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26 Aug

Google eBay for headache relief

This herez a google search recipe you might find handy for when you’re looking for tips, advice, on a topic.

Drop the following mess into Google’s search box, replacing your keyword ( shown at both ends ) with a keyword of your choice, like connoisseur, gourmet, coffee or whatever:

coffee allintitle:3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 100 | 101 tips | steps | ways | secrets -site:amazon.com -site: ebay.com coffee

affiliate marketing allintitle:3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 100 | 101 tips | steps | ways | secrets -site:amazon.com -site: ebay.com affiliate marketing

I know it’s long and looks a bit hairy but try it.

I’ve found this to be a kewl search method for givin big g a headache as well as discovering lots of great, useful content on a ton of stuff…

I know I should be writin books an chargin for this stuff…but the ‘pay it forward “drip” method’ pumpz uP my karma…big time…

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14 Aug

Happy Anniversary to my Lil RooniWife

Choosing Between Traditional and Modern Wedding Anniversary Gifts

Wedding and anniversary gifts nowadays can get pretty boring. As you check the list while you’re at the I Love You LilRooniWifeOMinestore the bride and groom are registered at, you can’t help but think how boring it is to get or even give some kitchen gadget or bathroom towels, especially for a significant anniversary year.

So when it comes to thinking outside of the box, one of the biggest questions people have is whether to give a traditional or modern wedding anniversary gift. Some of the answer will depend on the receiving couples as to what their preferences and styles are. But most people enjoy a surprise and may not care whether it’s a traditional or modern wedding anniversary gift, as long as it’s meaningful.

The Difference Between Traditional and Modern Wedding Anniversary Gifts

The biggest difference between things that are modern and things that are traditional is style and meaning. Traditional things tend to have a story that goes along with them. They tend to be sentimental and valuable to whoever owns it, making a great gift for those who tend to be sentimental.

Modern things are more current in style but don’t have much meaning beyond that. However for people that keep up with the trends and style their home and lives in modern décor, this route might be the best way to take.

Traditional and Modern Gift Ideas

To get a good idea of what traditional and modern wedding anniversary gifts are, it’s best to break them down into examples. By knowing the anniversary couple you’re going to purchase a gift for, these examples should help you choose the right gift.

Traditional Gifts can be compromised as mementos or older furniture items that are restored by yourself with love, offering an item that the couple can cherish for years to come. You may also find traditional décor from their prime, and customize it before giving it as a gift.

Modern gifts are something that is more in style than meaningful. The décor should match the couples current home style, so knowing the couple well before choosing this path is wise. Fine fruit bowls and table settings are good start on your trek for these kinds of gifts.

In the end, if you’re not sure whether traditional or modern wedding anniversary gifts are the right path, try asking other friends or family members of the couple for advise. Often times you’ll find that you can get enough information to make a wise choose and even find something the couple will never forget.

Happy Anniversary LilRooniWifeOMine

13 Aug

“How To Go Viral With YouTube Videos”


Step 1: Pick A Video

Do you need a camera to do this…no you don’t need a camera to do this. Just go to YouTube.com and pick a popular video without copyright. Videos without a company name on it, or a URL. Ensure that it is related to your website.

A lot of people frown at this because you are using other people’s video. It’s seen as a black hat technique. It’s not my job to judge so I choose to ignore the criticism. You have to decide if it is something you want to try.

Step 2: Download The Video

Many people do not know that you can directly download YouTube videos. Just go to http://vixy.net and enter the URL of the video you want. It will download it and convert it to AVI format.

Step 3: Edit Your Video

90% of computers these days come with Windows Movie Maker. Open the program and simply add your URL at the beginning and at the end of any videos you use.

Step 4: Upload Your Video

Open a free YouTube account and follow the simple instructions on how to upload your video. It’s very straight forward. You can upload your new video up to five different times. Make sure you use different accounts to do this so you don’t get rejected for duplicate content.

Step 5: Repeat The Process

Repeat this simple process every single day and it will start to add up. Three new videos, posted five different times, will give you about 450 videos in a month. Now imagine popular videos with your URL on them all over the Internet.


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06 Aug

101 ways how to get traffic to your website

The main reason for building a website or creating a blog is in hopes of either making money or getting people to read what you have to say.

In order to do either we need website visitors. And not all website visitors are equal. It’s best if a high percentage of your website visitors are people interested in the subject of your site, not people who wind up there by accident.

And, it’s better still if your traffic is free…if it comes as a result of places like;

1) Yahoo Answers.

