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		<title>Is Landing Page Design Relevant For Your Online Business Model?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landing Page Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Make Money With Landing Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Page Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For today&#8217;s internet marketer there are dozens of different online business models and website monetization models that can allow you to earn money from your website. These range from contextual advertising or text link advertising, all the way to direct sales and marketing from advertising such as an infomercial. Depending on which way you make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For today&#8217;s internet marketer there are dozens of different online business models and website monetization models that can allow you to earn money from your website. These range from contextual advertising or text link advertising, all the way to direct sales and marketing from advertising such as an infomercial. Depending on which way you make money from your website, you may or may not desire to make use of landing pages that you host on your own website. It can be important to know about landing page design if you want to build an email list or sign people up for a facebook fan page.</p>
<p>If you are selling a product directly using your website, it may be important to your business model for you to keep in touch with your customers by email. A poorly designed landing page can hinder your efforts to build a robust email list,  because it can possibly cause your customers to believe that you lack credibility and therefore they are unwilling to enter their email address. Email marketing can be very effective and straightforward when used the proper way (also called opt-in email marketing), because it gives you the tools to communicate directly with large numbers of people that may be interested in becoming future customers for your business.</p>
<p>With this specific type of online business model, the legitimacy of your business is displayed by the professional design of your landing page that you are using to collect people&#8217;s personal information such as email addresses, and if you are trying to acquire new leads and customers using a poorly designed landing page then they may be less likely to trust you with that information. Trustworthiness is important when it comes to whether or not somebody will trust you with their personal information.</p>
<p>If you are taking advantage of any type of business model that benefits from direct communication then you can grow your success in this business by acquiring new people to contact, which is primarily done by building an opt-in email list but today it can also be done by signing up new Twitter followers or Facebook fans. There are many ways that you can make money by building properly designed landing pages since this is the page that people will look at to try and determine if you are a legitimate company, and whether or not you are trustworthy and if it is safe for them to hand over their email address to you.</p>
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		<title>Online Contextual Advertising: Is Google Adwords The Right Choice For Your Online Business Model?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising With Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Adwords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Contextual Advertising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rickyweber.com/?p=1648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly all online marketers should be familiar with Google&#8217;s advertising system at least to a basic extent, and many people make use of this paid advertising system to drive people to their websites that may sign up to be future customers. There are a number of distinct advantages and disadvantages associated with using Google&#8217;s proprietary [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nearly all online marketers should be familiar with Google&#8217;s advertising system at least to a basic extent, and many people make use of this paid advertising system to drive people to their websites that may sign up to be future customers. There are a number of distinct advantages and disadvantages associated with using Google&#8217;s proprietary advertising network in order to try and broadcast your message to a larger audience, and it can be possible for many different online business models to see profits when utilizing this advertising network the proper way.</p>
<p>One of the pitfalls of advertising on Google for small business owners is that they may not know how to make the best use of their advertising dollars, since writing highly profitable text ad campaigns requires some knowledge about writing sales copy that motivates people to take action. Because of this fact, all the money that gets paid into your advertising budget does not acheive the maximum return on investment possible (despite the fact that the Google Adwords user interface allows you to monitor your costs in great detail).</p>
<p>If you decide to do independent advertising on Google to promote your business, there can be a steep learning curve for simply figuring out how to navigate your way around the advertising platform, not to mention how to get your first profitable ad campaign running. Your Google Adwords account will provide you with a massive amount of data about how your ads are performing, and the trick is figure out exactly what makes money on your website and track how it is performing down to the penny.</p>
<p>Depending on what sort of a web page that you would like to send visitors to, there are other tools that are included as part of your Google account that you may want to take advantage of. If you are simply trying to promote a product or service that you are affiliated with and earn commissions from then there is no need for you to monitor what happens when the reader arrives on the page, other than monitoring basic conversions in your affiliate account. But if you also own the website that you are trying to build traffic to then you may consider taking advantage of a feature called Analytics which can give you even more detail about how your advertising dollars are being spent and exactly what a reader does once they are redirected to your website or landing page.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Submitter™: The Ultimate Tool To List Your Website In All The Search Engines And For Increasing Your Search Engine Rank!</title>
		<link>http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engine-submitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Listed In Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Listed In Yahoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing Tips For Business Owners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Listing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Ranking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Submitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Submitter is one of the best tools for getting your website indexed and ranked by every major search engine, all in about a minute of work. All you need to do is enter your name and your website address and Search Engine Submitter will do the rest. When you are ready to get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/"><img class="alignright" title="Search Engine Submitter - Instantly Submit Your Site To Over 500 Search Engines!" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/right18.jpg" alt="" /></a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong></span> is one of the best tools for getting your website indexed and ranked by every major search engine, all in about a minute of work.</p>
<p>All you need to do is enter your name and your website address and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/" target="_blank">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong></span> will do the rest.</p>
<p>When you are ready to get your search engine ranking as high as possible, Search Engine Submitter makes it easy to increase your website traffic by submitting your website to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">over 500+ different search engines</a></strong></span>.</p>
<p>This amazing tool will allow you to start getting more website visitors and traffic faster than you ever thought possible, and you can literally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/" target="_blank">submit your site</a></span> in only about a minute just by entering your website address.</p>
