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		<title>Article Writing: Writing For The Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theo McLanahan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the most pertinent instructions for selecting right approach for writing extremely good pieces of writing on Internet. You have to put up your articles on sale in case you write for money. You must understand your business better than others who are not required to sell their writings. Our focus here will be on skills needed for writing articles instead of qualities required for selling them.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Theo McLanahan</div>
<p>Here are the most pertinent instructions for selecting right approach for writing extremely good pieces of writing on Internet. You have to put up your articles on sale in case you write for money. You must understand your business better than others who are not required to sell their writings. Our focus here will be on skills needed for writing articles instead of qualities required for selling them.</p>
<p>The Foremost Rule You should write according to the taste of your intended reader, not according to your own personal taste. This means that you need to explore, identify, and target your message towards specific readers with specific interests. For instance, in an article on the financial market you can&#8217;t target grandmothers looking for designs of knitting.  You need to write your message according to the comprehension of target readers. No one will understand even correct stuff until and unless it is presented properly.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that people who browse the Internet are impatient. They click off the material once they read something that is not pertinent to their cause, and they only linger on an article that they consider important and pleasing.</p>
<p>Before you even put pen to paper, ask yourself this important question: Who are your readers? You will be able to make a decision about type of article you need to write by answering this question. The article may be of any kind such as technical, marketing or philosophical, all which are dissimilar in nature, which is why you must correctly identify your target audience.</p>
<p>In addition to identifying your intended readers, you must also ask yourself another question: Why do you wish to produce this piece of writing?  In answering this question, you are really narrowing your approach to writing your article in the first place.</p>
<p>This step questions your motivation that- why you wish to produce this piece of writing? The articles on the Internet can be classified into four wide approaches, these are</p>
<p>- Writing for Selling: Marketing articles often sell commodities or services to woo readers to a web site. The fast-paced speed of these articles are immediately obvious and, for this reason, the content of marketing remains small in size. Keywords are important for selling because they invite readers performing general word searches.</p>
<p>- Technical Writing: This type of writing requires actual facts. The technical aspect is well understood with diagrams. Even if the writing lacks visual aids, descriptions and writing is precise so as to avoid misunderstanding. If you use highly technical words, be aware that a common man would find it difficult to understand. And if the article has more of the style, the people with technical expertise will find it without technical details.</p>
<p>- Trendy Writing: The extensive use of blogs in the recent times has made this writing very popular. The main aspects here are to make the content more appealing and entertaining. This kind of writing should still try to be as straightforward as possible, as well as short and full of quick points. Trendy writing tends to lack details and arguments.</p>
<p>- Intellectual writing-This writing requires detailed description of a particular field. In this you can use references from popular books. This writing is aimed at contributing to that field. However, all the intellectual writings are not bound to be of academic nature. The examples are book reviews and editorial columns.</p>
<p>The Internet is the most popular media for sharing information and, if used in an efficient manner, it can work wonders for you as a reader and writer.</p>
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<div class='uawlinks'>Besides blogging, you should be using <a href="http://www.articlesgoneviral.com">free article submission</a> to get more visitors to your sites. Learn how you can get paid for submitting articles on the <a href="http://www.articlesgoneviral.com">Articles Gone Viral</a> website</div>
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		<title>Online Advertising Secrets: What Is Article Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Bethune</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How can article marketing improve sales in online businesses? Many marketing experts feel that article marketing is a brilliant type of advertising.  It not only allows business people and entrepreneurs to promote their business, but it also helps people establish their reputations as experts in any particular field. It doesnat matter whether article marketing is used as a journalistic work or a marketing tool, because either way it brings more legitimacy than reading a circular in your local newspaper or staying up late to see an infomercial.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Don Bethune</div>
