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We often ask what's the objective in working long hours in trying to optimize our websites through SEO....yes, yes, we know it's to make infinite money online. Well...through the help of Nick Stamoulis-a SEO guru, here's the summarized take on most of the common and popular SEO techniques :

Online Press Release Marketing:

Goal 1 - To have as many credible news sites pick up your material in order to increase your link building goals from the embedded links in your press release.

Goal 2 - To have other industry bloggers use the material on the press release to write about you in their blog and have other news sources contact you for things like interviews to speak on behalf of your industry.

Article Marketing:

Goal 1: To have other industry resources pick up your article in order to spread the links that might be embedded in your author section and help your SEO efforts to get your website ranking in search results.

Goal 2: To position yourself as an expert in the industry and slowly start to look like an authority figure in your industry while having your website become the industry source for others to come over for information due to your expert credibility.

Social Media Marketing:

Goal 1: To increase your link building efforts and show the search engines a variety of new inbound links pointing to your website so they understand you are a business and not just a fly by night entity.

Goal 2: To have your audience find your profile and actually communicate with you and over time channel more traffic to your website using your profile. You also have the potential of having your profile appear in the search results for your specific audience when built correctly.

Video Marketing:

Goal 1: To push that video through all the video sharing sites in order to increase your link building efforts, so that search engines see you as a business trying to grow and also increase rankings from diversifying your link building efforts.

Goal 2: To have your video spread through viral marketing techniques. If you make your video the right way, you will have other bloggers writing you and help you increase your website visitors. One highly recommended site for converting Article to Video is Zoom and Clik.com

There you go...some of the many reasons on the common SEO methods we use to make infinite money online. Everything you do with your search engine optimization efforts should always have multiple goals in mind. Your only goal should not be to just increase rankings.

Rankings are important but they are not the only thing needed to grow a business. There are other important voids that every search engine marketing effort should always attempt to fill. Use this strategy in mind when marketing your business online and see a new door of opportunity open.

A lot of people ask me about the merits of buying clicks on search engines with AdWords vs. getting free visitors with what's called "search engine optimization" - loading up your web pages with strategic keywords so you can get ranked #10 or #3 or #1 on Google's free search.

Well at first glance free is certainly better than paid, but there are some big IF's that you need to consider first!

Remember: you can only optimize a website for maybe ten words and phrases - not hundreds - so you should choose very, very carefully. But the most important thing is choosing the RIGHT words and phrases to optimize for.

Now here's the kicker:

If you don't use a pay per click strategy to determine which words and phrases actually attract paying customers first, you will almost always choose the wrong keywords. The words you initially think you want are almost always different than the ones that actually work - believe me, I've made that mistake many times.

Considering it takes 30 days to several months to see results when you're playing the search engine optimization game, you CANNOT afford to target the wrong keywords.

When you do pay per click campaigns properly, you'll see that there are almost always a few really productive words and phrases that only 2-3 people are bidding on, instead of 10 or 20 bidders. What that means is that those people are not optimizing their websites for those same keywords either.

Well just like pay per click, search engine phrases have varying degrees of competitiveness. If you want a #1 ranking for the phrase "Digital Camera" it's going to be a LOT harder than getting a #1 ranking for "Kodak DX6340" which is a popular digital camera. And the traffic will be much more targeted, too. When you do search engine optimization, you must pick battles you can win.

The secret to become successful in online business lies in uniqueness. The more you can prove yourself unique from others the better success you get in your online business.

Some people want to get quick success and start copying others. They even don't hesitate to copy articles from others and paste them in their blogs. But this a very bad strategy. It can give you quick income but you can't make success in long run. To make money online in long term you need to stand up with your own credibility. If you do so people will remember you and also do the search engines. As a result you will keep earning infinite money from your online business even if you stay away from your business for few days.

