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Writing articles to promote your home based business and to make money online is one the hottest topics on the internet. Articles are a great way to get free traffic to your site

Lots of   people feel intimidated about writing their first article, but I will show you some easy ways to write quality articles.

First of all what are good articles – that is any article that can accomplish the following

1.Generate free traffic to your site

2.Send  traffic to a web site that you are promoting as an affiliate, (via your link).

3.Provide quality content for a blog or lens

4.Combine several articles to make small reports or your own e-books

People use the Internet to gather information, to solve a problem, they want to learn something quickly, that is why your articles must be brief and to the point.

The quickest way to write article.
With all the tip websites,  and online forums, there is no need to come with all the content off the top of your head.

However – never take another persons word or article, do not even copy a sentence, that is illegal

Learn for their content, find similar content, until you have a good understanding of the topic, then write the article in your own words based on what you have read and learned from all the articles that you have gathered from the Internet.

Where to find good Information.

If you want to write an article on “how to loose  weight - for teenager’s”, search Google or any one of the major search engines for “weight loose forums” how to “diet” or something similar, have a look for forums and discussion boards for the same topic.

Now all you have to do is read the posts and the various responses and use this information to write your article.

If you find a great information product on clickbank, or any of the other affiliate programs that is the same as your article, you can promote that product at the same time. So now not only are you  writing a great article to promote your home based business but you also are getting money from your article when people click on your affiliate click.

Another place to gather information is at the “Frequently Asked Questions” at FAQ.org and groups.google.com.

Remember to keep your article short, to the point and with loads of helpful tips and good advice.

How to Write your article title.
Your title is one of the most important parts to your whole article, this is what gets peoples attention, whether they decide to read your article or to pass it by.

Your title must convey exactly what you are offering in your article, think of the following titles,

“help your teenage children with their weight” or “diet programs for teenagers”, these are kind of  boring  and do not really stand out.

“7 steps to an active & energetic teenager” – this title is much better.

So by tweaking and changing your titles you will be able to see which title gets the most visitors, once you have chosen the best title, sprinkle some good long-tailed keywords in your article, and you will soon see the difference in the traffic that has been sent to your site.

If  you want to learn more about how to promote your home base business with articles, then get Article Writing Secrets, you will soon be churning out quality articles like a seasoned writer.

 Regards

Alan

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One of the biggest problems for new internet marketers is learning how to advertise their products, affiliate products, or websites without spending a small fortune in PPC ads. 

 Luckily, there are several fantastic ways to go about this, some of which can help you to lower the costs of your PPC campaigns while others require no investment at all. 

Do a Keyword Campaign 

Keyword-targeted campaigns are the most commonly used campaigns, so keywords are either your best friends or your worst enemies.  Many sources of internet marketing “knowledge” seem to state that giant lists of general keywords are the best route for pulling traffic.  While this does pull lots of traffic, short, general keywords are more often than not the downfall of an otherwise good campaign.  Lots of traffic equates into lots of per-click costs.  General keywords, however, do not generally bring converting traffic.  The thing to remember about traffic is this – one highly-targeted potential buyer is worth thousands of non-targeted non-buyers.
       
  Use  long-tailed Keywords.            
Long tail keywords are keywords that consist of four or more words.  Let’s say you’re selling a product to teach people to make money online.  “Make money online”, “make money”, “earn money”, and similar search terms are some of the most awful keywords you could possibly use, as these are some of the most over-used and therefore over-priced keywords possible! 

 Use some keyword programs and sites to get some long-tail keywords however, and you may end up with a list with keywords such as “earn more money online today”, “make money as an internet marketer”, “how do I make more money online”, etc.  These terms are going to pull less traffic, but if you put together a good number of long-tails, you will still pull a substantial number of hits.  The great part is that long-tail keywords are going to cost you substantially less than the general keywords, and therefore you get twice the traffic for half the price.  

 Use Specific Hig-Targeted Keywords       
Highly-Targeted keywords are keywords such as “Buy product”, “Purchase product”, and “Order product”.  These terms are very specific, and will bring in those searchers who are ready to purchase a product right now.  This is some of the best traffic your site will see!
      

Utilise a Site-Targeted Campaign
Site-Targeted campaigns in Google are an often overlooked but highly profitable way of running a campaign.  Find the sites at the top of an organic search for your keywords, put them into your site-targeted campaign, and watch those sites’ traffic filter into yours for a fraction of the cost of PPC.  

