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Four Tips For Creating An Effective Authors' Resource Box by Bill Platt |
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In article marketing, there are many factors that will
affect your articles' ability to promote your website in
the most effective manner. In this article, we will briefly
discuss a couple those factors, before we dive into how to
create an effective Authors' Resource Box, also known as
the About The Author Information. |
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Distributed: 2013-08-27 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1669 |
Page Views: 8142 |
Votes: 18 |
Rating: 2.50 |
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Website Traffic Generation: Winning the Love of the Traffic Fairy by Bill Platt |
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Some people still believe that all they have to do is build
a website and customers will magically appear on their
site... Once they have built their websites, they wait
anxiously for the "Traffic Fairy" to come and sprinkle its
magic dust on their website too, so that they can make lots
of money like other success website owners. |
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Distributed: 2013-08-24 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1149 |
Page Views: 9022 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 1.86 |
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What Kind Of Backlinks Are Best At Helping Your Website In Google? by Bill Platt |
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I was in the Warrior Forum, and someone asked what kinds of
Backlinks are worth pursuing. This is my answer to that
query. |
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Distributed: 2013-08-21 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 439 |
Page Views: 10081 |
Votes: 23 |
Rating: 2.74 |
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Understanding the Mechanics of Effective Article Marketing and Article Syndication by Bill Platt |
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Visit several marketing blogs or marketing forums, and you
will find dozens of people proclaiming the death of article
marketing as an effective marketing tool. Before we start
agreeing with them, consider this... |
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Distributed: 2013-08-01 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1399 |
Page Views: 6664 |
Votes: 10 |
Rating: 1.80 |
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Top 10 Reasons Why Online Marketers Fail With Article Marketing by Bill Platt |
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If you've been marketing products online for any length of
time, you've likely heard people talk about the power and
promise of article marketing for the promotion of your
online business. Unfortunately, many online marketers have
tried to utilize article marketing to benefit their online
business and failed. In this article, I document the top ten
reasons why people fail to find success with article
marketing... And how to fix your article marketing
campaigns... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-31 12:15:00 |
Word Count: 1025 |
Page Views: 7933 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 2.08 |
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Article Marketing Tip: Stop Trying To Sell From Within Your Articles by Bill Platt |
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The basic premise of article marketing is to present people
information that will be important to them, then at the end
of the article, present information "about the author" and
offer to the reader a means to see how the author can help
the reader further. When done well, article marketing
continues to be one of the most effective methods of
promotion that one could employ online. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-30 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 1229 |
Page Views: 6109 |
Votes: 10 |
Rating: 1.40 |
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The Six Degrees of Internet Marketing by Bill Platt |
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The theory behind the Six Degrees of Separation is that all
people on earth can be connected together in as little as
six steps. Now, I know what you might be thinking at this
juncture... That sounds fun and interesting, but what does
that have to do with Internet Marketing? That is a great
question that I am going to answer for you in this
article... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-30 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 991 |
Page Views: 8537 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 2.43 |
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How To Increase Your Rates and Earnings As a Freelance Writer by Bill Platt |
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Freelance writers fill a very important role in today's
business marketplace. They create the on-demand, customized
content that business owners everywhere need to push their
businesses forward. In this article, the author explains
what freelance writers should do to ensure that employers
will pay them well for their services. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-29 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1191 |
Page Views: 6044 |
Votes: 11 |
Rating: 1.55 |
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The Death and Resurrection of Quality Content by Bill Platt |
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No matter where you go online, you are bound to find someone
complaining about the quality of content available online.
When we want to find information that answers our questions
for us, the last thing we want to do is to land on a MFA
(Made For Adsense) website with questionable content. And
yet, many of the people who complain about this state of
affairs also contribute to the problem... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-25 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 769 |
Page Views: 7693 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 1.85 |
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Successful Article Marketers Help Readers Solve Problems by Bill Platt |
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Every week, I have the opportunity to speak with people about the
benefits and challenges of using article marketing to promote an
online business. Article marketing is about getting your sales
message in front of potential customers and to get links to your
website. Many interpret this to mean that an article should
directly promote a website within the article, but that approach
is wrong and will reduce one's success using this methodology. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-24 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 816 |
Page Views: 26149 |
Votes: 34 |
Rating: 2.79 |
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Stop Wasting Time and Money With Your Article Marketing by Bill Platt |
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Online marketers are always arguing for or against the value
of article marketing. Many will argue that article marketing
could provide real traffic and sales to ones' website, and
furthermore, article submission has the potential to offer
some serious SEO value to the marketers' websites. Many
more will tell you that article marketing is an utter waste
of time and money... The difference between those who do
well with article marketing and those who do not is usually
a matter of education, or lack thereof... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-23 11:15:00 |
Word Count: 1014 |
Page Views: 6703 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 1.77 |
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Newsletter Publishers: The Redheaded Step Children Of Internet Marketing by Bill Platt |
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People who publish online newsletters, often referred to as
ezines, have always played an important role in the growth of the
Internet economy. In fact, if you listen to any of the Internet
gurus, they are going to tell you time and again that the most
important thing you can do towards the success of your online
business is to build a list. Although newsletters can help online
marketers earn a lot of money, most marketers fail to realize the
true potential of newsletters... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-18 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 1546 |
Page Views: 6989 |
Votes: 20 |
Rating: 1.70 |
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I Am Not A Golfing Instructor, But I Played One On The Internet by Bill Platt |
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I have a unique job, as a professional article ghostwriter,
which forces me to do research on topics that I may not
normally be interested in learning. Certainly, golf was one
of those topics I thought I would never learn about in my
life. Now that I have taken the time to learn about the
fundamentals of golf, I am glad that I did... But you will
be surprised as to why... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-17 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1990 |
Page Views: 7047 |
Votes: 12 |
Rating: 1.92 |
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How To Inspire Yourself To Write Articles Others Will Want To Read by Bill Platt |
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Anyone engaged in writing articles for offline publications or
online business has occasionally struggled with the question of
"What to write?" This article documents the methods this writer
uses to find inspiration and processes this writer uses to create
articles people love to read. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-16 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 937 |
Page Views: 7241 |
Votes: 30 |
Rating: 2.10 |
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How To Get Your Syndicated Articles Opened, Read And Published by Bill Platt |
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Syndicated articles can be a very powerful promotion tool in
the hands of the person who knows how to use them... This is
the reason why article marketing is generally a hot topic of
conversation... Unfortunately, not all of the conversation
is positive, because the vast majority of people who attempt
to utilize article marketing for the promotion of their
online business are absolutely clueless as to how to use
article marketing to its fullest potential... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-11 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1318 |
Page Views: 7580 |
Votes: 12 |
Rating: 1.42 |
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How Print Editorial Standards Differ from Online Standards by Bill Platt |
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Article writing has become an increasingly popular tool for those
who are exploring online advertising opportunities for their
businesses. But the standards for getting published online are
much lower than the standards for getting published in print
media outlets. In this article, we examine the differences in
writing styles and writing requirements for these two distinct
publishing mediums. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-10 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1360 |
Page Views: 7456 |
Votes: 27 |
Rating: 2.30 |
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How Important Is Wikipedia In The Grand Scheme Of Things? by Bill Platt |
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Wikipedia is the center of the online encyclopedia universe.