What happens to those who just copy paste from others? They get result for a short time. Search engines don't like duplicate contents and as a result you can't get traffic from search engines if you just copy past articles from other people. Your readers will also understand that your articles are not genuine and they will leave you and stick to those that have real contents.

If you want to make real infinite money from your blog or website then you'll have to come up with fresh and genuine articles. Your genuine articles will remain a constant source for traffic for your blog. And you know, traffic is money. The more traffic you get the more money you make.

So, say no to copy-paste system and start your unique journey right now. Write unique quality articles and make infinite money.

Are you new on the online business? Do you want to make infinite money online from your online business? Then listen....listen to the successful bloggers and online business entrepreneurs. Listen what the online business gurus say and act according to them.

But be careful! There are so many so called internet gurus who seem to have mastered everything and teaching people how to make money online formula! But the truth is that most of them don't even know how to make real money online. They try many things and fail ultimately. Some earn a little but you can't make money listening their advise. They are making money from your effort.

So, what should you do? Spend a little time on the internet to find the real gurus. Listen to what they say and have your research. You'll understand the real one in course of time. Be patient before you make a decision. Don't fall a victim to online scams.

Master the art of online marketing and then start your own business. Give people real advice and earn money. Don't try to make fool of others.

Was surfing on the internet, and came across this blog post which I thought I should share with everyone who's interested in internet marketing! Blogs are popular ways to create an online presence for personal and business reasons. You can build a blog for free and begin posting content right away. But, what good is that content if no one is reading it. Here are ten ideas to bring in the traffic your blog needs to survive.

Of all the successful blogs on the Internet, hundreds more have failed. Running a blog is like running a business website. Unless you are willing to put the time in and treat it seriously, you won’t be blogging long.

That is not to say that the failed bloggers weren’t serious about blogging. Mostly, new bloggers aren’t prepared for the work that goes into creating a successful blog. Just building the blog doesn’t mean that people will necessary come to you. You pursue the audience and give them a reason to see what you have to say.

1. Fresh Content – no one wants to visit a blog day after day and see the same posts. Update your blog content at least twice a week. This will be easier if you write several posts ahead of time and upload them at the appropriate times.

2. Article Marketing – the niche you’ve chosen for your blog is one that interests you. If it is interesting you will spend more time doing it. Create content not only for your blog but also to be submitted to article directories. Use the resource box to advertise your blog so people can find you.

3. Social Networking – these sites are everywhere. Join Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter or a dozen others and make connections. You can join groups of likeminded people who are also bloggers or entrepreneurs.

4. Viral Marketing – this is where you spread the word about your blog. Talk to friends, family and even strangers. Give out business cards that have your blog address on them.

5. Use RSS Feeds – RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” Readers can subscribe to your feed and get email updates when new content is posted. It is an easy way for them to keep up with your blog without spending all day online.

6. Submit Blog to Search Engines – doing this allows your blog to be ranked. Google and Yahoo! are two of the most popular search engines you want to crawl your blog pages. It doesn’t guarantee top ranking, though. You’ll have to do a little more work for that.

7. Joining Forums – as a blogger you are a budding entrepreneur. Right now you are marketing yourself to find traffic and then profit. Become a member of business forums, work at home forums and others to meet new people and share ideas. You can add a link to your blog in the signature line so others can find you.

8. Visit other blogs – show your appreciation to those who visit you by also posting comments on their blogs. It is a kindness that shows others you are not just out to advertise your blog alone. Add links to your blog in your comments.

9. SEO Marketing – whatever you write, use relevant keywords. Keyword density between three and ten percent is good for getting higher page rankings in search engines. Base your keywords on a research you do to find the most popular words used in search engines for your niche.

10. Social Bookmarking – submitting posts to social bookmarking sites allows others who are members of those sites to track you back to your blog.

Using any of these ideas will start the traffic moving in your direction. It takes time but you will build the readership you want.

