Internet Marketing Ideas

The Top 3 Money-Making "To Do" Activities

2009-12-09T04:46:00.000-08:00

I've always been impressed with those who can take overwhelming
things and handle them with ease and poise. It never seemed
to work that way for me, until I discovered the secret for
tackling those daunting tasks.

The secret is simple: make things simple!

With just about every major undertaking, things can be simplified
into a handful of "core" components. That makes them manageable.
Manageable fosters productivity simply because I can work on
something that seems accomplishable. And when productivity goes
up, desired results come.

I received the following question from one of my clients...

"If you have to pick, what would you say are the top 2 or 3
things we should concentrate on? I've heard the
domain/site(blog) are the most important, then others say
writing info products, others say lists. For short term and
long term investment, what is the most important things to
be working on?"

This client wants things simplified. And rightly so. He knows
the secret to success is getting things down into manageable
chunks.

So, what are these core practices for building an internet
business? There are three things - and three things only - that
you need to concentrate on with your business...

1. Offer Development.

You cannot make money online unless you have an OFFER. It's that
simple. Unless there is some way for income to be generated, you
can't get paid. End of discussion. Every business is founded
upon a revenue-generating offer. Now, this can either be your
own offer (small reports, ebooks, membership sites, coaching/consulting,
advertising, etc.) or something you promote as an affiliate and
earn revenue for referred sales.

2. List Marketing.

The fortune is in the list. You've heard it an untold number of
times in the past, right? Building and profiting from opt-in lists
should be a major priority on your schedule. You need to devote
yourself to attracting new subscribers and then getting all of
your subscribers to spend money with you ... by purchasing your
OFFERS (see #1 above).

3. Traffic.

The third and final thing you need to concentrate on is "traffic".
This includes both traffic GENERATION (getting visitors to a site)
and traffic CONVERSION (getting that traffic to buy). This includes
things like: starting an affiliate program, buying PPC ads,
participating in joint ventures, utilizing viral marketing tools,
raising your visitor value, tweaking your sales pages, etc.

With each of these categories, you have a variety of options to choose
from in directing your attention. It would be foolish for me to say
"grow your affiliate program" as your number # traffic activity since
I don't know if you even have your own product to sell. That's why I
don't recommend specific activities, but rather three key categories
of business-building.

With each of these categories, find 2-3 activities to work on each
week and you should see results in a short amount of time.

I recommend you work on offer development every Monday, list marketing
every Tuesday, and traffic generation every Wednesday. If you just
spend a couple hours each of these days working on these core parts
of your business, sales should come.

In a nutshell -

- Find an offer to promote.
- Setup a list to promote the offer.
- Drive traffic to the list opt-in page.

Keep it simple. Keep it successful.

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Believe it or not, there is a tremendous "operations manual" that you can download to help you create a plan that works for YOU. Check out "Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business". You'll learn all the tools you need, how to setup your work space and how to create a day-by-day schedule of recommended activities to start and grow your business.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of the 65-page "operations
manual", "Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business". Learn The Internet Marketer's Weekly
R.O.U.T.I.N.E.(TM)

Nigerian Top 20 Business Blogs

2009-05-06T10:41:00.000-07:00

Few minutes, after publishing my earlier post on the latest face 2 of the FasteCash Blogging Contest, I decided to check around the web for the current stats of Nigerian Business Blogs, to see those that are occupying the top spots; 'most especially as that's the category this blog falls'.

So, I started searching the web for such a stats and finally I arrived on Afrigatorand guess what; I was surprise with what the stats revealed because it was different from what I had expected.

But, the part that trills me is that this blog was listed among the top 20 according to the Afrigator stats (ranked 13), below is the list of the top 20 Nigerian Business Blogs according to the current Afrigator Stats (stat in the right widget under the advert) as at this morning 6th May, '09:

Top ranked Nigerian Business blogs on Afrigator

1. NIGERIAN JOBS
2. WorkforceNigeria, High Pa
3. Opportunities in Africa
4. STRICTLY 9JA JOBS
5. careers offers in nigeria
6. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN N
7. Jobs in Nigeria
8. JideSaluDiary
9. Jobs
10. Omodudu
11. Mootbox
12. NigeriansTalk
13. Internet Marketing Ideas
14. Naijagal Network
15. Chippla's Weblog - Tough
16. AltNigeria Blog
17. Oro
18. Naira Blog
29. Emmanuel Oluwatosin: Insp
20. ONLINE JOB OPPORTUNITY

Although, the stats solely represents those blogs that are members of Afrigator, I think it's something worthy of note, not because my blog (13th position) is listed but because it stands in the gap where there is currently no other of such that we can (of course, that I know of) easily refer to. Besides, the outcome of the recent Nigerian Bloggers Awards has show that the Afrigator Statsis actually a reliable one, to a great extent.

Nevertheless, I'll like to hear your opinion on this. Do you think the stats really represent what we can regard as the current top list of Nigerian Business Blogs? Please, let me hear your comments.

Cheers!

FasteCash Blogging Contest - FBC II Takes Off!

2009-05-06T03:22:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year I posted a thread: Hooray! Blog and Win Big! at the Nigeria Blogger Forum to inform you of the FasteCash Blogging Contest, which was then the very first of it's kind in Nigeria and also referred to as the first face of the contest. That face ended sometimes in March with Charle Ogboka, the owner of the blog www.loveandsoulmate.com emerging as the 1st winner of the contest and got a swollen FasteCash account of N50,000.00 cash prize.

Now, here is the good new; registration for the second face of the contest has taken off and it's another opportunity for you to have a shot at the whopping 1st prize and so many other add advantages, according the organizer, it's a Win! Win!! Win!!! situation for every contestant.

Here's a preview of some the benefits of participating from official site;

1. You have the potential of being the winner of FasteCash Blogging Contest II cash prizes of N50,000.00, N30,000.00 or N10,000.00. There will also be some other consolation prizes that will be given out to participants.

2. You will have free and great traffic to your web blog through the FasteCash Blogging Contest official website at FasteCash Blogging Contest. Your web blog link will be placed on this site and this will definitely cause more people to visit your blog. This benefit alone is more than any amount you are paying for the contest registration.

3. Your site will be seen and visited by several other FasteCash account users and people that may like to vote for your blog. So, if your web blog is positioned to make money, I guess you will have some good luck.

4. The contest may turn your blog to a great resources site to be recognized by several visitors who keep visiting your blog even after the contest.

5. The blog may turn you to a national authority base on your blogging topic such that people may look up to you as an expert or consultant in the area.

6. If you need a quick exposure of what you are doing whether it is for profit making or not, FBC II is the greatest platform that can make it happen for you within a very short period of time

If you want to know I'm thinking of entering into this face of the contest myself, so you better get on the train, I know it's going to be a really interesting and keenly contested event this time around.