<p>How can article marketing improve sales in online businesses? Many marketing experts feel that article marketing is a brilliant type of advertising.  It not only allows business people and entrepreneurs to promote their business, but it also helps people establish their reputations as experts in any particular field. It doesnat matter whether article marketing is used as a journalistic work or a marketing tool, because either way it brings more legitimacy than reading a circular in your local newspaper or staying up late to see an infomercial.</p>
<p>Article marketing has been around since mass printing became a reality in the pre-computer world. It was an easy transition to online marketing. In years past, a partnership existed between businesses providing the information and publishers who printed the articles, which were essentially advertisements, at no charge. The articles were designed for target populations, usually the reading public of the publications.</p>
<p>Most people who are familiar with the internet recognize article marketing when they see it, but that doesnat mean they understand how itas formulated or how they can write articles themselves. Letas begin by stating that the articles are short pieces and contain information about the type of business that needs to be promoted, or \&#8221;advertised.\&#8221;</p>
<p>Well written articles are valuable because they increase client-lists as well as enhancing reputations and credibility. They can be powerful enough to legitimize a business. Therefore, when you are writing an article, certain crucial information must be relayed to the reader: name, title, biography and contact information. If the article is being written for the internet, then a website or URL must be provided. Itas important to establish yourself as trustworthy and an expert in your field. Ideally, the biography will contain the information necessary to establish these two goals by containing credentials, educational background and achievements in your field.</p>
<p>As stated above, the explosion of online commerce and marketing for businesses, web-based or not, has broadened the use and need for article marketing. The original concept of publisher-business symbiosis is still the core relationship which drives article marketing, even in cyberspace. If anything, the relationship is stronger, and the possibilities for reaching target markets and populations are even greater.</p>
<p>Understanding online article marketing means we need to look at search engines, including finding out who is using them, what they are searching for, and what sites are showing up in their search results. Search engines do this by looking at certain \&#8221;keywords\&#8221; and how many times they are used. Having an online article addressing a topic with these keywords is called \&#8221;Search Engine Optimization\&#8221;, or SEO.</p>
<p>When an article is published online, itas important to use effective search engine optimization because it attracts search engine users to your site, therefore driving business to your door. The more visitors you have, the more sales and profits you make. This validates the concept of effective article marketing as a traffic generator, and including business owneras website address brings more \&#8221;hits\&#8221; and a higher rank in search engine results.</p>
<p>One problem with the success of online article advertising is that it has fostered an explosion of topical articles on the web. Not all articles contain correct information or good writing. This may lower the usefulness of article advertising online, and hapless internet users may unwittingly take away bad information, which can lower the credibility of the articles themselves and their authors. A solution to the article content quality problem has been found in the use of article marketing services. These services can help businesses with the generation of well-written, accurate and well-distributed pieces.</p>
<p>What we have shown in this article is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to answering the question, \&#8221;What is article marketing?\&#8221; You can be the best plumber in the world but that doesnat mean you have the technical savvy or writing skills to get your message across. While you may not be as knowledgeable as some cyber marketers, hopefully this information can help you understand the potential of how industry related articles can be effective in online marketing.</p>
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		<title>How To Get Social Media Sites To Link To You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Armstrong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Using social bookmarking or social media websites is a relatively easy way to get traffic to your website. These resources can be used very successfully to not only help your website with getting direct traffic from these sites, but also help with getting your website into the search engines for the keywords you're going after.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Brian Armstrong</div>