<p><a href="/submit/"><strong>Click Here</strong></a> to take a look at what Search Engine Submitter is all about and what it can do for you.</p>
<h2><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Submit Your Website To Over 500+ Search Engines Today!</a></strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/"><img title="Search Engine Submitter - Instantly Submit Your Site To Over 500 Search Engines!" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/submit2.jpg" alt="" width="655" height="81" /></a></p>
<p>While it is absolutely essential to be listed in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Google, Yahoo and Bing</a></strong></span>, there are hundreds of other search engines that people use every day that you can get traffic from.</p>
<p>The reason you have not heard of any of these smaller search engines is because they are not backed by publicly traded companies, even though they get millions of searches.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong></span> is an easy tool to increase your online sales and profits.</p>
<p>I wish there was a tool like this around when I got started with internet marketing, but today there is no reason why you need to submit your website manually like the old days.</p>
<p>If you do not have your website listed where everyone is looking, then how will anybody be able to find it? <strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/" target="_blank">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong> solves this problem.</p>
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		<title>Why Is Online Link Building Important?</title>
		<link>http://rickyweber.com/internet-marketing/online-link-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Link Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Traffic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Visitors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rickyweber.com/?p=1617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter what website you are talking about on the internet, even if it is a big website that has hundreds of thousands or even millions of pages, the essence of a website is that it is just a bunch of files sitting on a computer. Just like a regular document such as a Microsoft [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1559" title="Online Link Building" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/right18.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="380" />No matter what website you are talking about on the internet, even if it is a big website that has hundreds of thousands or even millions of pages, the essence of a website is that it is just a bunch of files sitting on a computer. Just like a regular document such as a Microsoft Word file, even though this computer might be connected to the internet so that it can be accessed from other computers, it is still a collection of files stored on a hard drive.</p>
<p>When you learn about the history of the internet and the advent of the hyperlink many years ago, you find that the only way that it was possible for people to find these files that were stored across different computers was to link to them from another file or to type in the file name directly. While the internet of today has features such as language-based search engines that can help you find what you are looking for in a matter of seconds, that does not mean that you can discount the importance of building links to the individual files and links on your website.</p>
<p>In fact, link building is more important today than it was back when the internet first got started, since today the number and relevance of incoming links will help search engines determine what keywords your website should rank highly for, and how high up on the results your web page should be listed. Back when internet service providers would directly host other people&#8217;s websites as part of their service package (and sometimes this was the only way to get your website on the internet), they would hardly offer any sort of online marketing or publicity that would allow that website to be found since internet marketing was a new industry.</p>
<p>Internet marketing and web design are not the same discipline, and you can have an excellent website that has zero visitors because the website itself is nothing more than a collection of files sitting on a computer hard drive somewhere. Other sites and web pages need to link to your website in order to make it findable and searchable, otherwise it might end up being invisible to a large portion of internet users. While it is important for you to <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engine-submitter/">submit your site to the search engines</a>, you may not show up in the results for a particular keyword because the lack of incoming links also indicates a lack of authority.</p>
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		<title>The Internet Marketing War: Doing Battle With Other Blogs For Fun And Profit (Mostly Profit!)</title>
		<link>http://rickyweber.com/internet-marketing/the-internet-marketing-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You Must *Fight* For Your Online Success! Internet marketing is one of the most competitive industries in the world, and if you want to be massively successful in this industry then you are literally going to need to fight for that success. Battles Are Fought With Weapons! Like all battles, this battle will be fought [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="/images/war1.jpg" alt="" /><strong>You Must *Fight* For Your Online Success!</strong></p>
<p>Internet marketing is one of the most competitive industries in the world, and if you want to be massively successful in this industry then you are literally going to need to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>fight</strong></span> for that success.</p>
<p><strong>Battles Are Fought With Weapons!</strong></p>
<p>Like all battles, this battle will be fought with weapons! The more advanced your weapons are, the easier it will be for you to be victorious.</p>
<p>The fate of all wars is determined by who has the most powerful weapons, and today I would like to introduce you to a very powerful weapon for you to add to your internet marketing arsenal.</p>
<p>It is called &#8220;<a href="/submit/"><strong>Search Engine Submitter</strong></a>&#8221; and it is the equivalent of fighting with a machine gun while all your enemies use slingshots and arrows.</p>
<p><strong>*Search Engines* Are The Battle Ground! </strong></p>
<p>Search engines are the &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; that are either going to give your website the massive publicity and attention it deserves, or they will surrender the website traffic and website visitors over to your competitors.</p>
<p>For this reason you need to have a top search engine ranking, and the most powerful weapon that you can use to accomplish this is called <a href="/submit/"><strong>Search Engine Submitter</strong></a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a title="Search Engine Submitter" href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Use Search Engine Submitter To Get Listed In Every Major Search Engine, Increase Your Website&#8217;s Page Rank, and Increase Your Website Traffic With Directory Listings!</a></strong></h2>
<p>Not only does Search Engine Submitter get you listed in the search engines, but it will also get you more search engine traffic by increasing your Google page rank.<br />
<img class="alignleft" src="/images/war2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong>THIS IS WAR!! Do You Want a Slingshot or a Panzer Tank?</strong></p>
<p>Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric summed up his philosophy about success in business very simply:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have a competitive advantage, don&#8217;t compete!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Search engine submitter is the weapon that will give you that advantage.</p>
<p><a href="/submit/"><strong>Try Search Engine Submitter!</strong></a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a title="Search Engine Submitter" href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Use Search Engine Submitter To Get Listed In Every Major Search Engine, Increase Your Website&#8217;s Page Rank, and Increase Your Website Traffic With Directory Listings!</a></strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/"><img src="/images/war3.jpg" alt="" width="652" height="99" /></a><br />