2) Myspace.com

3) Yahoo Groups

4) Stumbleupon.com

5) Forums

6) Craigslist.org

7) Site maps

8) E-Book Giveaway

9) Website Design

10) Submit To Directories

11) Tell a Friend

12) Search Engine Optimization

13) Squidoo.com

14) Social bookmarking sites

15) Article Promotion

16) Site Explorer

17) Epinion.com

18) Alexa.com

19) Newsletter Box

20) Pay per Click search engines

21) Get Links from Relevant Websites

22) Increase the Size of Your Site

22) Send out Press Releases

23) Advertise On Online classified Ad Sites

24) Use Firefox Plug-in

25) Add a Forum to Your Site

26) Add a Blog to Your Site

27) Optimize Your Blog for The Search Engines

28) Comment on Other Peoples Blogs

29) MySpace News

30) Digg

31) Banner Exchanges

32) Traffic Exchanges

33) Pop Unders

34) Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes

35) Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators

36) Submit your blog to all of the RSS directories

37) Link to other blogs in your posts
38) Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.

39) Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)

40) Start a group blog.

41) Join SpicyPage and promote your blog

42) Join a webring.

43) Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog

44) Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.

45) Trade blog roll links with related blogs.

46) Use Twitter

47) Publish videos on YouTube

48) Search for Wikis related to your.

49) Join Hub pages and post links to your blog from articles you write.

50) Pray.

51) Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.

52) Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog

53) Most brands are not well established online, you review related content and it will rank well.

54) Review relevant products on Amazon.com.

55) Create product lists on Amazon.com

56) Review related sites on Alexa

57) Review products and services on shopping search engines.

58) Swap some links.

59) Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages.

60) Sell items on eBay.

61) Target niche social news sites like DZone, Sphinn or Hugg

62) Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.

63) Do email signature swaps

64) Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites

65) Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords - Google Images generates traffic too.

66) Tag blog photos at Flicker

67) Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche.

68) Outsource grunt work.

69) After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product.

70) Participate in Blog Carnivals

71) create a network of blogs in different niches, and then link them together

72) Give away stock images with a wee watermark of your URL

73) Find and discuss memes

74) Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
75) Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you’re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.

76) Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.

77) Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.

78) Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites.

79) Don’t worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*

80) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.

81) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.

82) Send out a newsletter!

83) Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.

84) Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.

85) Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.

86) Share your banners on banner exchange sites.

87) Create a “lense” for your site on Squidoo

88) Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.

89) upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.
90) Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search
91) Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.
92) Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

93) Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.

94) Increase the list you ping

95) Use Facebook

96) Social Networking

97) Micro

98) Email Marketing

99) RSS Feeds

100) Get outside links to internal pages

101) Use free hosting and build sites and link them back to your main site. Author Resource:- About Author, Janeth Duque, Specialist in marketing and web site design.

05 Aug

“How To avert having Your Adsense Account ended “

Google, being the indisputable leader in search engines from then till today, is laying a dominating importance about the caliber and relevance from its search engines. Most importantly now that the company comprises public property. In order to preserve the shareowners and users of its engines content, the caliber of the delivered results are given utmost importance.

For this same reason, doing the wrong matters in the Adsense and different kinds of ads, whether by design or accidentally, will result in a serious penalization, might get you censored and even get your account ended. Nothing like a good action mechanism called for to keep back offenders from causing the same things again.

And then for those who are flirting with getting a career in Adsense, don’t merely think of the strategies you will be practicing to get additional net profit. Look at a few things first prior to you really get involved.

Obscured texts. Filling up your ad page with texts to little to show, has the same color as the background and practicing css for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords articles and copy will earn you a penalty award that is given to those who are concealing links.

Page masking. There is a more common practice of using web browser or spider sniffers to help the crawlers of different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading up a page with a spider that a human user will never see is a decided no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you desire but they may not prefer to go to.

Multiple submissions. Subjecting double copies of your domain and pages is some other thing to stay away from. For instance, trying to present a domain name of an Adsense as 2 individual domains is the equivalent of asking for trouble and even termination. Also, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are getting submissions.

Better check out 1st if your web address is submitted already an a certain search engine before you attempt to present  it again. If you see it in that location, then go on. No point thinking over whether to attempt and submit there again.

Link farms. Be wary of who and what are you linking your Adsense to. The search engines acknowledge that you can’t insure your links in. But you can for sure ensure what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, particularly Google. That is rationality enough to try and avert them. Having a link higher than 100 on a individual page will relegate you as a link farm so try and not to make them higher than that.