Millions of entries on every conceivable topic makes this website
an authority source that many young students and adults turn to
from all corners of the globe. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-09 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1613 |
Page Views: 9100 |
Votes: 29 |
Rating: 2.55 |
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Have We Really Seen The Death Of Article Marketing? by Bill Platt |
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Article marketing has been an effective method of website
promotion that has literally been used since the inception of the
public Internet. I have been online since November of 1995, and
even in those early days, I would read people's articles and
click the link in their resource box to learn more about their
website. |
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Distributed: 2013-07-04 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1762 |
Page Views: 7371 |
Votes: 30 |
Rating: 2.47 |
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Cutting Through The Information Overload: Grab Your Readers' Attention With a Great Title by Bill Platt |
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As avid readers, we have trained our brains to scan the
headlines looking for something that might suit our
desires... This article will give you a solid understanding
of how to grab your readers by the eyeballs and get them to
open and read your articles... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-03 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 802 |
Page Views: 10044 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 1.77 |
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Cracking The Article Marketing Puzzle by Bill Platt |
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Article marketing is one of those topics that always seems
to generate a lot of conversation in forums and marketing
discussions... Online marketers are generally split into three
camps, when it comes to arguing the effectiveness of article
marketing as a promotional method... Camp One swears by article
marketing, as an integral and essential part of their online
marketing activities... They suggest that the benefits of article
marketing are twofold: direct click-through (CTR) traffic from
the article that may deliver immediate sales; and improved search
rankings that will drive additional search traffic... |
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Distributed: 2013-07-02 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1343 |
Page Views: 7523 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 1.93 |
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Book Authors: How To Sell More Books And Get Your Publisher Active by Bill Platt |
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It is an unfortunate reality that most people who write books
believe that their publisher will always put their best foot
forward, to promote their book. In the real world, it does not
quite work that way. |
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Distributed: 2013-06-27 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1871 |
Page Views: 57681 |
Votes: 45 |
Rating: 3.40 |
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Beware Of Magic Beans - A Warning To Newbie Internet Marketers by Bill Platt |
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John read a story about a fantastic piece of software that he
could use to build his online business. But this often used
Internet marketing tool brought John something that John did not
intend. His software made him famous... For all of the wrong
reasons... |
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Distributed: 2013-06-26 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 546 |
Page Views: 7689 |
Votes: 30 |
Rating: 2.60 |
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Article Marketing Tips: How Consumers Read Your Articles by Bill Platt |
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If you want to understand what makes one article marketer
successful, while many more achieve poor results, then
consider this 6-step process designed to help you understand
how to make your article marketing more effective. |
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Distributed: 2013-06-25 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1278 |
Page Views: 6831 |
Votes: 12 |
Rating: 1.67 |
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Article Marketing Success Secret: Give Them What They Want by Bill Platt |
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Some people find great success with article marketing, while
others think its proponents are full of bull. The difference
between the winners and the losers in article marketing is most
frequently defined when the writer sits down and begins to write.
That is right. Success and failure is most often determined by
the writers' motivation, and more importantly, by the writers'
commitment to the reader. |
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Distributed: 2013-06-20 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1599 |
Page Views: 6953 |
Votes: 28 |
Rating: 2.14 |
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Article Marketing Secret: How To Identify and Write For Your Target Market by Bill Platt |
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Many people question as to what topic they should choose to write
their articles... Fortunately, the short answer is simple...
Write articles that appeal to your target market. But what does
that mean exactly? This article will guide you through the
process of how to choose a topic and then to make your article
irresistible to publishers. |
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Distributed: 2013-06-19 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1281 |
Page Views: 7168 |
Votes: 28 |
Rating: 2.64 |
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5 Essential Elements of Successful Article Marketing by Bill Platt |
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If you understand the "how and why" of writing great
articles, perhaps you can generate more sales from your
articles than I have from mine... But if you miss the point
of this article, you are likely to never make any money at
all with article marketing... |
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Distributed: 2013-06-18 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1149 |
Page Views: 6501 |
Votes: 12 |
Rating: 1.75 |
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Sell Yourself, Not Your Products or Services by Bill Platt |
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Sell yourself, not your products or services. The point we
need to make is that your products and services will change
over time as your business adapts to the realities of the
marketplace. |
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Distributed: 2012-01-02 00:00:00 |
Word Count: 989 |
Page Views: 8834 |
Votes: 11 |
Rating: 2.00 |
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Who Else Wants to Know How-To Write an Effective Advertisement? by Bill Platt |
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Webmasters struggle everyday with the question of how they should
advertise their website. There are so many advertising venues; it
is hard to know which is the right venue or the right combination
of advertising venues. |
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Distributed: 2011-08-25 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1431 |
Page Views: 9806 |
Votes: 32 |
Rating: 2.25 |
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A Hard Look at PPC, Click Fraud and the Alternatives by Bill Platt |
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Just a few years ago, pay-per-click search engine advertising
seemed like it was the answer to the prayers of webmasters vying
for search traffic. Given the increasingly competitive nature of
PPC advertising and spiraling costs, many small- to medium-
sized businesses have begun to question that wisdom. With click
fraud running at 25% and click costs for certain keywords hitting
$50 a click, advertisers are looking for other solutions. |
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Distributed: 2011-08-19 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1268 |
Page Views: 9336 |
Votes: 22 |
Rating: 2.27 |
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4 Step Checklist For Online Marketing Success by Bill Platt |
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Many online business owners want to make the process of
developing a successful online business harder than it needs
to be... The truth is that a simple 4-step checklist can
lead anyone to online profits: |
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Distributed: 2010-10-25 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 1343 |
Page Views: 5780 |
Votes: 6 |
Rating: 0.83 |
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The Road To Online Marketing Success Requires Commitment by Bill Platt |
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Unsuccessful online marketers are notorious opportunity
seekers - giving an opportunity only a couple of weeks to
start showing results, before changing directions to chase
the next flavor of the week. It almost seems that the
majority of online marketers are chasing get-rich-quick
schemes, rather than trying to develop a legitimate
business. Those who are successful online, are the kind of
people who make a solid commitment to a particular business
model and make a long-term commitment to a realistic
marketing plan. |
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Distributed: 2010-02-09 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1552 |
Page Views: 5322 |
Votes: 3 |
Rating: 2.00 |
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A Recent Issue Of Playboy Revealed... by Bill Platt |
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If you have ever spent money trying to use article
marketing, and you failed to generate any measurable success
with your articles, then this article will show you why you
most likely failed to see your articles generate a solid
return-on-investment for your online business... |