I know by now the single most important question on your mind is 'how can I enter
this contest; no hassles, just click this link to register: FasteCash Blogging Contest Registration

5 Hot Tips to Help You Choose a Profitable Niche for Your Blog

2009-04-30T05:14:00.000-07:00

To archive great success with blogging for money there are some key point you have to put into consideration before choosing a niche for your blog. This is a very crucial thing that either make or mar the your success, since not all niche are profitable and some niche are more profitable than others, in the same vein you as a person will be more likely to succeed in some niches than the others. So, let take a look into some these questions you need to ask yourself before choosing a nice;

1. Are You Interested in the Topic? - Interest is what breads passion, before finally deciding to go with a niche you have to be sure you are interested in the topic. It's not that you can't be successful with a niche that you are not interested in but it's will be much easier when you are personally interested in the niche, that way it become less of a work as you will have fun

2. Do You Have Experience or Expertise in the Topic? - The more experience or expertise you have on the topic you have choose to blog about the better positioned you will be to be. This is what is referred to as specialization, if you are specialized on your topic then it will not take much effort to become an authority on that particular niche

3.Is the Topic Popular? - In spite of all the above point, this is also very important because you are writing for people and not for yourself and therefore the people looking for information on your niche the greater you chance of success

4. Is the Niche Growing or Shrinking? - You also have to make sure you research the trends on your niche to make sure that it's not fading out, a niche that is shrinking can suddenly one fade out totally and that means that people are will no more be looking for information on the niche. So, if you have choosing such a niche then you blog will also go down and fade away with your fading niche

5. What’s the Competition? - You'll also want to make sure that you know how competitive is the niche. Take for instance you choose a niche that's already totally saturated, your chances of success in that niche will be very slim, except you are such a pro on that niche in which case it will still take you a long time of hard work to really be a profitable blog

If you take your time do enough research on the above questions and then answer the questions correctly and accurately you will be able know how to choose profitable niche for your blog(s).

Cheers!

The Basics Of Viral Marketing

2009-04-07T02:10:00.000-07:00

Generally, viral marketing is type of marketing that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message. In Internet marketing, viral marketing is any marketing technique that induces websites or users to pass on a marketing message to other sites or users, creating a potentially high growth in the message's visibility and effect. Viral Marketing is sometimes refer to as "word of mouth marketing"

Viral marketing depends on a high pass-along rate from person to person or from website to website. If a large percentage of recipients forward something to a large number of friends, the overall growth rises very quickly and its effect is always amazing

An example!
If you have ever received a funny, interesting or high informative email that was forwarded to you by a friend and you probably would like to forward it to some other of your friends too, then chances are, a lot of people you know saw that same email.

Creating Them

This can be a lot trickier than traditional advertising messages. But if you can create a message, be it an ad unit, a newsletter or a website, that is both compelling enough to spread but that also firmly supports a brand's values and objectives, you might have a winner on your hands.

Some form of Viral Marketing?

Refer a Friend:
Refer-a-friend campaigns type of viral marketing. These are campaigns, which encourage members of a program to introduce friends to the program

Free E-book or Reports:
This is where e-book are given away for free and beneficiaries are encouraged to pass it on to their friends or even given absolutely right to make money selling these e-book provided they agree not to tell their clients about the author or the source

Email Forwarding:
Here you encourage users to forward your predefine marketing email(s) to their friends and contacts. This is very tricky and must be done with wisdom to avoid the risk of “SPAM” which would result in negative results. More on this Click Here

Listed below are few insights on how to execute a viral marketing campaign most effectively.

1. When encouraging pass-it-on, make it as subtly as possible
2. Offer an incentive.
3. Personalize the referral email.
4. Track and analyze the results..
5. Continually promote friendly referrals.

Let me conclude by saying there is no definite way of prevent negative customer reactions, but the few tips above should assist marketers in making their viral marketing campaigns most effective.

Internet Marketing Ideas Is Now A PR2 Blog

2009-04-03T04:37:00.001-07:00

Did you noticed something new and different? I bet you didn't. Ok! may be I should let you in on it.

This blog now has a Google PageRank of 2, I'm indeed excited about it cause it came when I stop expecting it. Maybe a little background will help highlight why.

For a while now I have been putting efforts in to making sure that this blog gets a PR rank by Google "Google PageRank", which has really been a bit of time consuming. I was not always convenient with the usual "No PageRank information available" status of this blog. Unfortunately, it never did yielded the result I was looking to get, despite the time I took making sure that the blog is as unique as possible and taking care of all other things attached to it.

At a time, I couldn't help wondering what I was doing wrong. I even bought a domain with the hope that moving to a custom domain should make a different. But, I haven't been able to set that up "an issue from my domain registrar I guess". I still hope to do that as soon as the issue preventing it's execution is solved, and when that happens this blog will be @ www.internetmarketingideaz.com. Also, I've been considering harmonizing all my blogs with a stand alone wordpress and with the way things are going, that might happen anytime from now.

All in all, after I left worrying about the blog PR but, keep making sure I add posts that are as unique as possible, well optimized and very useful, then I run off to get busy with other projects, one of which is the forum Nigerian Bloggers Forum. I suddenly find myself on the blog's homepage some few weeks ago and discovered that the blog has moved to a PR1.

Then, an ideas came to my mind; that if the blog were to have been finally ranked, then it should have been higher than 1 and then I decided to re-optimized the outgoing links on the blog, which I did like two days ago. And guess what's the result! I came on today, only to be greeted with a PR2 and to be honest I'm excited about it.

Finally, I'll like to appreciate all the visitor and especially my loyal reader; those subscribing via RSS Feed, Email, and those taking time to post comments on this blog, I wouldn't be here and archive this without you all. I know this post my seems irrelevant to some readers, nevertheless I know how it mean to me.

Thank a Bunch!

Cheers!

Nigerian Blogger Forum - ShoutBox and Chat Integrated

2009-04-03T02:39:00.001-07:00

Like you know, it's been couple of days I updated you with latest on my forum - Nigerian Bloggers Forum, I just realized that few minutes ago and I decided to gist you of the new features that have just been added to the Forum. I'm really excited about it and I know you will be also.

Let me save you the guessing; I'm please to inform you officially, that Chatting and ShoutBox features have been added to the forum.

At Nigerian Bloggers Forum we are all about making sure you have everything that will add value to your experience on the forum and these new features is part of our ways of making sure of that.

I hope you'll enjoy a better communication experience with this new features

We are still test running both of these features and so we'll like to hear your advice, ideas,criticism etc.

So, click to go over to the forum @ Nigerian Bloggers Forum and let us hear your feedback

Cheers!

Do You Have To Blog Full Time To Succeed?

2009-03-05T01:22:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, I shared with you a great article by Yaro Starak, today I'll like to compliment that with another great article I received via the Blog Tips Newsletter by Yaro Starak. I'm sure it'll greatly inspire you like it did inspire me yesterday when I read through it. Please, enjoy!

