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Symptoms of Swine Flu - Epidemic or Hoax?

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:45:10 +0200

Symptoms of Swine Flu

The symptoms of swine flu are much like influenza a or b. The funny thing is that this virus is a mix between different flus from different species of animal. Call me a conspiracy theorist but it sounds to me like something cooked up in a lab. Like in this story.
The next funny thing I heard was, i guess that having a pet pig is going out of style. Who would've thought that to be true? Another I heard about was Black Hat's going around and buying up all the domain names sounding like swineflu.com so they can sell cheap pharmaceuticals from Canada. It's also called CDC H1N1 Flu which is totally scary, leave it to the CDC to make stuff scary. It's also called Swine influenza by wikipedia, if you can believe them at all. So gather up your domain names, make some money while you can and maybe pigs will be in style next year and chickens will be right out. Give me a shout if you've heard any conspiracy theories like this story. There is talk that the virus came from Ohio.

Well, who knows. This guy sounds like a crack pot but who knows. But what about Flu Crisis - Cases Double in 24 hours in Canada.
she says she expects more infected people. With 7 countries infected, 152 deaths Mexico as of o4/28/2009. Maybe there's something to be said about getting your f-ing flu shot next year.

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Internet Marketing Tactics For These "Tough Times"

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:04:02 +0100

As we enter into what many enlightened souls are calling the most dire economic times since the Great Depression, online marketers need all the help they can get - regardless of the source. You have probably heard of Google; but chances are almost 100% certain, you have never heard of me. Lucky you!

Actually, the only thing you need to know about me is that I am a full-time online affiliate marketer and I make a very comfortable living from the web. Last year (2008), was my best year online so far, which left me scratching my head and saying what recession?

But that may be something of a false positive, as I will never know how much I could have made if the economic times had been good instead of bad. Plus, judging from my own limited experience, selling and marketing online may not have been hit as hard as those businesses in the real world in 2008, since consumers are doing everything to save a penny and shopping online has become a much cheaper alternative for many.

As we enter into these uncertain times, online marketers and webmasters need all the help they can get. Recently, Google mailed a small booklet to its Adsense users; in it Google gives "6 Top Tactics For Tough Times." It is obviously referring to its Adwords PPC (Pay Per Click) program and clients but Google's advice can be applied to your general online marketíng.

These tactics include: (quoting directly from the Google mail-out)

1. Focus your ads on low prices and savíngs.
2. Use Value-related keywords.
3. Ensure your ad groups are targeted and relevant.
4. Don't waste money on irrelevant clicks.
5. Make it easy for customers to buy.
6. Focus your money on your high-performers. (End Quote)

Sound advice and I especially like the idea of focusing your marketing on low prices and savíngs mainly because people want bargains in tight economic times. I also like the fact that you must make it easy for your customers to buy... something as simple as putting your "order/buy link" above the fold can improve your conversions.

Also, targeting value-related keywords, is a very effective marketing tactic. Relating your keywords to "discounts, bargains, cheap, inexpensive, lowest prices..." will help improve your sales. So too, is catering to phrases that suggest the searcher is in a buying mind-set: gifts, presents, gift ideas, wedding gifts... shoppers searching those words are ready to buy.

Plus, focusing your time and money on your high-performers is solid advice. Sometimes succeeding online is simply finding a market niche that works/performs - then running with it. Once you have found the keywords and products that perform well with your site or sites - focus the majority of your time and energy developing those niche markets.

Now here are some of my most effective marketing tactics that have worked for me and tactics I will be relying on in the coming years - even in these hard times.

Make Keywords Your #1 Goal

This is the single most important factor for my own online success. You have to make keywords and ranking high for them in all the search engines your main objective if you're marketing online. Might sound obvious, but many beginning marketers don't truly understand how important getting top rankings for your chosen keywords will be in your online success.

Target less competitive long tail (multi-worded) keywords to get started and slowly work your way up to more popular keywords. Center your marketing around getting those first page listings (Top Five) for your keywords. Achieve this goal, (especially in Google) and it will be almost impossible for you not to succeed and make a profit with your online marketing even in bad times.