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Distributed: 2010-01-19 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1658 |
Page Views: 10346 |
Votes: 3 |
Rating: 1.33 |
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Are You Paying Too Much For Traffic? Increase Clicks 40-Fold With This PPC Strategy by Bill Platt |
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In any business, if you can reduce your effective
advertising expenses, you will increase your profits. Many
business owners will opt to push the additional savings into
more advertising, and if you are utilizing the information
described in this article, you could feasibly increase your
paid traffic by 40-times, with the exact same advertising
budget. But before I can show you how to reduce your
advertising expenses and increase your traffic, it is
important for you to learn about proper keyword research... |
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Distributed: 2010-01-14 13:30:00 |
Word Count: 1567 |
Page Views: 5621 |
Votes: 5 |
Rating: 2.40 |
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How Many Links Does It Take To Get To The Middle Of Google Page One? by Bill Platt |
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Everyday it seems, people are asking me the optimum numbers
of inbound links they need to acquire for their website in
order to rank well in Google. My answer is going to seem a
little flip, but it is the honest, best answer. |
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Distributed: 2009-10-29 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1030 |
Page Views: 4645 |
Votes: 16 |
Rating: 2.69 |
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How Is Your Reputation Holding Up In Google's Search Results? by Bill Platt |
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How do you measure the sales that your business is losing,
because some guy complained on some website about how your
product or service is "crap". This article details a
specific event, where the store lost a lot of business,
because of a disgruntled consumer who was blaming the store
for his own mistake. This complaint found its way into
Google's search results for a time. |
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Distributed: 2009-10-28 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1804 |
Page Views: 4247 |
Votes: 15 |
Rating: 2.73 |
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10,000 Reasons Why You Should Do Your Homework Before Investing In An Online Business Opportunity by Bill Platt |
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Too often, I only hear from people on the phone after they
have lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to
launch their new online business ventures. They call me when
they have just a few dollars left. I sometimes wish people
would have found me first, so that I could have helped them
find real success, instead of heartache. |
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Distributed: 2009-10-26 15:12:00 |
Word Count: 1123 |
Page Views: 7200 |
Votes: 16 |
Rating: 1.94 |
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A Comparison of Paid Search Advertising Models by Bill Platt |
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The most common advertising offer at the search engines is the
PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising model. There are also other
search advertising models such as CPM (Cost Per Thousand
Impressions) and Featured Listings. In this article, we will
look at the advantages and disadvantages of each advertising
method. |
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Distributed: 2009-09-14 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1463 |
Page Views: 5685 |
Votes: 15 |
Rating: 2.27 |
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The Importance Of Creating Resistance In Your Copy by Bill Platt |
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"Creating Resistance in Your Copy" is an idea that is
alien to most online marketers. After all, online marketers
want to believe that everyone should buy their products and
services, because the more people buying what is being sold,
the more money the marketer will inevitably earn. |
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Distributed: 2009-09-10 09:12:00 |
Word Count: 2009 |
Page Views: 5144 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 2.69 |
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The Roller Coaster Of Link Popularity by Bill Platt |
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Most webmasters are in a constant state of confusion about how to
create link popularity and how to rank well in the search engine
results. Three of the top four search engines, Google, Yahoo and
MSN calculate link popularity as one part of their search
algorithms. So, for all intent purposes, building link popularity
will be an important part of getting recognition and strong
placement in the search engine result pages (SERPs). |
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Distributed: 2009-04-27 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 1666 |
Page Views: 5423 |
Votes: 22 |
Rating: 2.64 |
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Masters Of The Google Universe: How To Achieve Top Google Rankings by Bill Platt |
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It may sound impossible to explain how to get top Google rankings
in a simple sentence, but by the time you reach the end of this
article, one simple sentence will describe the secret of getting
a website to rank well in Google - and it will make sense,
because you will have read this article in its entirety. |
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Distributed: 2009-04-07 12:24:00 |
Word Count: 1489 |
Page Views: 6031 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 2.62 |
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Protect Your Financial Future With An Online Business by Bill Platt |
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The world around us is concerned about the future. With Obama in
the White House and record government spending during this
economic recession, many of our neighbors are sweating what the
future holds in store for them. But an online business that can
be started for less than fifty dollars per month can set you up
to successfully weather the current recession and potential job
loss. |
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Distributed: 2009-04-06 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 1930 |
Page Views: 4604 |
Votes: 16 |
Rating: 2.13 |
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What Does Your SEO Linking Portfolio Look Like? by Bill Platt |
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Commercial webmasters have been taught that link popularity has a
great influence on whether a website will rank well in the search
engines. There is a lot of truth in this teaching, but I have to
tell you that the way that most people practice building links is
wrong and may end up hurting their website in the search results. |
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Distributed: 2008-11-05 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 1539 |
Page Views: 7521 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 2.08 |
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Successful SEO Begins With Keyword Research and Analytics by Bill Platt |
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Many webmasters / online marketers make a common mistake when
they begin doing business online. Often times, people do the
processes necessary for their success - backwards. Rather than
starting at the beginning and working forwards, they start at the
end and work backwards. As a result, they waste more money and
resources, often breaking the back of their business, well before
they start to see any real success in their business. |
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Distributed: 2008-09-08 14:00:00 |
Word Count: 1408 |
Page Views: 4927 |
Votes: 26 |
Rating: 2.69 |
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Creating Inbound Links Is About More Than Just PageRank by Bill Platt |
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Is Google PageRank (PR) the be-all, end-all of the internet
marketing equation? I have wanted to discuss this topic for quite
a long time. But, there is risk in discussing this topic. It is a
lot like religion and politics. We are advised not to discuss
religion or politics in mixed company, because people are willing
to argue and sometimes kill, based solely on your disagreement
with their religious or political beliefs. In a lot of ways,
Google PR is a matter of religion to some internet marketers. |
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Distributed: 2008-08-19 10:12:00 |
Word Count: 1724 |
Page Views: 6333 |
Votes: 29 |
Rating: 2.90 |
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Google Is Everything! Or Is It? by Bill Platt |
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As an article marketer, I say things that I believe will help
other people accomplish their goals. As a widely published
article writer, I am often criticized for the words I write. ;-) |
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Distributed: 2008-08-18 14:00:00 |
Word Count: 1314 |
Page Views: 4727 |
Votes: 16 |
Rating: 2.81 |
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Break Your Search Engines Habits To Get Better Information by Bill Platt |
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Many online searchers get stuck in a rut, by focusing all of
their attention on only one or two search engines. But for the
person willing to expand his or her search horizons, new and
sometimes better information can be found by using some of the
alternative search engines available on the internet today. |
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Distributed: 2008-08-06 11:12:00 |
Word Count: 1475 |
Page Views: 11718 |
Votes: 23 |
Rating: 2.26 |
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Look Beyond Google: Meta-Search Engines Can Help Online Marketers by Bill Platt |
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There are actually hundreds of search engines, not just the Big
Three that many Internet users think of (Google, Yahoo, and MSN).
