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Monday, February 21

Pros And Cons Of Buying On Ebay

In today's fast changing world of e-commerce like E-bay, people find shopping online the most convenient way of purchasing items. The fact that a person doesn't even have to drive to and from the store is exhilarating enough.

To date, E-bay is the most celebrated and the most world-renowned online mall today.

However, there are advantages as well as disadvantages when buying on E-bay. So, it's important for shoppers out there to take not of these facts before buying items on E-bay.






THE PROS

1. It's relatively simple and within reach.

Why? Because eBay makes ones shopping spree just a click away.

2. Great access.

With E-bay, buying items had never been this varied.

3. It's twice as fun.

With colorful graphics, unusual items, and weird but quirky listings, entertainment is just around the corner.

4. A viable online price indicator.

Buying on E-bay can give a shopper an insight and update on the present price of certain commodities these days.

5. Money-back possibility.

Most often than not, there's a higher chance of getting back the buyer's money if things slipped up.






THE CONS

1. "In good condition" not guaranteed.

There may be a lot of sellers who use the words "in good condition," but because the buyer cannot visually and personally examine the item before purchasing it, most often than not, the items sold were definitely not scratch free.

2. Additional postal fees.

The common delivery method of items bought by the buyer is through mail; additional charges screw up thereby adding hefty charges just for the delivery alone, plus most transactions are on international basis, so international rates applies.

3. Lack of human touch.

There are people who still prefer to go to the mall not just because they want to go shopping but also they want to tag their friends along, have coffee breaks, and chat along the way.

Buying on e-bay may provide an interactive mode of shopping but it's not a form of socialization.

4. Too risky.

If Internet is jungle, then there might be big bad wolves lurking on E-bay ready to gobble probable victims. These refer to scams, frauds, and identity theft.

5. A form of enslavement.

Once hooked, shoppers will never get the hang of it. There were cases wherein people buy things on E-bay almost everyday. After all, with the convenience online shopping and credit cards give, who wouldn't?

Just like any financial decisions, it still pays for shoppers to contemplate first on things before jumping into conclusions.

Wednesday, February 16

How To Make Money Blogging

After you create a blog that is interesting, now it is time to start making money. The second step of getting visitors is the most important, if you plan on making money. The third step is choosing how you will make money from your blog. You should try to keep your blog on the same topic on all your post, being that you can have an unlimited number of blogs, you can have a blog for any and every topic you choose. Make sure to start a new blog if you are totally off the main subject of the blog that you are posting to.

Blogger and several other free blog companies make it very simple to have a brand new blog up and running in a matter of a few minutes. Try not to post an article about dogs on a blog about golf. Once you have an interesting blog on one particular topic, the best place to start making money is Google AdSense. Blogger has made it very simple to add AdSense ads to your blog.
The ads that show up on your blog will be targeted towards the topic of your blog, which means if you have a blog about dogs, the ads that show up on your blog will deal with pets. It's like Google is paying you to advertise on your blog.

Another way to make money with your blog is with affiliate programs. Companies will pay you good money to advertise their products, and all you have to do is put a link or banner on your blog leading to that companies web site. Once a sale is made the company gives you a commission. That is the reason you should pick one topic for your blog. If you want to have a blog about your life, by all means do it, but have other blogs about specific topics if you want to make money.








Once you find a topic that interest you, look for affiliate programs for that particular topic. With the dog blog example, there are several dog training products that you can have links and banners to on a dog blog that will make good money. ClickBank is the top company when it comes to affiliate products, they have over 10,000 products to choose from. Browse their products to see which ones you would like to promote. Obviously you want to pick something that fits the topic of your blog, but don't limit yourself to just one, you can change a product you are promoting with a few clicks.

The internet is the essence of marketing, by that I mean, every word in an ad matters, every color, where the ad is located on your blog, whether is is blinking or not, and the color of the text. It might not seem like all of those things matter, but the fact is, everything that you decide matters. The good thing is you can experiment with how your blog looks as much as you want. There are several e-books written on how you should place and where you should place them, in the beginning, just go with the basic blog set-up until you get the hang of things.

Monday, February 14

How To Build A Funny Videos Website






Early on, there were only comic books and video tapes that people brooded over to have a good laugh, but today there are so many websites available for the same. These websites are filled with funny crazy pictures, funny video clips and allow the user to surf through and watch any video they wish to. They can either watch the top rated ones or specify a search keyword and look for that one particular video. However, building a funny video website is not as easy as it seems. If an individual wants to create a website, they need to go through a rigorous process. And so, you can imagine the amount of details involved for a company to launch a website. Their main content would be based on humor and interactive flash games only.

