Ezine Articles is most probably the best article directory on the Internet. It also has the highest page rank. Add to that, that it is by far the most widely utilized by Online Marketers. In the past you could just submit any topic, you wanted, to them. Also, you could include any links you wished, and harvest the payoffs for your great content.

However changes have come slowly but surely. Now Ezine Articles has been clamping down on Internet Marketers. Alright, this seems like a huge problme for you, right now. However, it will, in the end, mean somewhere you can go for even better marketing. Chris Knight is the owner of EzineArticles.com and he wants to keep it number one. That’s good news. But, it means he has applied new rules to the site. Also, that will most likely carry on growing this year.

What happened last year was, they stopped anyone submitting articles about certain topics. For example, you can no longer submit articles about private label rights products or articles. Some marketers were obviously very disappointed when these new rules seemed to hamper their progress.

Another thing was, Ezine Articles put through the idea of a Premium account. With this you could pay almost $50 a month for a much faster service. This would give you better reporting and more facilities on your account. You would get an increased number of resource bio boxes you could store in your account, for example.

Chris Knight is profoundly aware of how Google sees his site. For 2010, he’s thinking of making a change that will stop you, or, at least, hinder your power to edit your articles after they are submitted and live on the site.

Why is this likely to come this year? Well, Google sees there’s an article in a certain place. Then, if your article is edited (and according to Chris, about 83% of edits are just resource box edits), then that article ceases to be live any more. So, Google searches and sees absolutley nothing there – its a ‘black-hole’ in Ezine Articles. That makes them look very bad in the eyes of Google.

And, you can bet that, where EA has lead, others will follow. Other article directories are definately expecting to clamp down on affiliate links and that kind of thing (spam topics are a particular target - good thing too). Its just like with all the social networks. What they fear is that their site will be slapped by Google. So, they cannot allow marketers to produce a “risky neighbourhood” online, can they?

As Chris Knight said on his directory blog this year, “Our reputation is on the line with every single outbound link included on every single article.”
Don’t forget, that includes the reputation of everybody who takes part in the EzineArticles directory. It makes sense for them to be very careful over where and to whom you are linking.

So, how should you react? Well, rather than being angry with the new rules, why not think of them with a positive attitude? It means, after all, that Ezine Articles are working very hard to make sure your content is safeguarded! If their page rank and Alexa ranking increase, you directly benefit. If they squeeze out the spammers and that kind of thing, you benefit again. These new rules actually help good and ethical marketers.

The secret to making money online with private label rights products is two-fold: 1 - Being creative; and 2 - Taking action. Let your mind come up with ideas of what you can do with PLR content. The most important thing is that your ideas fit the ‘needs,’ ‘wants’ and ‘desires’ of your clients. Then, take action! Put your ideas into practice.

Here are the steps to take (a frame-work for you to modify as you see fit):

1. Type ‘Free PLR reports’ or something similar into Google. You might add your keyword or niche - for example ‘article marketing.’

2. Assume you find a report or series of articles. Edit them to make them your own. You could add a bio at the front with your main web-site link. Then, a resource page at the back with links for your other products.

3. Re-brand the report by re-naming it and creating a new set of graphics. You can get graphics done for $30 which look great, including a word.doc graphic for a great looking PDF.

4. Edit the sales page that comes with the report (if you get one). If you don’t, then look up ten web-sites selling something similar and note the best features and what you like. Don’t rip off someone else’s web-site or sales copy, but use this as inspiration to write your own.

5. Then add your completed report and sales page on your site. Offer your new report for $7. That’s priced to get you some income but also as a kind of squeeze page. You can get 10% conversions for this kind of site quite easily. You might like to add an audio sales message to help with this.

6. Now, record the report as an audio (MP3). You can get free software to do this from Audacity.

7. Make another sales page for the MP3 offering it as an upsell for another $17.

8. On the download pages for the two products, offer Master Resale Rights - $27 for just the report and $47 for the complete package.

9. Next, take a couple of the principles or tips taught in your report and make a free version of the report. Be sure to include a link to the sales page for your $7 full version of the report.

Now, you need to concentrate on traffic generation. Here are five methods, with many more possibilities open to you:
i - send a message to the subscribers on your list.
ii - make a series of articles from the main report and post them on eZine Articles and other article directories. Make sure there is a link pointing back to your sales page.
iii - add a article about your new product on your blog.
iv - post the freebie version of your report on as many freebie sites as you can find.
v - post the MP3, or a cut-down version, on pod-casting sites.

This product and traffic generation cycle will produce an autopilot business. You will get new subscribers and sales.