By focusing only on the most well known search engines for your
online marketing strategy, you may be missing out on as much as
30% of the billions of searches being done online every single
day. |
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Distributed: 2008-07-18 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 993 |
Page Views: 5006 |
Votes: 17 |
Rating: 1.76 |
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High Fuel Prices and the Inevitable Game of Political Hot Potato by Bill Platt |
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Some of the factors that are directly affecting this inflationary
cycle are outside the control of the U.S. Government, such as
wheat and corn crops destroyed by flood waters in the Midwest,
but other factors could be dampened, if only our political
leaders had the will to influence real change. |
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Distributed: 2008-07-16 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1919 |
Page Views: 6155 |
Votes: 18 |
Rating: 1.50 |
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The Mythical Google Sandbox And How To Escape It by Bill Platt |
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With an article title like this, it almost seems like I am
playing the fool, by telling you something doesn't exist and
then telling you that I will show you how to beat that thing I
said does not exist. Maybe I am the fool, or maybe, I have
something valuable to share with you today. You be the judge. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-27 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1361 |
Page Views: 5472 |
Votes: 19 |
Rating: 1.89 |
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Guaranteed Search Engine Rankings: Busting The Myth by Bill Platt |
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There are many companies on the Internet, who are promising that
if you give them lots of money, they will guarantee you top
rankings in the search engines. Buyer Beware!!! This article
seeks to show you why no one can guarantee top rankings in any
search engine. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-26 11:12:00 |
Word Count: 1152 |
Page Views: 4545 |
Votes: 16 |
Rating: 2.56 |
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How To Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Article Marketing Campaigns by Bill Platt |
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I frequently rant on Internet marketing and some of the gurus who
try to bend your ear. Why? Because many of these so-called gurus
trash everything that makes sense in this Internet world,
especially when they realize that they cannot make money from the
techniques being recommended. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-25 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1029 |
Page Views: 4945 |
Votes: 15 |
Rating: 2.47 |
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Blackhat SEO: Protect Yourself by Recognizing The Bad Guys by Bill Platt |
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Over the years, webmasters have been told that they should want
to avoid Blackhat SEO techniques in connection with their own
websites. In general, I agree with this statement. But, by
obtaining a deeper understanding of Blackhat search engine
optimization, one could actually learn a bit about how to better
his or her own positioning in the search engine results. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-24 14:00:00 |
Word Count: 1036 |
Page Views: 6132 |
Votes: 18 |
Rating: 2.83 |
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Internet Marketers: Will You Quit or Overcome The Obstacles Before You? by Bill Platt |
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There is barely an industry on the Internet who has not been
touched by those who quit and those who overcome obstacles to
success. This article discusses the four traits that can be
observed in those who find success on the Internet. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-24 10:36:00 |
Word Count: 1145 |
Page Views: 5070 |
Votes: 18 |
Rating: 2.56 |
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SEO Contests Are Gaining Industry Respect by Bill Platt |
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Search Engine Optimization companies have been around as long as
there have been search engines. In the early days, I ignored SEO
contests as a tasteless attempt to spam up the search engines,
especially when I saw target search terms such as: "nigritude
ultramarine", "seraphim proudleduck", and "v7ndotcom
elursrebmem". But, my initial attitudes towards SEO contests
have changed. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-21 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1183 |
Page Views: 5306 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 1.57 |
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Six Keys to Creating a Successful and Profitable Ezine by Bill Platt |
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Fortunes are made on the Internet by people who have built solid
mailing lists for the promotion of their online businesses. But
the question many publishers face is how to turn their ezine
(aka: online newsletter or electronic magazines) subscribers into
buyers? |
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Distributed: 2008-06-19 11:00:00 |
Word Count: 1322 |
Page Views: 5068 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 1.50 |
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New and Improved Or Is It? by Bill Platt |
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I have come across articles where he author is celebrating - A
New, More Effective Way to Promote Your Business on the Web.
Exuberant, I opened each article expecting to see something new
and interesting. On both counts, I was disappointed. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-18 11:12:00 |
Word Count: 307 |
Page Views: 5046 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 2.57 |
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Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Laptop Battery by Bill Platt |
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The actual life of a laptop battery will vary with computer usage
habits. For most users, it is not uncommon to experience
differences in battery life, of anywhere from just under one hour
to over two hours in each sitting. If you are experiencing
shorter battery life cycles, say 10 to 15 minutes, it may not yet
be time to order that new battery. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-17 14:00:00 |
Word Count: 1038 |
Page Views: 6084 |
Votes: 21 |
Rating: 2.67 |
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Autoresponders Are a Publishers Best Friend by Bill Platt |
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How many times have you subscribed to a new ezine (online
newsletter), and then when the first issue of the ezine arrived,
you were scratching your head as to how your email address ended
up on the list? Our lives are often so tedious that little
details often slip right from our memory. The point is this. If
it happens to you, you can rest assured that others have the same
experience as well. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-17 10:24:00 |
Word Count: 528 |
Page Views: 4273 |
Votes: 12 |
Rating: 2.25 |
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Peak Cycles Are Driven by Timely Content by Bill Platt |
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(Revised for 2008) The very first time I had ever experienced
this phenomena online was in December of 1996. Over the two days
leading up to Christmas and the two days following Christmas, I
had served as much traffic as I had in the previous nine months
of existence! |
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Distributed: 2008-06-16 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 365 |
Page Views: 4319 |
Votes: 16 |
Rating: 2.31 |
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Loosing Customers and Losing Sales - It Sounds Funny Doesn't It? by Bill Platt |
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Two of the most commonly misspelled words online are: losing and
loosing. This article explains the difference between the two
words, and the reasons why it is important to know the
difference. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-14 12:00:00 |
Word Count: 757 |
Page Views: 7829 |
Votes: 23 |
Rating: 2.17 |
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What To Do When Your Website Does Not Rank Well In Google by Bill Platt |
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Online marketers frequently struggle with the question of how to
compete when Google fails to look positively upon a particular
website. In this article, I will focus on how to build rankings
and drive traffic to your website, using Google and the other
search engines. |
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Distributed: 2008-06-11 14:36:00 |
Word Count: 1343 |
Page Views: 6115 |
Votes: 25 |
Rating: 3.08 |
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The Morality of Paid Links and Google's 'Intent Algorithm' by Bill Platt |
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It is Google's fault actually. No one can be blamed for this
matter more than Google itself. Google itself planted the seeds
its own future headaches. Nobody did it to them; they did it
themselves. |
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Distributed: 2008-02-05 10:24:00 |
Word Count: 1511 |
Page Views: 6263 |
Votes: 15 |
Rating: 2.47 |
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Understanding Inbound Links --- The Good, Bad And The Ugly by Bill Platt |
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All links are not created equal. There are worthless, good and
great links. So, what is the difference between each one? I can
sum it up in one word, "clicks". |
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Distributed: 2008-01-31 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1326 |
Page Views: 7833 |
Votes: 21 |
Rating: 2.90 |
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Discover How Hollywood Met the American Old West in Real Life by Bill Platt |
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No matter how what they might call it, many look upon the
American Old West as a wild and dangerous place that existed in
the last half of the 1800's in the American Frontier, west of the
Mississippi River in the United States. This article explores
the history of the 101 Ranch Rodeo and Oklahoma's role in
the early history of the United States. |
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Distributed: 2008-01-30 10:24:00 |
Word Count: 1381 |
Page Views: 7948 |
Votes: 20 |
Rating: 1.95 |
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Starting an Ebay Business - An Online Business Model that Works (Revised for 2008) by Bill Platt |
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Millions of people are still coming online each year, and many of
those people come to the Internet with dreams of making their
financial dreams come true. |
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Distributed: 2008-01-29 10:24:00 |
Word Count: 1063 |
Page Views: 5231 |
Votes: 18 |
Rating: 1.39 |
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Successful Internet Marketing Without Search Engines by Bill Platt |
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Believe me or not, a business can survive and thrive on the
Internet without good search engine placement. That does not mean
that a Webmaster should not strive to get good rankings in the
search engines, but it does mean that a Webmaster should not
throw his or her entire advertising budget towards search engine
optimization (SEO). |
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Distributed: 2007-12-27 12:24:00 |
Word Count: 1329 |
Page Views: 4499 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 2.43 |
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Essential Elements of Developing Copy that Generates Real Traffic by Bill Platt |
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When you finally decided to start your own business, and you
built your website for the purpose of developing your business,
your goal was clear. You wanted to make lots of money and to be
in business for a very long time. Who can blame you? The thought
of going to a job everyday for the rest of my life kills me too. |
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Distributed: 2007-12-13 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1168 |
Page Views: 4845 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 1.31 |
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Being a Parent... Opportunities to Turn A Bad Experience Into a Good Experience by Bill Platt |
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The biggest challenge I have had to face in my own life is that
of being a good parent. My kids make it hard for me to stay true
to the rules of good parenting... They break everything I own...