<p>Using social bookmarking or social media websites is a relatively easy way to get traffic to your website. These resources can be used very successfully to not only help your website with getting direct traffic from these sites, but also help with getting your website into the search engines for the keywords you&#8217;re going after.</p>
<p>The first step to any of this is to get your website blog post completed or your article done or any page on your website ready for your target audience. Once the page itself is done and ready to be &#8220;bookmarked&#8221;. This is a simple process of adding links back to your page.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll need to setup new accounts because you most likely haven&#8217;t done this before. Start at socialmarker.com and get the new accounts setup by the recommendations they make there. These sites are typically very well respected with a high authority as it relates to how they&#8217;re judged by the search engines.</p>
<p>The title should have your main keyword phrase and the title of your blog post or article. These may match some of the time, or most of the time, but when you don&#8217;t have the keyword, add it unless it makes the keyword too long.</p>
<p>When you bookmark your site, you&#8217;ll also be prompted with a description that you&#8217;ll want to include which should have in it your keyword phrases as well. This description should also be a strong call to action. People will often read or scan this description and make their decision on whether they click through or not. These social bookmarking sites are still another click away from your website. </p>
<p>The URL is your web address of the page you&#8217;re bookmarking. Do NOT use only the domain name. Make sure you are using the actual web address of the specific page you&#8217;re trying to get bookmarked. If you don&#8217;t do this, you&#8217;ll get errors on several of the sites complaining that you&#8217;ve already or someone has already bookmarked that domain or that main page. </p>
<p>Tags are another thing you&#8217;ll be prompted for when bookmarking your sites. These tags are basically keywords, usually 1-2 word keyword phrases that can be used to identify relatively broadly the article or blog post. As tags, you should use both a main keyword phrase that you&#8217;re trying to get ranked as well as some of the more broad keyword phrases that better represent what people on these social bookmarking sites will actually search for. These sites are a lot like a search engines that people use to find very relevant updated content on their search topics. </p>
<p>These are some relatively easy ways to get traffic back to your website. One of the things about this is that it becomes difficult to stay organized. I personally don&#8217;t try too hard to stay organized on this as I do have analytics installed on my website so I can track where most of my traffic comes from. You&#8217;ll tend to see patterns that some sites will work better than others at generating traffic.</p>
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<div class='uawlinks'>Brian focuses primarily on <a href="http://www.merchanthotline.com">credit card processing</a> for internet based businesses. He coaches many of the internet businesses simply so that they can do more business and process more transactions. He also consults these same internet businesses on <a href="http://www.coae.net">search engine optimization</a>.</div>
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		<title>Successful Affiliate Marketers - 6 Essential Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anson Hall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to make more money? I can tell you that one of the ways to do so is to become an internet marketer. You can become an affiliate marketing and start making money in the affiliate marketing business field. A piece of fact is that it is totally possible for you to make a lot of money with it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Anson Hall</div>
<p>Do you want to make more money? I can tell you that one of the ways to do so is to become an internet marketer. You can become an affiliate marketing and start making money in the affiliate marketing business field. A piece of fact is that it is totally possible for you to make a lot of money with it.</p>
<p>In order to be successfully in affiliate marketing, you will need to work very hard. And you should also know the steps and ways to work. In this article, we will discuss all the steps involved in order to become a successful affiliate marketer.</p>
<p>1. You will need to first of all join an affiliate program. The most difficult part here is that you may not know what programs you should join. You will in fact find programs which have the kind of products you want to promote. Besides, you will only stick to programs with good reputation.</p>
<p>2. There are marketers who do not want to build their own affiliate sites. However, it is a crucial step if you would like to make money. You have to choose a domain name and start your own site. Make sure that the theme of your site will be relevant to the products you are promoting.</p>
<p>3. It is also very important to start building your own list. Again, a lot of marketers will not try to do that. However, we have to understand that this is one of the most important tools marketers should have.</p>