Article Marketing Campaign       
Finally, one of the most effective marketing methods is also free!  Article marketing has proven to be one of the best ways to drive quality traffic to your site.  The best part about article marketing, aside from being free, is that your articles can bring traffic for months or even years!  This is a cumulative effort – the more articles you write and put out there, the more traffic will continue coming to your site.  It’s brilliant, it’s easy, and it’s free – give it a shot!
       
If you want to discover  new ideas about lowering your marketing costs and improving the quality of your traffic, then get Cheat-Marketing today

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Alan Scholtz
      

I know that once in the past Banner ads were all the “rave” and over the past few years they have seemed to die out, and where replaced by text links.

However with the start of web2.0 craze I think that banner ads are starting to make a come back, and a place where they could really dominate are on a  Squidoo lens.

So how hard is it to add a banner ad to a lens, in fact it is very easy and once you start there you can add them to your blog post on your web site, all over the place. Once you know the HTML code and how it works, you will be churning out banner ads like a seasoned pro.

But keep in mind that your ads must be beneficial and not distract from your site, blog or lens, otherwise what was the point of adding it in the first place.

Placing a banner ad is a useful method to promote both your own products and affiliate products as well, because you can just have a clickable banner ad or a banner ad with some advertising on a normal text module

To place the banner ad takes only 4 simple steps,

Step 1. Add a text module to your lens.
 You can use an existing text module and place the code at the top, or you can  add a new text module to your lens.

 Step 2. Paste this code into the text module:

Just copy the following code into your text module
 
(a href=”http://www.go-here-when-you-click.com“)(img src=”http://www.banner-location.com/banner.jpg“)
(/a)

 Step 3. Edit the code. 

The first bit is where you want the banner to take someone when they click it, and the second bit is  the filename of the banner image itself.

(go-here-when-you-click.com) is the site where you want the person to go to, either to your site or an affiliate product etc.

(banner-location.com) this is the location where the banner is located, either on your web site server, as a jpeg or gif file.

Now all that you have to do is make the image smaller by specifying the width and height, so the code will look like this,

(img src=”xxx://xxx.banner-location.com/banner.jpg“ width “500” height”110” border “0”)(/a)

 Step 4. Save the module.

 You’re now done! You should now have a centred banner that links to your chosen page.

Conclusion

So not only will your new banner ad look great on your lens, but if you understand how the code works you can add this code to your blogs or your site. If you want to find out more about how to improve your Squidoo lens, then think about becoming a Squidoo Guru. Banner have always been a powerful way to advertise – as they always say – “a picture is worth a thousand words”

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Alan
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The problem with having a Squidoo lens especially if you have more than one is having the time to continually add fresh content to the lens on a daily or weekly basis.

One way to overcome this problem, is to add a RSS module from your Blog (if you have one) or any other suitable RSS feed to your lens.
This way you will get fresh content automatically with out you doing anything, as soon as you update your Blog,  because it will update your lens at the same time.

This is not hard to do, in fact it can be done in 3 easy steps, and  it  will only take you a matter of minutes to do. Learn more about this in Squidoo Guru

Step 1 : Get the RSS Feed URL

First you need to get the RSS feed URL, either from your Blog or whichever RSS feed that you want to display, in my case, it was to my Blog, ( how-2b-debtfree.blogspot.com)
Locate the RSS Feed icon, when you press that it will take you to the RSS feed page and give you the correct URL which you will need to add to the lens

Step 2 : Log on to Squidoo

Log on to your Squidoo account and go to your dashboard, while you are on your dashboard have a look at moving some of the modules around, especially if a new module looks more interesting. Remember the 10-second rule – you need to hold a visitor’s attention for those crucial 10 seconds.

Step 3 : Add RSS Module
Go to the section with “re-order modules” and add the RSS module to your lens, if the RSS module is not displayed in any of the categories, you can just enter in the words and do a search, you will then be able to see it.

Once this has been ordered you can just drag and drop the module into the correct space on your Lens

Step 3 : Name your  RSS Module

The Module will now be ready to be edited with your own information.
Give your RSS a module a title, like your Blogs name etc

 Give your module a subtitle (optional) you can add anything here, have a look what it looks like, you can always go back and edit it again.

Give your module a description (optional) again you can be creative, if you don’t like what you have entered, just delete it later on.

Now it is time to enter the RSS feed URL that you got in step 1.

There are a few other options that you can add, play around and see what suits you.

Conclusion
Now that only will you be able to make your lens more interesting,  you will also be updating it automatically with fresh content from your Blog. If you want to learn more about how to enhance your Squidoo Lens, then become a Squidoo Guru, you will soon see the difference on your lens and so will your visitors.
If your Blog posts are keyword rich your lens should also get a good boost in SEO ranking.

