Monday, April 28, 2008

Building A Home Business With Private Label Rights.

By Lucas Heijn

Would you like to be working from home? Hate your job and would like something better? Want to spend more time with your family?

This is the dream of millions of people around the earth. Most of us want financial security. For most it is just a dream. Is there something you can do to help you achieve your goal? How may private label rights products help you to realize this goal?

Setting up an internet business poses many questions. What do I have to sell? You could promote affiliate products. The commissions can be very good, usually from 50% to 70%. Affiliate selling also has some great benefits. Here are some:

1. No worries about creating a product, its ready made for you. 2. You can use the product creator's website so you don't need your own. 3. No customer support required on your part. 4. Your share of the profit is often more than generous.

Affiliate marketing surely has real benefits. Even seasoned marketers with their own products promote other products as affiliates.

There are advantages to having your own products as well. These advantages far outweigh the advantages of affiliate marketing.

How would you like to do a job once and then get paid over and over again? This is the advantage of owning your own product and marketing it. This is called viral marketing. What makes it viral? When you make your own product you have control what goes into it. This control allows you to insert links that will benefit you. You will notice that most eBooks have a resources section. Here there are useful links to products, services, free products and more. Some of these links will promote products and services that will pay you. So as your publication makes the rounds of the internet, readers are clicking links to these products. Each time someone buys, you get paid.

Creating a product is hard work. Not necessarily. This is where private label rights material comes to the rescue. PLR material can make the product creation job much easier.

With private label rights you are able to use the material make a few changes. Put your name on it. Change the graphics. Add your links. Now you have your own viral product to work for you over time.

All you need to do is get it out there.

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How to Improve an Existing Product

By Kim and Charles Petty

You may have a niche marketing website that just isn't producing sales for you at the rate at which you had hoped it would..or maybe it isn't producing any income for you at all or it could be that you haven't actually figured out that what you are selling is, in fact, a niche market product. You might need to do a little 'tweaking' and modify your strategies somewhat to get the site performing better. There really are some things that you can do to improve your existing product.

Step #1: Bill Cosby, the famous entertainer, once said, "I don't know what the secret of success is, but I know the secret of failure and that was trying to please everybody." He was right. You can't please everybody and you can't sell to everybody either. It's possible that you may simply need to narrow you market, identify you product as a niche marketing product and advertise it accordingly.

Step #2: To improve your existing product you have likely overlooked the most obvious solution of all. You could simply ask your customers what they think. They are, after all, the end users of the product or service that you are selling. There is nobody that knows how a product can be improved better than the people who are using the product.

Step #3: Analyze the competition. Take the time and put forth the effort to look at the product or service that your competitors are offering. Identify their strengths and weaknesses. Find out what your competition can't, won't or doesn't really like to do and set about doing those very things yourself.

Step #4: Are you selling your product at the right price? Pricing a product too low makes people think it won't be any good, pricing too high will discourage them from buying it.

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Keyword Selection for Google's AdWords

By Kirt Christensen

For those who are not familiar with it, Google Adwords is set up on the basis of making ads employing particular keywords. Resulting from that, when a searcher is looking for that subject Google can show that ad with the lists of search results.

This will exponentially increase the advertisement's exposure without forcing the advertiser in question to go out and employ any of the many dubious marketing techniques employed by other marketers.

What does the advertiser do to select the keywords? What key thing makes one set up keywords more valuable that any other?and what keeps a third from having the same impact as the two others? There are various ways that advertisers use to be sure their advertisements get the desired viewership.

First thing to do is to have a brainstorming session, think of the service or product and write down all the words that come to mind. Include everything specific, general, crazy and serious. The sky is the limit.

With this big list of keywords in hand, move keywords that are most pertinent to the subject and put them onto a final keyword list, don't leave out words that would help the ads to be posted on more general searches as well.

It is important to remember that keywords that are too general are going to display far more results than the consumer is going to want to view; internet viewers have the attention span of a three year old with attention deficit disorder when they are searching for the information they are seeking on the internet. If it isn't within the first three to five pages of search results it probably isn't going to be viewed.

The good news is that after a frustrating beginning consumers generally have the common sense to turn to other means of searching, which includes the use of more specific search terms. By creating a blend of the two advertisers have the best chance of their ad being seen.

