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		<title>Google Adwords Services Now Serving You Via IBiz Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Lee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google Adwords is undeniably useful in advertising your product online. This text-based system for advertising allows you to create ads with certain keywords that match your audience&#8217;s interests. And you can avail this Google Adwords through iBiz Clicks.</p>
<p>How does Google Adwords works? First, you have to create ads that Google shows along with regular search results. Your advertisements appear when somebody searches for the keywords you have informed Google that you want to be associated with. But unlike traditional advertising, you do not pay Google when it shows your ad; instead you only pay when somebody clicks your ad. AdWords can be a wonderful choice when you want to direct your advertisements to a narrow audience. AdWords may also be a good option when you just have a few dollars spared for reaching your audience.</p>
<p>Google AdWords is a direct marketing instrument. Your competition may include not just a savvy webmaster or two, but groups of marketing experts who know direct campaign angles inside out and work full-time to knead AdWords. That is a significant point to remember, simply because when you run a campaign, you&#8217;ve got to pay attention to your competition. So make sure that your ads are getting the positioning and clicks that make it worthy for your effort in the first place.</p>
<p>Nowadays, Google AdWords dominates the pay-per-click (PPC) market shares. It dominates an estimate of 60% of the total number of the searchable advertising found on the internet. It caters numerous audiences that are double the number of internet researchers who uses Yahoo that&#8217;s known to be their rival competitor.</p>
<p>If you aim to expose your company and be seen by the largest number of potential customers, Google AdWords is the best tool to use. Google AdWords doesn&#8217;t just assists you in reaching out, it also measures and strategize accuracy.</p>
<p>iBiz Clicks, your caterer of SEM/SEO Services that is based in Penang, Malaysia allows your business to grab this chance. Google Adwords will really help your aim in your businesses&#8217; exposure to the public be met. iBiz Clicks has the Google Adwords Qualification, a professional accreditation to do the Adwords campaign job for you.</p>
<p>iBiz Clicks provides consultation services for our prospective business partners. We lend a helping hand in terms of the cost-per-click, conversion rates, PPC campaign setup and more. True to iBiz&#8217;s words, it has gained PPC campaign reputation in some well known regions. Such regions include Southeast Asia, Europe and North America respectively.</p>
<p>The effectiveness of Google Adwords campaign relies on the strategic measures you used. Make sure you carefully select the best firms available in your area. Lastly, the consumers expect that this company will bring in the future.</p>
<p>Want to find out more about <a href='http://www.ibizclicks.com/google-adwords/'>Google AdWords Services</a>, then visit Simon Lee&#8217;s site on how to choose the best <a href='http://www.ibizclicks.com/seo-services/'>Search Engine Optimization Solutions</a> for your needs.</p>
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		<title>Discussing The Efficiency Of Ads In Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Hughes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many often ask do Facebook ads work. Well, yes they do get a few clicks but if asked do they get as many clicks Google AdWords, that answer would be no.</p>
<p>The reason Google ads get more clicks is because if someone clicks on an ad from there, they more than likely came to there to search for whatever ads they are clicking on anyway and are more serious about buying your product or service. Facebook ads are clicked maybe just because they happen to be there at the right time, not because the person is interested in spending any money.</p>
<p>This is not to say that Facebook ads are not an effective way to advertise, because it can be. The only difference is your ad most be seen quite a few times before a Facebooker will click on it. You can&#8217;t really judge your click through rate as a level of effectiveness, you must rate it by profits generates.</p>
<p>So many marketers give Facebook a bad review due to the fact that they review their ad campaigns in terms how many clicks their ad receives. Now if you are paying per click for your advertising, then I guess this wouldn&#8217;t matter. If you are making money, that&#8217;s what matters.</p>
<p>If you are selling a product then it will be easier to check your profits and compare that to the cost of advertising to see if your advertising has been effective for you.</p>
<p>If your research finds that you are making $200 from an ad worth $100, then your advertisement was effective, but you still need to decide if the amount made was worth the amount you spent and the effort that went into the ad.</p>
<p>To improve the performance of your Facebook ad is to compare the results from different ads and use the ones that produce the highest profit.</p>
<p>In order to do that, you need to run a few different ads and then review the results.</p>