Repeatedly... Fortunately, I do have the presence of mind to
realize that as toddlers and young children, they really do not
intend to break things... |
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Distributed: 2007-11-12 14:00:00 |
Word Count: 478 |
Page Views: 5788 |
Votes: 21 |
Rating: 3.10 |
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The Clash Of Titans: Article Directory Owners Vs. Automated Article Submission Services by Bill Platt |
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Article marketing has been considered a useful method of
promotion on the Internet, since the very early days of the
Internet. By writing an informative article, writers have been
able to get their sales message read by millions of online
consumers, through their resource box that follows their
articles. |
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Distributed: 2007-07-19 12:24:00 |
Word Count: 1784 |
Page Views: 7746 |
Votes: 35 |
Rating: 2.69 |
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Search Engine Optimization And The Magic Fairy Dust by Bill Platt |
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There is only one thing that all webmasters agree upon... They
all want to be at the top of the search engine results for search
terms that will drive traffic and consumers to their website. The
truth is... |
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Distributed: 2007-06-13 13:00:00 |
Word Count: 1562 |
Page Views: 4438 |
Votes: 19 |
Rating: 3.16 |
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Understanding The Challenges Of The Link Building Game by Bill Platt |
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Many webmasters who have been following the discussions about
Google's dislike of paid links have been confused about what
constitutes bad links and good links, in the eyes of the search
engine companies. In this article, I will seek to answer many of
the questions people have on this topic. |
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Distributed: 2007-05-16 10:00:00 |
Word Count: 1262 |
Page Views: 5838 |
Votes: 21 |
Rating: 2.90 |
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Green With Envy In The Google Game by Bill Platt |
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Beginning on April 14th, 2007, a firestorm blew through the
Internet community with the search engine optimization (SEO)
community burning the hottest. The embers were warm and waiting
for a strong wind to blow and kick up the flames, but it took
Matt Cutts, the Google engineer extraordinaire to fire the flames
with an off-the-cuff comment about 'paid links.' |
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Distributed: 2007-04-25 10:24:00 |
Word Count: 1347 |
Page Views: 5656 |
Votes: 15 |
Rating: 2.60 |
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Learning To Compete In A Very Competitive Industry: Travel by Bill Platt |
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Over the years, many of us have heard about the opportunities
available in wholesale travel. As a consumer, we can recognize
that if these wholesale travel packages are legitimate, then we
will have access to vacation packages that would make the average
traveler drool over their possibilities in travel destinations.
When we slide the shoe to the other foot and consider wholesale
travel as a business opportunity, we question whether we have the
knowledge or fortitude to succeed in this type of busines |
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Distributed: 2007-04-09 11:21:00 |
Word Count: 1398 |
Page Views: 5548 |
Votes: 29 |
Rating: 2.24 |
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Gerrymandering The Google Search Results by Bill Platt |
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Every few months, you will see posts by many people declaring
that Google has it in for their website. Often, you see threats
about how the webmaster plans to sue Google for hurting their
business' profits. On and on it goes... Every webmaster who was
dropped from Google's top search result pages wants to believe
that Google singled out their website and their business for
punishment and extinction. |
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Distributed: 2007-04-05 09:48:00 |
Word Count: 1305 |
Page Views: 4786 |
Votes: 28 |
Rating: 2.57 |
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Dispelling Fears About The GoogleBomb Algorithm Update by Bill Platt |
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Google algorithm updates always bring the fears of webmasters to
a boiling point. The latest update was intended to deal with the
ever-present "Google Bombs" or "link bombs". Everyone wants
to know ... How will this update affect their website's
placement in the Google SERPS. Read on as I try to answer this
question for you. |
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Distributed: 2007-02-01 13:24:00 |
Word Count: 1113 |
Page Views: 4514 |
Votes: 13 |
Rating: 2.00 |
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How-To Make Your Ezine Stand Out From The Masses by Bill Platt |
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With so much competition in the marketplace for ezine
subscribers, it is imperative for us to learn how to develop a
loyal following among our own subscribers. In this article, I
examine a three ezines that are excelling in the marketplace and
building a large and loyal following of readers. I will also look
at three reasons why these three e-zines are doing so well. |
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Distributed: 2007-01-30 12:48:00 |
Word Count: 903 |
Page Views: 4379 |
Votes: 22 |
Rating: 2.27 |
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The Drama Of Starting A Business Or Saving A Floundering Business by Bill Platt |
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There are three times in the life of a business where monetary
decisions are difficult to make. Those three times are: during
the early days of an enterprise; when a business cycle is
beginning to slow; and when costs are rising more quickly than
sales. All three financial cycles reflect the same business need:
a need to increase sales, reduce costs, or both. |
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Distributed: 2007-01-25 15:12:00 |
Word Count: 1520 |
Page Views: 5513 |
Votes: 14 |
Rating: 1.36 |
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Strategies to Put Eyeballs On Your Website by Bill Platt |
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Successful webmasters all share three essential traits. First,
they have developed processes for generating links to their
website... |
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Distributed: 2006-04-26 11:56:06 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3418 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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A Do-It-Yourself Guide To Publishing Ezines or Online Newsletters by Bill Platt |
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All of the rich-and-famous internet business guru's tell you
that 'the money is in the list.' This guide will help you to
strategize, plan and execute a profitable online newsletter. |
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Distributed: 2006-04-18 11:21:39 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3285 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Article Directory Managers Take Stand Against Private Label Content by Bill Platt |
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Article directory managers are almost universally banning the
submission of rebrandable articles or private label content.
People who submit this content are getting permanently banned
from directories on account of it. Many have been duped into
believing that they bought the exclusive use of the article,
but... |
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Distributed: 2006-04-12 00:13:01 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3103 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Did You Buy Into The Lie? by Bill Platt |
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In my website statistics, I have been watching a trend over the
last year or so. That trend has gone from just a few misled
individuals a year ago, to hundreds of duped webmasters today.