<p>4. SEO is very important in order to promote your affiliate site. Of course there are also other effective ways to promote your site. However, SEO is certainly one of the best ways to do so. The beauty of SEO is that you can have free and targeted traffic from the search engines. And the volume of traffic will surely be huge.</p>
<p>5. In order to make your affiliate site to become an authority site, you will try to post useful contents on the site. One of the ways to do so is to write product reviews and product comparisons. Of course you will be comparing the products you are promoting in this case.</p>
<p>6. You will also need to write some articles and submit them to article directories. You will be writing articles which is related to your niche and the affiliate products you are promoting. You are doing this in order to build your image as an expert in your niche. You will find that it is easier for you to promote if you are seen as an expert in your field.</p>
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		<title>Why Your Site&#8217;s Page Rank Is Crucial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What does page rank mean and why is it so crucial? If you've read articles and websites claiming that your site's page rank is not so significant? Don't believe them, because it is important. The page rank given to your website is crucial when you want to be assured of how well you are doing online.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Mary R. Ellen</div>
<p>What does page rank mean and why is it so crucial? If you&#8217;ve read articles and websites claiming that your site&#8217;s page rank is not so significant? Don&#8217;t believe them, because it is important. The page rank given to your website is crucial when you want to be assured of how well you are doing online. </p>
<p>Search engines appraise your website founded on numerous standards. Once you abide by these measures, search engines specify a rate to your site, which converts to your page rank. Google innovated the PageRankTM and the page rank property is frequently reasoned according to what they have designated, which is similar and adopted all over.</p>
<p>Initially, let&#8217;s learn why the page rank is considered crucial for a website. Basically, your website&#8217;s page rank is among the criteria looked for by search engine when they are preparing to provide results pages based on particular queries. If a website has a high page rank, it will be prioritised before sites without such a value.</p>
<p>Appearing in the top ten Google results means you have a higher potential of getting visitors to your website. Google ranks web pages on an ascending scale of 1 to 10 and all new sites begin with a value 0. As you keep improving your page rank, you increase in importance within Google as well. </p>
<p>How do you get a suitable page rank? It&#8217;s not that easy, but with some effort, you can get there over some time. A website&#8217;s page rank is decided by evaluating the external sites linking to it. So, if a site with a page rank of 7 links to your website, you will be thought of as more important. These backlinks are very valuable and by getting such links, the page ranking &#8216;worthiness&#8217; is slightly distributed among linked sites as well. </p>
<p>If you get numerous websites with page ranks above 5 to link to your site, then over a few months, you&#8217;ll get a good rank too, because Google recognises you as a reputable website with some level of importance and relevance for what people are searching for. Lower ranking sites contribute too, but not as much as the higher ranking sites. </p>
<p>Getting a page ranks requires you to get websites to link to you. Writing high quality content on your site pages will get your more noticed by other high quality websites and they will link to you. Link to some important sites too and over time, more sites will start linking to you as well. Never buy links, though, because your genuine reputation is not imperative through bought links and Google will eventually find out what you&#8217;ve done and lower your rank. </p>
<p>If you are keen to find out the page rank on your website, get a free page rank checker button and install it in your site. As time passes, you can keep checking how your page rank increases or decreases and make adjustments accordingly.</p>
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		<title>Tips - Aggressive Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lara Crevena</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Aggressive marketing internet means comprehensive trade promotions and any businessman who exceeded expectations. A business needs ferocious internet marketing. Nothing more, nothing less. But to make it low cost? Is it even possible? How something as aggressive can be affordable?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Lara Crevena</div>
<p>Aggressive marketing internet means comprehensive trade promotions and any businessman who exceeded expectations. A business needs ferocious internet marketing. Nothing more, nothing less. But to make it low cost? Is it even possible? How something as aggressive can be affordable?</p>
<p>Fortunately, you can enjoy cheap aggressive internet marketing, if you just look hard and fair. Being bright and alert and know what&#8217;s happening in the online industry. The following questions will help you discern whether your website decided to make marketing fits the bill.</p>