<p>Get more articles written by this same writer dealing with topics like <a href="http://dryerasemarker.org">dry erase markers</a> and <a href="http://gelpen.org">gel pen</a>.</p>
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		<title>30 day challenge update: meditation!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aspen Knight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done the last few months: June: I didn&#8217;t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible . Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to turn off email (I&#8217;ve tried 9 p.m. in the past and that didn&#8217;t work&#8211;Google can be a very email-heavy place at times). I&#8217;d like to get back to this habit, because it made me distinctly more mellow at night. I noticed that I slipped pretty quickly back into the &#8220;email anytime I&#8217;m awake&#8221; habit. Reading the Bible was more work. I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I grew up the son of an evangelical Christian and a physics professor, which was helpful to learn how to respect other people&#8217;s opinions. I hadn&#8217;t read the Bible in recent years, so it was enlightening to read it as an adult. If I had to sum up the New Testament in a sentence, it would be &#8220;do unto others as you would have them do unto you&#8221; (the golden rule). However, for all the talk about mercy and compassion in the New Testament compared to the Old Testament, there was still quite a bit of fire/brimstone/judging. I enjoyed reading some books (e.g. Acts and Romans) that I didn&#8217;t remember much from growing up. Other parts I enjoyed less. But I got a lot out of reading the New Testament, including some appreciation of the text as literature and as history. I grew up on the King James version of the Bible. But newer translations are a lot more readable in my opinion. I enjoyed the New Living Translation . By the way, I really enjoyed an Android app called CrossConnect Bible (here&#8217;s more info on the app on AppBrain ). CrossConnect Bible has really solid spoken-word audio of the Bible. It&#8217;s perfect for listening on commutes. One meta-lesson I learned is that for some people, any discussion of a religious book in any context (even as literature or its role in history) is considered as rude as farting. That was something that I didn&#8217;t expect in oh-so-open-minded California. Heck, a few people may complain that I discussed the Bible (without endorsing or condemning it) even this much on my personal blog. Sorry if I&#8217;ve offended. July: I tried to use only cloud-based software . For the most part, this was pretty easy, but in a few instances I wasn&#8217;t completely in the cloud. I needed to open a terminal window from time to time to type various UNIX commands, and I had to take and crop a few screenshots. Side-note: for taking Chrome screenshots, I now recommend Screen Capture by Google because it can save in .png format really well, with a close second-place of Awesome Screenshot . After about a year of conscious effort, I pretty much live in the cloud at this point, and I love it. My data is usually in the cloud, so I can get to it from any computer. I&#8217;ve switched all my daily software and operating systems to open-source projects such as Linux/UNIX, Chrome, and GIMP. I try to live by the principle &#8220;don&#8217;t put data where you can&#8217;t get it out,&#8221; which means that I don&#8217;t give my data to some companies and I try to avoid proprietary file formats or things locked down with DRM. I don&#8217;t use any pirated software. The latest version of Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) is fantastic, by the way. This was mostly an easy, fun month. I think lots more people will live more in the cloud in a few years. August: I took a picture a day . I knew that I&#8217;d be climbing Kilimanjaro in August and wouldn&#8217;t be near a computer, so I decided to take a picture a day. On the plus side, I started to be more aware of unusual sights around me. On the negative side, I missed a few days and I haven&#8217;t posted the pictures anywhere yet. I think reviewing each day&#8217;s photos (and posting them for public comments) would be a much better way to improve my sense of composition and photography skills. I still hope to post my favorite daily pictures though. September: This month, I plan to meditate or quietly reflect for 15 minutes a day . I started today, and quickly learned that quieting my thoughts is pretty hard. I lasted about 2.5 minutes before so many to-do items were bouncing around in my brain that I had to take a break and write a bunch down before restarting. But I did enjoy my first session. I also managed to get my pulse rate pretty low. Now I have to avoid the trap of seeing how low I can get my pulse to go and just enjoy the quiet. Feel free to join me in my challenge this month&#8211;at only 15 minutes a day, it&#8217;s a pretty good way to try out a 30 day challenge! ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> It&#8217;s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done the last few months: June: I didn&#8217;t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible . Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to turn off email (I&#8217;ve tried 9 p.m. in the past and that didn&#8217;t work&#8211;Google can be a very email-heavy place at times). I&#8217;d like to get back to this habit, because it made me distinctly more mellow at night. I noticed that I slipped pretty quickly back into the &#8220;email anytime I&#8217;m awake&#8221; habit. Reading the Bible was more work. I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I grew up the son of an evangelical Christian and a physics professor, which was helpful to learn how to respect other people&#8217;s opinions. I hadn&#8217;t read the Bible in recent years, so it was enlightening to read it as an adult. If I had to sum up the New Testament in a sentence, it would be &#8220;do unto others as you would have them do unto you&#8221; (the golden rule). However, for all the talk about mercy and compassion in the New Testament compared to the Old Testament, there was still quite a bit of fire/brimstone/judging. I enjoyed reading some books (e.g. Acts and Romans) that I didn&#8217;t remember much from growing up. Other parts I enjoyed less. But I got a lot out of reading the New Testament, including some appreciation of the text as literature and as history. I grew up on the King James version of the Bible. But newer translations are a lot more readable in my opinion. I enjoyed the New Living Translation . By the way, I really enjoyed an Android app called CrossConnect Bible (here&#8217;s more info on the app on AppBrain ). CrossConnect Bible has really solid spoken-word audio of the Bible. It&#8217;s perfect for listening on commutes. One meta-lesson I learned is that for some people, any discussion of a religious book in any context (even as literature or its role in history) is considered as rude as farting. That was something that I didn&#8217;t expect in oh-so-open-minded California. Heck, a few people may complain that I discussed the Bible (without endorsing or condemning it) even this much on my personal blog. Sorry if I&#8217;ve offended. July: I tried to use only cloud-based software . For the most part, this was pretty easy, but in a few instances I wasn&#8217;t completely in the cloud. I needed to open a terminal window from time to time to type various UNIX commands, and I had to take and crop a few screenshots. Side-note: for taking Chrome screenshots, I now recommend Screen Capture by Google because it can save in .png format really well, with a close second-place of Awesome Screenshot . After about a year of conscious effort, I pretty much live in the cloud at this point, and I love it. My data is usually in the cloud, so I can get to it from any computer. I&#8217;ve switched all my daily software and operating systems to open-source projects such as Linux/UNIX, Chrome, and GIMP. I try to live by the principle &#8220;don&#8217;t put data where you can&#8217;t get it out,&#8221; which means that I don&#8217;t give my data to some companies and I try to avoid proprietary file formats or things locked down with DRM. I don&#8217;t use any pirated software. The latest version of Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) is fantastic, by the way. This was mostly an easy, fun month. I think lots more people will live more in the cloud in a few years. August: I took a picture a day . I knew that I&#8217;d be climbing Kilimanjaro in August and wouldn&#8217;t be near a computer, so I decided to take a picture a day. On the plus side, I started to be more aware of unusual sights around me. On the negative side, I missed a few days and I haven&#8217;t posted the pictures anywhere yet. I think reviewing each day&#8217;s photos (and posting them for public comments) would be a much better way to improve my sense of composition and photography skills. I still hope to post my favorite daily pictures though. September: This month, I plan to meditate or quietly reflect for 15 minutes a day . I started today, and quickly learned that quieting my thoughts is pretty hard. I lasted about 2.5 minutes before so many to-do items were bouncing around in my brain that I had to take a break and write a bunch down before restarting. But I did enjoy my first session. I also managed to get my pulse rate pretty low. Now I have to avoid the trap of seeing how low I can get my pulse to go and just enjoy the quiet. Feel free to join me in my challenge this month&#8211;at only 15 minutes a day, it&#8217;s a pretty good way to try out a 30 day challenge! </p>
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		<title>How To Identify Click Fraud And How To Proceed Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click fraud generally is a real pain. You have a spending budget and the budget is focused on real potential customers - not to give your rivals an edge. And yes it strikes smaller businesses the hardest. Why don't we examine the way to spot click fraud and how to handle it as soon as you understand you are a victim.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Click fraud generally is a real pain. You have a spending budget and the budget is focused on real potential customers &#8211; not to give your rivals an edge. And yes it strikes smaller businesses the hardest. Why don&#8217;t we examine the way to spot click fraud and how to handle it as soon as you understand you are a victim.</p>
<p>Click fraud is basically when somebody other than a possible client clicks your Pay per click ad. You pay for the click and don&#8217;t get an actual consumer or potential customer. Exactly what does the person get from click fraud?</p>