Utilizing this new keyword list, the next place to go would be Google's keyword finding tool to add still more related words that can help you along the road to success with your AdWords campaign.

Remember, as progress is made with the campaign, the clear goal and number one priority is to get those ads to the people who will most probably want to buy your goods or services (these are known as the target audience).

In aiming the keywords at their desires and by using phrases they would use you can be assured that the earnings from the AdWords campaign are at a maximum while the spending is held tightly in control.

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Search Engine Marketing: How Search Engines Rank Web Pages

By Terry Stanfield

Getting your webpage ranked as high as possible on a search engine results page is one of the goals of search engine marketing and using search engine optimization on your website. But do you know how the search engine actually ranks and indexes web pages? Most search engines use a complicated process to index and rank the web pages that the search engine spiders find when they are scanning the web. Using search engine optimization and putting articles written with search engine marketing in mind will get the search engine spiders to your site but once the search engine spiders find your site they have to index your site and then assign your site a ranking within the thousands of other sites that contain information on the same topic that your site has.

Different search engines use different methods to assign a weight or rank to each web page that the search engine's spiders find so using different methods of search engine marketing and using different percentages of search engine optimization is a good idea. If you do several different types of search engine marketing and utilize more than one kind of search engine optimization tool then it's more likely that a search engine spider will find your web page and assign it a higher weight or rank.

One of the ways that search engine spiders determine the weight or rank of a particular web page is to index the number of times that a particular word or key phrase appears on a site. The search engine spider will assign a weight or rank to the web page based on how many times that word or key phrase appears within the web page. This is a very common method of assigning rank to web pages that is used by a lot of the most popular search engines so it's important to use search engine marketing and search engine optimization to make sure that those search engine spiders give your site a high ranking or weight.

Another way that search engine spiders assign a weight or rank to a web page is to take note of where in the web page a particular keyword or key phrase is located. For search engines that use this kind of ranking system just using standard search engine marketing or traditional search engine optimization techniques might not be enough to get your website noticed by the search engine spiders. In order to draw the spiders of search engines that rank web pages based on the location of the keyword or key phrase on the page it's necessary to use those words to tag your page. Tagging a page is putting that particular keyword or key phrase in the meta tags of your site, using them in the heading or home page of your site and using those words or phrases systematically through the rest of the site. If you think of your website as a tree in order to get the attention of spiders from the search engines that use this type of ranking system you have to have a particular key word or key phrase on every branch of the tree in order to get a higher ranking.

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Search Engine Marketing: Timing of SEO in the Web Design Process

By Terry Stanfield

If you're just starting to build your website now is the best time to start planning your search engine optimization and search engine marketing strategy. The best time to introduce the SEO planning of a website is when the site design is ready and the site is ready to be launched but there is no content yet for the site. Just before the site launches is the time to bring in an SEO consultant to provide some SEO services. After the design of the website is done an SEO consultant can give you suggestions about what keywords and key phrases you need to add into the site HTML as Meta tags and where those tags should go. Once the site is tagged and the design and navigation has been tested it's time to add in content. Having SEO content on your site from the start will give your web site a big advantage over older websites that might already have a bit of a following but haven't had any SEO services by a professional SEO consultant.

For a new site where that site ends up on the search engine results pages can be critical to its success. In order for the site to get a high ranking on the search engine results pages it's imperative that a professional and experienced SEO consultant creates search engine optimized content that is ready to be part of a broad search engine marketing campaign. It just makes more sense to get all your ducks in a row before you launch the site doesn't it? Bring in an SEO consultant when you're ready to start putting content on the site so that when the site launches your site will be instantly indexed by the search engine spiders and can start drawing traffic from search engines immediately.

If you have an existing site that is due for an overhaul or a design revamping then you should also consult a professional SEO consultant before the site is redone so that you will have a good idea of what SEO services that you need. Cosmetic work on the site is important so that your site doesn't look outdated but changing up the content on the site will be very important. Most of the traffic that websites get comes from searches done by people who use Google or another search engine to look for website dealing with a particular topic.