This tool is perfect for people who are just launching a new website or blog, because it will allow you to start getting search engine traffic to your website right away.</p>
<p>But even if you know that your website or blog is already listed in the major search engines, you should still consider taking advantage of this powerful weapon because you will be able to increase your Pagerank and website traffic.</p>
<p>If you do not equip yourself with powerful weapons, you will not win the internet marketing war. Make sure you give <a href="/submit/"><strong>Search Engine Submitter</strong></a> a try so that you can be victorious in the highly competitive battle against every other website and blog that ranks high in the search engines for those terms that you want to be ranked #1 for.</p>
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		<title>How To Submit Your Website Or Blog To Every Single Search Engine All At The Same Time</title>
		<link>http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Listed In Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Listed In Yahoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing Tips For Business Owners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Listing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Ranking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Submitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rickyweber.com/?p=1276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Submitter is one of the best tools for getting your website indexed and ranked by every major search engine, all in about a minute of work. All you need to do is enter your name and your website address and Search Engine Submitter will do the rest. When you are ready to get your search engine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/"><img class="alignright" title="Search Engine Submitter - Instantly Submit Your Site To Over 500 Search Engines!" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/right18.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="380" /></a><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong> is one of the best tools for getting your website indexed and ranked by every major search engine, all in about a minute of work.</p>
<p>All you need to do is enter your name and your website address and <strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/" target="_blank">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong> will do the rest.</p>
<p>When you are ready to get your search engine ranking as high as possible, Search Engine Submitter makes it easy to increase your website traffic by submitting your website to <strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">over 500+ different search engines</a></strong>.</p>
<p>This amazing tool will allow you to start getting more website visitors and traffic faster than you ever thought possible, and you can literally <a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/" target="_blank">submit your site</a> in only about a minute just by entering your website address.</p>
<p><a href="/submit/"><strong>Click Here</strong></a> to take a look at what Search Engine Submitter is all about and what it can do for you.</p>
<h2><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Submit Your Website To Over 500+ Search Engines Today!</a></strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/"><img title="Search Engine Submitter - Instantly Submit Your Site To Over 500 Search Engines!" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/submit2.jpg" alt="" width="655" height="81" /></a></p>
<p>While it is absolutely essential to be listed in <strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Google, Yahoo and Bing</a></strong>, there are hundreds of other search engines that people use every day that you can get traffic from.</p>
<p>The reason you have not heard of any of these smaller search engines is because they are not backed by publicly traded companies, even though they get millions of searches.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong> is an easy tool to increase your online sales and profits.</p>
<p>I wish there was a tool like this around when I got started with internet marketing, but today there is no reason why you need to submit your website manually like the old days.</p>
<p>If you do not have your website listed where everyone is looking, then how will anybody be able to find it? <strong><a href="http://rickyweber.com/submit/" target="_blank">Search Engine Submitter</a></strong> solves this problem.</p>
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		<title>Online Copywriting: 3 Shortcuts For Using Emotions To Generate More Sales</title>
		<link>http://rickyweber.com/internet-marketing/online-copywriting-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copywriting Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Increase Online Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Copywriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Sales Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Selling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not you are making use of direct selling on your website, it is important to have good copywriting skills for many different aspects of website development, such as writing page and product descriptions. A good technique that you can use to make your online writing more effective is to focus less on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1544" title="Online Copywriting" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/right3.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="371" />Whether or not you are making use of direct selling on your website, it is important to have good copywriting skills for many different aspects of website development, such as writing page and product descriptions. A good technique that you can use to make your online writing more effective is to focus less on the dry, intellectual side of things and make sure that you are conveying powerful emotions with your writing.</p>
<p>Most people are usually not motivated to make a purchase simply based on their logic alone. Instead, most people will make a buying decision based on their emotions. This means that you need to focus more on how your reader is going to feel, not what they will think. Here are 3 shortcuts that you can use to convey more emotion with your writing.</p>
<p><strong>Shortcut 1: Tell A Story</strong></p>
<p>Telling a story is a very simple and powerful copywriting technique because the reader will immediately get pulled into your story. One good way to do this is to be honest and pick a personal story from your own life that you can use to relate to what it is that you are selling. Another great way you can use the story technique is to research a famous figure from the past that most people would be familiar with and tell a story from this person&#8217;s life that you can relate back to your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>Shortcut 2: Ask A Question</strong></p>
<p>Do you think asking questions is a good idea? This is a technique that can lose its effectiveness if you overuse it, but asking questions can be a great way to catch a reader&#8217;s attention and make them want to keep reading. The best questions that you can ask are positive ones that result in the answer &#8220;yes.&#8221; You want to be careful to only frame questions that have a positive answer instead of a negative one.</p>
<p><strong>Shortcut 3: List The Benefits In Detail</strong></p>
<p>It is important to understand the difference between benefits and features when you are talking about your own product. Benefits are more important to the reader, because this is where they get to discover all the things that your product can do for them, and all the reasons why they should commit to a buying decision. By following these three online writing shortcuts you can get in touch with your readers on a more emotional level which can result in an increased amount of sales and referrals.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Blogging Tips: How To Survive Having Your WordPress Blog Hacked</title>