<p>They&#8217;ll use up your daily budget as well as move in front of you on the search engines. When you have a $10/day spending budget and your competition uses up your budget, your ad disappears and theirs takes your place. At this point these people are positioned for the genuine prospects. And you&#8217;ve paid out a lot of money for buyers and leads that just really do not exist.</p>
<p>Consequently How would you Spot Click Fraud?</p>
<p>Analytics is a tool you should use. Uncover exactly where your visitors are originating from. If you see that ten times a day you are visited by your opposition and they click on your PPC ad then it&#8217;s fairly obvious that you&#8217;re a target of click fraud.</p>
<p>Analyze the information. Look at your:</p>
<p>* Click through rate, CTR.</p>
<p>* Page views per session</p>
<p>* Bounce rate</p>
<p>* Length of visit on your website</p>
<p>* Duplicate vs . unique guests.</p>
<p>Click fraud isn&#8217;t always clear. However, should you keep on top of your computer data as well as analytics as part of your reports, it is possible to note almost any important changes.</p>
<p>For instance, if one of the advertisments typically carries a 10% click through rate that&#8217;s an enormous red flag.</p>
<p>Watch for changes. Just about any abrupt modifications in your click volume as well as spending, without having corresponding increases in conversion and sales, are a big red flag. You&#8217;ll have access to reports and data together with whoever you&#8217;re advertising and marketing with. Keep on top of these kind of reports and make notes of any kind of abrupt changes. Keep in depth files regarding what you are discovering. These details will let you point out your situation and acquire a response from your Pay per click consultant.</p>
<p>Probabilities are, someone that has been doing this will get caught by the various search engines really quick. They diligently check out and search regarding click fraud. However, should you suspect you are a victim, report your information to the search engine or service you happen to be utilizing for advertising. Your PPC account rep will need to recognize anything that you&#8217;ve discovered so it is important to remain on top of all the details you have access to and to record the findings. Be vigilant and persistent with your record keeping.</p>
<p>Click fraud happens. It&#8217;s actually common. If you do not want to fund mythical customers, learn how to study your reports, look for red flag changes, and document your results. Don&#8217;t let fraudsters take advantage of you, arm yourself with knowledge and beat them at their own game.</p>
<p>Want to find out more about <a href='http://ehowtobuildawebsite.org/'>how to build a web site</a>, then visit Tom Nick&#8217;s site today.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pay Per Click Advertising: Ten Terrible Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Prizer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vigilance, micromanaging and attention to detail can help you avoid some common and costly mistakes of PPC advertising. What are those mistakes? Here are the terrible 10 that are typical to most pay per click campaigns.</p>
<p>Big, Bulky and Broad Ad Groups for Your Keywords</p>
<p>Creating relevant, targeted ads are important. Avoid placing all your keywords into a couple massive ad groups. Build them tighter. With tight ad groups you can control more of your ad customization to increase relevancy.</p>
<p>Not Using Negative Keywords</p>
<p>With quality scores and click through rates playing a bigger role in your pay per click ad rank, it&#8217;s more important to weed out the keywords that push up your impressions and don&#8217;t result in desired clicks. If you sell &#8220;widget software&#8221; make sure you have negative keywords such a &#8220;-free&#8221; or &#8220;-serial.&#8221; Also, check your log files for your site to look for bad keywords that you are spending money on right now.</p>
<p>Not Enough Testing</p>
<p>Split-testing your ads is critical. Even the smallest of changes can boost results. In addition to testing your ad copy&#8217;s &#8220;call to action&#8221; or value statements, every ad has multiple variables to test. The titles, the two lines of copy, and display url all can be optimized. If you don&#8217;t have time for hands-on testing, a good professional pay per click management company can run daily split testing for you. You&#8217;d be surprised how well this can pay off.</p>
<p>Poor or Non-Existent Tracking</p>
<p>Of course, testing your ads and fine tuning your keyword lists only works well if you are tracking results. The search engines will tell you what your click-through rates are &#8230; but you need bottom-line results. You need to know your return on investment or what your cost per action is. It&#8217;s not enough to know that you spend $5,000 and get back $10,000. You might be able to spend only $3,000 and get that same $10,000.</p>
<p>Not Tracking Results to the Keyword Level</p>
<p>Setting up good analytics yourself or hiring a professional pay per click management company can do the job. Not only do you get more bang for your buck by getting rid of poor performers, but getting tracking to the keyword-level makes all of your testing and work even more precise. You need to know your earnings per click. If one keyword has a 56 cent Earnings Per Click (EPC) and another had a $1.22 EPC, this is important knowledge. Adjusting your bids to an appropriate level can keep you from over spending&#8230;or allow you to throttle up your overall traffic for even more success. Don&#8217;t let poor keywords leak your accounts.</p>