You want your site to be at the top of or at least near the top every search that is done by a search engine for the topic that your site is about. In order to achieve that you need an SEO professional to write great search engine optimized content before the site launches. If your existing site has had the same content on it for more than six months you should get an SEO professional to write new content. Changing the content is a great search engine marketing strategy to draw new web site traffic and improve your search engine ranking.

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Search Engine Marketing: What to Look for in an SEO Consultant

By Terry Stanfield

When you want to add some search engine optimized content to your website it's probably a good idea to hire a professional SEO consultant. A professional SEO consultant can help you decide what SEO services you need in order to overhaul your existing website to make it more search engine optimized and to implement some search engine marketing. A consultant can also tell you what percentage of SEO content you need to have on your site and what Meta tags to use.

If you have never used any search engine optimization on your site at all then you will definitely need to hire an experienced SEO consultant to make sure that your site gets a complete search engine optimization makeover. Many SEO consultants offer more SEO services than just content so if you already have a professional SEO writer you should ask that writer if he or she also does SEO consultations or provides other SEO services.

If you need to start looking for an SEO consultant here are some tips on selecting an SEO consultant. When you are considering an SEO consultant ask to see previous examples of any SEO content that person has written but also ask to see websites that the person has written for. After all, the point of hiring someone to provide SEO services is to get your website noticed isn't it? So you need to see some of the websites that the SEO consultant has worked on in order to know for sure that the SEO consultant can deliver high quality SEO services. A good way to tell if a web site that the SEO consultant has worked on is really doing well in search engine rankings and drawing traffic is to look on the Alexa website. You can enter the name of the website or the website address and see the search engine ranking for that particular website over a period of months, weeks and days. If that site is doing well then the SEO consultant probably is experienced enough to provide quality SEO services but if the site is ranked very low or doesn't get a lot of hits then you might want to look for another SEO consultant.

Another way that you can tell if the SEO consultant that you're considering hiring is of high quality is by what his or her rates are. Someone who has high rates but a poor portfolio probably hasn't been working as an SEO consultant for very long and might not have the skills that you need to increase your web site traffic. If the consultant's rates are very low then he or she might be trying to build up a portfolio of work which shows inexperience. You should always be willing to pay a fair rate for SEO services just like you would be for any other professional services. Don't expect to get great SEO services for next to nothing. This is your business and your business is important so it's worth investing the money in a highly qualified SEO consultant.

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Search Engine Marketing: How Search Engines Work

By Terry Stanfield

Have you ever wondered how exactly search engine marketing works or how search engine optimization can help your business? Search engine marketing relies on the basic principles of search engine optimization. Search engine optimization makes it possible for a search engine's spider to find your web page and add it to the search engine results page whenever someone does a search for a word or phrase that shows up on your website.

Search engine marketing uses search engine optimized content to make your website easier for the spiders to find and for people who are searching the web to find. A search engine uses thousands of little bots called spiders to index the millions of web pages that are on the Internet. These spiders start at the most well known websites and work backwards following links and searching for common words and phrases. Every page that the spiders come across with those particular words on them is indexed and saved. Those pages are the ones that show up in the search engine results page when someone uses Google or another search engine to look for websites on a particular topic. The place where each site shows up in the search engine results page ranking is based on the content of the site, how many times particular words and phrases appear on the site and the relevance of the site to those search times. That is why search engine marketing depends so heavily on search engine optimization.

If you want your website to show up higher on the search engine results page then you use to use search engine marketing and search engine optimization techniques in order to get the spiders to notice your site and put your site higher on the search engine results page. People who are using a search engine to look for websites will rarely click to the second search engine results page. It's crucial that your site be on the first page of the search engine results page or people will probably not find your site. Using search engine marketing and search engine optimization is the best way to do that.

The number one rule to remember when you are planning out search engine marketing strategies or trying to figure out how use search engine optimization effectively on your website is that your website should have 100% original content. The spiders will place your site higher on the search engine results page if the content that is on your site is original. When websites duplicate copy the spiders pick up on the repeated phrases and language and will sometimes not index a site at all if the spider determines that the content is too similar to the content on another site.

Search engine optimization and search engine marketing is more than just taking one word or phrase and repeating it a certain number of times. The content on the site has to be fresh and engaging and also contain the keywords or key phrases that will bring traffic to the website.

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