Do you have to blog full time to succeed? No! You don't need to spend full time hours on your blog in order to succeed.

Find out how I learned this lesson and how you can change how you go about building your blog too...

Is your goal to become a full time blogger? Do you like the sound of blogging for a living?

Yeah, me too. At least I did anyway. But then I learned the truth. I don't like doing anything "full time".

Even something as fun as blogging is not an activity I would want to do for the majority of my day. I like variety in my life and while I want blogging to be a part of it, I don't want it to be the main labor. I want to do it because I like it, not because I need to do it to make a living.

I remember when I first decided to become a serious blogger. I monitored some of the other professional bloggers, the guys and girls making a living from blogging. Darren Rowse [www.problogger.net] was of particular influence on me because he was doing very well, had started off as a complete Internet beginner and was from Australia like me.

I tried to emulate Darren's blogging style. I knew I had the skills to do it and in fact more experience than Darren in a lot of ways because I had been working online for over seven years while he started much later. I had plenty of material to blog about so I knuckled down and committed myself to posting multiple articles every day.

It didn't last long.

Maybe I was lazy, maybe I was blindly following someone else's lead without really thinking it through. Whatever the reason I wasn't cut out for writing blog posts each and every day. My blogging strategy had to change...again.

Darren and many other bloggers are machine-like in how efficient and how frequently they can pump out good content for their blogs. These people work hard. They enjoy solid rewards for their labor, but my motto is not to work hard, but to work smart, so I needed another way to make blogging work for me.

REALIGN YOUR GOALS

I'm going to assume you are like me. You blog, you want to blog, you enjoy blogging and you want to increase your blog traffic. Most importantly you want to do it quickly and efficiently and not waste time putting energy into activities that don't produce fantastic results.

The first thing you have to do, and this is what I did when I decided full time blogging wasn't for me, is to decide what your blog is for - what you want to get out of it and consequently what your audience should get out of it as a result? I decided that I would use my blog for two main activities -

1. To dump all my knowledge built up from years of working online into article and audio format. I wanted a repository of my skills and experience.

2. To increase my exposure and enhance my credibility - to improve the "Yaro" brand.

With these two goals in mind I went to work producing some big meaty solid how-to articles, stuff you would read in books and manuals on Internet marketing.

I didn't bother blogging too much about news or linking to other blogs in my industry at this point because those activities were not aligned with my goals. I wanted my best stuff out there so other people could learn from me and I could demonstrate that I was an expert in my field.

In your case your goals should dictate what you want to achieve with your blog. If your blog is designed to help you get freelance
writing gigs, then publish lots of original creative articles.

If you are interested in selling your consulting services then go to work putting out articles and case studies on the work you have done.

If you want your blog to become the news source for everything related to Michael Jackson celebrity gossip then aim to post multiple
news-bite sized articles per day.

The point is to define your objectives and work to your goals. Don't follow someone else's goals just because they appear to be doing well.

THE LAZY BUT SMART BLOGGER

I want to be clear about one point - you *don't* have to work hard to be a successful blogger.

You don't have to post an article each and every day. You don't have to create something of 'genius level' creativity each time you blog.

Ahh, see, now you can relax.

Of course if you don't write articles you won't get traffic but as long as you post something interesting, creative, practical or valuable every once and a while your blog readership will increase. People that like your work will look forward to it regardless of how frequently you post. A little anticipation is a good thing.

When you start to post regularly, not hourly or daily but at least weekly, people adjust their expectations accordingly. Remember you don't owe anyone anything when you blog. Blogging is only about putting in as much effort as is required to meet YOUR goals.

If you post new articles six times a day people will start to expect it from you. You will start to expect it from yourself and blogging will feel like a job because of pressures to publish a certain amount of new content each day.

Now if that's your goal, that's fine, just remember you can change things if you find yourself suffering because you set unrealistic
goals. Don't ever feel obligated to do anything.

In my case I started to post between one and two big articles per week and about one or two podcasts per month. I'd also do a little news linking or track-backing of other articles I had a strong interest in during the "heat of the moment". I could brain-dump my thoughts quickly and effortlessly into a blog post whenever the inspiration hit me.

I did most of my early foundation blogging while at work. I worked at a computer help desk with Internet access so I could blog in between helping people at my job.

I ended up blogging collectively for maybe 2 hours per day on average and I still managed to grow my blog traffic to 1000+ daily readers within a year and then 5,000 by the end of the second year, and I didn't have to post each and every day to do
it. There is a smarter and easier way to get blog traffic.

Here's to your blogging success,

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Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting - Expert vs Reporter

2009-03-04T10:46:00.000-08:00

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world; reporters and experts. Some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank, you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously, you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs, and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger who is wide refers to as the gurus' guru. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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2009-03-04T04:34:00.000-08:00

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Nigerian Bloggers Forum

2009-03-01T23:49:00.000-08:00

Hi, I know it's really been a while I have update this blog last but if I have to start mentioning the various reason why, I assure you the space here would hardly be sufficient to contain them. I know you must have been expecting at least an update from me and on that I'm really sorry, it's just that real life is demanding my full attention. Besides, I have been working on some projects that have equally been demanding my full attention.

Anyway, I'm back to take this blog to the next level and over the next months, I'm going to be blowing your mind with the various improvements that I'll be executing on this blog, just sticking around.

Ok, for now let me just unfold one of the projects I have been working on "Nigerian Bloggers Forum @ http://nigerianbloggersforum.com" which I so much believe in. Though, it's really going to be a daunting task taking it to level that I dream, still I believe we'll get there.

Background:

We all know that "Niche" has become a very phenomenal thing in the world wide Blogosphere and the Internet Money Making arena. Several months ago, I had a thought about Nigerian Bloggers getting really nichey with our Blogging needs and discussions.

So, I started searching for a Nigerian Forum mainly for Blogging and Bloggers. I searched and searched but could not get one, initially I was a bit disappointed that despite what blogging has now become around the world and the speed with which the Nigerian Blogosphere is developing, we still could not boast of a Blogging/Bloggers Forum.

Then it dawn on me and I thought "why sit around feeling disappointed, if I feel the need and there is none to satisfy that need, why not go ahead and create one"

And Now What?

Though, I had decided to create a Nigerian Bloggers Forum, I didn't have the full knowledge on setting up and running a forum then. So, its means taking sometime to conduct some researches, which I did and the end result is a simple but highly professional forum "Nigerian Bloggers Forum"with well organized structure, easy to understand user interface and also an establish means of keeping SPAMS and SPAMMERS away thereby making sure that forum members will enjoy every moment they spend on the forum.

Well, I think need I stop here and give you the opportunity to go have some experience of the Forum but one thing I can assure you is that being an active member of the forum will soon make you a better blogger.

