In a way, Internet Marketing is no different than anything in life, you reap what you sow, you get out of it what you put into it and all those other corny but oh-so-true cliches.  For quite a few years I have worked online, sometimes more diligently than others and when I am in a more diligent mode I definitely see a difference.

Now the site which I devote the majority of my time to is a blog and website which is mostly devoted to canine advocacy.  Not a subject that most people are into.  It’s what you would definitely call a highly specialized niche but it’s where my heart and passion lie so it’s east for me to be diligent and devote time to that every day.  The reason I bring this up is two-fold, one, when you do something that is important to you, it’s easy to stick with it and two, when you do something important to you and you put your time and effort into it, it show.

I started that site, Pet Lovers Tip - For the Love of the Dog, short of two years ago and it has steadily grown.  It’s not huge, it’s not fancy and it is quite specialized but I get almost 50K unique visitors a month.  That’s not a lot by some standards but for what it is, it’s pretty good.

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I started this blog a while back and have kind went back and forth with it, working on it and abandoning it to other projects and after spending some time looking over it decided it was time for a fresh start for it so I basically wiped out most everything almost back to a dew posts from the beginning that I thought were reasonably worthy enough to keep.  Now I can give it a fresh start and see where it goes from here.

Just because I haven’t been working this blog doesn’t mean I haven’t been working online.  I have numerous projects in the works and of course me main site, which is a ‘little’ niche blog and website to which I actually devote the majority of my time.

So if you’ve visited before and wondered where I went and what happened, well, nothing, just too much to do and too many directions, the bane of many internet marketers. So let’s just pick up and move on from here…..

The web search technology offered by Google is often the technology of choice of the world’s leading portals and websites. It has also benefited the advertisers with its unique advertising program that does not hamper the web surfing experience of its users but still brings revenues to the advertisers.

When you search for a particular keyword or a phrase, most of the search engines return a list of page in order of the number of times the keyword or phrase appears on the website. Google web search technology involves the use of its indigenously designed Page Rank Technology and hypertext-matching analysis which makes several instantaneous calculations undertaken without any human intervention. Google’s structural design also expands simultaneously as the internet expands.

Page Rank technology involves the use of an equation which comprises of millions of variables and terms and determines a factual measurement of the significance of web pages and is calculated by solving an equation of 500 million variables and more than 3 billion terms. Unlike some other search engines, Google does not calculate links, but utilizes the extensive link structure of the web as an organizational tool. When the link to a Page, let’s say Page B is clicked from a Page A, then that click is attributed as a vote towards Page B on behalf of Page A.

If you have not heard the term leverage already, let me explain briefly what it is.

It is the power to act effectively using existing knowledge, money or something else in a manner that results in a chain reaction of greater success. For example, using the same effort to find joint venture partners and affiliates could end up in multiple sales rather than one sale at a time.

You first need to determine the tasks that you need to concentrate on to build your own business and determine what actions are needed to achieve these tasks.

Then think of ways that you can incorporate leverage into these tasks to make sure your actions are as effective as possible.

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For anyone doing email marketing campaigns, and I hope that anyone doing any kind of online marketing is, spam filters are one of the banes of our existence. then we have the legalities to watch out for too.  Read on to get an informative overview and well as some tips and solutions.

Do the the past influx of unsolicited email from unscrupulous marketers, we now have to deal with CAN-SPAM legalities and spam filters which will quickly trash the email we send if we don’t do it just right and there’s also the problem of serious legal problems as well.

Here’s a bit on the CAN-Spam act of 2003 from Wikipedia:

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (15 U.S.C. 7701, et seq., Public Law No. 108-187, was S.877 of the 108th Congress), signed into law by President Bush on December 16, 2003, establishes the United States’ first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce its provisions. The acronym CAN-SPAM derives from the bill’s full name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003. This is also a play on the usual term for unsolicited email of this type, spam. The bill was sponsored in Congress by Senators Conrad Burns and Ron Wyden.

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You got it… no sales pitch, nothing…. got this from Paul Kleinmeulman’s blog.  He’s just passing along some great info.  You can download the software for FREE - Camtasia 3, they’ll give you the key code to make it fully operational.