Did you buy into the lie too? |
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Distributed: 2006-03-31 09:29:54 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3305 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Four Reasons Why The Smaller Search Engines Matter by Bill Platt |
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There are actually four reasons why you would want to extend your
search engine marketing activities beyond Google. I will discuss
each of those reasons here: |
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Distributed: 2006-03-23 22:30:49 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3247 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Testimonials and Reviews Increase Your Real Sales Potential by Bill Platt |
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The one essential ingredient for online success in
any endeavor is gaining your prospect's trust. |
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Distributed: 2006-02-10 08:16:58 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3010 |
Votes: 9 |
Rating: 2.00 |
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Where Are Your Articles Being Published? by Bill Platt |
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In today's article hungry marketplace, there are literally
hundreds of websites where you can submit your articles. |
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Distributed: 2006-01-31 00:51:09 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3491 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Beware of Accidental Promotions by Bill Platt |
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As an article writer, I am always on the search for additional
information to give my readers, and I often refer my readers to
external websites for extra info. The trick in this methodology
is to avoid the appearance of self-promotion. |
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Distributed: 2006-01-18 17:58:51 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3217 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Recipes For Online Failure And Success - Defining The Niche by Bill Platt |
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Every week, there are another several webmasters jumping on the
bandwagon and opening their own article directory. Their success
will rely upon the directory's niche definition. |
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Distributed: 2005-12-10 02:01:13 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 5187 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Shopping In The 21st Century... Introducing the Educated Consumer by Bill Platt |
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Before I came online, I had a dream of a great wide world were I
could learn about all of the things that ever struck my fancy.
When I came online, I found just such a world, and then so much
more. |
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Distributed: 2005-12-09 05:12:17 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3216 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Why Didn't You Publish My Article? Other Major Article Sites Did! by Bill Platt |
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QUESTION: Do you feel like giving me a reason for rejecting my
article, considering all the other major article sites have
published my article? |
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Distributed: 2005-11-17 16:33:20 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3137 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Building a Franchise Powerhouse by Bill Platt |
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Take a note from the movie industry on the value of building a
franchise. Franchises usually do a good job about building
cross-selling opportunities into everything they do. Two recent
franchise movies have taught me that some in Hollywood are very
talented in this regard. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 02:52:05 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3203 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
90. |
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A Checklist Leading to a Successful E-Commerce Website by Bill Platt |
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To succeed in e-commerce, the following eleven steps are those
that every business owner should tackle when developing their
new online business.
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 02:42:23 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3744 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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How-to Give Web Searchers 500 New Incentives to Visit Your Site by Bill Platt |
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According to SearchEngineWatch.com, seven of the top search
engines process over 300 million searches a day! Additionally,
Search Engine Watch documents an item called the GVU Survey
Results from the Georgia Institute of Technology which shows
that 85% of all web users admit to regularly using search
engines to find the web sites they visit. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 02:21:32 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3375 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Define Yourself to Find Market Share by Bill Platt |
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Sometimes, finding the right product or service to make your
own is to find someone elses version of the same product or
service and discovering ways to deliver it in a different way. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 01:50:16 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3282 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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What Is the Cost of War? And Is That Cost Really Too High? by Bill Platt |
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Lori Bardsley has feels that entertainers are being dishonest
with the public. So, she has set up Citizens Against Celebrity
Pundits, a group designed to keep discussion of an Iraq war in
perspective. As one of her first steps, she has created an
online petition to deliver to the Hollywood nitwits to appraise
them of how average Americans feel about their anti-war stance. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 01:20:16 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3498 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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The Free-Reprint Articles Powerhouse and Copyright Law by Bill Platt |
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If you are writing your own articles but borrowing a few
sentences from someone else, YOU ARE STEALING! Copyright
violation is a criminal offense that can find you in court
and defending your bank account! |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 01:13:33 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3336 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Mix Up Your Content to Drive More Traffic by Bill Platt |
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Utilizing the kind of content that can be obtained on
free-reprint article directories is a good method of adding a
wider range of search keywords to your website. By increasing
the range of keywords on your website, you will find more of
your own links in the search results of the major spider
search engines. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 00:49:34 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3190 |
Votes: 1 |
Rating: 0.00 |
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Close Your Eyes, Point, And Click by Bill Platt |
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You do not have to think hard to know where you want to go. Just
let your mouse do the clicking.
Sometimes we find ourselves so overwhelmed by the amount of
great things to do on the Web that we reach a point where we
do not know what we want to do next. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 00:37:56 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3698 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Providing Excellent Customer Support on a Small Budget by Bill Platt |
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An integral part of any successful e-commerce website is an
effective customer support solution. Your online business must
be able to quickly respond to inquiries from potential clients
and from existing clients, and then be able to address those
inquiries accurately and efficiently. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 00:34:46 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3337 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Passively Acquiring New Subscribers by the Boatload by Bill Platt |
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First off, do not be lulled in by the title of this article
into believing that anything can be acquired by doing nothing.
People are always sending us emails telling us that we can make
millions online without any work. Hogwash. By using this method, subscribers can be acquired by the
boatload! However, it must be noted that while these
subscribers are coming to you in a passive method, you
have in fact done a considerable work to position yourself
to take real advantage of this technique. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 00:26:27 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3072 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Are People too Stupid to Cast Their Own Votes? An Ugly Argument! by Bill Platt |
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The civil liberties groups, who purport to protect the right of
the disadvantaged and the minorities, have made the argument that
the poor and the minorities cannot be trusted to know how to use
the punch-card ballots properly, and therefore, their votes may
not be counted.
The thing that offended me about this argument is... |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 00:14:03 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 2916 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Back Up Your Email Box Before It is Too Late by Bill Platt |
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When so many of us rely so much on our email to operate our
businesses or our personal lives, it is important to take
preventative measures to avoid the ultimate disaster of
unrecoverable email. To recover
in the event of future losses, each of us should learn the
basics of maintaining and backing up our email. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-16 00:07:06 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3704 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Increase Your Sales By 25% By Implementing One Small Change by Bill Platt |
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How much would you be willing to pay to learn how to implement
a guaranteed 25% increase in your online sales? Given the
current sales situation on your website, how much would that
25% increase in sales add to your bottom line? $250 per month?
$500? $25,000? The good news is that I am not going to charge you for this information. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-15 23:41:36 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3412 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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The 2 Minute Paradigm, Convert 400% More of Your Traffic to Sales by Bill Platt |
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If I could only find a way to capture the attention of 80% of my website visitors in a way that I am not doing right now, then I could realistically increase my sales by more than 400%. |
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Distributed: 2005-11-15 23:41:03 |
Word Count: 0 |
Page Views: 3046 |
Votes: 2 |
Rating: 0.50 |
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Add 500 Targeted Keywords to Your Site in Three Minutes by Bill Platt |
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However you cut it, any article placed on your website will
generate 300 to 500 specialized keywords to feed the Spider
databases. In turn, as time progresses, you will discover more
and more people flocking to your website from the Spider search
engines. |
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Learning the Lessons of the Dot-Bomb Era by Bill Platt |
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As small business people, we often tell ourselves... If only
we had more money to advertise our wares, we would be very
successful in our endeavors. Yet, the failed dot coms who are now mockingly referred to as Dot Bombs, had millions to burn on advertising. |
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Overcoming the Five Obstacles to Affiliate Success by Bill Platt |
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Despite the promise of Affiliate Programs and MLMs for
making money online, fewer than 5% of all participants will
ever be successful with them! Only one out of a hundred will
ever earn more than $1000 per month from the programs!