Meanwhile, I'll look forward to welcoming you personally on the Forum.

By the way, make sure you take a minute to register for your own free account now, cause if you can see what I'm seeing, you'll understand why you need to stay active on the forum Nigerian Bloggers Forum

Cheers!

How Do I Look...?

2009-01-14T08:30:00.000-08:00

When I won the Springleap T-shirt from afrigator last year, I knew it was going to be a cool T-shirt but I keep wondering how it would look on me, so I became anxious but the T-shirt never arrived till I travel out of town for the holidays. Fortunately, when I got back 2 days ago I met the package on my desk in the office and I immediately stripped it. So, today I decided to flaunt it

Oh! You don’t believe it? Take a look at some snap from my webcam this morning:

What do you think?

Welcome To The YEAR 2009

2009-01-14T07:06:00.000-08:00

Hello my dear readers, belated Happy New Year to you; this is rather coming too late but I guess it’s better late than never, and apologies for having abandoned you and the blog for this long without any update. I’ve been out of town; actually while leaving I thought I’d be able to keep updating this blog while away but how wrong I was.

Anyway, it’s another year and thanks to the Almighty God for having spared our lives to see this year 2009; we have the privilege of being alive to tell the story of the now obsolete year 2008, even as we look forward to greater things in 2009.

I can promise you that 2009 is going be a very engaging year for us all on this blog, as I’ll be bring to your door steps great information, tips, guides and ideas that will sure help you to take your Internet Marketing Business to another level this year, you will soon discover this yourself if you remain a loyal reader of this blog.

Also, a whole lot of improvements and additions are going to be added to this blog in the months to come, which would be aimed at given loyal readers a greater experience every minute they spend on this blog, mind you, I can’t achieve this alone. I’ll need your input, so I trust that you’ll contribute your opinion as things begin to unfold.

As you know, we were able to achieve some milestone in 2008, for instance; I released my very first ebook “Blogging Made Easy”, got interviewed by a notable startup blog “StartupNigerian”, and won a Springleap T-shirt for the Afrigreater November Contest and many other things. I hope to greatly improve on many of these things this year and I believe that will also give you as my loyal reader greater experience.

Note: I’ll be posting the pictures of me in my Springleap T-shirt in the next post; look out for that. I know you can’t wait to see it, I can’t wait to flaunt it also…lol

By the way, what are the improvements or addition to this blog that pissed you off last year? And what will you like to see this year? Please, drop them here as comment, if there are any!

Once again, welcome to the YEAR 2009.

You shall success this Year!...........Cheers!!

AfriGreater December - Tough Question Time

2008-12-15T07:49:00.000-08:00

Alright folks, while still in a winning mood; for emerging one of the 5 winners of the Afrigreater contest of November - I shared something about that in an earlier post; "AfriGreater - Hooray! I'm a winner" I decided to write a post on the new lunch from the stable of Afrigator "AdGator" which is starting to generate a whole lot of buzz within the African Blogoshere.

Initially, I wanted to just write a review on Afrigator but as I became more engrossed in the discussion going on at the Afrigator blog as regards the December contest, I became interested in the challenge, as it was tagged a "tough question": Afrigreater December - tough question time. It was indicated that you have to write something that seriously tick you off about Afrigator and so far as I can see folks been having a bit of hard time getting to pinpoint something that's worth writing about - I think, this is indeed a wonderful thing to note, as it's goes a long way to show the hard work and dedication the Afrigator crew put into making sure that the Afrigator Apps/Site is devoid of every faults possible or bugs 'to put it in the computer language'

Personally, I think this a very bold step to take, I bet not all companies can willingly open up itself to negatively criticism like that and to think that they are even putting their resources into doing that, is another crazy but great thing to know about the Afrigator Team, no wonder Afrigator is becoming more and more popular, in the recent times. Hey Justin, Mike, Lester, Stii and Mark you guys are SuperB. HATS OFF! to you all.

Alright, make yourself a cup of coffee, then sit back and relax while I break it all down for your consumption.

Afrigator Launches Adgator

According to the afrigator blog; Adgator is an African blog network that allow bloggers to make money by displaying advertising on their blogs. You can read more @: Afrigator launches Adgator want more? Check out Justin in-depth explanation. Lest I forget, here is the official site of AdGator

Afrigator Now Eats Your Tweets

This is a wonderful addition to the Afrigator features, according to the blog: Afrigator's now taking the tweets from Afrigator members across the continent and showing them all on one convenient page. They're also displaying the latest from members’ Twitter accounts on the Afrigator homepage so that you can stay on top of the latest hot topics across Africa at a glance. Get the details yourself

What About Afrigator That Seriously Tick Me Off

Alright, let me get this done. Like I said earlier, I love what makes this a hard nut to crack cause it actually spell a wonderful experiences for we the user of Afrigator, I bet you can understand what that means right? Ok it's like this; if you have to write about something that's not working fine in the entire Afrigator Apps and Team, and you can't find any to write about, it meant that the system is perfect to your own opinion and that's great news for the users, don't you think?

Alright, I got something to talk about, I'm exited about this cause I have wanted to maybe do a post or contact the Afrigator Crew about this before now. Luckily for me I got to spread it with a chance to win a prize. Oh! Silly, yes I know but don't mind my silliness, just read the lines...lol

Seriously now, I noticed that My National Flag always display wrongly on my "Dashboard" and I don't like that. Each time I logged into my account I see a South African National Flag image in front of my Blog Title instead of A Nigerian Flag image. Even if I was daydreaming while registering for my Afrigator account, I'm pretty sure I'd not have made the mistake of my Nationality. Fair enough, the Nationality Flag is displayed correctly in any other section of the site but my dashboard. *See Image Below*

I guess that's what seriously tick me off about Afrigator, don't forget this is still in the spirit of helping to make Afrigator better. By the way, we've been talking about the latest happenings around afrigator with reference to Afrigreater December Contest!

CHEERS! Like always

AfriGreater - Hooray! I'M A Winner.

2008-12-05T08:41:00.000-08:00

When I log into my email yesterday, I received an email titled "Get a T-shirt from Afrigator", I just ignored it as I thought it's one of the normal newsletters and as I was also busy with other things. But, I was really surprised and excited when I read the email few minutes ago to discovered that it's actually a notification/congratulation email that I'm a winner in November AfriGreater competition from Afrigator

My most excitement is not actually based on the price; a custom made T-Shirt, but it's a big encouragement for the effort I put into positioning this blog and making sure that I write great posts. If you missed the post that I entered for the competition, here is it again: Increase Your Blog Popularity With Afrigator

A big thank you to Lester and the entire Afrigator Crew, you guys are doing an amazing job for the African Blogosphere, I wish you all greater success.

Duplicate Contents - How To Avoid Getting Caught!