Thanks. Get going and get earning online!

Richard

A traffic jam in real life is all but a pleasant activity. There are people stuck in them that are raging mad, saying things that are all too colorful and numerous to mention here. But when it comes to your website, a traffic jam is a wonderful thing! There is no point in having a website with no traffic, is there? We have all went through the frustration of not being able to obtain traffic to our websites, so it is not a feeling that we aren’t familiar with.

Let’s say that you have just bought a store in Oxford St., London. No matter how much of a high dollar store it is, without traffic, you have nothing. You might be selling the best top designer labels that the industry has to offer. Your products might very well be better than all of the rest, but if no one is there to see what you are offering to them, where is the beauty and success? There is none. All that’s left is you standing there, all alone, and without a single visitor or customer. It is enough to make you want to give up hope. But if you take that very same store and move it on down the street where the people are plentiful, then you have got a major booming business on your hands with lots of visitors, customers, and money.

Some of the top name brand stores aren’t even making as much as certain websites are. Even you, the average Joe, can be doing what these people are doing for themselves. You too can create a great website and attract visitors. Get a traffic jam. It’s the internet, and that is where traffic jams are gladly welcome! Keyword your content to the maximum, spice up your page with eye-catching graphics, and host your site somewhere that it will grab the most attention. Find out what people are searching for by doing some research on some of the search engines. Type in a phrase or word and see who your competition is. The key is to attract people to your website. Since it isn’t on an actual street, your focus must be on getting the traffic to come your way.

Look at some other people’s websites and see what their pages look like. You can think of this method as following the traffic and trying to land right in the midst of it. Try to make your page better than the competition. Knowing who your competition is can be very helpful when attaining traffic. One by one, people will start traveling to your site, and before you know it, you will have a page full of visitors. This activity becomes more rapid over time, however, because you will be constantly adding updates, sending out newsletters, and useful information about your site. The word starts to spread rapidly when people feel that if they have found a site that they can come to on a regular basis. Updates are what keep your site fresh and new, allowing the visitors to feel like they are getting something new each time that they drop by. A traffic jam to your website never made it look so good!

Go for it… you can do it!

Richard

www.Toraffic.com

www.Affiliate-Marketing-Secrets.com

It doesn’t matter how much time that you have invested into that fancy little website of yours, without visitors, you’ve plainly got nothing. Even if you have got all of the coolest graphics and the most awesome information on the web about your business, no one is going to find it if you aren’t putting it out there for all to see. So how can you do this, you ask? Well, it’s Twitter to the rescue!

With Twitter, you can have more Internet marketing success than you have ever dreamed of. The amount of success that you want to have is up to you. If you haven’t yet heard of Twitter, then you need to know that it is the latest social networking site and it is literally on fire. It is so hot that people on the news are even raving about it. And if the website itself is getting that much attention from the media, then you can only imagine how much attention that it is getting from everyday people, right?

You can do it all with Twitter. You can post updates, links, make friends, and build business relationships. The small updates that you post about your website and products are called tweets. In order to boost your website traffic, post more often about updates, new products, new information, and whatever else that is relevant to your business. Basically, anything about your site will do. Make sure to include links to your site so that your fellow tweeters can conveniently go to your website. What would you do if you had 5,000 followers? It doesn’t seem real, does it? Anything is possible with Twitter. The average tweeter gains about 5,000 more followers each month. That is a ridiculous amount of people! And it gets even better with time.

Do not doubt for a second the amount of success that you can have by using Twitter. Millions are doing it right at this very second. A lot of people do not want you to know this, but social networking sites are what will make it happen for you in the long run. If you are trying to sell a product, then you literally have access to billions of people. Instead of surfing the net trying to find prospects, all the people that you need are right there on Twitter, and they gladly welcome you to advertise to them.

Twitter is the place for everything. There are literally millions of other sellers, affiliate marketers, and buyers on Twitter right now. A large majority of the people on this latest social networking site are there to make friends. When you choose to follow someone on Twitter, it is flattering. They suddenly are interested in what you are doing. Feel like posting a link? Go ahead because once you have made a couple of friends on Twitter, they will gladly read what you have to offer. So you can stop paying hundreds of dollars a year for leads. Go where the action is and stop being a twit! Use Twitter!

Your friend online,

Richard

www.toraffic.com/Viral-Twitter

www.toraffic.com/Instant-Capture-Page

www.trufree.biz/build-Twitter

Here is a bullet point summary of a successful on-line business. It will take work to get all this done. But, if you work hard at it, you will get there….