		<link>http://rickyweber.com/internet-marketing/wordpress-blog-hacking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever had one of your websites hacked then you might be familiar with the feeling of panic that comes with it, and the knowledge that all of your hard work may have been compromised. Information security is an important part of operating a WordPress blog, because the possibility exists of somebody gaining [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1543" title="Wordpress Blogging Tips" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/right2.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="392" />If you have ever had one of your websites hacked then you might be familiar with the feeling of panic that comes with it, and the knowledge that all of your hard work may have been compromised. Information security is an important part of operating a WordPress blog, because the possibility exists of somebody gaining unauthorized access to the administration panel of your blog and compromising your hard work. This article will give you some good advice about what to do if this happens to you, and most importantly how to make sure that you never put yourself in this sort of situation.</p>
<p>You might ask yourself why anybody would ever take the time to try and hack into somebody&#8217;s WordPress blog in the first place. The answer is that if you have a blog that receives a large amount of website traffic, somebody could redirect that traffic to a different location to try to make money from it (which is obviously unethical). If you ever actually have one of your blogs hacked, start by trying to use the password recovery feature based on your email address, otherwise you may need to log in to the control center in your hosting account and temporarily redirect the website until you can re-establish it securely on the back-end.</p>
<p>It is important that you always keep your WordPress software updated, and this is easy to do in the main administration panel in your dashboard. Even though WordPress is free to use, its massive popularity has resulted in a software that is extremely secure, but the possibility of having one of your blogs hacked still exists. Once you have devoted time and energy to creating your own content for your blog, it is important that you regularly use the &#8220;export&#8221; feature in the tools tab so that you can create a backup file with all your content. It is a good idea to get on a regular schedule with this, such as twice a month or every 20 posts.</p>
<p>Your password is also a big security risk if it is easy to guess or if it is the same password that you use for other accounts. Make sure that you are using a unique password to log in, and it should be impossible to guess by making sure that it includes upper case and lower case letters, special characters and numbers. Making it too easy to log in to your account is the biggest reason why a WordPress blog gets compromised. If you have followed the tips in this article such as making regular data backups, you can effectively &#8220;hack-proof&#8221; your blog so that it is easy to set up again even if it gets compromised.</p>
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		<title>Make Money With WordPress: 5 Things That Make Your Blog More Efficient And Profitable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is a blogging platform and content management system that is used by over 60 million people, and owning your own WordPress blog can present you with a great opportunity to make money. If you are using your blog like a business then these five tips will show you how to get the most out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1542" title="Wordpress Blogging Tips" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/right1.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="362" />WordPress is a blogging platform and content management system that is used by over 60 million people, and owning your own WordPress blog can present you with a great opportunity to make money. If you are using your blog like a business then these five tips will show you how to get the most out of your blog without needing to work any harder.</p>
<p><strong>1. Use A Sitemap Generator Plug-In</strong></p>
<p>It is always an exhilarating experience to see your own website listed in the search engines, and by adding a sitemap generator plug-in to your blog it will make sure that every single page on your blog is listed in the search engines. This will also include the option of listing your tag pages in the search engines as well, and once it is installed it will update and notify the search engines of new content every time you post something new.</p>
<p><strong>2. Create An In-Depth Ping List</strong></p>
<p>The great thing about WordPress is its pinging feature, which means it automatically notifies search engines and RSS feed listing sites that you have posted new content. Having a robust ping list will help you make sure that your new articles show up in Google blog search and other blog search engines.</p>
<p><strong>3. Interlink Your Own Content And Articles</strong></p>
<p>Nobody knows your blog&#8217;s content like you do, and posting new content is your chance to link to all your own articles using whatever desired keywords you want. This will make all the content across your blog visible to your readers and also to the search engine spiders.</p>
<p><strong>4. Use An SEO Plug-In That Auto-Generates Meta Data</strong></p>
<p>It can be very painstaking and time consuming to add custom meta descriptions and keywords to each post, yet this is important if you want to have a favorable listing in the search engines. By using an SEO plug-in that automatically generates and adds this data for you, you can save time but still appease the search engines for a higher ranking.</p>
<p><strong>5. Add Custom Title Tags To Important Pages</strong></p>
<p>You can use your same SEO plug-in to add custom titles to those pages and posts that you think are really important. This is a step you will usually do after you see your specific page listed in Google or Bing and you decide that you want to change the way that it appears in the search engines. By following these five WordPress blogging tips you will be able to increase the efficiency of your work and efforts without actually needing to work harder, since you will be working smarter.</p>
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		<title>3 Primary Reasons Why People Visit Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Customer Conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Streaming Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only three primary reasons why anybody will use the internet to visit a specific website. By learning about what these three reasons are, you will first be able to discover which of these three primary categories your website fits in to so that you can tailor better website content for your readers to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-561" title="Website Marketing" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/top14.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="203" />There are only three primary reasons why anybody will use the internet to visit a specific website. By learning about what these three reasons are, you will first be able to discover which of these three primary categories your website fits in to so that you can tailor <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engine-submitter/">better website content</a> for your readers to make them want to return to your website in the future, or to convert into customers.</p>
<p><strong>Reason #1: To Research A Specific Topic</strong></p>
<p>This is a big reason why people visit websites in the first place, and it has to do with the desire to learn more about a given topic area. This is why we see big corporate websites with teams of people such as technology or investing sites, because their entire base of website visitors is completely centered around people who are looking to learn more about their specific topic. If this is the reason why people are visiting your website, you will be able to attract more website visitors by creating lots of good topic-specific information and content.</p>
<p><strong>Reason #2: To Solve A Specific Problem</strong></p>
<p>Many people will use a <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engine-submitter/">search engine</a> in order to try and find information regarding a specific problem. Let&#8217;s say that you are having a problem with your computer or you need to find out what a specific error message means, you may use a search engine to figure out what the problem is. If your website is able to provide information that will solve a specific problem that many people are having, this can also be a good way to build a business.</p>