<p>Not Specific Enough Keywords</p>
<p>While some generic keywords can drive a lot of traffic and even be very profitable, they also can be filled with pitfalls. Negative keywords may not be enough to save you from going in the red on a generic keyword. Often, the users doing these searches are at a very early stage of the research and buying process. Again, this is another important reason to track results on a keyword basis.</p>
<p>Not Going After Long-Tail Keywords</p>
<p>This dovetails into the previous item. Building out lists and ads for long-tail keywords can be a time-consuming process, but worthwhile if done right. You are going to have different earnings per click for the keywords &#8220;dvd player,&#8221; &#8220;sony dvd player&#8221; and &#8220;sony dvd player model DVP-NS57P/B.&#8221; One consumer is doing research, while the other is likely pricing for the specific model they want and is ready to buy.</p>
<p>Not Separately Tracking Content and Search Networks</p>
<p>An easy way to get scorched on poor performing traffic or even click fraud is to not separately track your search network ads from your content network ads. Chances are that if you don&#8217;t know what the difference is, then they are likely not separated in your account &#8212; and bad keywords are leaking your funds daily. You are better off to build different campaigns for your keywords on the content and search networks.</p>
<p>Not Attracting Local Clients Through Geo Targeting</p>
<p>If you draw most of your business from a local area, the big three PPC engines allow you to geo-target your keywords to that area. This will bring the local market to your doorstep on non-local keyword phrases. This can be hugely profitable.</p>
<p>Not Frequently Monitoring Your Accounts</p>
<p>Alright, so maybe you do not frequently monitor your EPCs at the keyword level (you should). And, you don&#8217;t conduct split tests every day your ads are up (you should). It is still surprising that there are a high number of pay per click advertisers who don&#8217;t continually monitor their accounts. The big three PPC engines are cracking down on poor performing ads more than ever. Many advertisers are getting stung with the &#8220;Inactive for Search&#8221; label on their keywords. If you don&#8217;t monitor your accounts, Google, Yahoo and MSN may have plucked some of your keywords off their networks. And, with that, some of your profits.</p>
<p>Making mistakes like the Terrible 10 of PPC Advertising are common, but correcting them can have a huge impact on your bottom line. If you can manage your pay per click ads at a high level or if you can hire them out to a professional pay per click management company&#8230;the results for your increased precision and effort will pay off.</p>
<p>Josh Prizer is a Senior Account Executive and <a href="http://www.zerocompany.com/experts.htm">search engine marketing consultant</a> for Zero Company Performance Marketing, one of the premier <a href="http://www.zerocompany.com">pay per click companies</a> worldwide. Visit their site to learn more about how to improve your pay per click ad campaigns and effectiveness.</p>
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		<title>The Right Keywords: Target Your Online Audience And Increase Your Online Search Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan M Cruise</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The internet has connected the world in ways that it has never been connected before. Information, goods, and services can be found in seconds. You can connect with individuals on the other side of the globe and find old friends who you haven&#8217;t seen for years on social networking sites. </p>
<p>More and more businesses are taking advantage of this network. Today, nearly 97 percent of consumers go online to find local products and services. The phone book is out of date and business owners who want to succeed know that they must establish an online presence. </p>
<p>Many business owners do not know how to increase their website traffic and search results. There are many ways to do this organically and for free. One of the best ways to establish credibility with Google is to optimize your website with targeted keywords and meta tag descriptions. Often business owners just use their company name as the title of their page, but individuals do not usually search for services by company name.</p>
<p>To start, you must consider what keywords people would type in when searching for services or products in your particular industry. Then you should use those keywords in your website title, description, page headers, and subheaders. When Google crawls your site, it will see a consistency in the keywords that you use throughout your site and it will rank you higher for those keywords. This means that you have a better chance of showing up in the top results when those keywords are searched.</p>
