value of sending visitors off-site. Google watchers suggest a three to four month time window for spiders to determine that this is a well-established, long-term link that has value to visitors of both sites.
10. Use keywords in body text. Make sure that keywords receive prominent display in headlines, headers, sub-heads. It’s important that the keywords used in HTML text on page match with keywords used in the site’s meta data and title tags.
Not Recommended
1. Don’t use session IDs in URLs. It sounds like a good idea on the surface, an easy way to track customer information, but here’s the problem. Each time a spider crawls the site, a new URL with session ID is created. The spider now has two, or three or more URLs all showing duplicate content. Go back to Go, do not collect $200. Don’t confuse this with pages that may have a couple GET variables in them; avoid that when you can, but just avoid having your pages containing session IDs.
2. Choose a reputable web host. The most potent negative ranking factor is server accessibility. If your server, located in Timbuktu, is inaccessible to spiders, it’s inaccessible to visitors. Down time soon becomes down and out time.
3. Avoid duplicate content. Googlebots employ filters to detect duplicate content. Now, if you opt to post some syndicated articles, you’re providing a service to visitors. However, a bot will recognize that content (it’s already appeared on 400 sites) and you’ll see a drop in traffic rank.
4. Jettison low-quality links. Google assesses the character of your site by the company you keep so keep good company by unlinking from (1) links farms, (2) sites with absolutely no quality content and (3) otherwise low-quality sites; e.g. FFA (free for all) sites.
5. Avoid any kind of links deception. Googlebots aren’t smart, but they can detect some paid links and a variety of links scams, including generated links. If a Googlebot suspects links fraud, your site may be penalized and sent to the basement or banned altogether.
6. Avoid a log-in before visitors and bots access “the good stuff.” Log-ins can easily confuse a bot who won’t be able to access quality content hidden behind a log in. Even though users with Google toolbars will be unknowingly suggesting new URLs to be crawled as they surf about, having teasers for the content your monetizing by subscription will help your SEO.
7. Avoid using frames. Horizontal and vertical framesets are commonly used by designers to present more than one page of a site on the screen at the same time. However, frames are also bot traps. They can get in but they can’t get out, making it impossible for them to index a site – at all! Tell your developer to look at using iframes if possible or absolutely necessary.
8. Avoid duplicate title/meta tags. Title/meta tags are a valuable resource for site owners to expand access points to a site. Using title tags ensures that more pages are indexed and listed in Google’s SERPs as distinct links. All good. Unfortunately, too many duplicate title tags on pages in which the content topic hasn’t changed, is redundant and a waste of the bots time. Use tag your pages uniquely and judiciously.
9. Do not keyword stuff. Even though search engines no longer give much weight to keyword tags, keyword stuffing continues. Select 20 to 30 keywords – top-tier and long-tail – and focus on them. Keep keyword density in body text at no more than 3%. The old 5% rule still led to on-site gibberish – obviously these figures vary by competitive landscape.
10. Do not let quality slip – even for a day. Spiders crawl sites with greater frequency and sophistication and index updates are common as changes to a site are implemented. During periods of construction, be sure to keep spiders out of staging areas that have yet to be completed
Google controls 46% of all searches. Doesn’t it make sense to give this search engine exactly what it wants and delete what it doesn’t want?
Rhetorical question.
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Thanks to WebProNews for this information.
It is not Classified Information:
Classified advertising is not new. The internet does not change the way you create and write classifieds only where you place the ads. This makes the potential for readership higher than ever before. In fact it is mind blowing the amount of potential clients you can receive from one classified ad placed online.
The shift to the internet has made classified advertising not only cheaper but in many instances totally free and no less effective. Of course out of this a problem has been created. That is competition. Yes competition, not competition for your product or services because you will always have that, but competition to be noticed and read.
Standing Out in a Crowded Classified Page and Get noticed:
It is not an art or even a science the creation of classified ads. What it is is the finer detail of attention grabbing. To grab the attention of a scanning reader that is. Knowing the words, the phrases that count turns your classified ad into a cash cow.
Co, you need to have a classified ad that stands out and not whimpers but screams, grabing the attention of those thousands of readers and you need to do it really really super fast.
It sounds difficult but it really is a very simple learning curve. But whilst the learning is simple the smart information available is not so simple. Most information out there requires you to spend hours and hours reading and understanding and then implement. None of us have that luxury of time.
So hands up Who has time to take a course on marketing in classifieds? I bet you don't.
Get the Information and Get it Fast:
Ok so you get to here and you are asking yourself where is the information to make this happen?
There has only ever been one way to learn how to create a quality classified fast and that is via a great little ebook that turns classifieds into magic silver bullets.
This ebook provides the reader with the injection needed to turn your classified advertising into classified income. With loads of information that is easy to follow and implement almost immediately you will be able to better utilize the free classified advertising sites more effectively.