Regards

Alan
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Affiliate marketing  can be a ruthless and frustrating exercise in futility these days.  There are gobs of people attempting to make it big online as affiliate marketers, and those numbers definitely play against you when it comes to PPC and organic search engine optimization. 

 It can be very costly to begin drawing traffic, and in many cases you still won’t get the kind of traffic you’re looking for.  Let’s look at a few things you can do to shift the odds in your favor.

 Article Marketing

 Learn to write articles,  article marketing is free and will bring you quality, targeted traffic for months and months.  It takes awhile to learn to use PPC and profit, so allow yourself to dabble in PPC while focusing in article marketing for the time being.  You will find plenty of prospective buyers without spending a penny in advertising.

 Other Alternatives  to Clickbank

 Clickbank is oversaturated with affiliates and want-to-be-affiliates, so your competition is very steep.  The most popular Clickbank products, the ones that really sell, will cost you a fortune in PPC campaigns.  It is surprising that so many beginning affiliates do not realize how unnecessary Clickbank is. 

The only real benefit to Clickbank is convenience, in that you can search products all in one place, you get paid from one source, and you only need one account to do so.  The benefits of using other sources, in my experience, have far outweighed those conveniences. 

 New Affiliate Programs.

 Did you know that lots of sites offer their own affiliate programs?  Do a search for a general topic that you want to find products for.  Find several of the top organic search results pages that actually offer a product for sale.  Now scroll to the bottom of those pages (in most cases).  On many of these sites, you will find a link for “Affiliates”, “Join Affiliate Program”, “Partners” or “Become a Partner”.  There are other variations, but it should be obvious that you are seeing an affiliate program. 

 Many direct affiliate programs offer more options and better commissions than Clickbank programs, and you have the added benefit of competing against much smaller numbers.  Try to pick programs that don’t also have a program with Clickbank, or you wind up in the same position as before.

 Cutting yourself away from the masses of Clickbank affiliates is one of the best advantages you can give yourself. 

 Good luck in your affiliate marketing, and may you prosper!

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Alan
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So now you  taken the plunge and  created your own lens,  you have loads of  quality products added on your lens.

But where are your customers? Somehow your  Squidoo Lens just does not seem to attract traffic?

Implement these 5 FREE ways to drive unlimited traffic to your Squidoo lens.

 1 -  Search Engine Optimization

 2 - Writing Articles.

 3 - Social Bookmarking.

 4 - Posting in Forums

 5 - Link Building.

None of these steps are hard or complicated, but they are crucial for your home based business lens’s success if you want to make money online.

 1 -  Key Word Optimization.

 Think of your  Squidoo Lens as your store front, if it does not look interesting then visitors will just click out., you need to find a way to hold their attention.
Write quality unique content in your niche and sprinkle your keywords all around your  home based business lens.

Now that your lens is interesting and people are looking for your Keywords that are on your lens, it is time to go to the next step - Advertising
 
2 -  Article  Marketing.

  You need to establish your self as an expert, somebody who knows what they are talking about, this is done by Article writing. Write articles on the topics relating to your niche.

Then submit these articles to the 3 best directories, Ezine Articles, Goarticles and Article Dashboard

 By writing and submitting articles, your  lens will also receive high search engine ranking increasing more traffic to your home based business lens.

Now that you are writing articles, it is time to join some clubs and share your experience, 

 3 - Social Bookmarking.

 If you want to increase your lens’s presence, it is crucial that you visit social Bookmarking sites.

These Social sites can really boost up your  Squidoo lens’s traffic.

Here are couple of  Social Media websites which are capable of sending high traffic to your lens.

1. Digg

2. Del.icio.us

3. Reddit

4. StumbleUpon

All you need to do is write quality articles in your niche that readers will love to share with their friends and family members.

Now that you have your name and lens spread around the “Web” it is time to join some specific clubs where people in your niche are hanging around,

 4 -  Forums.

The best part about forums is that not only are you posting in links back to your own home based internet business lens , but you can get loads of helpful advice as well.  In these forums you can post answers to questions of members in the forums.

The reason that forum posting is good is that forum members get to visit your Squidoo lens for more information through the ad that you are allowed to paste below your post.

Now the last step is to get thousands of little sign posts all pointing to your lens

 5 - Link paving.

This is not hard, because if you joined the forums and the Social Bookmarking sites, you will already have hundreds of potential places that you can place comments, other people’s blogs, websites etc. Just think if you have hundreds and thousands of incoming links to your lens, you are opening up tons of ways through which traffic can enter your lens.