<p>Here is one fun example. Let&#8217;s say you produce orange faux fur coats and your company name is Fuzzy Oranges. People looking for orange faux fur coats probably do not know of your company and will therefore not search for your exact company name. They will search fur coats, orange fur coats, orange faux fur coats, etc. These are the keywords that you want to permeate your website with&#8211;everywhere from the website title to the headers that you use on each page. The same goes for any business from landscaping to accounting. </p>
<p>It is also important to include your location if you are a local company rather than a national company. This is important because when individuals search for products and services they often include the city in which they live. If someone is looking for a bartending school in Phoenix, they will probably search Phoenix bartending school, bartending schools in Phoenix, and so on. And these are the type of keywords you should be targeting to reach your audience and increase your search results. </p>
<p>There are also many companies who can do this for you. They have years of expertise in finding the best ways to increase your online marketing efforts. This also leaves you time to do what you do best, whether it be building homes or planting trees.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Birks</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have online business the chances are that you&#8217;re looking for ways to promote your website. If you have time and you&#8217;re experienced web developer, then you can use one or all methods, mentioned below:</p>
<p>1. Submit your Website to Online Directories This is part of a longer term strategy aimed at creating incoming links, which will help form the foundation of your search engine optimisation strategy. Take a look at our list of online directories.</p>
<p>2. Start Social Networking Develop a presence in one or more of the social networking websites. For example, if you have a business-to-business service consider building a profile in Ecademy, whereas if you have a product or service for the consumer market MySpace can work well.</p>
<p>3. Create Buzz Are you launching an innovative business or one with a slight twist on what has gone before? Consider getting bloggers to write about your new business &#8211; the most popular place to do this is at PayPerPost.</p>
<p>4. Pay per Click Advertising If you&#8217;ve just launched a new online business the chances are that very few people know about it. Therefore to get people visiting your website instantly try pay per click advertising. Within 15 minutes you could have potential customers visiting your website.</p>
<p>5. Do Search Engine Optimization for your website Many people launch a new website without carefully optimising their website for important keywords. The result is that this task is left for a couple of months, at which time the website is optimised, with subsequent results not occurring many further months down the line. Get started immediately with optimising your website.</p>
<p>6. Submit an Online Press Release of your website One of the most cost-effective ways for new businesses to generate awareness is through PR. Try writing a press release, and remember to distribute it online as well as offline.</p>
<p>7. Classified Ad Postings There are many free classified websites which receive tens of thousands of hits each day. Posting an ad is almost always free and can bring in highly targeted traffic or be used as a lead generation tool. See our list of free classified advertising websites.</p>
<p>8. Launch Affiliate Programms After your first couple of months in business you should have a good idea of your customer acquisition cost. This knowledge, along with having increased the conversion rate of your website, means that you can launch an affiliate programme with generous yet affordable payouts.</p>
<p>9. Increase your Conversion Rate This is one of the most neglected forms of online marketing. Once your website has been up-and-running for a while you should have statistics regarding the number of unique visitors and be able to calculate how many of those go on to register and eventually make a purchase. To make your current marketing efforts more effective you need to convert more visitors into customers.</p>
<p>10. Low Cost Viral Techniques Try experimenting with various low cost viral marketing techniques. These marketing ideas could be anything from sending an e-voucher to all your current customers that they can also forward onto friends and colleagues, or providing a discount at the end of the buying process if they send your website to 5 friends.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re having time defficit, and you need to concentrate on tour speciality, instead of concentrating on website itself and on search engine optimization technics, there&#8217;s new method, which was developed by company named AdWord Phrases (www.adwordphrases.com). The idea of technology is placing your website banners on top of search engines, and linking them with keyword, which describes your busniess. Advantage of this technology is it&#8217;s universality, it&#8217;s scalability and fixed cost. Clients will no longer need to follow daily, weekly or monthly spendings. They can pay once in year and get solid traffic on their website during whole year.</p>