<p>Does the company offers a free website design? Even if you know your HTML, it is even more desirable if a professional team does it for you. Some sites offer free internet marketing website design to ensure that your site needs are met. It&#8217;s a must that the marketing is built into the design of websites. If the company requires you to pay more than fifty dollars for the design of websites, both for straight-forward internet marketing! Look somewhere else!</p>
<p>How many keywords does your web site cater to? Having too many keywords or key phrases to focus on will make your page ranking drop. Creating smaller web pages with content that emphasizes only a few keywords will serve Internet marketing endeavor better.</p>
<p>How search engine is compatible with your site? Internet Marketing is invented &#8220;aggressive&#8221; if it is a search engine hundred percent compatible. There are about 10 major search engines and online your site has as a result of working with them. Determine whether your website is an expert in search engine optimization.</p>
<p>Do you know your competitors? Affordable aggressive marketing internet grows before your company taking note of your competitors. Analysis and evaluation of the competition is required to understand your weaknesses and benefits on them. If this option is excluded from your internet marketing plan, you get a poor deal.</p>
<p>How efficient is the monthly marketing plan? Usually, you&#8217;re asked to pay a monthly fee for the marketing plan. For a marketing plan to be efficient, it must zero in on the following things: webpage development, link exchanges, web content, updates and technical support. Of course, also included are the standard SEO, competition analysis and keyword density.</p>
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		<title>Free Traffic Gesyer - Video Marketing on Steroids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Loop, DC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When trying to dominate your niche with video marketing, it is imperative not to make costly rookie mistakes like so many do. As many internet marketers are aware, Google can be an unpredictable beast sometimes but in other instances it can be very predictable.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Matthew Loop, DC</div>
<p>When trying to dominate your niche with video marketing, it is imperative not to make costly rookie mistakes like so many do. As many internet marketers are aware, Google can be an unpredictable beast sometimes but in other instances it can be very predictable.</p>
<p>Such is the case with video marketing. If you follow the basic rules, you will be heavily rewarded with exposure and a lucrative income stream. Myself and my students have been able to rake-in a small fortune over the past two years with this innovative approach to social media. I?ve kept it a secret for the most part but I?m letting the cat out of the bag now.</p>
<p>Here is the flaw that I see most often with newbie internet video marketers. They will submit there videos with a service like TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser, which submit to dozens video sharing sites. Little to they know that whichever site receives the video and processes it first will be the highest that it gets indexed on the search engines.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you put your video up on Traffic Geyser, and it submits to 30 video sharing sites.  Say Metcafe gets the video.  That means it&#8217;s ranked at their page rank and Alexa rating.  Well, Metcafe&#8217;s Alexa rating is 132, and their page ranking is a 7.  Not very impressive when you consider other sites&#8211; and your video simply gets lost.</p>
<p>YouTube, on the other hand, has a page rank of 9 and Alexa of 3.  Basically, that means it&#8217;s the third most visited site in the world!  When you submit through YouTube instead of one of a dumping sites, you&#8217;re doing your business a world of good. From there, blast it with Traffic Geyser and watch the profits take-off and the search rankings rise rapidly.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why your computer is beating you with SEO and keywords.  When you submit to YouTube, from there you can get a service like Traffic Geyser to really up the traffic and exposure to your video by getting it to 60 sites or more.</p>
<p>So now you know, the higher the page rank and Alexa rating, the more your video will be indexed and come up on search engines like Yahoo, Google, and MSM. When you follow the simple guidelines of social media marketing, you&#8217;re going to see some stunning results.  You can earn extraordinary amounts of wealth from multiple locations, and destroy the competition in your field.</p>
<p>Make sure to get your hands on Traffic Geyser if you are seriously considering starting a home-business or any marketing online. You cannot compete with the ?big boys? without it. The website below has a FREE 30 day trial for a limited time so you can see for yourself just how massively powerful it is.</p>
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		<title>Choosing your Blog Platform: An Important First Step</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Conley</dc:creator>
		