There are several factors contributing to these dismal numbers: |
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Are Announcement Lists Effective? by Bill Platt |
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When you start an ezine, you realize after a few short weeks
that you will actually have to promote it in order for it to be
successful. But how do we do that? We have all asked ourselves
that question. When you begin to seek out solutions, most of us
quickly discover Announcement Lists. But, how effective are they? |
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Multiple Methods for Cultivating Inbound Links to your Website by Bill Platt |
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The Internet is a prime example of the benefits of the Yin
and the Yang. What goes around, comes around. The truth is
that if you help others, others will help you. |
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We Are Off To See The S.E.M. Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by Bill Platt |
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In the process of Search Engine Marketing, far too many people
get lost while they are searching for the Wizard of Oz. |
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Distributed: 2005-10-25 01:47:28 |
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Distributing Reprint Articles for the Best Results by Bill Platt |
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When comparing the cost of preparing an article and distributing
it to publishers and webmasters, your overall articles costs are
still really small... Especially when you compare that cost against
the cost of buying advertising... |
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The Blog and the Nature of Natural Linking by Bill Platt |
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From Oakland (Ask Jeeves), Sunnyvale (Yahoo!) and
Mountain View (Google), California, all of the
search engine companies are talking more publicly
about 'Natural Linking': |
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The Trials and Tribulations of Hiring a Ghost Writer - A Guide by Bill Platt |
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For those people who just cannot believe in their own skills, or
those who simply do not have the time to write for themselves,
many look to a ghost writer to help produce materials for the
promotion of their businesses. Many challenges face those who
make the decision to pursue employing a ghost writer: |
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Audio Marketing Comes of Age: Educate First and Sales Will Follow by Bill Platt |
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Podcasting is one of the newest and most popular marketing
formats that have taken a strong foothold on the internet over
the last several months. |
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14 Tips for Getting Your Articles Published More Often by Bill Platt |
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The writers who have learned the value of using free reprint
articles as a promotional tool, go back to the well time and
time again because it generates real results. Here are 14 Tips
to help you gain the same level of success they receive. |
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Using Free-Reprint Articles as a One-Way Link Back Strategy by Bill Platt |
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Google realizes that we all have the need to promote ourselves,
and that we will do so with our own selfish interests at heart.
Our own selfish interests do not necessarily reflect the
interests of Googles search users. |
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Distributed: 2005-04-17 21:04:11 |
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When to Use Free Stuff to Market Your Products and Services by Bill Platt |
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If the thing that you are giving away has any real value, then
be prepared for an onslaught of freebie-seekers to come around
sucking up your bandwidth and your free products and services
of value. |
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The Day the Internet Search Engines Stopped Growing! by Bill Platt |
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An amazing and bizarre event seems to have happened in January
and February of 2003. In those early months of 2003, the major
search engines stopped growing, and few people seem to even care. |
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Distributed: 2005-03-08 03:32:31 |
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Become a Recognized Name - You're In Control of Your Own Destiny by Bill Platt |
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If you are reading this article today, you are likely among
those who are working an online business. Unfortunately, you
have already learned that finding customers is not as easy as
you once thought it would be. Many people have broken the bank
and their dreams searching for that first customer or second
customer. |
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Distributed: 2004-12-20 03:38:48 |
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Comprehensive Mailing List Tutorial for Webmasters And the Curious by Bill Platt |
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The short and sweet of it is that a mailing list is nothing
more than a plain text file that contains email addresses.
Sometimes these *flat files* also contain first and last
names, as well as other additional and optional information... |
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Should You Hire a Famous Writer or Write Your Own Articles? by Bill Platt |
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Testing has proven again and again that promotional articles
generate more click-through traffic than standard ezine
advertising. And it is much cheaper than standard ezine
advertising, even if you are paying someone else to write
and distribute your articles for you. |
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Distributed: 2004-09-20 05:11:04 |
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Separate the Wheat from the Chaff - 12 Lessons in Online Business by Bill Platt |
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As newcomers to the Internet, many people are hot to tap into
the internet riches that so many other people are enjoying. But,
there is a learning curve that must be negotiated to get from
desire to dollars. |
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Never Underestimate the Value of a Ghost Writer by Bill Platt |
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As you are aware, I occasionally participate in the various
Internet business forums out there on the web. And, occasionally,
I see comments that I cannot let pass without comment. Today
was just such a day. |
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A Short-Sighted View of Internet Promotion by Bill Platt |
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I was visiting a bulletin board http://www.webdevboard.com/
earlier this evening when I came across a posting from a very
short-sighted webmaster:
'With 360+ members, I don't think I'll 'get more views' to
my site 'than ever before'. All I'm going to get is more
time wasted...' |
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Distributed: 2004-08-03 01:59:33 |
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Add Value to Your User's Experiences - Add Profits to Your Bottom Line by Bill Platt |
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As a webmaster, you are likely searching for ways to make more
money from your website. The truth is that if you have been
online for any amount of time, you have learned that you always
need to be on the prowl for new information to help you to be
more successful, and you always need to keep one eye open
looking for new ways to add more dollars to your bottom line.
That is likely why you are reading this article today. You are
hoping that I might be able to share some small tidbit or jewel
of information that might help take you and your business to the
next level. I hope that I will be able to meet your expectations. |
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Distributed: 2004-07-27 01:54:52 |
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The Five Most Powerful Forms of Internet Advertising by Bill Platt |
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When you are promoting your website, there are five methods
that clearly occupy the top five positions in the ratings for
effectiveness. These methods are not listed in the order of
effectiveness, but rather in the order needed to share my story: |
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Distributed: 2004-07-14 21:28:33 |
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TIP: Don't Forget About Your Power Supply by Bill Platt |
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Back in February, I updated my system and brought it into
the 21st century at last. With that faster, all-powerful,
new video card and processor in place, I believed I was
set. Lo and behold, I have learned a lesson the hard way. When
you upgrade your video card and processor, you might need
to upgrade your power supply also. |
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Distributed: 2004-06-23 01:36:53 |
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Learn How to Build an Internet Niche by Studying the Methodology of Land Developers by Bill Platt |
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By utilizing the methodology of the land developer, you too can
find commercial success beyond what your primary niche website
will provide for you. |
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Distributed: 2004-06-22 01:28:46 |
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Deciding Whether to Offer Your New Gadget as a Product or Service by Bill Platt |
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Perhaps as you look down the road with what you are going to be
doing with your website, you will find more ways to extract more
income from your own website. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-12 23:45:20 |
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Writing Tips for Email Distribution of your Article or Message by Bill Platt |
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These tips are offered to help you get your email messages
read more often. They are also offered to help ezine publishers
provide their readers a better and more valuable ezine, and
to help writers to offer publishers a better formatted article
for simple copy-and-paste reprint. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-06 03:46:28 |
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Where Do Your Visitors Come From? by Bill Platt |
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Some people might think it is silly for me to ask you where
your visitors are coming from. Folks suppose it is silly
because they do not think too much about where there current
visitors are coming from. Instead they are more concerned with
where the next visitor is coming from. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:21:58 |
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The Value of Software in Our Daily Lives by Bill Platt |
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I mention this now as I contemplate the various ways in which
software is now distributed. We consumers are always playing
a cat-and-mouse game with software developers.