Autoresponders, Líst Building & Online Relationships

Keeping in contact with potential buyers is mission critical. You must use autoresponders to send follow-up messages to build trustful relationships with your potential customers.

So building a large contact líst is essential. That's why the social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace can be very effective marketing tools for building this online contact and trust. Truth be told, all these social networks are, more or less, just glorified autoresponders and líst builders!

Your Unique Selling Position

You must give potential customers some very good reasons for them to buy from you or your links. Offering special bonuses and discounts works wonders for your sales. Some of my most successful pages simply consist of coupons and discounts offered by different companies. If buyers can save $100's OFF by buying thru your links, they will.

Always remember, besides looking for the best deal or bargain, consumers are also looking for a quality product. If you're into affiliate marketing, only pick top quality products to promote. Picking top brand names also makes it easier to make sales. So too is only promoting popular online merchants like Amazon which can be an effective marketing strategy. Most importantly, always remember consumers are also looking for INFORMATION on the products they are considering buying, give them helpful information and you will succeed.

Go With The Flow

If you're marketing online, you have to follow what's working for you. Most times you will try countless ideas or tactics - once you have found a process or system that works, really work it or scale it up. Making your first dollar is the hardest, but once you do something that earns you that dollar, just repeat that "something" a thousand times.

Tracking what works is very important so keep a close eye on your site's traffic logs to find where your customers are coming from. Something like Google Analytics is simply priceless for "fine-tuning" your site and your internet marketing. It will tell you what's working and what's not.

Target Recurring or Residual Income

One of my most effective marketing strategies is to promote and sell products and services that give you a recurring or residual income. Make one sale and get paíd for years or for the life of that referred client. Concentrate on services like web-hosting, telephone, marketing programs... once customers sign up to these services, they will likely keep them for years. I am still earning income from sales I made five years ago.

Building a large residual income could be the key to surviving in tough economic times. This will be income which will carry you or your business over the rough patches since it is based upon past performance and not on your current selling situation.

Automate Everything

The real beauty of marketing online and using computers... you can automate just about every process in your marketing system. Make it a point of automating everything you do... use autoresponders to follow-up with potential buyers, use automatic check-outs, automatic reporting... just set-up your whole internet marketing system that runs itself with little or no supervision from you. This will free up your time to concentrate all your efforts on marketing/promoting your site or product. Besides, nothing beats coming back from a vacatíon and finding out you have earned the cost of your vacatíon and then some - all the while you were lying in the sun and miles away from any computer.

Find The Top Online Marketers

If you're just starting with internet marketing, you need to find the top successful marketers and "model" what they're doing. This is relatively a new industry and you have to seek out the experts and pioneers who have set the groundwork. When I first started marketing online, I was quite fortunate to come into contact with some web marketing heavy-weights such as Marlon Sanders, Ken Evoy, Neil Shearing... and SEO experts like Brad Callen and Aaron Wall.

Make Google Your Friend

Whether you love or hate Google doesn't matter, you just have to make it your number one ally in your online marketíng. Google has just about conquered the world-wide search market, Yahoo and MSN are still important, but Google is the deal-breaker when you're selling stuff online. Consumers have enormous respect for Google, a number one listing for a lucrative keyword simply means money in the bank.

I have found using Google Search, Google Adwords, and Google Adsense have played a more than significant role in the success of my own online sites and marketing. Google tools such as Google Analytics, Google Alerts, Webmaster Tools... all have been invaluable and an enormous help in achieving my "web-based" lifestyle and livelihood. Of course, Google has also driven me around the bend more times than I can count, but no one is perfect. Besides, when it's all said and done, anyone marketing on the web must truly embrace Google if they want to reach their highest level possible.

About The Author
Everyone has a story. Mine is called: "In Search Of The $100 Click or How I Found A Full-Time Online Income And Came To Love The Internet". Everyone is profiting from the web. Find out how you can too at: marketingtoolguide.com. 2009 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached. READ MORE LIKE THIS

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Upcoming Points of Interest and Profit

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:20:55 +0200

Well, things are going good over at the big blog. I added a hubpage now so you can see who I am, and I will be encouraging other people who are involved with Profit Index to make their own hubpage. I am told this is a very useful SEO tactic. So if you have a website you should look into linking up with hubpages it should increase your position in the search engines. And in the end, that should make you more money. Anyways, here is the link to the Profit Index - Hubpages it should prove to be interesting. I also posted some more methods to making money online on my main page.