2008-11-28T02:12:00.000-08:00

Duplicate content is an issue that cannot be ignored or joke with. A webpage that is considered as duplicate content would mostly be penalized by SE's and that will certainly have a negative effect on the blog/site one way or the other. Duplicate content is considered spamming by Search Engines and therefore should be avoided. Wait a minute, what actually is duplicate content?

What is duplicate content?

In the simplest form, duplicate content occurs when two or more blogs/websites publish substantially the same content or extremely similar information (article, review etc.) Its then means that the content either completely matches other content or is appreciably similar.

Search Engines vs. Duplicate Contents

Search engines can penalize a blogs/sites ranking if it looks as though content has been taken from another blog/site. However, these blogs/sites do sit in index and even rank very well. How can this be? Does it mean there are no filters?

Search Engine’s need lots of resources to check the entire internet. Therefore, engines use simple forms to uncover duplicate content.

The most common pattern is links. In general engines check between two linked sites for duplicate pages/content. If they exist, then engines try to get rid of the duplicate – usually the one who links to the source site.

How does this work?

Let’s say website B (affiliate cash) republished an article from site A (affiliate resources) and puts a link from B to A for reference, search engines understands that site A is the original source and the site B has copied it. Site B is seen as dupe content website.

How do search engines penalize?

One or two articles like this won’t harm your site/blog much for example, if website B has lots of original content. However, if duplicate content fills a significant number of pages, websites can be penalized by being moved deep down in the search result pages, moved to supplemental index or even unlisted from search index.

What's the Basic Idea?

The idea is simple: don’t link to websites that have the same content as yours – especially if it is in huge amounts compared to total number of pages.

This is what you should do?

To put it simply – engines see all pages as code and that probably includes site specific menu, HTML tags, layouts, title, descriptions etc. so it mix it up and articles aren’t considered as duplicate since it is part of some bigger code. That’s the secret.

Some useful tips for Content Connection users

Below are some tips to help avoid the risk of duplicate content:

Try to have a unique intro and closing for used articles, change titles

Rewrite articles into your own words
Combine two or more articles into one
Insert contextual short product reviews (1 picture plus one paragraph and
Link to full review will be just fine)
Split longer articles into 2 pages or more as long there stays 150 – 200
Words on each page
Insert comments in the middle of an article or links to detailed info
If there are bullet points – mix their order if possible
Think outside the box…
Use articles on pages that have a solid size menu
Use synonyms to replace words

Last tip:

Nothing like unique contents, try to add some unique contents of your own, every now and then to your blog/site. Even, if it's a simple review of a product, program or service that you like or have used before, that you believe your visitors will find interesting to know about. A way is to always have your pen and paper at your beck and call. Primitive as that sounds, it's still worth a thousand ideas; if you have ever had an idea pop into your head while on the street and by the time you got home, phew! It’s gone off your head, then you greatly appreciate this tip.

Cheers!

Internet Marketing Ideas Moving To A Custom Domain

2008-11-25T08:10:00.000-08:00

In the bit to take this blog to another level I decided I would move this blog from the free *BlogSpot URL: edundayo.blogspot.com to a Custom Domain. I've been planning to do this for quite some time now, but my fear is having to have something go nut which could make this blog inaccessible to readers, for some period I would not like.

The good new is that I have already registered a domain: netmarketingideaz.com from NairaHost, but the bad one is that I confirmed my fear "that the process might make this blog inaccessible for some period I would not like" when I did a test switch from edundayo.blogspot.com to netmarketingideaz.com last weekend. Everything from blogger side was ok but there was issues from the Domain registrar side (in this case NairaHost).

The bottom line is, the domain was not opening this blog and therefore I had to quickly switch back to the *BlogSpot Address. I have actually contacted the Domain Registrar and waiting to hear from them.

So, please be aware that anytime from now your dear blog: Internet Marketing Ideas will be moving to it's own custom domain: netmarketingideaz.com. Mind you, the old *BlogSpot address: edundayo.blogspot.com will still be redirecting to this blog.
Likewise, apologies if you are not able to access this blog for at any time, it's for the good of the blog and I'm sure it will thereafter have a great impact on your experiences with using this Blog.

Lastly, I need some feedbacks from you, as regards other things you feel is needed to be put in place to improve this blog to your satisfaction "after all, this blog will be useless without YOU!". So, please drop a comment and let me know. Your feedback is highly appreciated no matter how few it is.

Cheers!

Getting Started At Email Marketing

2008-11-24T02:03:00.000-08:00

Email Marketing has become a household idea in the Internet marketing arena, so then, what is Email Marketing?

Simply put: email marketing is the use of email in communicating marketing messages; that is, a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail (e-mail) to communicate all kinds of commercial messages to an audience. This covers every email sent to a current or potential customer.

Keynote:
Below are some of the main point that email marketing is usually used to refer to:

**Promotional emails sent directly in order to try and acquire new customers or persuade existing customers to buy again
**Advert placed in emails sent by other people
**Emails intended to encourage customer loyalty and improve the customer relationship

Advantages:
We can say email marketing popularity is largely based on its advantages below:

**Sending emails is much cheaper than most other forms of communication
**Email lets you deliver your message to the people (unlike a website, where the people have to come to your message)
**Email marketing has proven very successful for those who do it right

Let's briefly take a look at the 3 basic types of email marketing:

Direct email
Direct email involves sending a promotional message in the form of an email. It might be an announcement of a special offer, for example. Just as you might have a list of customer or prospect postal addresses to send your promotions too, so you can collect a list of customer or prospect email addresses.

You can also buy or rent lists of email addresses from service companies and they’ll let you send your message to their own address lists. These services can usually let you target your message according to, for example, the interests or geographical location of the owners of the email address.

Advertising in other people's emails
Instead of producing your own newsletter, you can find newsletters published by others and pay them to put your advertisement in the emails they send their subscribers. Indeed, there are many email newsletters that are created for just this purpose - to sell advertising space to others.

Retention email
Instead of promotional email designed only to encourage the recipient to take action (buy something, sign-up for something, etc.), you might send out retention emails.

These usually take the form of regular emails known as newsletters. A newsletter may carry promotional messages or advertisements, but will aim at developing a long-term impact on the readers. It should provide the readers with value, which means more than just sales messages. It should contain information which informs, entertains and benefits the readers.

Don't Get Carried Away!
This all sounds great of course, but it's not that simple actually. Unfortunately, quite apart from the complexities of designing and delivering email messages to the right people, getting them to actually read and respond to your message, and measuring and analyzing the results, there is the issue of permission.

A Bit About "Permission"
Successful email marketing is based on the idea of permission. This is of a great concern and the issue of extreme debate in the marketing community.

Basically, you need an email address owner's permission before you can send them a commercial email. As long as you don't have this permission, the recipients of your mail may well regard your message as spam; unsolicited commercial (bulk) email.

If you are accused of sending spam, then you may find your email accounts closed down, your website shut off, and your reputation in tatters. You do not want to send spam!