<p><strong>Reason #3: To Be Entertained</strong></p>
<p>People will always want to be entertained, and while watching television is a large source of entertainment in people&#8217;s lives, many people are beginning to use the internet as a source of entertainment as well. One of the biggest trends on the internet right now is streaming videos, and this is becoming so massively popular for the simple reason that people want to be entertained and more of them are coming online to find their source of entertainment.</p>
<p>While there might be other reasons that people will visit a website, these are the big three. So which one of these categories does your own website fit in to? By discovering the reason why people would want to visit your website in the first place, you can work to custom-tailor your website content based around this motivation so that your website visitors are more satisfied and may return in the future.</p>
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		<title>Clearly Identify Your Target Audience When Formulating Your Content Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Content Creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Content Creation Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Content Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creating Website Content]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a content plan where you outline the different ways that you can provide value to your readers is essential to the success of any website, and the best way to get the most out of your content plan is to identify very clearly exactly who your target audience is. This is an important distinction [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-414" title="Niche Market Content Creation" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/top5.jpg" alt="" width="292" height="217" />Having a <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">content plan</a> where you outline the different ways that you can provide value to your readers is essential to the success of any website, and the best way to get the most out of your content plan is to identify very clearly exactly who your target audience is. This is an important distinction from simply trying to create content that has a universal appeal, because you are creating your content in a way that it is targeted to a niche market and a very narrowly defined group of people.</p>
<p>There is a quote that says &#8220;the surest way to fail is to try and make everybody happy,&#8221; and this quote holds true with your own website content as well. Instead of trying to craft your website content in such a way that it has universal appeal, create content that is geared towards a very specific and clearly defined group of people, such as people who enjoy fishing or people who know a specific computer programming language. The way that you can tell if you have clearly identified your target audience or not is to ask yourself if only 10% of people in the world would likely be interested in your content and what you are offering.</p>
<p>This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but the magic here is that instead of trying to make everybody happy, you are making those people who are deeply interested in your specific niche market very happy. If you are looking to convert your readers into buyers then it is imperative that they have a knowledgeable passion for the specific product or service that you are offering. This is why having a niche-oriented focus is so important, because those few people who are passionate about that niche are the ones that will become your future customers.</p>
<p>Creating content and <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">executing your content plan</a> once you have identified your target audience actually becomes much easier, but the key here is to make sure that you take the time to do your research so that you become extremely knowledgeable about your niche market. Once you have developed this kind of niche-oriented expertise then creating interesting and thought provoking content about this topic should not be difficult, and as long as you keep it oriented toward your narrowly defined audience then they will likely become repeat visitors to your website. By remembering to clearly identify your target audience when formulating your content plan instead of trying to make everybody happy, you can experience greater success with your website and create a more dedicated and loyal group of readers.</p>
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		<title>How Do Internet Service Providers Affect Your Email Marketing Delivery Rates And Results?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email Marketing Advice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because email spamming is such a rampant problem on the internet today, many internet service provider companies have systems in place to prevent against any of their subscribers receiving unwarranted emails. Every single internet service provider company that provides their users with an email address is going to have a spam filter system in place, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-412" title="Internet Service Providers" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/top4.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="231" />Because email spamming is such a rampant problem on the internet today, many <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">internet service provider companies</a> have systems in place to prevent against any of their subscribers receiving unwarranted emails. Every single internet service provider company that provides their users with an email address is going to have a spam filter system in place, and so will major email providers. To get profitable email marketing results you will need to understand how these spam filters work so that you can make sure your email messages get through to your subscribers.</p>
<p>Spam filters are an essential component of email communication today, and as an email marketer you will need to work with the system as it exists in order to achieve maximum success with your marketing efforts. One important tool that internet service providers use to prevent their customers from receiving spam is based on the volume-threshold or total numbers of emails sent from a specific source during a given period of time (such as how many emails are sent during one 30-day period).</p>
<p>Any email marketer who knows their stuff will already have a good understanding of some of the basic ways that you can write email messages that do not come across as spam. This can include making sure that you do not use certain words in the subject line of your email such as the words &#8220;offer&#8221; or &#8220;free,&#8221; and also not using excessive punctuation such as having ten exclamation points after your subject. Internet service providers make use of content-based rules with their spam filters to determine which emails will make it through to the inbox and which ones will not. This will include the subject line of your email and also the content of your email.</p>
<p>If you put yourself in the position of an internet service provider company, then it should make perfect sense to you why they need to place such a heavy emphasis on spam protection since this is the best way to serve and protect their customers. It is also based on the <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">CAN-SPAM Act of 2003</a> which set the standard for protecting people from unsolicited and unwarranted email communications. By understanding all the ways that internet service provider companies are using to determine whether or not your email message is spam, you will be able to get the best email marketing results by presenting your emails in such a way that they are most likely to get through to your subscribers every time.</p>
