5 Tips For Successful Squidoo Marketing

Squidoo is relatively new but it has already gained a top spot. The internet marketers love it for its social aspect and the freedom which it gives to them. Sometimes the marketers lack the edge and Squidoo can provide you exactly that. You should never ignore this great internet marketing tool.

Squidoo can help you to get more traffic to your site and blog; and getting more traffic means more money to you. There are few steps which will help you to do so more effectively. Here are those steps.

• The very thing that you would need to take care of is the importance of giving something to the viewer. You will not get the visits to your website if you are not giving something valuable to the reader of the lens. Remember that this something can even be quality information. In fact quality information is the best thing that you can give to the reader. The readers will click your link if you have succeeded to make them read till the end with interest. So make sure that you are paying special attention to the quality of the content on the lens because this is going to help you a lot.

• The profile tags are important. You will have to make sure that the tags are proper. The proper tags mean relevant tags. So if the tags are not relevant to your Squidoo, you will be at loss. You can even get your lens deleted. Apart from this potential danger, you will also be loosing many potential customers which are an unbearable loss for the online marketer. Also make sure that the relevant tags have a good search volume. There would be hundreds of relevant tags but you should find the tags which will give you high search volume. This will help you to attract more visitors to your lens.

• The lens is like a webpage and this is how the search engines treat it. So that means the URL of the lens has the same importance as has the webpage. You will have to make sure that the URL is according to the requirements of the search engines for better optimization. What are those requirements? In fact there are no requirements but there are certain things which would help you to get a good rank with the search engines. You should follow them in your lens as well. One of them is to use shorter URLs with the keywords used in the name. This one small act will go a long way and will help you. Also do link building your lens. Get lot of relevant one-way links pointing to you lens and you'll soon see your lens rank in Google and enjoy targeted traffic.

• Make sure that you are pinging. Pinging will help you to get the attention of the people. They will instantly know that you have updated your lens and that there is something new to look for.

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Learn to Make Money Completing Survey Online

Guest Post by: Osita Modozie

The use of paid survey is a legitimate way to make money online. Paid survey is simply a method of getting paid for your opinion. You will be doing surveys for big companies like coca cola, Nike, eBay, Google, MacDonald etc. This is a form of market research evaluation. The payment method for most paid survey sites is through paypal or check and it is usually done monthly. The way it pays can be survey done hourly or pay per survey taken. You are asked questions about their products which you use and you will need to provide answers to it. The answers can be in form of “yes or no”. You may be asked questions like”how many times do you drink coca cola in a month? What is favorite Nike shoe? And the rest of other questions. These companies distribute their surveys through third party companies and you should not expect to visit their sites to find the surveys to take them.

The problem with this method is the ability to find the right paid survey companies. There are a lot of scams in paid survey filling. You may sign up with a site that offers surveys to be filled and paid, but when it is time to get paid, you may either be banned or your payment is withheld because of one reason or the other. The best way to go around this is to join a third party paid survey site. With a third party paid survey site, you will be shown lists of tested and proven to pay survey sites.

The third party survey site will also provide software which makes taking these surveys a click of your mouse. Instead of filling surveys one after the other, this software will fill the survey with a click of your mouse based on your preferences. It is this system that majority of paid survey takers use to make money online using paid surveys without any hassle.

The service is not usually free, but they offer a fair price. It usually comes with a one-time fee. Money back guarantee is also offered so you can get your money back. It is important to join the ones that offer 60-day money back guarantee. This way you can easily request for a refund if you weren’t satisfied.

Author Bio:
Paid Survey ETC is a third party paid survey site that will provide you with over 300 legitimate paid survey sites, software to make taking them easy and other great information to help you successfully make money taking that survey. You need to see more about it at Paid Survey ETC Review.

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The Most Important Concept of Affiliate Marketing

Guest Post By Dante

Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to make money online. But many affiliate marketers do not understand the first thing about affiliate marketing.

So what is the most important concept to get down? Is it building backlinks or maybe it is targeting the right keywords. Although those are important parts they are not what I am talking about.

The most important skill to get down in affiliate marketing is preselling. If you do not know how to presell your visitors at your site properly you will never make as much money as you could.

In order to presell your visitors you simply need to overdeliver to them. What most affiliates do is get lazy and throw up affiliate sites in 10 minutes only to come up short every time. We all want to make money fast and easily especially when we are just starting out.

It is very common to get all anxious and want to dominate the internet with a multi-million dollar empire. But if your visitors are not at the top of your priorities then you are losing money.

Affiliate marketing is a business and in a business you must trade value. You help the visitors solve a problem they are having and they give you some money.

With affiliate marketing you never sell. Selling is taken care of on the salespage of the merchant. You warm up the customer. Through your sites content you open up the visitors mind and inspire them to trust you and take action.

Once you build solid trust with your visitors they will also trust your recommendations. That is recommendations not hard sells.
When you recommend a product to a loyal visitor who enjoys reading your content they will most likely be interested enough to click through your affiliate link and at least check out the sales page.