Page rank for sale. If you’ve been online for quite some time, you’ll find that there are many places marketing their PR links or dealing them with other sites. If you’re practicing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It’s alright to sell advertisements or acquire the link. But doing it on direct advertisement of your page rank is a way to get on search engines bad side.

Doorways. This is like masking pages. The frequent practice of a page full with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to a different “user-friendly” page is a big subject among search engines. There are a lot of seo firms offering up this form of services. Now that you know what they actually are, attempt to avoid them at any cost.

Multiple domains having the same articles. In case you’re not well aware of it, SEs consider domains IP’s, registry dates and a lot of others. Having multiple domains having the same precise articles isn’t something you can conceal from them. The same goes with content multiplied many times on separate pages, sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.

Many of the above methods go for  most search engines and is not entirely for Google only. By having a mind set that you are building your Adsense collectively with your pages for the human users and not for bots, you are able to be guaranteed of great things for your ads and sites.

Not to mention heading off the anger of the search engines and getting your Adsense and internet site account terminated altogether.

31 Jul

“Big Fat Claims”

The excitement around the discovery of gold grew quickly. By the summer of 1848, outlandish stories about fabulous discoveries came back to the East Coast from the gold-mines at Sutter’s saw-mill. In fact, everybody was talking about “Gold! Gold!” The buzz got so bad that soldiers began to desert. Ordinary citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and pack-mules to go to the mines.

What was it that caused people to act so decisively, to pack up and travel from one side of the country to the other?

It was a single bold idea, a BIG FAT CLAIM!

Selling your products and services requires that you make some claims that engage your visitors. In last months column I talked about SCREAMING PIGS to grab the attention of your prospect. A claim is something that follows the attention step and is part of the “interest step” in the sales process.

Your job in this interest step is to get the prospective customer to focus on what’s really important to them. After you’ve grabbed their attention they need to know logically why they should give you any more of their time.

So how do you engage them further? How do you make sure that they will continue to give you their time?

Make some Big Fat Claims!

A Big Fat Claim is engaging because it builds an image in the mind of your potential customer. They actually see, and hear themselves living as if the claim was true. If you have some good Big Fat Claims they’ll want to find out more about what you have to say.

They’re hungry to hear and see more.

Now I’m not talking about an “elevator pitch” or features and benefits at this point. The claims that you make highlight specifically how you can provide value to your customer. Increased sales, reduced cost, saved time, higher productivity, and reduced workloads are all examples that might interest your prospect.

For every product or service that you offer you are going to construct a series specific “Big Fat Claims”.

  1. We can reduce the time it takes to complete your payroll each week by 20%.
  2. I can show you how to save 50% on your…
  3. We can increase the number of leads you convert to sales by 25%.
  4. We can reduce the time you take administering your Computer Network by 20%.
  5. Make sure that every claim that you make can be backed up. Have you got that result from a previous customer or are you making an educated guess? If you can’t back up the claim, don’t make it.
Common Big Fat Claim Mistakes
  • Trying to close the sale in your big fat claim. The purpose of the big fat claim is only to create interest. You want the prospect hungry to hear more of what you can do for them. If you try and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the only solution for them you’ll lose them.
  • All features, No Benefits. What’s in it for them? A claim doesn’t make reference to the features and details of your product or service. The claim contains the biggest potential benefit specific to the prospect you are talking too.
  • No Meat. It’s a BIG FAT CLAIM. A claim with no substance will fail to create any interest. And no interest means your visitor or prospect will tune out or click away from your site. The meatier the claim that you generate the more interest and more qualified the prospect becomes.
  • Making the Wrong Claim. This mistake is easily preventable by knowing your audience. The wrong big fat claim simply won’t work. The key is to know your market and how your product or service represents the ultimate solution for them.
  • Making a Generic Claim. Making a claim that’s big, meaty and meets the requirement of your market isn’t enough. If your competitors can make the same claim or if your benefit is readily available you’re wasting the customer’s time. Make claims that include uniqueness and you gain a competitive advantage.
  • Unreal or General Big Fat Claims. The tabloids are filled with them. So is the SPAM email you receive on a daily basis. “Make a fortune” or “earn six figures” overnight. Instead of creating the intended interest these claims trigger doubt, disbelief and inaction. Once bitten, twice shy. If you are going to make a bold claim that you may think is questionable you can create interest by being specific, with actual numbers that also appear to be more realistic.

It’s this interest step that makes your claims important. Too many sales people make the mistake of jumping this step and try to present a solution before they have really connected and a tiny claim doesn’t get the attention of the customer. A wild claim with no proof gets thrown away. A proper Big Fat Claim has to be big enough to get attention and have enough valid proof so that it’s believable.