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		<title>Email Marketing &#8211; Are You A Spammer Or A Legitimate And Ethical Email Marketer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are building an email list of targeted subscribers for the purpose of sending them offers related to the reason that they signed up for your list, you need to be careful that the offers that you are proposing to your subscribers are legitimate and ethical. There can be a fine line between being [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-460" title="Are You A Spammer?" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/top8.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="178" />If you are building an email list of targeted subscribers for the purpose of sending them offers related to the reason that they signed up for your list, you need to be careful that the offers that you are proposing to your subscribers are legitimate and ethical. There can be a fine line between being a spammer that sends unsolicited and unwarranted email offers, and someone who is actually honest and simply trying to make a persuasive offer to their list.</p>
<p>One tool that you can take advantage of as a <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">legitimate email marketer</a> is the suite of analytics tools that are provided by your email service, such as taking a look at how likely your email is to be blocked by the spam filter (usually given to you as a percentage number based on how the email is written). Another important number that you need to look at with your email marketing campaign is your delivery rate, which shows how many emails are actually getting through to a person&#8217;s inbox.</p>
<p>Something known in the email marketing world as the &#8220;double opt-in&#8221; is a great method that you can use to make sure that all of the email addresses entered into your list are authentic. This means that once a person enters their name and email address in your opt-in form, they are then sent a confirmation link that they must click on in order to verify their subscription to your list and begin receiving messages from you.</p>
<p>If you are a marketer that views the double opt-in as an unnecessary burden then maybe you need to re-evaluate your perspective regarding how to make money with email marketing. High quality subscribers to your list are more important than just having a large number subscribers, and nobody on your list is going to trust you enough to buy from you anyway unless they have expressed a desire to receive information based upon your topic.</p>
<p>There are a few popular marketing words such as the word &#8220;<a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">free</a>&#8221; that can entice people and get them interested, however you need to pick the words you use in your emails carefully so that they are not sent to the spam folder. There is a fine line between trying to be persuasive and simply being a spammer, and you need to make the extra effort to be perceived as a legitimate marketer by including things like the double opt-in into your sign-up process. By taking the extra careful steps to make sure that you are perceived as an ethical marketer instead of a spammer, you will improve the results delivered by your email marketing efforts.</p>
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		<title>Building Trust And Confidence With Your Email List By Having A Clear Privacy Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet privacy is a major issue today because it is very important that a person&#8217;s sensitive information is always protected and kept safe, and that it is not vulnerable to any sort of a security breach. Privacy is especially important when you are dealing with email marketing, because people need to know that you are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-627" title="Email Privacy Policy" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/top211.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="214" />Internet privacy is a major issue today because it is very important that a person&#8217;s sensitive information is always protected and kept safe, and that it is not vulnerable to any sort of a security breach. Privacy is especially important when you are dealing with <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">email marketing</a>, because people need to know that you are ethical and that you are not ever going to sell their contact information to a third-party at any point in the future (in fact there are laws against this).</p>
<p>A great tip that you can incorporate into your email marketing campaign is to have a small statement regarding your privacy policy clearly visible on the sign-up form where a person enters their first name and email address. A small icon and a statement that says something like &#8220;we take your privacy seriously&#8221; will let the person know that you are a professional and that it is alright for them to trust you. This notice can also link to your full privacy policy, which you should always have on your website if you collect any sort of personal data.</p>
<p>With every email that you send out to your list you are likely going to include an email signature, and a small message that reiterates your privacy policy regarding their personal information can go in your signature as well. This is especially important if you decide to collect more personal information than just their email address, by doing things like putting together a survey based on the sorts of products that you are offering to your list.</p>
<p>Think about this: Would you ever make a purchase based on the information you received in an email from someone that you did not trust? Trust is a very important aspect of building online relationships that lead to sales, and someone who is just out for a quick buck and a fast sale might not be deserving of that trust. Strive to be a trustworthy marketer with personality and heart, instead of being nothing but another spammer that tries to market worthless offers to as many people as possible.</p>
<p>If you do your email marketing by creating an autoresponder sequence, it might be a good idea to include your privacy policy information in the first email that they receive where you tell them that their personal information is secure and will never be shared with anyone else. This is the first step to building a long-term relationship with your email subscribers based on providing them with value, and building this kind of trust can really be your ticket to <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">making money with email marketing</a>.</p>
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		<title>Increase Your Email Response And Conversion Rate By Using The Power Of Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversion Rate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two magic words &#8220;thank you&#8221; can literally transform the success of your email marketing efforts, and this article will show you how you can use the power of gratitude to make the emails that you send out to your list more effective and profitable. Ever since 2003 there have been federal laws that prevent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-547" title="Email Response Rate" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/top13.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="238" />The two magic words &#8220;thank you&#8221; can literally transform the <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">success</a> of your email marketing efforts, and this article will show you how you can use the power of gratitude to make the emails that you send out to your list more effective and profitable. Ever since 2003 there have been federal laws that prevent people from sending unsolicited email messages, however if you can get people to opt-in to a particular email list by choice then you are allowed to communicate with them by email.</p>
<p>Since this is the case and people will need to opt-in to your email list by choice, this means that they are not obligated to be on your email list at all. Instead of trying to send them blind offers and simply trying to get them to buy products without actually contributing any value to them, a much more effective strategy for long-term email marketing success is to be very grateful that these people have made the choice to sign up for your email list and try to provide them with as much value as possible.</p>
<p>The two most important words that you can use when communicating with your list of subscribers are &#8220;thank you.&#8221; When you are genuinely grateful that you have so many people who are willing to trust you and to give you access to their email inbox, you will not want to try to sell them something with every email but instead you will actually give away things of value for free. You might also make your email messages more personal by including stories from your own life.</p>