In the early 80s, the companies who had deep pockets were
the ones selling their software at retail. The ones who were
struggling to find traction in the marketplace were the ones
offering their software as Shareware. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:20:52 |
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Understanding the Technology of Email by Bill Platt |
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People will ask help with their email accounts. I
always ask, "do you have a web mail account or a POP3 email
account?" In my mind, it has always been a rather simple
question. Yet, the truth is that the answer is not so simple to
most Internet users. If you are scratching your head trying to
figure out just what I am talking about, you will be able to
answer the question without confusion by the time you finish
reading this article. |
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The Power of Free Reprint Articles and the Terms of Reprint by Bill Platt |
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As a writer of free-reprint articles, I know full well the intentions of the writer*s who make their articles available to publishers and webmasters as *free* content.
When the game is played correctly, the free web content is able to provide value to everyone involved. |
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Offer More Payment Options than your Competition by Bill Platt |
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In order to be successful online, you must provide your
customers many quick and easy ways to pay for your goods
and services. It is not enough to ask folks to send a money
order or check to your house or place of business. You must
do more. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:18:03 |
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Caught In the Cross-Fire of the Spam War by Bill Platt |
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One of my associates had placed a free ad in a newsletter
that she had just subscribed to. For that effort, she was
accused of spam! Mind you the person filing the complaint
was not the editor of the newsletter, but rather a
subscriber of the newsletter. The person who filed this
complaint was using a system designed by programmer Julian
Haight to combat spam email called SpamCops.net. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:16:10 |
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How the War Against Spam is Killing the Internet by Bill Platt |
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Hands down, email is the most widely used and loved computer
application brought to life by the Internet.
While more than 200 million of us use and enjoy email, there
are a few thousand people abusing the system and damaging the
communication potential of email for the rest of us. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:14:58 |
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Life Is Not Always So Simple by Bill Platt |
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Perfection eludes each of us. I know. I deal with the challenge
to live a perfect life on a daily basis. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:10:45 |
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Temptations, White Lies, Sales and Seeing Eye Dogs by Bill Platt |
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All too often in the business world, honesty is not black and white, but various shades of gray. People who consider
themselves Christians think little or nothing of exaggerating the features or benefits of a product or service they are selling. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:09:25 |
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Google Algorythm Changes and the Internet Scarecrows by Bill Platt |
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Google realized that their database was being skewed towards
those companies who simply have more money than they have
integrity.
The *Scarecrows* (guru's who want to scare you into certain
actions that benefit their own goals) are ripping up quite a
storm of anger over the Google changes. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:08:25 |
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Do You Publish? Do You Fear Spam Accusations? by Bill Platt |
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Let us face it. If you are publishing an ezine online, your
business is always at risk. The anti-spam community does not
concern themselves with how much care and work you put into
building your list and how much effort you put into assuring
that your subscribers really want to be on your list. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:07:33 |
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How Safe Is Your Money Online? by Bill Platt |
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Encryption is the most important factor in turning around the
negative perception of the safety of the Internet to conduct financial
transactions. Encryption is a method of coding a conversation between
two computers so that a third computer cannot understand the
conversation. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:06:34 |
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Pull Technology Takes Your Ezine Off of the Spam Wars Battlefield by Bill Platt |
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I have been writing about the Spam Wars for more than two years
now. Once, I had even predicted that the Spam Wars could lead
to the death of email marketing. I hate being so negative, but
the trends have shown many members of that anti-spam community
to be blind to justice. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:04:01 |
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E-Commerce Patent Blackmail --- You May Be Next! by Bill Platt |
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Big corporations who have deep pockets settle most *junk patents* in court. But PanIP is different. Instead of targeting corporations, PanIP is targeting small businesses who may not be able to fight back. PanIP is suing over 50 companies for Patent Infringement on their recently acquired *junk patent* which gives them ownership of all e-commerce transactions! Your company may be next! |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 05:01:53 |
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Snowballs Rolling Down a Mountain! (Updated) by Bill Platt |
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Whether you are looking to promote your articles, or whether you
are simply a publisher or webmaster looking for content, then
these are mailing lists and websites that you will want to pay
close attention to.
If you place yourself on the content provider side of the
equation, get prepared for what lies ahead...
Great Big, Huge Snowballs Rolling Down a Mountain! |
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LURKERS and BABBLERS and the Make-Up of Your Subscriber Base by Bill Platt |
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I see comments from frustrated list owners all of the time. They
get frustrated because they have started discussion lists where
no discussions take place... sure, they have subscribers, but
discussions are scarce. Out of frustration, these list owners
invariably throw their hands up and walk away from their lists. If you are one of these discussion list owners, then this article
is for you. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 04:57:14 |
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Ten Things Harry Potter Has Over Hillary Rodham-Clinton by Bill Platt |
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Fox News asked the more important question of the day. They
asked what Harry Potter has over Hillary Rodham-Clinton in
the draw at bookstores in America.
My wife and I contemplated this question, and this is what we
came up with: |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 04:51:33 |
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What Is the Real Future of Email by Bill Platt |
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Imagine that. There are in fact ways out there to conquer the
email hoax perpetrators and there are ways out there to conquer
the email filtering software. And finally, there is in fact a
way to defeat the Habeas, Inc. pay-to-send-email program. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 04:50:46 |
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To www. Or Not to www. --- Google PageRank Observations by Bill Platt |
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Most every website on the planet advertises their website with
the www. included in the URL. I wondered if dropping the www.
would create a problem with people finding my site. The answer
is that it depends on your web server configuration. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 04:49:43 |
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Keyword Rich Content + Well Written Press Release = Wow Results by Bill Platt |
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It is not everyday that you launch a new website. It is even
less everyday that you launch a new domain and experience
significant site traffic within just a few weeks. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 03:40:47 |
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Sell Yourself, Not Your Products or Services by Bill Platt |
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Sell yourself, not your products or services. The point we
need to make is that your products and services will change
over time as your business adapts to the realities of the
marketplace. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 03:36:28 |
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Astounding! Why Not Astonished? by Bill Platt |
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The use of certain words in the English language annoy me.
Perhaps it is just a personal pet peeve and perhaps I am
just overreacting. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 03:18:45 |
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Ten Tips to Help Select Affiliate Programs And Make Money from Them by Bill Platt |
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Let us face it. Not everyone who visits your website will be
interested in your primary products or services. The truth is
that you cannot be everything to everyone. So, it does make
sense to offer some additional products or services on outbound
links to other sites that offer affiliate's an opportunity to
earn a commission. |
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Distributed: 2004-05-03 03:17:56 |
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How to Build Spam-Free Email Campaigns by Bill Platt |
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In the current Internet market, many people are confused as to
how they can use email to build their online businesses, while
consumers are fighting off the evils of spam email. As a result,
we are tackling this most important issue today. |
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