Amazon Associates: How To Get More Customers
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I'm sure that there are many of us who are members of the Amazon Associates program. We all know that it can be tricky to get sales, especially in a down economy. However, I've found a way to provide some good deals to your customers that will be like a call to action, thereby spurring your economy.
First, you need to find good deals on Amazon. There are a couple of ways to do this, but for the sake of making this super easy, I've found a tool online to take the hassle out of URL hacking. This tool is called Amazargains, and it's actually great for finding those items that have been given deep discounts.
Fire up Amazargains and use it to generate a link to items in your chosen category with discounts applied. Then, select the discounted items and create a link to them in your Amazon Associates account.
You know, things like computer RAM, flash drives, and other memory is hard to pass up when it's 80-90% off...
I think you can figure out how to make this work from here. Good luck, and happy selling!
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14 Common SEO Mistakes and Errors
This post is originally from BlogHighlight.com.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the very effective way to drive natural and targeted traffic from search engines to our websites. Recently SEOMoz has published 12 common SEO mistakes and errors made by newcomers. It is always great to learn from mistakes and experience. I would like to take this opportunity to share with all of you the common seo errors so that we can something and not making same mistake in the future.
Here are the summary list of 12 common SEO mistakes and errors which all of us should not do it.
#1 Repetitive Keyword Targeting
When you are targeting a keyword or key phrase, it is good have it appeared in title tag, H1 tag and content. But it is not necessary to have shown in every page of your website.
#2 Splitting Efforts Across Many Domains
If you have register 500 domains under a single web server and trying to link all of them back to your main domain, please stop doing it. Google prefers links from different IP address you should focus on getting quality links.
#3 Reciprocal Linking
If you are creating a link list page which is used for link trading with other websites, then this kind of reciprocal links should be avoided. But if you are linking to an authority site and somehow that site also links back to your website, then this is the reciprocal linking we can have.
#4 Keyword Stuffing
As I mentioned in one of my previous blog post, keyword stuffing is some king of spamming technique which is outdated and can be easily detected by search engines.
#5 Blocking Bots Access to Duplicate Content
It is certainly not a good idea to block search engine crawlers to access duplicated content. The better way is to use 301 redirect or new canonical tag released by Google.
#6 Avoiding XML Sitemaps
XML sitemaps is very helpful to guide search engines what are the content in your website. If you do not have it implemented, you should do it immediately.
#7 Blocking Bots Rather than Using Nofollow
Again, blocking search engine bots is a bad way if you do not want to give link juice to your destination page of the link. Instead you should use nofollow link attribute.
#8 Paranoia About Registering with Google Webmaster Tools
There is nothing to afraid to register your website with Google’s Webmaster Tools. In fact, you can have insights exception report when Google crawler access your web pages.
#9 Ignoring Non-Google Search Engines
Although Google is the biggest player in the search engine industry, you should not ignore other search engines such as Yahoo and MSN Live. The truth is it is easier to rank better in those search engines and it can drive you significant traffic.
#10 Using Google’s Link Command
The result of Google’s link command only represents part of what Google knows. To certain extent, it can be considered as accurate enough to give you a rough idea of how popular is your web page or website. You should not too depend on the result returned.
#11 Submitting Articles for Links
By submitting articles to directories and article repositories, you gain valuable backlinks. But you should avoid submitting same article to multiple website as this is considered duplicated content.
#12 Chasing DoFollow Blogs
Although dollow blogs do give you inbound links when you make comments. You no need to just concentrate on this strategy as they are many other ways to gain backlinks.
In addition, I have 2 SEO mistakes worth to mention.
#13 Internal Linking
While chasing for backlinks or inbound links, many people forget to do internal linking. Internal linking is also an important factor during the search engine ranking evaluation. If you have enough internal links, you can rank higher in search engine results even you have less inbound links compared to your competitors.
I have 2 blog posts discussing about the importance and practical technique of internal linking which you might be interested to read more.
#14 Consistency
To achieve high rankings in search engine is not 1 or 2 days job. You need to be consistent over a long period of time. It takes time for you to build backlinks and watching your search engine rankings climbing from day to day. It is not going to happen overnight. In addition, you should update your SEO knowledge regularly as search engines keep on improving and changing rules.
Conclusion
Nobody is perfect. As long as you are willing to learn from the SEO mistakes and errors, you should be able to get high rankings in search engine result pages. Let’s learn together to achieve our goals.
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How I Got 100 New Twitter Followers in Two Hours
Just a little while ago, I was playing around with my Twitter profile and I was trying to figure out a way to boost the number of Twitter followers that I had.
I had been lingering in the 400-user range for a while, and it was time to change that.
So, I managed to get over 100 new followers in less than two hours. Would you like to know how I did this? I bet you would...
It was very easy. You see, Twitter makes it painfully easy to follow tons of people. So what I did was pull up the list of people being followed by @JohnChow and just followed them. ALL of them.
Each page has 20 users, and it only takes a couple of seconds to click 'follow' on them all. For some reason, Twitter users are very quick to follow people.
One thing about this technique: you may want to keep the people who's follows you hijack in your own niche. That way, you may get relevant tweets, rather than the random strange crap that you may expect from someone like me.
Anyway, the more people you follow, the more will follow you back. After a while, you can use Twitter Karma or whatever to go back and unfollow those who are not following you.
Have fun! And go follow me on Twitter!
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How I Will Save $400 Per Month Starting This Week
For a while now, my main goal has not been to get us out of debt exactly. It's true, we have a little bit (from a long time ago, eating away our credit rating). However, what bothers me the most isn't that we only owe a couple thousand bucks total, but the fact that no matter how much money I bring home every week, it just isn't enough to have any left over.
Yeah, right. Something doesn't sit well with me at all about that. For starters, I'm not the one who really takes care of what gets purchased. Oddly enough, neither is my wife. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot that I can do to fix it right now (mostly because nobody will get on board with me for the sake of their sanity).
So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to eliminate the car note.
No, I'm not paying it off. I'm letting the car company take it back.
Wait, before you tell me that a repo is a horrible thing to have on your credit report, let me emphasize that I totally agree with you. It is a bad thing.
Unless it's not on your credit.
See, this car that I'm paying for was purchased by my father-in-law. The car is only in his name, not even his wife's name. Go figure. Well, he passed away about a year and a half ago. The car was passed to me and my family along with an almost $400 per month note (probably more, when you factor in all of the late fees and charges for paying at an authorized agent - $10 per month!!!).
So basically, I'm paying for something that I didn't want in the first place (because I said I couldn't afford it), took anyway (to help out the mother-in-law, as well as my family), and just as predicted, I couldn't afford.
So they can have it back. That's more money in my pocket. Fortunately, it's income tax season. I should be getting a decent chunk back, and I'll just buy the best used car or truck that I can find. Heck, it's not like I go anywhere except for work anyway.
I probably should put some of that $400 in a savings account. Oh wait, I don't have control of my cashflow (except the tiny bits I earn online, which help get me through the week on the road).
2009 will be the year that I begin to take back control of my financial life. I will be keeping track of this on this site. Isn't it great when blogs evolve? Plus, you will get to know me a bit better, and maybe get some of my tips. I also hope you share your advice with me as well. I need all the help I can get.
This will be like trying to stop an advancing tank with a water pistol. What fun.
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First Guest Post on FromTheOld.com
Hey! I made my first guest post!
You should probably read it there, because it's not here.
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