Stake Your Big Fat Claims!

28 Jul

Monetary and Currency Related Travel Tips for Travelers to Istanbul, Turkey

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H.silistre asked:


Istanbul is the largest city of Turkey with a population of approximately 13 million people which makes it one of the largest cities in Europe. The city sits on both Asia and Europe that makes it arguably the only city that is located on two continents. Istanbul used to be the capital to Byzantine Empire until it was conquered by Ottomans in 1453. The date is considered in modern history to be the end of Middle Ages. The modern day Istanbul is very different than what is used to be and faced many changes and challenges since the end of Ottoman Empire during the beginning of 20th century. Due to its perfect location, Istanbul throughout centuries has never lost its important status as a port of commerce and a cultural center. As Turkey’s economy has recently started to emerge again in the last few decades, the city has again started showing changes of going back to its glamorous days. Istanbul is one of the nine candidates for the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics and it also hosts many different international conferences and exhibitions throughout the year.

ATM’s are widely available throughout Istanbul and you should have no problems if you land in the city with nothing but a credit card. Credit cards, however are usually not accepted by most of the government agencies, public museums or other historic places run by the government. You may frequently have to run into an ATM and withdraw some cash to cover for such expenses. Visa and MasterCard are two of the most popular credit cards and they are accepted by almost every merchant that has a processing machine. However, you may have difficulties at some places if you are carrying an American Express Credit Card. Most of the touristic places, larger shops and hotels will accept American Express but still you have a better chance carrying a Visa or a MasterCard with you rather than running into a merchant that does not accept AMEX. If you are traveling to the suburbs, you may want to stop by an ATM and withdraw some cash while you are still in the city. Citibank branches provide the option of making withdrawals in multiple type of currencies such as US Dollar or Turkish Yeni Lira.

Exchange bureaus are very popular in touristic areas and usually are easy to spot. They exchange almost all currencies and charge no commission while offering good exchange rates. The change bureaus at the airport or most of the hotels do usually not charge a fee either but they offer worse exchange rates. You should try to avoid exchanging the bulk of you currency at the airport. Instead, try to exchange an amount that you think will be enough for a day or two and save the rest to the city.

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25 Jul

Views on London Olympics

Hilda asked:


I jumped for joy – and wrote about my jubilation in Rising East 3 – when London got the Olympic Games for 2012.

Err actually I didn’t. I thought “Great, but what’s in it for me”? As I am a British Citizen and every day pay tax for being taxed (petrol prices are charged levy and then have VAT added on top) and can only really see that over the next 10 - 15 years it will be good old me who foots the bill.

So what’s the real impact going to be for the Olympics? Everyone is talking about mass job creation. What they really mean is mass low level job creation in the short term. Let’s face it, the only jobs being created are going to people selling T-Shirts, serving coffee and of course Liverpool print companies getting busy with counterfeit tickets.

So my fellow British Citizens I am feeling left out of the hype. Below I have prepared some simple calculations

Real Costs:

400k logos = more council tax. Low paid jobs = more immigrants. = More Immigrants = house prices going up. House prices going up = more debt. More debt = broken homes.

So what’s in it for me? I’ll let you answer that.

Written by Aiden McGowan Tooting Hill

I’d like to add to this article. Our job board www.london4jobs.co.uk has been following the trail of the Olympics with interest. Your article does come up with some excellent points regarding tax etc.

Let’s face it. People talk because people talk. If it wasn’t the Olympics it’d be Iraq. If it wasn’t Iraq it’d be Tony Blair.

It’s all rather boring. The world goes round and round. Projects come and projects go. Businesses open and businesses close.

It’s the nature of the beast. Low paid work, high paid work, there needs to be balance. If the Czech girl wasn’t serving your coffee whilst you were checking your blackberry you might not use the Cafe. If you didn’t use the Cafe then the Cafe owner would close down. They would then be in debt and that would possibly lead to a broken home………………………………..

Alex

www.london4jobs.co.uk

alex@london4jobs.co.uk



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24 Jul

Want to learn how to increase the power of your rss feed?

Is your rss feed is a tad on the anemic side and may greatly benefit from some well placed resuscitation. I think the best way to pump up your rss feed is to give a shout to the se sites that you’ve got new content for them and to pay a friendly visit to your blog. Ping-O-Matic comes to mind for letting search engines know that your blog has been updated. Simply fill in the fields with your blob url and your rss feed url. Be sure to use a relative description with your best keywords in the blog name field in a way that make it like a tagline for your blog.

23 Jul

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