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		<dc:creator>John Mayer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you looking for help promoting your site for top keywords? Using different research tools for effective keyword bidding is essential in advertiser programs such as Google AdSense and Yahoo tools. As you have probably heard over and over, keyword marketing is very importaint step in success of online business. you have to know exactly what is behind the high frequency of a specific search phrase When you search a software tool to find the most popular keywords for your website.</p>
<p>If you are just throwing up websites without incorporating professional niche keyword research into your site planning, content development and search engine optimization, you are truly taking a shot in the dark. Once your site structure is done it is time to create the content for the site, which is the crucial part and where the keyword optimization and keyword density comes into play.</p>
<p>Keyword marketing research is the factor that determines the success or failure of your niche site. While doing keyword optimization, we always recommended to do a thorough market research and competitive analysis to find top keywords used by search engine visitors to find products and services online and what search terms are targeted by your competitors who are doing well in online marketing.</p>
<p>Keyword ranking will help you to be on top of your competitors, because through it, you&#8217;ll know what the public wants, what people are actually looking for, thus giving you ample time to come up with services and goods that these people want. At its simplest level, keyword research is about studying the phrases that work for your search engine audience.</p>
<p>Tools, which you can find on AdWordPhrases.com can help you identify search terms suitable for your business and you should use them to assist you in keyword research. It has set of unique technologies which allows you to see all needed information about keyword that you want to bid on. Plus, it has unique top placing technology which helps you to get on top of Google, Yahoo, MSN, plus dozens of search engines across the world. It&#8217;s business model differs from pay per click technologies and allows advertisers to get unique niche for their websites with unique ownership of keywords. If you&#8217;re a brick and mortar business that sells power tools, proper keyword research can be a tremendous help-even before you set up your online business.</p>
<p>Keyword ranking research is the heart of any search engine optimization and search marketing task. An effective website relies on good set of keywords, and using the right tools to manipulate those terms.</p>
<p>Doing proper keyword optimization needs both time and skill, and the service doesn&#8217;t come cheap. In a nutshell, keyword marketing and ranking undoubtedly is a very important and also fascinating field of Internet marketing that unravels the magnitude of the Internet.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfred Lancer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have seen them all over the internet &#8212; blinking, flashing, animated and garish. You vow that you will not contribute to this internet graffiti. You feel smug with your decision because after all banner advertising is dead.</p>
<p>Wrong. Banner advertising is not dead &#8212; and in fact it is still an effective internet marketing tool. However banner advertising has evolved &#8212; or rather I should say successful banner advertising has evolved. Some of the horrible eye-damaging banner ads still exist but successful, knowledgable internet entrepreneurs have long abandoned those marketing efforts and instead concentrated on targeted, tasteful, and trim banner ads.</p>
<p>Banner ads have a bad reputation in part because of the proliferation of banner farms that killed all the banner swap programs (or at least made them completely ineffectual). Also we all have memories of those hideous banners flashing across the top of so many web sites.</p>
<p>Banners have come along way since then and a cleverly designed banner can be a real asset to any advertising campaign. Also don&#8217;t forget that you don&#8217;t have to use one of those big giant banners that span the width of the screen. You can use smaller simple ads that can fit easily into the sidebar or special box on a web site so they can suit the design and work more effectively.</p>
<p>It is also important that you pay close attention to what sites you will choose for displaying your banner. IE. A site about web development for your web hosting service ad or a site about parenting for your ad promoting your potty training book.</p>
<p>Many text link and pay per click advertising vendors also offer the option of banner ads. Similarly many ezine and newsletter publishers sell space on their sites.</p>
<p>And savvy internet marketers are taking them up on these advertising opportunities.</p>
<p>WHY USE BANNER ADVERTISING?</p>
<p>Consumer research historically shows that most people see an ad several times before they take action. Banners allow you to display your ad over a period of time, increasing the chances that a prospect will see your ad and remember it.</p>
<p>Your banner ad can be targeted to specific audiences and displayed on internet pages and sites matched to that specific audience.</p>
<p>People seeing your advertisement can instantly click through to your web site store to to learn more or to make a purchase on the spot.</p>