What’s the catch? Actually there really is no catch at all.  They’re releasing a new version so they’re giving away the older version of Camtasia, Camtasia 3, for FREE and offering the upgrade at half price for the upsell.

Personally I didn’t get the upgrade, although $149 for a $299 software is a helluva deal!!

Anyway, here’s the links… no affiliate codes, just the links to download the software and a link to sign up for the key to set it up.

1. Download the free trial version of Camtasia Studio 3
at:

http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiastudio/enu/312/camtasiaf.exe

(That’s not an affiliate link)

2. Go to this promotion page, complete your name, country
and e-mail address and Techsmith will send you the software
key to unlock the program almost instantly.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/pcpls.asp (no affil.)

3. Just install the program you downloaded from step 1 above
and then enter the software key you receive from Techsmith
and you’ll have a fully working version of Camtasia Studio 3
on your PC.

I have no clue if this is time limited or not but if I were you, I’d grab it ASAP!!!

Thanks for the tip Paul!!!

I have been hunting and hunting for a really good pop-up plugin for blogs and when I found one the creator wanted $97 for it. Now, I don’t begrudge anyone making money, that’s one of the reason we’re here, right? But most every plugin is freely available for use and I knew there had to be one out there and I FOUND IT!!!

I put it on one of my blogs about an hour ago and have already gotten four sign-ups from it WoooHoooo!!

You may have seen it when you popped in and if you want it, check it out here - MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup

It’s fully configurable from an admin panel. You can add images, HTML, subscriber boxes, anything you want. Just install, activate and configure… it’s WYSIWYG so it can’t be easier!

There’s other great plugins too… check out the DealDotCom widget on my sidebar… if you want that one just click on the bottom where it asks you if you want to add it to your site.

Check out MaxBlogPress and see what else they have. There’s also a Ping Optimizer which is a real must, unless you want to get banned.

Ok, gotta go add these to some of my other blogs!! HappyBlogging!!!

The 12 Days of Christmas hasn’t even started yet but Mark Hendricks has already upload one incredibly gift that you can grab right away and it’s a big time winner!!

Check this out; Mark Hendricks introduces The Internet Success System - the ultimate step-by-step apprenticeship home study program and live master mind conference ever conceived.

Now you can listen to these Internet Success System Monthly Master Mind Teleconferences for free.

I’d tell you more about it but there’s way too much to list and since you can just go and grab it right now, why waste your time?

So go sign up early for the 12 Days of Christmas and get a head start on success!!

PS. Did you check out the 117 Work at Home Giveaway yet? Don’t miss it!!

There’s probably a few of you who know that I love blogging! It is my preferred platform for many reasons and I have quite a number of blogs.

They’re easy to set up, get indexed quicker than a website and are wonderfully interactive, which people love.

Now I had heard of Alex Syseof before and wanted to check out more. To say that many marketers speak highly of him would be an understatement!

Anyway, finally tracked him down the other day when I had a few minutes and checked him out and I can see why everyone is raving about the guy! He knows blogging!

I downloaded the FREE Report - Easy Steps to Bloggin Stardom - and picked up so many great tips and such information that I wouldn’t believe he wasn’t charging for it! (you can download the report right here for FREE too - no sign ups or anything!)

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This is something that cannot be stressed enough! If you’re not cloaking your affiliate links there’s a very good chance that someone is ripping you off, stealing YOUR money, YOUR commissions!

There are a lot of link cloakers out there, some are easy to use, some more complicated but now there’s a site that makes cloaking your Affiliate links a snap!! And not only that, you can also build your list!  Can’t get much better or easier than that, can you?

Check it out - ViralURL 

This is what one of their links looks like - http://ViralURL.com/IMR - and it takes you right to ViralURL!

They’ve even just added Video Tutorials to help you get started.

The only drawback I’ve seen so far is that the site is slow but just got an email from Colin, one of the site owners, that they’re adding an additional server to speed things up.  Guess the response had been pretty excellent so far.  So get your place now!