Note: it's very important that anyone going into email marketing read up on the subject of permission and spam. If you don't understand the significance of permission and the risks of ignoring it, then you could be heading for commercial misfortune.

It's actually relatively easy to ensure that the address lists you use or build yourself are permission-based.

An example of permission: in your capture form, tell them that by joining in your list, they agree to receive “such commercial email as you intend to send to them” and that they will also be subscribed to other newsletters related to the product they are interested in. Also when they buys something from your online store and also ticks a box marked "please send me news about product updates via email". You now have "permission" to send them updates by email, and the email must always contain a link that gives them the opportunity to unsubscribe from receiving such email update at any time.

OK, now that you're armed with some brief background information, to speed things up, try some here is a brief guide to get you started

How Can It Be Done?
The answer is simple “Forums”; since forums are mostly high traffic sites due to the fact that everyone are welcome there and can discuss almost anything they want.

Just follow this simple guide:
1. First, sign-up for an Autoresponder; ( you can try Getresponse, Aweber or Contactpro)
2. Setup a campaign in your autoresponder, load it up with links to your giveaway products, free e-books or whatever you know people will like
3. Create all your giveaway product or e-books. You can get start with the bundle of PRL(Private Label Right) products in your gallery
4. Build a landing page for your email capture form and put the email capture form there.
5. Announce your free e-books and giveaway in as many forums as you can

Exceedingly Important Note: Don’t forget to inform them in your email capture form that by joining in your mailing list, they will also be subscribe to the other newsletter related to the product(s) they are interested in and also make sure your also give them the opportunity to rescind that permission at any time.

Affiliate Marketing In The Simplest Language

2008-11-19T01:55:00.000-08:00

Affiliate Marketing no doubt has taken Internet marketing to a great level with the great money making opportunity it provides for affiliates and the greater sales opportunity it provides for the Advertisers/Companies. Virtually all Companies/ Advertisers online now offers affiliate opportunity to interested individuals or Companies.

But, what is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a process where the Publisher / Affiliate (YOU) promotes the Product(s) of an Advertiser/ Company and whenever a visitor goes to the Advertiser (normally through an affiliate/referral link, coupon, etc) and the advertiser makes a sale, the Publisher gets paid some percentage of the sale revenue as commission. The Customer that goes to the Advertiser through you (using your affiliate link) are known as your referrals and therefore the more customers you refer to the advertiser the more money you’ll make.

Affiliate Marketing like most other great Internet money making program/product is a very BIG world and cannot be explained and made clear in just a simply write-up like this. You can check this link for more details; Wikipedia

Also, I promise to be adding more and more information here on my Blog; so, try to check on both, at least as often as possible.

For now, I have compiled some great links that should help you in getting started:

MoreNiche:

This is also a wonderful affiliate program , one of its kind. Its offer affiliate a high paying commission and high quality product that are easy to promote. One of the best qualities of this program is that its provides affiliate with all the necessary tools they need to be successful; many free e-books, website templates, building and analysing tools, wide range of promotional banners and articles.....etc. The company provides affiliate with one of the largest stock of resources and you can't but just be successful as an affiliate of this program

Amazon Associate:

Amazon is one of the largest shopping mall with a wide variety of products. They offer an affiliate program called Amazon Associate. More on this Click Here

MakingYouRicher:

This is a highly comprehensive marketing program that provides newcomers to online marketing with all the tools and knowledge they need to make a killing on the internet.

ClickBank:

This can be said to have been considered the best with thousands and thousands of Digital Products waiting to be promoted.

Commission Junction:

CJ is in affiliate with many great advertisers and so offers a wide range of affiliate programs not only digital but physical products

EBay Affiliate:

EBay is known that to be one of the largest online auction sites and also offer an affiliate program in conjunction with CJ

Finally, watch out for more elaborate information on all the top affiliate programs available online today.

Recommended Products:

Helpful Information? Leave some comment!

Interveiwed By Loy Okezie Of StartupsNigeria

2008-11-18T02:26:00.000-08:00

I was recently interviewed by Loy Okezie of Startupsnigeria. Actually, the interview went online some couple of weeks ago; precisely 4th Nov. '08. I just don't know how it skipped my mind, not to have share it here with you my loyal readers but like that say; it is better late than never!

It's a very in-dept interview and I know you will learn one of two things from it, as much as you will enjoy reading it; I PROMISE!

Here is an excerpt from the interview (directly from Interview with Dayo Edunjobi - Author, Blogging Made Easy)

Interview with Dayo Edunjobi - Author, Blogging Made Easy

Today, I’m featuring an interview with Dayo Edunjobi, a Nigerian blogger who covers Internet Marketing in Nigeria and author of the first ebook about Blogging in Nigeria titled: “Blogging Made Easy”.

The ebook covers topics such as “Several Hot Niches You Can Blog About”, “How to Generate Ideas for Your Blog Contents”, “How to Drive Free Traffic to Your Blog”, “How to Build Backlinks for Your Blog”, “How to Get More Blog Comments”, “Hot Monetization Ideas for Your Blog”, “Top Mistakes Business Bloggers Make” and many more…

In this interview, Dayo shares his thoughts about the Nigerian blogosphere and talks about his ebook. Enjoy the interview!

SN: Please tell us about yourself, background and interests

Dayo: I’m Olusanjo Dayo Edunjobi, born in Lagos and a native of Ogun state. I’m a Computer Engineer and currently working with NetSolutions Ltd, as a Computer/Network Services Consultant at the CBN Yola Branch. I love making and meeting friends and like helping people as far as my abilities can go. I enjoy browsing the Internet and I’m sure you will understand my passion for blogging from that. What’s more? I’m passionate about God.

SN: How long have you been blogging and what inspires you to blog?

Dayo: Officially, a year and a half, though I’ve been down with the blogging thing longer than that but didn’t think of going into it full-time, not until early last year. And even now, it’s still what I do on a part-time basis. Honestly, my initial thoughts on blogging was to create a residual income, but as I got more and more involved in blogging I discovered that my passion for helping people with what I know had surpassed the desire to make money. So, in order to keep focus and not loose my inspiration I decided to go with the passion for helping people with my ‘knowledge’ as my inspiration.

SN: What is your main focus on blogging, and why?

Dayo: Providing quality and authentic information on Blogging and Internet Marketing! During my earliest researches into Blogging and Internet Marketing, I discovered a whole lot of misconceptions flooding the Internet, which is the main reason people get scammed easily.

Also, I found out that many people are into both of these Internet phenomenons without even knowing the basics, which is why they easily get swept off their feet by diverse ideas and schemes. So, I decided to use blogging as a means of sharing my knowledge and ideas, with the hope that it would somehow have a positive impact on someone’s Internet experience and life.

SN: What are your thoughts on the impact of blogging in Nigeria and what future do you see?