 For this to really succeed you need to set-up a reciprocal linking campaign where you can exchange links with quality sites in your niche and thus share traffic with each other.

Conclusion.
As you can see, marketing and promoting your Squidoo lens is not hard or complicated, but it does take hard work and perseverance.  If you want to learn more about how to promote your lense, then become a Squidoo Guru, if you implement these 5  FREE ways to promote your Squidoo lens  today you will be astounded at the traffic you receive.

Regards

Alan
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So now  you  taken the plunge and started your own Home based Internet Business, your website has been designed and you have loads of  quality products.

But where are your customers? Somehow your website just does not seem to attract traffic?

Implement these 5  simple ways to drive unlimited traffic to your home based Internet business webite.

Step 1 -  Search Engine Optimization

Step 2 - Writing Articles.

Step 3 - Social Bookmarking.

Step 4 - Posting in Forums

Step 5 - Link Building.

None of these steps are hard or complicated, but they are crucial for your website’s success if you want to make money online.

Step 1 -  Search Engine Optimization.

 Think of your home based Internet business website as your store front, if it does not look interesting then visitors will just click out, you need to find a way to hold their attention.

You need to do write quality unique content in your niche and sprinkle your keywords all around your site.

Now  it is time to go to the next step - Advertising
 
Step 2 - Writing Articles.

  You need to establish your self as an expert, somebody who knows what they are talking about, this is done by Article writing. Write articles on the topics relating to your niche.

Then submit these articles to the 3 best directories, Ezine Articles, Goarticles and Article Dashboard

 By writing and submitting articles, your website will also receive high search engine ranking increasing more traffic to your home based internet business site.

Now that you are writing articles, it is time to join some clubs and share your experience,

Step 3 - Social Bookmarking.

The hottest thing to come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon is Social Bookmarking, and If you want to increase your web presence, it is crucial that you visit social Bookmarking sites.

These Social sites can really boost up your website traffic.

1. Digg

2. Technorati

3. Del.icio.us

4. Reddit

5. StumbleUpon

All you need to do is write quality articles in your niche that readers will love to share with their friends and family members.

Now that you have your name and website spread around the “Web” it is time to join some specific clubs where people in your niche are hanging around,

Step 4 - Posting in Forums.

The best part about forums is that not only are you posting in links back to your own home based internet business site , but you can get loads of helpful advice as well.  you as an expert in your niche.

The reason that forum posting is good is that forum members get to visit your site for more information through the ad that you are allowed to paste below your post.

Now the last step is to get thousands of little sign posts all pointing to your site

Step 5 - Link Building.

This is not hard, because if you joined the forums and the Social Bookmarking sites, you will already have hundreds of potential places that you can place comments, other people’s blogs, websites etc. Just think if you have hundreds and thousands of incoming links to your site, you are opening up tons of ways through which traffic can enter your site.

 For this to really succeed you need to set-up a reciprocal linking campaign where you can exchange links with quality sites in your niche and thus share traffic with each other.

Conclusion.
Marketing and promoting your site is not hard or complicated,  if you want to discover other ways to promote your site and get a flood of traffic then try Cheat Marketing ,  it does take hard work and perseverance,  but if you implement these 5  steps  today  you will be astounded with the results.

Regards

Alan

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Have you ever thought of starting your Internet home based business to make money online?

Typically, most people who decide to start a Internet business  start with affiliate marketing first. Unfortunately those that get involved in affiliate marketing never make more than about $100.

Considering the enormous market to tap, why do so many people who attempt affiliate marketing fail so badly?

The first mistake that most people make when thinking about starting affiliate marketing is to buy loads of ebooks, and “guides”, and jump from one program to another. They do this until the point of being in such a state of confusion that they have no idea of where to start and what to do.

The biggest problem is marketing and finding a cheap way to market their affiliate products and home based business as cheaply as possible.

One of the best  ways to learn how to market your home based internet business  is to start a Squidoo lens.

If you are not building sites to Squidoo, you are missing one of the quickest and easiest ways to market a product and get free traffic for your home based business website  to make money online.

What is Squidoo.
If you have heard the term, but are unsure of what Squidoo is then this is the best definition of Squidoo,
Squidoo is a cross between a blog, a mini site, and a My Space page. Squidoo calls the sites “lenses” and the people who produce the sites are called “lensmasters.”

Squidoo lenses are very easy to make, even if you have not ever built a website or blog before. You can have a lens up and running in as little as 15 minutes.

Squidoo lenses are made up of “modules”. Squidoo has dozens of modules to choose from. There are modules for making lists. There are modules for You Tube videos.  With a little knowledge of the module system, you can have your lens built in no time.