<p>The important point to realize here is that you want to build trust with your subscribers by being true to your word, and you are trying to build a quality relationship with as many people as possible instead of simply having as many subscribers on your email list as you can. While it can be important to focus on getting new sign-ups, it is even more important that you express your gratitude regarding the fact that each person has trusted you with their personal email address, and you let them know that this is a responsibility that you take seriously.</p>
<p>Think about the times when you might have made a purchase based on a recommendation that you got from an email. Was it from the very first email that this person sent you, when you had no relationship at all? Or was it after a period of time during which you got to know that person and see for yourself the value that they had to offer you. By making sure that you show your email list your gratitude and say thank you for being a subscriber, you will experience much greater <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">long-term success</a> and build better relationships.</p>
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		<title>How To Multiply Your Online Success By Creating High Quality Content And Articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a big difference between good content and great content, and if you are willing to put in the time and effort in order to make your online articles of a very high quality then you will put yourself in a position to multiply your success. As an example of how this can work, if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-526" title="High Quality Content" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/top12.jpg" alt="" width="271" height="213" />There is a big difference between good content and great content, and if you are willing to put in the time and effort in order to make your online articles of a very high quality then you will put yourself in a position to multiply your success. As an example of how this can work, if you write two good articles or you spend that same amount of time writing one great article, it will be more memorable and entertaining to your readers while also solidifying your position in their minds as an expert on your topic.</p>
<p>So what is the main difference between good writing and great writing? Simple: great writing will cause other people to link to your content on their own without asking, and it will also encourage people to revisit your website on a regular basis. Good writing is passable but it is not exciting and may have typographical errors, and it will simply blend into the mass of content on the internet that gets very little attention because it is unexciting. If an excellent, entertaining and informative article gets ten times the number of links as a plain and boring article where the author did not put much effort into it, you can begin to see how this effect will multiply your online success.</p>
<p>I have a simple trick that I use to improve the quality of my writing: I pretend that the <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">major search engines</a> do not exist at all. When you are 100% focused solely on people and readers, and don&#8217;t give a care about search engine spiders and complicated search engine optimization then the quality of the content that you are providing will increase dramatically. It is true that a lot of your internet traffic can come from the search engines, but you can also get a massive amount of direct traffic from other websites that simply link to you because you provide your expertise in an informative way.</p>
<p>If you are publishing your articles on a blog then you may also have a number of people who are subscribed to your rss feed. This means that as soon as you hit the publish button on a new article that it is going to show up on the desktop widgets and website feeds of potentially thousands of people. You can begin to see why you can still have a large amount of website traffic without relying on the <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">major search engines</a>, and while it is good to still be findable in the search engines your main focus should be on creating high-quality articles for your readers so that they will link to you on their own.</p>
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		<title>How To Create Online Content That Makes Both Your Readers And The Search Engines Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the major search engines have become such a ubiquitous part of using the internet, many people are focusing their website&#8217;s content strategy around getting a high ranking in the search engines for certain desired keywords. However, sometimes if we put too much of a focus on picking the right keywords and optimizing our content [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-624" title="Content Creation Tips" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/top18.jpg" alt="" width="223" height="211" />Since the major search engines have become such a ubiquitous part of using the internet, many people are focusing their website&#8217;s content strategy around getting a <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">high ranking in the search engines</a> for certain desired keywords. However, sometimes if we put too much of a focus on picking the right keywords and optimizing our content for those keywords, our content will not seem authentic and it will read like it is written for a machine instead of for readers. It is not hard to craft your content, no matter what sort of content you are providing (even if it is images and videos), in a way that will make both your readers happy and the search engines happy.</p>
<p>The key to creating content that accomplishes this goal is quite easy to understand: You will want to work on your content initially with only your readers in mind and give absolutely no thought to the search engines whatsoever. After you have articles, documents, or whatever sort of content you are providing finished and completed, this is the step where you revisit it and make sure that it includes all the keywords and information necessary to make it findable by search engines. If you are providing this content on your own website then this will mean going back and focusing on things like the page titles, meta descriptions and keywords, and also interlinking your different articles and webpages using anchor text that is relevant to the topic of each page.</p>
<p>If you are using a content management system or blog then it will be important to include a number of tags or tag phrases related to your topic so that your article can be found using those keyword terms as well. If you are focusing on content that is not directly on your own website, such as uploading content to an image or video sharing site, you might not have access to things like the meta tags but there is still a lot that you can do to make it show up in a search engine more frequently. Again you will want to make sure there are plenty of relevant tags that describe what your content is about, and many times you will also be able to include a description where you can include certain desired keyword phrases.</p>
<p>When you make the mistake of doing this process in the reverse order, you will actually stifle your opportunities for success because people will notice right away and be alienated by the fact that your content looks like it was written by a robot. It is not hard to form a content strategy for yourself where you make both the search engines and your website visitors happy, all you need to do is start off creating content solely for people and pretend that <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">the major search engines</a> don&#8217;t even exist, and then go back and add some of the optimization elements that make it more findable and searchable.</p>