Dayo: Well, Blogging is still relatively underutilized in Nigeria. I guess that’s because the level of awareness is still terribly low. In fact, the very majority of bloggers in Nigeria are those that are into blogging without having the real clue of what they are going into. They mostly got into it because they see blogging as a money making scheme through Google Adsense.

But, with the way blogging is becoming more and more popular and adopted, I see a bright future for blogging in Nigeria. Very soon Nigerians will start to understand the power of blogging beyond what is currently obtained and the positive impact they can achieve through blogging.

I see a time when CVs would carry blog addresses. I see a time when most companies would integrate blogging into their business models and every employee maintain a personal blog. I see a time when large organizations will be more involve in initiatives and projects that has to do with blogging. I see a time when Nigerians will become full-time bloggers, living solely on income from blogging. Generally, I see a great future for blogging in Nigeria, and I’m really glad to be one of the pioneers of blogging in Nigeria.

...this is just a little bit of the cake, why not go ahead and read the full interview from this link: Interview with Dayo Edunjobi - Author, Blogging Made Easy

10 Ways to Make your Website More Popular

2008-11-16T08:00:00.000-08:00

I was glad when I found this post from Seoptimimise because it really empahasis many of the thing I have been sharing with you here on this blog, as regards traffic and spreading the word about your blog.
Below are the main points. Please, enjoy!

1. Invest in a good design

2. Learn about usabilty

3. Create a useful website

4. Keep it up to date

5. Be topical

6. Manage your reputation

7. Learn about the internet

8. Be controversial

9. Be interesting

10. Learn about Google

Just must read the full article and you can do that by going to this link: 10 Ways to Make your Website More Popular

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Made Easy!

2008-11-10T09:50:00.000-08:00

Search Engines have become the single most important tool for searching the internet for information, this has made it necessary for every blogger and webmaster to optimize their blog/site for the search engines know as Search Engine Optimization - SEO. But wait a minute, What Is Search Engine Optimization?

Abbreviations:
SEO – Search Engine Optimization
SERP – Search Engine Result Page
SE – Search Engine

Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving web pages so they rank high in SE’s for a specific keyword phrase. SEO is divided into two categories: on-page optimization and off-page optimization.

On-page optimization refers to every method you use that change the page code
Off-page optimization equals link popularity (more on this later); Link popularity is the number of relevant quality inbound links pointing to your website.

On-Page Optimization
On page SEO means the code page optimization so, in this phase, you should pay special attention to the following:

On-page factors

Page title
Header tags
Alt tags
Meta tags
Bolding, italicizing, and underlining
Placing keyword in the correct position on the page
Keyword prominence, Proximity, Frequency and Density
Anchors and Links
Navigation

Note: Even though on-page optimization is necessary and must be done, off-page optimization is THE most important aspect of ranking well in ANY search engine. It's critical you know this.

Off-page Optimization
Off-page optimization basically consists of all of the ranking factors that are NOT located on your webpage, which the search engines look at when ranking a website.

Off-page factors

Which websites link to you
The number of websites linking to you
The Page Rank of the website linking to you
The page title of the website linking to you
The anchor text used in the links linking to you
The number and type of links linking to the website that's linking to you.
The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to you
The total number of links on the website that is linking to you
Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed as an authority website.
The IP Address of the websites linking to you.

Like I mentioned earlier; off-page optimization equals link popularity and Link popularity is the number of relevant quality inbound links pointing to your website. Most major search engines use link popularity as part of their algorithm which helps to determine the relevance of your website. If you don't have inbound links, you won't rank well for competitive keywords.

Well, below are few ways to build link popularity:

Link exchange
Building inbound links through reciprocal link exchanges is very powerful website promotional tool. If done correctly, increasing your linkage will:

Allow other people to publish your e-zine on their web site
Include your web site's ad and link in each issue you publish. This may also help you increase the number of people that subscribe to your e-zine.

Create a directory of web sites on a specific topic
Give people the option of adding the directory to their web site by linking to it. Put your business ad at the top of the directory's home page

Offer a free e-book to your web site visitors
The e-book should be related to your target audience. Allow them to give the e-book to their own web site visitors by linking directly to your web site.

Exchange content with other web sites
You could trade articles, top ten lists, etc. Both parties could include a resource box at the end of the content.

Join or create a web ring
A web ring is a group of web sites on a similar subject agreeing to link together. To find a web ring to join type keywords "web rings" into your search engine of choice.

Directory Submission
Directories are different from standard search engines in that a search engine will query a database of indexed websites before it produces results and a directory is a database of websites that have been arranged by subject.

DON’T USE THEM

Frames , Java scripts and Flash, are not spiderable from the search engines, do not use them excessively. The reason for this is that spiders cannot read JavaScript (or Flash) and thus any link or text created by such JavaScript will not be counted in your indexing and will produce a lost opportunity.
Link Farms and link exchange programs. A link farm is a Web page that is nothing more than a page of links to other sites. Most search engines, such as Google says these are artificial and illegitimate way to increase link popularity. Google considers "link farms" spam, and may ban your site for participating it or in link exchange programs.

Blogging Made Easy - This Will Turn You Into A Guru!

2008-11-04T01:51:00.000-08:00

Hello,

This is an unofficial announcement of my ebook "Blogging Made Easy". It is one of the best and most comprehensive ebooks on blogging that you will find in the current Nigerian Info Markets. Blogging Made Easy contains every tips and idea that you need to become a world class blogger, this is not an exaggeration; it a fact.

It's an end result of one solid year of thorough researches. I need not say too much, as I'm so confident that the quality of Blogging Made Easy, like any other good product will speak for itself in the months to come.

I must say that you are really privilege to be here and for getting to know about this ebook first, very soon it will start to generate a lot of talk among Nigerian bloggers. Like, I said this is an unofficial announcement, just to honour every of my loyal readers. I promise to keep you updated when the ebook becomes officially available.

But in the meantime let’s take a look at some of the great ideas this ebook will reveal to you.

**Blog vs. Website
**Blog or Website?
**Stand Alone or Public Hosting?
**Free Domain or Custom Domain?
**Blog Service/Platform
**Several Hot Niche You Can Blog About
**How to Generate Ideas for Your Blog Contents
**How to Drive Free Traffic to Your Blog
**How to Build Backlinks for Your Blog
**How to Get More Blog Comments
**Hot Monetization Ideas for Your Blog
**Top Mistakes Business Bloggers Make
**Basket full of resources and Bonuses

............and lots more!

Let me share a little secret with you. When the ebook becomes officially available, I'm probably going to run some adverts in the national dailies, which will put this ebook before the eyes of over 100 000 Nigerians and I'm only offering the first 50 people a whopping 22% discount, which mean majority of these people will have to pay the #7000 normal price. By then, you might not be able to beat the rush, so I'm given you the opportunity to pre-order your copy now at the #5460 promotional price, you can pay now to the following bank account:

Bank: Diamond Bank Plc
Account Name: Olusanjo Dayo Edunjobi
Account Number: 0491050007511

After your payment, text the payment information to 08056076867 or 07033570792 and also specify a valid email address where your order should be sent.