Squidoo is very lenient about allowing you to use third party advertising on your lens. You can promote your own home based business website if you wish or promote your favourite affiliate product.

How to make money with Squidoo
 Squidoo also offers you a chance to make money online from your lens. Squidoo makes its money from affiliate advertising with Google AdSense, Amazon, ebay and several other sites.

The Amazon module is also very easy to use for people that are new at Squidoo. For the case of Amazon products, you simply enter the ISBN number of the Amazon product and Squidoo will pull it directly off the Amazon website, complete with the photo and the price.

Another  module is the ebay module. With the ebay module, you can select products by keyword or by seller. If you sell a lot of products yourself on ebay, this is a great way to get free traffic to your auctions.

How to get more traffic to your Lens

One of the best ways to use Squidoo to build traffic to your home based business  website or blog is by using the RSS feed module. You simply load the RSS feed from your  website/blog and the Squidoo lens will update automatically as you update your website/ blog.

Squidoo lenses often rank very high on Google, so it’s a great chance to build some backlinks to your primary company website and hence increases your home based business website exposure in the Internet to make money online.

Conclusion
So if you are looking for a great way to market your product, get free traffic and make some money on the side then Why don’t you consider becoming a Squidoo Guru, it is not hard and you will be amazed at the results

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Alan
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Use Squidoo to promote your Website
The hottest site to come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon is Squidoo. If you are not linking your  sites to Squidoo, you are missing one of the quickest and easiest ways to build free traffic to promote your Website or blog .
Squidoo has emerged over the last year few years as one of the best systems to drive free traffic to your online business.

The first thing you need to consider before building your Squidoo lens is how you are going to drive traffic to it once its built. There have been many Squidoo lens which have attained top Google rankings by following a few simple rules.

One of the various effective ways to generate traffic to a Squidoo lens is through search engine optimisation. Getting a Squidoo lens to the top of a search term in Google is easier than most other cases, in using Squidoo to promote your site.

Follow these 7 simple steps to use SQUIDOO to promote your site

Step 1 – Visit the more Popular Lenses

Firstly have a look at what the most popular lenses look like, can you offer something better or enhance 1 of the top lenses, what topics are hot, do they fall in the same category as your idea.
The next part is all ways over looked, but if you do it, your lense will rate very high - create a plan of what your Squidoo lens is going to be like. Who is it going to target? What kind of content will be on it? What will the theme be? Having a good plan in mind or on paper is the first step to real success.

Step 2 – Get a keyword rich name
The  next  thing you’ll want to consider is the name of your Squidoo lens. Include the keyword/s you are targeting for a number one spot (or at the very least a spot on the first page) in your Squidoo lens name. This way, your Squidoo URL will contain the keyword/s you are targeting for a high Google ranking. This immediately gives you a ‘head start’ in  using Squidoo to promote your site in the search engine battle!
Step 3 - Add Good content
Go back and have a look at all the articles that you have written, including blog posts and compile all relevant articles you have written or posts you have made on forums into a text file. This content can be used in your Squidoo lens and you don’t even need to type a single word of new content!  Redo some of the words, so that you do not get picked up as “duplicate Content”

Step 4 - Use  Multi-media & Graphics
Go back to your research again, have a look at the top lenses, are there graphics, what type, do they enhance or distract. Then collect the graphics and multimedia files which you are going to use on your Squidoo lens. These can simple stock photos and videos streamed from YouTube.

Step 5 -  Build your list

Add  an opt-in form with your Squidoo lens. This way, not only will you be sending traffic to your web site,  you can  also build your subscriber list at the same time. As the cliché goes, the money is in the list.  So not only will you be promoting your site but building your list  while you are getting FREE traffic.

Step 6 - Market your lens
There are a few great ways to attain quick and easy back-links. One is by posting on forums. Be sure to include your signature which contains your back-link . You can also create blogs at Blogger.com and Wordpress.com and post a quality back-link back to your site.

Step 7 – send free traffic
 Now not only will you be sending free traffic to your site , you will also start driving traffic to your lens from simple tactics like social networking on sites like MySpace and social bookmarking. Commenting on other Squidoo lenses is another way to generate quality traffic. The lower in Rank no your lense is, the more popular will it become

Conclusion
Squidoo lenses often rank very high on Google, so it’s a great chance to build some backlinks, grow your list  and as your lense gets more popular it will  increase your website exposure in the internet to make money online.
So discover now how to use Squidoo to promote your website, learn how to become a Squidoo Guru