But if you tried selling to your visitors right away like on the home page you might not convert as much as you could with a content rich site.

Creating content is not just to serve the google spiders so that they know what keywords to index your site under. It is your material. Your content is your unique voice. It is how you present the information that the visitors will love you for.

It is not that easy which is why you always hear other successful marketers advise you to follow your passion. When your content mixes knowledge and passion then it is almost as if the skepticism of your visitors disappear.

Everybody is naturally skeptical no matter what. Everybody has common sense and knows a scam when they see it.

So if you master preselling through your own content on your affiliate site then your conversion rates will sky rocket and the money will flow.

Of course there is more to it then that. Like how to pick quality affiliate products your visitors will like, ranking high in the search engines for a lot of targeted traffic, and proper keyword research.

Author Bio:
If you want to learn more about all these affiliate strategies then check out this site full of free, helpful content. Click on this link to learn more about building a successful affiliate business.

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Overcoming The Online Money Making Distractions

Guest Post by Corey Palmer

Before you get into the methods of setting up your website and get things going online, there are some things that you need to try to avoid when you start in your money making online journey. I am talking about all the distractions out there. Let me share a story about this first.

About five years ago, I began pretty much right at the beginning. Not really knowing a lot about generating an income on the internet. Luckily, my background is in computer programming so I had a bit of a leg up there. I knew how to create a website and knew a bit about graphic design as well - enough to get me by anyway. So when I first started, I began by reading various money making methods online and worked on implementating these methods. The trouble was that I was bombarded by so many different methods on how to make money, that I kept getting sidetracked and wanting to try them all. I never really gave each method a good chance because I would not spend enough time doing the work properly.

It was only about a year or so ago that I realized that I needed to focus on just one thing and learn to do it really well. Once I figured that out, I was amazed on how well I started doing. I wish this was something that I would have figured out right at the first -- this is why I am sharing this here. I hope you all take this advice.

Remember, if you frequent some of the online money making and internet marketing forums, you will be bombarded by headlines like this:

"I earned $53,656 in 24 hours and you can too!"
"Learn how to get on the top of Google in 2 minutes"
"How to dominate and make a million per month!"

These aren't real headlines but you get the idea. It is easy to read things like this and get sidetracked and tricked into trying it out.

My advice when you start out is to try to stay away from the sales letters, hyped up headlines and other things that can easily distract you from your chosen money making task. Believe me, from someone who has experienced it, you will save tons of time and money.

Another huge distraction are forums. Sure, forums are a great place to learn new things about the various ways to make money, but it can also be a huge time waster. Myself, for one, got hung up in some of these forums and spent too much time reading and not enough time acting. You also have to be careful because not everything you read in a forum is true or correct. Remember to always verify everything you think is fact in a forum because it could be just someone that is not really qualified to post about the topics of that forum.

If you can figure out the balance between actual work and the "distractions" that come to you, you are going to be well on your way to succeeding.

Bio:
Corey Palmer just started a new how to website for beginners looking to get started with ways to make money online. He takes you through all the steps in choosing a niche, creating your first website to make money with and directs you on how to get traffic through various ways.

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Blog Posting - Things You Must Know

If you are a blogger then you must have some knowledge and information about blog posting and its importance. The blog posts should be interesting enough so that your audience and visitors remain attracted towards your blog for a long period of time. However, it is a secondary issue that for what reason you are blogging, may be for earning money or just for fun; but the prime importance always should be attracting more and more visitors towards your blog.

Following are the few things that you must know in order to make the blog post interesting and effective for your visitors.

1- The blog post should not be lengthy because the reader doesn’t have time to read the whole lengthy blog post but to the point and brief post will make him/her satisfy and get the knowledge or information whatever he/she wants from the posted content. So make sure that the blog post should always be brief and to the point.

2- Preparing the content or post ahead of time will surely make your work much easier and effective. Preparing or writing the post ahead of time will make you feel easy when you don’t have time to write a new post on your blog. Just post the pre written content on your blog. It will make sure that your blog is updated and you have posted a new post on your blog for your visitors as well.

3- Blog posting can also be done by your readers if you give them opportunity to post their own written content on your blog in order to share some useful information with different users and visitors of your blog. This will surely be beneficial for your blog because there will be many users and visitors who would be willing to share some information via your blog with different persons. Allow them the opportunity to post their content on your blog. However, make sure that the content is authentic and is related to the niche of your blog as well. This will save some time and efforts from your part because you don’t have to worry about the posting as your visitors will be posting content on your blog on consistent basis.

4- If you are writing the content on your own, then don’t hassle or panic. Always try to post authentic and informative content on your blog. Posting unauthentic content will surely have negative impact on the overall reputation of your blog.

Above mentioned were some really important things which you must know about blog posting. Blog posting is one of the core areas of successful blogs which must not be overlooked by you at any cost.

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