<p>You can track your results and make adjustments to your campaigns based on response. Analyzing your results can help you finetune your banner, landing page, or target audience to improve your response and sales.</p>
<p>Banner advertising is really a buyers market, as there is always more banner spaces available than advertisers need or want, which means you can find many bargains available.</p>
<p>IMPORTANT POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN PLANNING YOUR BANNER AD CAMPAIGN</p>
<p>There are several aspects to consider when planning out your banner advertising campaign.</p>
<p>The first consideration should be your ad graphic itself. These are usually animated GIF images but remember you want to attract customers &#8212; not simply attention &#8212; and remember the overall tone of your ad campaign when designing your graphic. Also keep in mind that many sites limit the file size of the graphic to somewhere between 12 and 16 KB.</p>
<p>Your banner can come in variety of sizes. The full banner size is 468 x 60 pixels. Some other standard banner sizes include:</p>
<p>Size(pixels).Type 468 x 60&#8230;..Full banner 234 x 60&#8230;..Half banner 392 x 72&#8230;..Full banner with vertical navigation bar 120 x 240&#8230;.Vertical banner 125 x 125&#8230;.Square button 120 x 90&#8230;..Button #1 120 x 60&#8230;..Button #2 88 x 31&#8230;&#8230;Micro button</p>
<p>Your graphic will be hyperlinked to a target url of your choice so you may want to spend some time planning how you will track traffic and clicks. Some programs provide a tracking and statistics service for you but most individual sites can&#8217;t offer that information.</p>
<p>When selecting where to display your banner ad the first consideration should really be choosing a site offering information that appeals to your target audience. A high-traffic dating site isn&#8217;t going to be much good for advertising your maternity clothing line, for example.</p>
<p>Then you should look at traffic. When looking at site stats you want to make sure you focus on page views or page impressions rather than hits (which may count individually each graphic viewed). Depending on your banner and market you may be primarily concerned with unique page impressions.</p>
<p>Banner advertising is often sold by CPM (Cost Per Thousand displays, the Roman numeral &#8220;M&#8221; stands for one thousand). Many sites also offer a fixed rate price for a set period of time.</p>
<p>Many marketers do not concern themselves as much with click-through rates and instead see banner ads as &#8220;branding&#8221; tools. They create brand awareness and a brand image in the viewer&#8217;s mind. The hope is that when the viewer gets ready to make a purchase then your &#8220;brand&#8221; pops into their mind. Branding can also generate sales over the long-term. Branding is difficult to measure, but can be very powerful.</p>
<p>If you have a big advertising budget then you might want to consider an ad agency or media buyer. They can offer a lot of value for the dollar because they have the experience, knowledge, and contacts to make the most of your budget.</p>
<p>It is quite possible to be your own media buyer, if you are willing and able to handle the increased workload. The biggest difficulty is finding the right sites on which to advertise your product or service. Then after you find a site that might be a good match you need to negotiate the best possible deal. It is important you be as knowledgeable as possible as it is a buyer&#8217;s market and you don&#8217;t want to pay too much. Of course you also don&#8217;t want to alienate a web master whose site is a perfect match for you.</p>
<p>You also have the option to buy banner space on many search engines and directories. Often this option allows you to display your ad only to a targeted audience which can obviously increase your chances for a successful campaign but it can be a pricey option.</p>
<p>Banner ad networks are another targeted option that might be more affordable. Individual web site owners contract with a single company to serve their banner ads and handle ad sales for them. In turn, these networks divide their sites into categories and subcategories to allow advertisers to advertise on particular sites within the network that are the most highly targeted. They also offer very sophisticated tracking tools that give you lots of valuable information about who is visiting your site, and what actions they are taking.</p>
<p>Some networks offer pay-per-click advertising which only charges you when someone clicks on your banner and comes to your site. However, this approach is subject to fraud by unscrupulous site owners.</p>
<p>A pay-per-sale network, otherwise known as an affiliate program, only charges the advertiser when a purchase is actually made. The advertiser pays both the affiliate and the network but only when there is a sale. Of course the competition to attract quality affiliates is high so while this can be effective it shouldn&#8217;t be the only method of banner advertising you use.</p>
<p>And some final banner advertising tips:</p>
<p>* Keep your message brief, direct and simple. * Attract more attention using words such as &#8220;free&#8221; and &#8220;now&#8221;. * Put &#8220;click here&#8221; somewhere on the banner. * Create different versions of the banner. * Animate your banner but only if it improves it. * Keep the file size as small as possible.</p>
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