Once a company decided to get into the funny video website category, they will need to assess the other websites already existing in the market and what they can offer that isn't already there. As they discuss these issues with their team, they will also have to touch base with a good web hosting company to figure out if they can use their domain for the upcoming website. A funny videos website consumes a lot of bandwidth, so a dedicated server is usually required for hosting. The one thing to keep in mind is that every step of the way takes a lot of effort, so one must have a clear cut budget before delving into this pool.

A website needs bright appealing colors, simple easy to use layout and most importantly content that will catch the eye of the person browsing through the site. If they find it interesting, they will stop and spend couple of more minutes, else will move on to other websites. A good PHP or ASP programmer can do the customized coding and put in all the necessary links, but it is difficult to find someone who will understand your needs and create a site that satisfies your dreams. The funny images and videos that you put in your site should be unique and be humorous. Some also have the html code for the video to be embedded in other websites, like MySpace or Blogs. This will help your site stand out among the crowd and get people to notice it. Finding interested people to contribute to the funny crazy pictures, flash animation videos will take time for a start up venture.







Will there be categories to sort the videos into? For example, if a person wants to upload videos about his dogs, will your sites have a category labeled "Dog Videos"? This will come in handy when a new visitor is looking for funny videos related to dogs. This makes it easier for them to navigate through your site and find what interests them, making them stick around longer to browse the other features on your site.

Some of the crazy pictures and funny video clips on other sites have the option for the viewer to rate the video, and post a comment. These are added features that allow the user to feel important making them come back to the site. The company should therefore think through their plan and get their facts together before putting their site out to the public. And if it is not interesting, or the pictures aren't funny enough, you will have lost a prospective member. It is therefore advisable for the company to spend time in doing their research to try and come up with an idea to outdo the other funny video websites.

Thursday, February 10

The Impact Of Positive Thinking On Your Internet Business






Positive thinking can help you reap many benefits in your internet business.

Through positive thinking you can achieve better focus, more readily recognize
new opportunities, better define your business goals, build up your belief in
yourself and your product/service, and more actively seek new ideas.

Positive thinking can help you keep your focus by teaching you to concentrate on
what you can accomplish.

Once you believe that you can accomplish a goal, your attention becomes more focused and your determination increases.

You can also use your positive thinking skills to help you recognize new opportunities. With a positive belief in the future, you will become more open to different possibilities.

This belief in what is possible will allow you see certain situation as opportunities for growth and inspiration.

Positive thinking can also come in handy when you set out to define your business goals.

As you learned in the earlier chapters, goals that are set using positive thinking
guidelines are easier to achieve and progress towards. You can also use these skills to better define those goals.

The more specific a goal is the simpler the steps are to reach achievement. When you view a goal as being simple to complete, you encourage your progress toward that goal.

Anyone who has ever attempted to set up and run an internet business knows that the
undertaking comes with pitfalls. These pitfalls can be better weathered if you are armed with positive thinking skills.

Through positive thinking skills you can expand upon your belief in yourself and your business, which will lead to a better attitude and the belief that your business can grow and flourish. During slow times or times of difficulty, use your affirmation, visualization and goal setting skills to redefine your business and make the changes that will lead you to success.

Finally, you can use your positive thinking skills to help you seek new ideas for
your internet business. Whether you need a way to improve a product or a new way to
expedite the shipping of a product, you can use your skills to brainstorm for new ideas. By believing in the impossible and putting your positive attitude to work, you will be able to find inspiration in things that others dismiss.

Negative thinkers have a tendency to see a new idea and think, "There is no way that will ever work". By immediately dismissing the idea, they miss out on the opportunities it can afford. Positive thinkers, however, see an idea and think, "Well, that may not be the exact answer I am looking for, but let's work through the possibilities and see what we come up with".

This ability to be open to an idea and eventually expand upon it or reinvent it to suit your exact needs will enable you to benefit from ideas that may not have been positive to start with.


Wednesday, February 9

Internet Marketing Keyword Advice

Keyword Identification is the first step while creating your content for your site.
Identify keyword related to your niche topics should be the first priority while creating
web content. The quality of these keywords is critical for a good ranking in search engines
. Researching the right keywords for your website should be the key, so that when people
perform a search for a particular keyword phrase they will be able to find your site.
So how do you do that will be the questions in everybody's mind. I have categories this
article into 3 phrases like keyword research or keyword identification, keyword selection,
keyword placement, keyword density, keyword ranking and keyword marketing.

Before I would go further I would like to discuss about building your website for your
business you should focus on certain other SEO strategies like clean navigation, a search
engine friendly website architecture so that search engine spiders or robots can easily
gather information from your website.