Right now, we are saying that if you write an article for the blog, we will use it in our upcoming downloadable magazine. The deal is as long as you create a link to our blog from your website, and email theprofitiindex@gmail.com we will publish your articles. So, if you have a cool product, service or system come on over to our blog and sign up as a free member. Email me to request publisher status and you can get started tonight. Let everyone read your exciting articles in our upcoming magazine.

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Save Gas Fart in a Jar - Or convert your Car!

Fri, 02 May 2008 06:09:26 +0200

Save Gas Fart in a Jar - Or convert your Car!

Did you know that you can convert your car or truck to a water-burning vehicle (Water Hybrid)? Water4Gas is a Do-It-Yourself, affordable and SIMPLE technology. Water is supplemental to gasoline or diesel fuel - I have doubled fuel economy (61 MPG) in my Toyota Corolla 1999 shown above, and many more have doubled or even tripled their mileage. Too good to be true? Water4Gas is SIMPLE to install/remove: the solution you've been looking for!
Boost performance while preventing smog. You'll discover how to generate free energy in your car or truck.

" At that point, I didn't have many options so opting for that alternative wasn't a bad idea. It was either fart in a jar to save some cash, or convert the car. So, converting the car not a bad idea as long as it didn't kill the warranty. Well the Bible said something about a days wages being equal to the cost of a loaf of bread, I would say we are not far off. I'd also say that the government wishes that was true, but that would just be paranoid talk. Anyways convert your car or you won't drive very far, and wish you had farted in a jar like that old bumper stick used to say. "

Save Gas Fart in a Jar - Or convert your Car! Details here...

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How to make $1000 a day exploiting youtube

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:00:27 +0100

Step#1 - Sign up at a CPA network. I monetize the traffic that I get from Youtube by sending them to CPA offers. If you don't know what a CPA offer is, well its basically like an affiliate network where they pay you every time a visitor you refer fills out a form. Getting people to fill out forms in exchange for some kind of freebie that the advertiser is offering is real easy . If you have an account at these or any other CPA I personally use MillnicMedia network, that will suffice. If you don't then I suggest you signup at MillnicMedia. Step#2 – Find a good offer to monetize I usually find offers that give away something free and are in vogue. For example, a free iPhone. The iphone is a very hot product right now and people are crazy about it. Find such an offer with the network you have signed up for. Try and pick an offer that has a landing page that is well designed and has a "call to action" Typically a well designed landing page is designed in such a way that the only action the visitor can do is to fill out the form or close the page. Pick out two to three good offers and save the affiliate links to a file. Step #3 - Download the video conversion software. Files that are stored at youtube and other video sharing sites are in the ".flv" format that youll need to convert to mpeg. So to do that youll need this freeware called RIVA flv encoder. Download it from http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder I’ll explain how to use it further down. Step#4 – Make the video Ok this is the place where I hear you go "heck I don't know how to make videos" READ THE REST OF THE STEPS at The Blackhat World Forum READ MORE LIKE THIS AT Profitindex - Make Money Online Again

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Profit On Traffic - Small Business Directory

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:36:16 +0100

This looks like a good source for small business news and for promoting your site. In an internet where every backlink, frontlink and inbetween link count. I'd say its a good idea to head on over and sign your business on to the Small Business Directory. It's always an excellent thing to do, exchanging links. This can seem to be the worst part of the SEO's job, but it is actually the most fullfilling when you see a site that you wish held your link; finally hold your link for the first time. To be able to search the search engines for your company and find all kinds of other companies linking to you, that is when you are on top. I can only hope that this blog can attain the same kind of internet cult fame that a former project had. There is something else to this formula, the people linking to your name should always carry the same name, if your idea is "such and such magazine" everyone should use that as the hyperlink, this counts to your relevance. Using the same name, in all your marketing is also key. This should help ensure your business rises to the top of the heap. Relevance in the market is the key to your continued success online. And that's something you can profit from.
Some Keywords : Small Business Directory, directory.smallbusinessnewz.com, directory, small business, small business news, news for small businesses
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How to write articles to boost sales

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:44:27 +0100

If you’ve been checking out this series of articles, you’ve seen how important it is for any serious marketer to have good web content. Good content can mean the difference between someone clicking onto your site and clicking away a moment later and someone staying for a while and then clicking through to buy the product or service you’re trying to sell. But what if you just aren’t a very good writer? What if your mind is programmed for business, not English. Don’t worry, there are options for you.