The fact is if you are placing a classified ad you are placing it because you want to make money. The result should be effective and swift. So, using the information the professionals use will set you in good stead for classified marketing success.
Katherine Quirke is an Australian based business entrepreneur. She has owned a number of businesses over the last 20 years. Sharing her knowledge has become a passion. Further information: http://www.eze2shop.com/classifiedmagic or http://www.potentialtime.com.au
Classified advertising is not new. The internet does not change the way you create and write classifieds only where you place the ads. This makes the potential for readership higher than ever before. In fact it is mind blowing the amount of potential clients you can receive from one classified ad placed online.
The shift to the internet has made classified advertising not only cheaper but in many instances totally free and no less effective. Of course out of this a problem has been created. That is competition. Yes competition, not competition for your product or services because you will always have that, but competition to be noticed and read.
Standing Out in a Crowded Classified Page and Get noticed:
It is not an art or even a science the creation of classified ads. What it is is the finer detail of attention grabbing. To grab the attention of a scanning reader that is. Knowing the words, the phrases that count turns your classified ad into a cash cow.
Co, you need to have a classified ad that stands out and not whimpers but screams, grabing the attention of those thousands of readers and you need to do it really really super fast.
It sounds difficult but it really is a very simple learning curve. But whilst the learning is simple the smart information available is not so simple. Most information out there requires you to spend hours and hours reading and understanding and then implement. None of us have that luxury of time.
So hands up Who has time to take a course on marketing in classifieds? I bet you don't.
Get the Information and Get it Fast:
Ok so you get to here and you are asking yourself where is the information to make this happen?
There has only ever been one way to learn how to create a quality classified fast and that is via a great little ebook that turns classifieds into magic silver bullets.
This ebook provides the reader with the injection needed to turn your classified advertising into classified income. With loads of information that is easy to follow and implement almost immediately you will be able to better utilize the free classified advertising sites more effectively.
The fact is if you are placing a classified ad you are placing it because you want to make money. The result should be effective and swift. So, using the information the professionals use will set you in good stead for classified marketing success.
Katherine Quirke is an Australian based business entrepreneur. She has owned a number of businesses over the last 20 years. Sharing her knowledge has become a passion. Further information: http://www.eze2shop.com/classifiedmagic or http://www.potentialtime.com.au
It is time to relax and smile.....
Derek Gehl runs the world renown Internet Marketing Center. I have done a number of courses from this center with great gusto and have in turn learn't more than I could ever have imagined.
This short video will give you 4 Marketing Secrets you can use now in your Internet Marketing.
This short video will give you 4 Marketing Secrets you can use now in your Internet Marketing.
These days there are loads of companies offering cheap website hosting. Here are some points you need to look at when considering using a cheap web host:
- Do they have a mininum of 99.9% up time> (if they don't state don't even consider)
- Look at how much space you are going to be given (often referred to as storage space)
- Do they offer free addons such as free domain name or free web building tools or even Google credits?
- What type of support will you be given: online help or email or phone and what times of day is it available?
- Look at the contract time - you may get discounts for longer hosting contract but you should ensure that if you just want hosting for 3 months you can do so.
- Ensure you can cancel your hosting service at any time.
- If the web host sales site is not professional don't consider using them!
The revolution of Twittering has exceeded what anybody would have thought it could.
Twitter is a terrific way to keep your followers up to date with what you are doing. I don't feel it is necessary for every little bit of your personal life but it is very valid for business.
I treat Twitter as a personal mini blog. I post to it on a regular basis so my followers know what I have happening and what my current offers are. I have been amazed at the increase in my rankings since using Twitter. It has been one of my most effective tools for marketing.
Of course Twitter is not all I use but whilst Twitter is such a hot form of internet communication I think it is worth using it regularly to promote your business.
My understanding of Twitter was fast tracked with a brilliant set of videos that give you a full run down on how the system works and how you can make it work for you. I realised very quickly that Twitter is the free advertisers dream and you don't even need to spend hours learning how to use it.
I recommend you take a look at the videos - you will be surprised at how effective Twitter will be for you and your business.
Twitter is a terrific way to keep your followers up to date with what you are doing. I don't feel it is necessary for every little bit of your personal life but it is very valid for business.
I treat Twitter as a personal mini blog. I post to it on a regular basis so my followers know what I have happening and what my current offers are. I have been amazed at the increase in my rankings since using Twitter. It has been one of my most effective tools for marketing.
Of course Twitter is not all I use but whilst Twitter is such a hot form of internet communication I think it is worth using it regularly to promote your business.
My understanding of Twitter was fast tracked with a brilliant set of videos that give you a full run down on how the system works and how you can make it work for you. I realised very quickly that Twitter is the free advertisers dream and you don't even need to spend hours learning how to use it.
I recommend you take a look at the videos - you will be surprised at how effective Twitter will be for you and your business.
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