Here goes. The 5 step plan for success. (Don’t leave a step out - you need to master each one. Then you will have a long-term, stable business that practically runs on auto-pilot).

1. List Building.

2. Building Relationships.

3. Affiliate Marketing.

4. Traffic Generation.

5. Product Creation.

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1. List Building - You know, you really must build your own subscriber list. This is how to literally print money on demand. When you have built up a responsive list, its reckoned to be worth $1 per subscriber, per month.

2. Building Relationships - But, its no good building a massive list that never buys from you. Or, think of it like this. You need your list to trust you. So, you must give them good content and also great gifts.

Also, you need to develop relationships with other marketers. As many excellent relationships as possible. You will need them later. This also secures your business and its good fun too.

3. Affiliate Marketing - Many marketers start and end here. But, that is a mistake. Yes, its great for short-term income and you can make a fortune concentrating on this. But, its harder work for longer and is less secure.

Its a question of balance. That’s why its important you learn affiliate marketing. This is how you monetize your list. This is how you can actually earn while building your list, your sites and your relationships.

4. Traffic - The absolute must of Internet Marketing is traffic generation. if you can master this, you will succeed. In order to build your list, you need traffic. In order to make affiliate sales, you need it too.

5. Product Creation - This vital 5th step is where you create a name for yourself and brand yourself.

Once you have a responsive list and are starting to gain good working relationships, particularly with other marketers, you are ready to create your first product. This is where you ‘really’ launch your business.

Keep on keeping on,

Richard

www.Finfree.biz
www.Giveaways-for-Wealth.com
www.Affiliate-Marketing-Secrets.com
www.List-Building-Secrets.org
www.Video-Marketing-Secrets.net
www.Toraffic.com

Only a short while, or so, to go, before you can pick one of my Traffic Highways software for free.

Here is the list for you to choose from:

·    Need better tools for your affiliates to entice them to promote your site? Then you need the Affiliate Highway!

·    Tired of spending hours writing or hundreds of dollars having articles written for you? Then it’s the Article Highway you’re after.

·    Wish you could find “do-follow” blogs the easy way rather than spending hours scouring the internet for them? Then its Blog Highway you need.

·    Sales copy what ails you (well that or the high price of it)? Take a trip down the Copy Highway and put your mind at rest.

·    Having trouble getting quality backlinks to your sites? Then you will want a copy of Directory Highway.

·     Email Highway will help to ensure you never send out another poorly formatted message again. Also works great for articles, newsletters and ezines!

·    Forget expensive keyword tools; with the Keyword Highway you’ll be able to compile HUGE lists of keywords for your sites.

·    With the Link Highway you can not only learn how many backlinks you’ve got coming into your site and exactly how many pages you’ve got indexed; but you can spy on your competition as well!

Its a difficult choice to make, but you have some time…

Thanks,

Richard

Your Biggest Computer is Free

I often hear a lot of people talking about buying a bigger, better computer. They want it to be the newest that they can find with all of the latest technology. You wouldn’t believe the fortunes that people are spending on their technological gadgets these days. It is like we have forgotten all about what we can do and are just leaving it to our robotic devices. Well, I am here to tell you that your biggest computer is free. And it is your brain.

Instead of wasting so much time trying to find a computer that is going to do all of your work for you, try using your head! It sounds a bit harsh, but at least I am telling the truth. Stop doubting your capabilities as a network marketer. That is where we all go wrong. We simply do not have enough belief in our own abilities. Think of your mind as being very similar to an actual computer. You have the ability to store, create, and remember the same information as your computer does. And in actuality, our minds store everything that happens to us in our lives. When we really sit down and think, we can “pull up” useful information that we are needing at the time, just like a computer!

Did you know that it has been proven that we only use a small portion of our brain power? I believe the exact amount is 10%. Yes, it is true. The majority of us are not using our heads! We are leaving it all to the latest technology to do our thinking for us. Have you ever heard of something so ridiculous? Not that I have anything at all against computers and technology, it is just that we could be doing so much more as far as our own individual mental capacity goes. Think of your brain as a computer that is continuously calculating information. The next time that you sit down to read another how-to article about building an email list or someone’s success story as an affiliate marketer, make a real note of what you are reading inside of your own mind. Don’t just save the page to your favorites and forget about it!