Lesson 1

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.
A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, 'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?'
The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.'
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story:
In the real world, to be sitting and doing nothing and expect money to flow in, you must be sitting very, very high up...However, this is not so, when you are making money online

Lesson 2

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.
While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.
The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.
Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) While online, not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Also, not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

I think this applies to all of us online and offline! Hope you had a good laugh!

Time management is one of the skills that most people rate themselves lowest on in evaluations like performance reviews. Here's some simple tips to improve your time management and productivity and help you maximize the time you can spend on making money:

1. Do the worst first
Start each day by getting rid of your most despised task.

2. Reward Yourself
Find out what motivates you and set rewards for yourself if you can achieve all your tasks. You can also team up with someone and become accountability partners for getting your tasks done.

3. Set Deadlines
When setting yourself a task or getting one from someone else, always find out when it needs to be done by. Then plan an appropriate amount of reminders in your diary before the due date.

4. Get A Life
Schedule in time to relax, do things with your family or read. If the activity is marked out in your diary and you commit to it, you are less likely to neglect it.

5. Don't be afraid to ask for help
What is worse?-asking for help once or doing a task incorrectly five times or not doing it at all? Don't be a victim of the "scared to ask" disease.

6. Start Small
Some people believe in labeling tasks A,B,C in the order of their importance. However, I prefer to do the "little things" first...so that it leaves the bulk of my day to work on larger projects.

Before you start your own business, you should know that there's a chance you may fail. Starting a new business and growing it, you will be taking risk after risk along the way.

Confucius once said:

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure grinds it out and builds a successful business. Setbacks happen to everyone. The challenge of bouncing back from a setback has much to do with how long you wait between the experience and the time you truly put your disappointment behind you.

The good news is that resilience can be learned. Here are 5 ways to build it :

1. Make Connections. Networking doesn't just make good business sense, it makes psychological sense. The support goes both ways-helping others, can benefit the helper as well. By forming a network of professional and personal resources, you can tap into a vast pool of advice or end up with many friends who will lend a sympathetic ear when times get tough. Even for home based business,linking your website with others can be a form of networking.

2. Accept Change. People evolve and businesses do too. While change can be painful,accepting that your business will change to meet new circumstances-whether it is an updated business plan or a new niche of customers served. In today's business and economic climate, you must have the ability to be flexible.

3. Take Action. Act on adverse situations as much as you can. Take decisive action, rather than detaching yourself completely from problems and stresses and wishing they would just go away. Problem solving is an active and ongoing process that can increase resilience considerably. Like what a good friend who runs his own camera website, always say to me : "Every Drop Makes An Ocean" and he is right...if we address any huge problem a step at a time...the problem(ocean) will slowly be reduced to a "lake" . It's all about taking the first step and moving with the momentum...one problem at a time.

4. Look for opportunities. Mainly for self-discovery..Small business owners (home based business owners included) can focus so heavily on changes in the market that they forget that they are also evolving as entrepreneurs with each challenge they meet. People often learn something about themselves and may find that they have grown as a result of their struggles.

5. Positive Views. Avoid seeing crises as unsolvable problems. Whether your business had to downsize or change markets to accommodate the economy, your focus should be on the big picture.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Have faith in yourself and in the process of change, it will reveal your own inner core of steel. You reap what you sow. But always remember that reaping only comes after sowing and it takes time.

All the best on your trip to a successful business and making infinite money along the way!

In analyzing your business ideas, you must subject them through a series of tests to determine if they are valid opportunities. Here are the 14 questions to ask yourself each time someone or even you come up with a money making idea :

1. What is the need you want to fill or problem you want to slove? (Value Proposition)
2. Who are you selling to ? (Target Market)
3. How would you make money? (Revenue Model)
4. How will you differentiate your company from what is already out there? (Unique Selling Proposition)
5. What are the barriers to entry?
6. How many competitors do you have and of what quality are they? (Competitive Analysis)
7. How big is your market in dollars? (Market Size)
8. How fast is the market growing or shrinking? (Market Growth)
9. What percent of the market do you think you could gain? (Market Share)
10. What type of company would this be? (Lifestyle or High Potential,Sole Proprietorship or Corporation)
11. How much would it cost to get started or to end the business? (Start up & Exit Costs)
12. Do you plan to use your own money or debt/equity capital? (Investment needs)
13. Do you plan to sell your company or go public (list the company on the stock market) one day?
14. If you take on investments, how much money do you think your investors will get back in returns? (Return On Investment)

One sure way to enhance your chances for success in any money making business is to become a specialist in a particular field of knowledge or skill.