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<p>I can&#8217;t think of a more common concern or question among both novice and veteran bloggers alike: which blogging platform should I pick? Aside from learning how to blog, it&#8217;s an almost universal concern.</p>
<p>And there is no one-size-fits-all answer. All bloggers NEED to own their domain names, but choice of the platform is mainly dependent on the specific blogger&#8217;s requirements. That said, I&#8217;ve compiled a list of advantages and disadvantages of the two primary platform choices below.</p>
<p><b>Hosted Platforms</b></p>
<p>Hosted platforms refer to services whereby a service provider grants you access to their software, network connection, and hardware, and you setup a blogging account for use on that service. With a hosted blog, you have access to a control panel for your blog, and that&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>Typical hosted platforms include solutions like Blogger, TypePad, and LiveJournal.</p>
<p><b>Advantages of Hosted Platforms</b></p>
<p>1. Economical: many are free; others (like TypePad) are offered with multiple price points</p>
<p>2. Easy to get started: just signup for an account and then quickly  learn how to create blog posts</p>
<p>3. Automatic updates: you don&#8217;t have to worry about keeping hosted software up-to-date and patched.</p>
<p><b>Disadvantages of Hosted Platforms</b></p>
<p>1. Inflexible: there are fewer customization options with hosted platforms.</p>
<p>2. Fewer design options: you usually only get to select from a limited number of average designs, and you often can&#8217;t make improvements to them</p>
<p>3. Generic URL: some hosted platforms don&#8217;t offer the option to use your own URL</p>
<p>4. Lack of control: you are at the mercy of the platform</p>
<p>5. Migration issues: migrating from many free hosted platforms results in a lot of effort and often the temporary loss of search engine rankings</p>
<p><b>Self-hosted Platforms</b></p>
<p>Self-hosted platforms consist of your own web hosting account with a host, and the blogging software you install on the host&#8217;s server. With a self-hosted blog, you have access to an administrative panel for your blog, but you also have access to a server account and the blog software where you can do almost anything.</p>
<p>Common self-hosted software includes Movable Type, WordPress, and Drupal.</p>
<p><b>Advantages of Self-hosted Platforms</b></p>
<p>1. Design flexibility: you have full control over design and layout</p>
<p>2. Great software: killer software exists on self-hosted platforms</p>
<p>3. Custom URL: custom URL&#8217;s are common on self-hosted platforms</p>
<p>4. Adaptability: your blog can change as your needs change</p>
<p>5. Easy migration: should you ever need to migrate to a different platform or another server, migrating is a snap</p>
<p><b>Disadvantages of Self-hosted Platforms</b></p>
<p>1. Difficult setup: setup can sometimes be difficult, but this can be overcome with a good blogs how to</p>
<p>2. Cost: while the blogging software is free, the hosting platform will cost you money</p>
<p>3. Hosting issues: unless you choose a good host, you might have to suffer from down-time or poor support</p>
<p>4. Upgrades: you will need to keep your software patched</p>
<p>Most of of my blogs are self-hosted, and it&#8217;s what I generally advise anyone looking to create a professional blog. There are too many benefits to pass up, and you usually have the ability to host many domains and blogs on just one account, lowering the cost per blog down to a small amount.</p>
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		<title>Tips for Driving Traffic and Internet Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Dudenhofer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Small business owners need to use every tool available to them to build their business. One of these tools is internet marketing, which is something you are more than likely considering as a way to get out the word about your business. You know that there are millions of potential customers out there who you can reach this way - what you don't know is exactly how to go about reaching them. A lot of businesses make the mistake of getting into internet marketing without having a plan of action. You need to decide how your business will use the platform of internet marketing to build success and plan accordingly.]]></description>
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<p>Small business owners need to use every tool available to them to build their business. One of these tools is internet marketing, which is something you are more than likely considering as a way to get out the word about your business. You know that there are millions of potential customers out there who you can reach this way - what you don&#8217;t know is exactly how to go about reaching them. A lot of businesses make the mistake of getting into internet marketing without having a plan of action. You need to decide how your business will use the platform of internet marketing to build success and plan accordingly.</p>
<p>Traffic is essential to the success of your business online. It doesn&#8217;t matter how great your company is and how wonderful of a product or service you have to offer - if no one is visiting your site. To make sure that your online presence is viable, you have to make sure that you are driving a large amount of traffic to your website.</p>