Once your site structure is done it is time to create the content for the site, which is
the crucial part and where they keyword research, keyword density comes into play.
If you follow these steps which I have mentioned below it is sure that your website can
enjoy a higher ranking in search engines.


Step 1
Keyword Identification or keyword research:- This should be first step while building
your content, because your content will be build around with the keyword and phrases which
has been identified at this stage. Which is very critical and if not done correctly you
won't achieve the desired results. There are different ways to identify how people search
on the web.
1) Think about what keyword would you chooses while you search for certain products or
services. Think from the customer point of view and not from search engine or SEO point
of view. Collect and write it down. I suggest using a spreadsheet so that it will help you
in the stages as well.
2) The other way is you can ask your own customers or friends that how do they search on
the net to find that particular products or services. Usually all people think differently
and might not use the same keyword phrase to find that product or services. Collect them
and store it.
3) Keyword suggestion tools. There are 100's of tools on the web some of them are free
and other charge a fee. I suggest using Overture keyword tool and Google keyword tool (free)
and wordtracker (paid). Type in your keyword and phrases into these tools you will find
100's of keywords for that particular products or services is been search on the web every
month. Also it will show how many times that words are been searched on the internet. Tools
like wordtracker will help you to find that how many times these keywords are been searched
and how much competition is there for that particular keyword phrases. If you focus on
high searched keyword it would be hard for your website to rank well because of
competition. So always choose a keywords that is less competitive, so that you website
will rank well for that particular keyword phrase on the search engine results.
4) The other way is if you have already had a website online check its web log and
gather that keywords which helps people to find your site. This will help for existing
website to recreate the content.

After these steps are done use your spreadsheet to determine the keywords It is ideal to
have more keywords rather than focusing on a few words. In that spreadsheet matches the
following keyword in terms like how many times the keywords are searched and how much
competition is that keyword facing on the web. As I said before always choose less
competitive keywords. Once these stage is over start constructing your website content
with the identified keywords.


Step 2 Keyword placement:-Placing the keyword is very crucial, because if the keywords
are not place properly the search engine spiders will have a difficult time in identify
and storing information from your web pages. You most important keyword should appear on
the title of the page at least once which all search engine given relevancy. Next the same
or related keyword should be there on the heading of the page. Also use a related keyword
while starting a paragraph and through out the web page evenly. The density factor is
discussed below.

Step 3
Keyword density:- Search engine robots are very intelligent spiders they can determine
while some tries to cheat them. Some webmasters and SEO experts use keyword spamming or
keyword dumping which is ethical for a good search engine optimization. If search engine
spiders indexes a web pages it determine who much times that keywords has been used on a
particular web page. So Keyword density is important. An ideal density would be anything
between 10-15 % keyword densities on the page. Also use keywords which are related to that
phrase so that it gets relevancy for that web page.For example When I search for a keyword
"dog supplies" I found 100 of related terms which like "dog supplies online" "dog supply
store" etc so think and figure out keywords which are more related to that topic. Also
Sprinkle the keywords phrases right across the web page and not concentrate at a certain
place.


At this stage you website content should be ready keep in mind with the 3 top priority
factors. This will determine your website success or failure in search engine. The next
stage is keyword marketing.

Keyword marketing:- Some of the techniques you will use as a off site factor rather than
on the side, because it affects only the marketing process. As you all know all search
engines give links more relevancies in the algorithm. So after your keyword identification,
density and placement are over you should focus on marketing your site. Like site
submission, article submission, link popularity while all these techniques are for
increasing inbound links to your site. So you would be using your anchor text for creating
a link pointing to your site. So here is where keyword marketing comes to play. You should
use your key important phrase in these anchor text also mix up your related keywords.
Keyword marketing is also vital for Pay per click marketing where keyword is the king.
So gather keywords related to your business and use it widely in your PPC campaign. Pay
per click industry is solely depends on keyword marketing. If you website want the maximum
ROI (return of Investment) you will have to apply the maximum keywords while bidding your
keywords. For example your website visibility will increase if you choose maximum keyword
for your Pay per click marketing.

The bottom-line is to gain a high ranking in search engine use keyword which is related
to your business on your onsite and offsite website marketing. Keyword is the king when
it comes to content and content is the king when it comes to Search Engine Marketing.

Tuesday, February 8

What are You prefer????

Nowadays, the people like to live with love, wealth and health.....
But they just choose one of that...
Some like their love more than wealth and health...
Some like thier wealthy more than their health and love...
Some like their healthy more than their love and wealth...
But all of it is moer important than anything...
How about you all???

WHAT ARE YOU PREFERED OF??

A. LOVE
B. WEALTH
C. HEALTH
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
E. DON'T KNOW
F. NOT IMPORTANT AT ALL

Monday, February 7

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