Everyday, new knowledge is made available to us through the internet. This means that the sheer volume of information will make it increasingly difficult for one single individual to have all the facts in any field of business. Therefore, one way to succeed is to be an expert in a particular area of importance. For example, you may be in real estate, where changes are so fast with regard to financing alone, that it is impossible for one person to keep up with everything.

Pick out an area of interest to you and research it from every possible angle. Read books, attend seminars, talk to industry leaders and in general make yourself a valuable storehouse of information. You can even consolidate the knowledge and information you have gathered and compile an ebook to educate others who might want to learn how to make money like yourself.

Remember, you can get everything you want out of life if you are willing to help enough people get what they want!

I was reading a post by Robin from Personal Finance Management on how small savings go a long way, which I agree whole heartedly.

In fact, doing the minute things goes a long way in helping us achieve our major goals, including running a business or maintaining our personal finance. A true life example was a quote from a Marathon Runner, Toshihiko Seko, who tells it in just 12 words.

Toshihiko won the 1981 Boston Marathon and the 1983 Tokyo Marathon. He had a plan which enabled him to outrun the world's fastest runners. What was his plan? Seko said : "I run ten kilometers in the morning and twenty in the evening." When told that his plan was rather simple, he replied..."The plan is simple, but I do it every single day, 365 days a year."

People fail to reach their money making goals, not because their plans are too simple, but because they aren't willing to follow their plans!

Starting a money making plan, or losing weight...all requires daily action and practice. Seko's plan was effective because he followed it everyday. Plans don't have to be complicated but they do have to be followed.

Business is all about Creative Invention. It's about having an attitude of Fun and Passion. Well, I have found a picture to substantiate the idea.

Butter Stick and Designer Toast

Look at this creative invention. This idea was probably invented by someone who is a mother and has school going children. Have you ever imagined her frustration screaming at the half awake kids to move fast, whilst having to prepare their breakfast? The mother probably have been thinking for months or even years...as to how to get the many school children to wake up with a smile on their faces every morning. Thus her passion simply fueled the creativity in her and Voila! A simple, yet ingenious way to get children up early and have a conversational piece in their hands at home or in school! (Following that, needless to say...with proper marketing, comes the money making part!)

There is probably infinite ways to capture your audiences' attention when you are advertising for your online business to make money online for free. I found a few hilarious ones, that you may want to implement it on your own website (at your own risk)! Another "open secret" that I thought you ought to know!

To the many people who are entrepreneurs-to-be and for those who are already in business, but never understood how you got there; here's an excerpt of a letter I read from a clinical psychologist, Jocelyn K. Fuller, Ph.D. which might clear that question...all summed up in a few words!


I have found that when I care about people and sincerely try to help them get what they want out of life, my life becomes much richer. As my attitude changed, I found that I began to attract people who were positive in contrast to people who were negative. This facilitated the beginning of the development of an exciting network of wonderful friends and business associates...

....I have found that I no longer need my long list of academic credentials to validate my existence or to prove that I am a worthwile person. Although these credentials are helpful in my business endeavors, it is nice to realize that I am separate from them and that I am a worthwile person in and of myself....

....I have become much more interested in the business world and have developed many creative ideas as to how to integrate my psycology background into the business world.This results in a much more profitable situation than a normal psychological practise and at the same time will help a vastly larger number of people.