<p>The whole point of internet marketing is to convey your message to a wider audience. Therefore you have to make your message consistent. You probably won?t convert people into customers the first time that they see you. You have to condition them to trust you. The best way to do this is to be consistent with your online marketing and create a brand.</p>
<p>There are a number of ways that you can engage in online marketing. Pay-per-click, email marketing, or blogging are a few of the more popular methods for driving traffic. The benefit of using pay-per-click is that you can get a steady stream of traffic immediately. On the downside, you have to pay for that stream of traffic. In email marketing you can reach a wide audience, but you have to be careful that you&#8217;re not spamming.</p>
<p>A lot of business owners make the mistake of going with only one traffic generation strategy. It&#8217;s never a good idea to put all of your eggs into one basket with marketing; your business needs to diversify in order to guarantee a steady stream of traffic.</p>
<p>For example, if you decide to go with just pay per click ads, your ads will stop appearing when you reach your advertising budget for the day - meaning that you will have lost your chances to reach new customers and to make sales for the day! When you use more than one technique to drive traffic, you will be covered and be able to keep bringing in visitors to your site even when one tactic is under-performing.</p>
<p>However, don&#8217;t discount pay per click ads; they are a good traffic generation technique - but it should not be the only one your business uses.</p>
<p>You should also avoid losing focus by casting too wide of a net. Choose a few methods and stick with them - this will make sure that you are getting the maximum return for your efforts. The more work you can put into each, the better results you&#8217;ll see.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t let yourself be overwhelmed by all of the different techniques available to your business in the field of internet marketing. There is a lot to learn, but happily there are many resources available to help you get started. Just visit http://www.frequenttraffic .com for all the resources you need to begin building online success for your business today.</p>
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		<title>Using Blogs To Monitor Website Traffic And Improve Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Bethune</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog, blogging, blogger these are the terms that you find often when you browse the net. Those who are naive regarding the matter simply ignore the section and wouldn't take the effort to view them. There is a lot you can explore from a blog.]]></description>
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<p>Blog, blogging, blogger these are the terms that you find often when you browse the net. Those who are naive regarding the matter simply ignore the section and wouldn&#8217;t take the effort to view them. There is a lot you can explore from a blog.</p>
<p>A blog is quite interesting if you are a regular visitor to such sites. A blog is a web log on the web having a number of entries posted by a person or different people and is listed in a chronological order. The latest entries will be listed at the top and it moves down when other blog entries are posted.</p>
<p>Many different kinds of blogs exist depending on the content of the posts. Blogs can be focused on images, photos, music, or personal information. These are just a few examples of what blogs can be about. There are in fact a countless number of blogs all over the web on just about any topic you might be interested in.</p>
<p>There are various terms that you encounter on the web such as blogger, a blogger is one who keeps a blog, the process of  entering a blog is called blogging, comments are the feedback that people viewing the blog can make.</p>
<p>The purpose of a blog is usually to express the viewpoints or ideas of the blogas owners. Since the audience of most blogs is the general public, blogs can also provide an arena for socialization and help connect people.</p>
<p>You can also posses a personal blog where you can add items details just like you enter in your diary. Some blogs are very informative while some provides us others view points. There are blogs that are creative and a few which are purely entertaining.</p>
<p>Blogs are sometimes used to market a particular website or its products or services. They provide a link to a particular website making the viewer click on it. As a result the website traffic can be increased. Hence  providing a link of a website on a frequent basis on the blog would increase traffic and help in website traffic monitoring. Consequently website traffic monitoring will improve your business. Hence frequent updating of blog helps in website traffic monitoring which is one of the most preferred and cheap source of advertising.</p>
<p>When it comes to improving website traffic canadian online business also promotes blog in order to promote various businesses. To get website traffic canadian can opt for this site to make blog entries periodically and update them and providing the link for their website. A blog can help us in a lot of way. If you haven&#8217;t tried one then start blogging now.</p>
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