All too often, I have noticed that there are a lot of people out there who find great information, read it, save it, and ultimately forget what they have read and forget that they even have it on their computers! Oh, that retched bookmark tab! It is a wonderful tool to have, but unfortunately, most of us just spend our time surfing the web and reading everything that we can get our hands on. Let me tell you something that you need to remember: All of these informative guides and eBooks all basically say the same thing! They are telling you that you can do it and become successful. So, it is time that you stop doubting what you can do and put the information that you know to use. Put what you know into action and you won’t be disappointed.

Keep on keeping on!

Richard

When you need to get the word out, you need to get it out fast. No one wants to sit around and wait for prospects to come to them because it just is not going to happen. In the online business world, you have to be a real go-getter. You need to know what it takes to get the word out, and quick. While everyone else is sitting around waiting for their fortunes to come to them, you can be doing something about yours right now.

Here are some simple quick ways to build your email list fast so you can start spreading the word about your business:

1. The first thing that you need to do is create a blog that talks about something interesting. Within that blog or website that you create, you need to upload a couple of places for them to sign up to things like newsletters, giveaways, freebies, whatever! Just make sure that there are places located on your website or blog that allow them to enter their email addresses and names. This will be the number one thing that gets you those email addresses.

2. Your blog cannot attract people if there is nothing interesting on it. You may need to upload some eye catching graphics and interesting articles that talk about things related to your business. Do not be afraid to spice your articles up with keywords. Keywords are the bread and butter to lots of traffic! There is no way that people will know about your site or blog unless you make it keyword rich. If you are not sure about how to keyword your articles, then take some time out to do some basic research on SEO. It doesn’t take very long to comprehend, and there are literally thousands of free how-to articles about SEO. Please do not forget this very important step.

3. When you go to online forums, be sure to leave links to your site or blog so that people can get to you easier. When they visit your very interesting page, they will become intrigued because it offers them freebies, newsletters, and tons of cool information. People always want what is free, and when it is convenient for them, they appreciate it that much more. A lot of folks tend to bookmark sites that they find on online forums to their favorites. That gives you that much more of a reason to want to advertise.

4. Always update your site. Keep the people informed about what new, free products and information that you are offering. You want to make sure that you can get as many email addresses as possible. When people know that what they are signing up for is free, they do not feel pressured. You can easily discuss your business with them once they become regular readers of your material. You will know who is interested and who is not. The great thing about it is that you will not even have to go to them. Make them feel included by sending them extras every now and again. Inform your current list about updates to your site or blog that they may not be aware of.

As you can see, it is really not hard to build an email list. You need this list if you want your business to succeed. You could go without one if you wanted to, but it would be very difficult. You would most likely have to resort back to harassing your warm market and going door to door for leads. An online business should be simply that. You shouldn’t have to look any further, and with an email list, you won’t.

Advertising a newsletter in order to enhance your marketing business is very effective, and extremely affordable. People love to read about products and services that businesses have to offer. They want to know what is in it for them. A newsletter is a very great way to go about advertising your business because it doesn’t make the potential customers feel pressured. There is no one talking to them and hassling them. The only thing that is happening is that they are receiving great information about your business, and they are reading it by choice. The fact that they take the time out to sign up for your newsletter lets you know that they really want to know what your business is all about. Allowing people to sign up for newsletters from your website or blog can also give you the reassurance that you need to know that your business is running smoothly.

You can host a subscription to your newsletter on your website or blog very easily. Just make sure that your readers know that it is a newsletter. You also will want to be certain that your newsletter suits your website and talks about everything that you want the reader to know. Do the facts and information inside of the newsletter differ from those on your site a bit too much? Will it confuse the reader? The information that you are putting out there needs to be very specific. Try not to be vague in your descriptions. People really do not like that. Confusion can be very discouraging and cause potential customers to walk away. They may feel like they can find something better somewhere else. The newsletter should be very informative and reassuring. You should send several a week to keep people updated.

They need to know what they are getting when they sign up to your newsletter. Be sure to set up an automatic confirmation email for everyone once they sign up. The fact that your information is in compliance with what is also on your site is very important. You need to make sure that everything flows together. With all of the information that is on the web today, it can be very easy to get confused, especially when it comes to newsletters.

And for that reason, you will want to make your newsletter stand out from all of the rest. You can be as technical as you would like when it comes to the quality of your products. Let the reader know what your product will do for them. How can it be helpful to them? Your potential customers needs tons of facts. When they get finished reading your newsletter, they need to feel like they are walking away with something, not just a bunch of talk.

Never doubt what a newsletter can do for your marketing business online. They have the ability to interest and persuade. They keep your readers coming back for more, and make the people want to sign up to your products. Without good information, there is nothing to know about what you offer. You newsletter will be tailored to suit your products, and the interests of others.