Search the public domain. There are millions of articles that are currently in the public domain that you can use on your web site free of charge. A simple web search can bring up hundreds of these kinds of articles. And the best part is you can edit them, change them, alter them or do whatever you want to them so that they sound exactly like you want them to. You don’t have to worry about paying any authors or stepping on any toes. This is an excellent way to go if you don’t want to write content yourself.

You can pay companies to write content for you, and in most cases, it’s cheaper than you think. When you consider how important good web content is, paying someone a few dollars to write exactly what you need isn’t such a bad idea. Of course, some companies charge more than others and it always pays to shop around, but don’t shut yourself off to the idea of paying for content. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money and this is one of those cases if you don’t want to write your own web content.

Maybe the best choice of the three is to simply read and learn. Spend a week or two clicking around on the Internet and reading the web content on other affiliate websites. Take as much of that content in and then try to write in a similar style about the product you’re trying to sell. You don’t instantly become the best writer in the world this way, but studies have shown that the more you read, the better writer you’ll be. Experience pays and the more you know about how to write in this style, the easier it will be.

Having solid web content can’t be overstated. You will never have a truly successful affiliate marketing website unless you have good content. If you can’t write it yourself, you do have other options, but the best thing you can do is to learn how to write in this style. It will be an investment that will pay off time and time again.

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Users face Net ban in crackdown on pirates

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:04:41 +0100

"People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.
Internet service providers (ISPs) will be legally required to take action against users who access pirated material, The Times has learnt.
Users suspected of wrongly downloading films or music will receive a warning e-mail for the first offence, a suspension for the second infringement and the termination of their internet contract if caught a third time, under the most likely option to emerge from discussions about the new law.
Broadband companies who fail to enforce the “three-strikes” regime would be prosecuted and suspected customers’ details could be made available to the courts. The Government has yet to decide if information on offenders should be shared between ISPs."

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Discovered by: Jason Hill - Profit Index - 2008

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This blog's for the UK

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:52:06 +0100

This blog is for the UK, not sure why it broke yesterday but i managed to set it up again today. This blog is for you, I'm researching ways that real people make money online. If you have found a good way to make money online let me know theprofitindex@gmail.com I'll post your victorious story for everyone to read.

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Do free web stores work?

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:47:22 +0100

Do free web stores work?

One reason free web stores don't work is there is not enough buyers. Not only that but the services offered by these companies is not user friendly. When you want to buy something you want to click Buy Now and have the option to buy now, no search our partner's website for that book you were looking for.

This is why amazon makes all the money in this gig. They understand buyer's habits. The only ones making money from free web stores are people who get a ' ton of visitors' provided the product converts well. And the people running the adsense account, that they supposedly allow you to 'revenue share' in. The owners make money when sales are completed, but do you know whether you are truly getting paid?

A way to test an affiliate program and if they are paying is to ' ask for a payout ', secondly, you can do a test buy from the site. And then wait and see if your ' account ' is credited. And pay attention to the terms of the agreement in regards to how much money you have to make them before you will get paid. Buyers also want trust, not many free web stores can provide a storefront that even remotely looks worthy of trusting their credit card purchases to.

So what is the real solution to all of this? Set up your own web store, its harder in the short term but its a good real life test of whether your concept will work in the big time. Use Buy Now buttons, as a way for customers to actually buy now without waiting. Make site searches clear and precise. If someone is looking for socks, don't suggest shoes until at least 3/4 of the way into the buying process. Build a site that looks good, works good, and doesn't have any ' this page cannot be displayed ' links ANYWHERE on the site. Use a credible merchant account like paypal or something else acceptable. And then, watch the money roll in.

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