Note: This is not the official payment account; this is to allow you to have access to this great ebook at the promotional price #5460 before it becomes officially available to the public

I trust you will make the right decision, like they say; opportunity comes but once, after which you will be the one to go searching for the opportunity. Be wise and seize opportunities when they come knocking at your door, so you don't have to toil looking for opportunities you have missed.

Like I said earlier, I need not say much. When you read this ebook, you will feel the urge to recommend it to your friends. I promise you that!

100% Money Back Guranteed

Google Adsense Alternatives

2008-11-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

Google Adsense, undoubtedly is the leader when it comes to online advertising . You can actually make good money from Adsense and most blogs and sites depend on Google Adsense for their revenue. There are also many ad programs that can be run along with Adsense ads.

Google Adsense Alternatives

Absolute Agency
AcceleratorMedia
ad pepper media
adagency1
AdBrite
Adconian
AdDynamix
ADEngage
Adgenta QAds
adgridwork
Adicate
Adify
AdJungle
Adknowledge
AdlandPro
Adlink Media
AdMentum
AdMob
AdOrigin
Ads-Click
ADSDAQ Ad Exchange
adsmarket
AdSmart
adtechnica
Adtegrity.com
AdToll
Advertising.com
Advertlets
AdVolcano
AffiliateFuel
AffiliateFuture
Agendize
AmaSensAds
Amazon
Ampira Media
Anastasia International
Auction Ads
AVN Ads
Axill
AzoogleAds
Bannerconnect
BannerSpace
BardzoMedia
BClick
Bidvertiser
Bla.st
Black Label Ads
BlinkAccess
BlogAds
BlogKits
BlueFN
BlueLithium
BurstMedia
buyat
Casale Media
CBprosense
Chitika
Claxon
Click2Sell
ClickBank
Clickbooth
Clickhype
Clicksor
clickXchange
clixGalore
CNet Shopper
Commission Junction
Commission Monster
Copernic Media
CoverClicks
CPX Interactive
CrispAds
CyberBounty
DarkBlue
Dragon Media Online
eBay AdContext
eClickZ
Enhance Interactive
eType Europe
eType USA
ExpoActive
Fair Ads Network
Federated Media
FindItQuick
FineClicks
FluxAds
Gorilla Nation
Her Agency
HispanoClick
Hyperbidder
IncentaClick
IndustryBrains
InterClick
Integri
Interevco
JoeTec
Komli
Kanoodle
Kontera
LinkBliss
LinkLike
LinkShareAds
LinkWorth
MaxBounty
MetaReward
Microsoft adCenter
Mirago
MIVA
MochiAds
Money4Banners
MoreNiche
NeverblueAds
Nixxie
Nuffnang
OneMonkey
Opt-Media
Oridian
Oxado
PayDotCom
PayPerPost
PayPopUp
Pheedo
Phorm
PointRoll
PopUpTraffic
Premium Network
PrimaryAds
ProfitCenter
Project Wonderful
PubMatic
Pulse 360
Quigo AdSonar
QuinStreet
Real Media
RealCast Media
RealTechNetwork
Revenue Science
Revenue.net
RevenuePILOT
ReviewMe
RevoClix
Right Media Exchange
Robert Sherman Company
ROI Rocket
Rydium
Searchfeed
Shareasale
Shopping.com
Sponsored Reviews
Strategic Affiliates
Targetpoint
Text Link Ads
Textads Dot Biz
TextWise
TNX.Net
Trade Doubler
Traffic Marketplace
Tremor Media
Tribal Fusion
TTZMedia
ValidClick
ValueAd
ValueClick Media
Veoda
Vibrant Media SmartAds
Vizu Polls
WayPointCash
Web Advertising
WebSponsors
WhenU
WidgetBucks
Yahoo Publisher Network
YesAdvertising

So, for site/blog owners who are not accepted into the AdSense program, or those who want alternate avenues to serve as additional means of revenue or don’t want to use AdSense ads, the following are worthy alternatives to consider. The list contains the major Adsense alternatives which also includes PPC, Shopping networks, Contextual ad programs and affiliate networks.

Cheers!

What is Pay-Per-Click (PPC)?

2008-11-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

Pay per click advertising is an online program where Advertiser’s Ads (Advert) are displayed on your website/blog and you are paid for every valid click on any of such ads on your website/blog. These Adverts are normally hosted by a company (e.g. Google, Yahoo) which serve the ads to your site.

Advertisers usually will place their advert with a company hosting/ providing such service, paid the agree amount base on keyword and the company then recruits individuals/companies with website/blog and serve the ads through their own server to the website/blog of those recruited; normally called Publishers. When the ads are clicked by genuine visitors of your site, you receive certain percentage of the money paid by the advertiser of the advert; these percentages are determined by the company hosting the adverts, based on the keyword that makes up your website/blog which displays the ads, as the ads are largely related to the contents of your website/blog.

Prerequisite:

In other to participate in any of these programs, you must have a website/blog (or a blog) and it must be compliant with the terms and policies of the company to serve the ads to your site. Next you are required to register and provide your full details, the company will review your application once received and after you are approved, they will provide you with the guidelines on how to place the ads on your site. The registration is generally free.

To Be Successful:

In order to be successful in the realms of ads publishing (pay per click), your website/blog must generate a great deal of traffic. That is to say your site contents must be rich and your advertising strategies must be solid. There are many great means of building traffic to your site, most of which I’ll be sharing free in subsequent write-ups, so watch out.

To make things a little easy for you, below are links to some of the top pay per click programs networks:

Google AdSense: This is a product of Google and one of the best in the world of pay per click. No doubt Google AdSense sits at the top spot amongst all other ads publishing networks and also offers one of the best; from viability to scalability, from usage to publishing and from earning to payment.

Yahoo Publisher: This is from Yahoo and it’s also doing great in its own jurisdiction. The only limitation is that, it’s only available to US residents currently, weather Yahoo might expand the country list is something I cannot tell

Microsoft adCenter: This like Yahoo Publisher is also available only to US residents. It’s a product of Microsoft.

BidVertiser: This is also another pay per click network that is growing faster and better everyday. Bidvertiser has some great things to offer and I believe it also has all it takes to compete with any other of its type

Others are:

...see a Comprehensive list at the following link: Google Adsense Alternatives

Last Word:
Pay per click advertising/ads publishing provides one of the best means of making money on the Internet to date. The viability of these is as infinite as the Internet itself. I’m sure most of the Big Names we hear in the Internet money making arena today started from here. So, what are you waiting for? Join the flight now

Success is yours!

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