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		<title>Your Content Strategy Is Essential To Your Online Success And Finding Information On The Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today it is very difficult to find a certain piece of information even if it is listed on the internet unless it is searchable and findable by the major search engines. Most people can remember what the internet was like less than ten years ago where it was much more difficult to find exactly what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-996 alignright" title="Online Content Strategy" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/top23.jpg" alt="" width="267" height="288" />Today it is very difficult to find a certain piece of information even if it is listed on the internet unless it is searchable and findable by the <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">major search engines</a>. Most people can remember what the internet was like less than ten years ago where it was much more difficult to find exactly what you were looking for in less than a minute because search engines did not have real speech capabilities, but today you are able to type a question into a search engine and more often than not you will find the right answer. Since intelligent search is the method that people use to find what they are looking for, your content strategy can be your key placing your website in front of those people to increase your website traffic.</p>
<p>This has become the foundation of the internet, where you can be seamlessly connected to the information and content that you are looking for with a few keystrokes. Therefore, the way that most people are going to discover your website is based on the sort of content that your website provides and how easily searchable you decide to make that content. This is the reason why your content strategy is so important to the success of your website, because you can use <a href="http://ninjaseomethods.com/">search engine tools</a> to figure out how many people are searching for a particular topic and then structure your content strategy to focus on that topic.</p>
<p>Your website or blog content does not just need to be written and published articles, and in fact there are many different types of content that you can provide on your website that will attract new website visitors. One of the biggest trends on the internet right now is streaming video, and image search is also very popular with hundreds of big websites dedicated to both of these content types. The key to having internet users find you and your website based on your images is to make sure that they are properly labeled and tagged based on what they contain, since a search engine cannot actually decipher the video or image content itself. Image search has become very popular on the internet and it can be a powerful and underutilized method for getting website traffic.</p>
<p>Online documents are another online content source that not everybody is taking advantage of, and the good thing about documents on your website is that they are just as easily searchable as articles. There are many websites that are dedicated to document and ebook search, and you can build more incoming links to your website by uploading your documents to these websites. Since the internet is based on content, developing a good content strategy using these tips will greatly contribute to your online success.</p>
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		<title>Creating A Search Engine Optimization Plan For Continued Success Over Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many different aspects and steps that are important to securing a high rank in the search engines for your website or for specific web pages on your site, and in order to achieve the maximum results possible for you it is important that you create a search engine optimization plan. This does not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-576 alignright" title="Search Engine Optimization Plan" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/top15.jpg" alt="" width="296" height="179" />There are many different aspects and steps that are important to securing a high rank in the <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">search engines</a> for your website or for specific web pages on your site, and in order to achieve the maximum results possible for you it is important that you create a search engine optimization plan.</p>
<p>This does not need to be overly complicated, but if you are willing to take the time to map out your strategy and make a list of all the things that you can do within your budget to increase your search engine ranking then you put yourself in the position to experience continued success.</p>
<p>The first consideration for your search engine optimization plan is the budget that you have to work with, which will determine what sorts of things that you are able to work into your plan. As a rule, the higher your budget for your website is, the more competitive keywords you can target in order to secure a top ranking. If you have only a budget of $100 per month to focus on ranking as high as possible for a particular keyword and you are going up against large corporations that value their top ranking at $5,000 per month, you might not be able to see the results that you desire for continued success. It is better to use your budget to determine what keyword you can get a number one rank for.</p>
<p>Once you know the budget that you have to work with, you will want to write out a list of all the actions that you can take to rank high in the <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">search engines</a>, as well as how much each of these items will cost you. The simple act of taking the time to write out an organized list in this manner will put you ahead of your competition because it will make your search engine optimization plan easy to implement. This will become your to-do list, and it can include things like crafting media and press releases that include certain specific keywords, writing articles to build incoming links, and submitting content to various blogs and content directories so that you can control the anchor text of your links as well as the pages they are linking to.</p>
<p>It is also important that you do not ignore the aspects of search engine optimization that do not cost any money, such as on-page keyword optimization. This is the way that you can “prime” each of your pages to have a high ranking for a specific keyword, so that once you start implementing the harder and more expensive aspects of your search engine optimization plan such as link building or press releases it will make it as likely as possible that you will get the top rank you are looking for. By creating a budget, making a list of all the things you can do to increase your search engine ranking, and taking action on that list, you will put yourself in a position to experience the maximum possible results and continued success of your website.</p>
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		<title>How To Maintain A Top Search Engine Ranking For Your Website Over The Long Term</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Securing a top rank for your website in the search engine results can be a great way to get targeted website traffic over to your site, but even once you have a top rank the trick to long-term success is to maintain your top position in the search engines over time. If you get to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-623 alignright" title="Top Search Engine Ranking" src="http://rickyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/top17.jpg" alt="" width="264" height="221" />Securing a top rank for your website in the search engine results can be a great way to get targeted website traffic over to your site, but even once you have a top rank the trick to long-term success is to maintain your top position in the <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">search engines</a> over time. If you get to the top of the search engine results immediately but lose your top rank in a week because you are not constantly working to maintain it, you will not be able to experience increased traffic to your website over the long term that you would get to experience with a permanent top ranking.</p>
<p>One way that you can continue to maintain your top ranking for certain web pages on your site is to optimize a single page for only one single keyword. Instead of trying to use the same page to rank high for ten different search terms at the same time, place your focus for your on-page search engine optimization on just one specific keyword and optimize every part of your web page for this keyword (such as the title, header, and meta tags). This might get a bit complicated for you if you are trying to maintain a top rank for multiple keywords related to your industry that each have a different web page devoted to them, but your long-term success will be greater by using this “one keyword per page” strategy.</p>
<p>Another important strategy that you can use to make sure that you are able to retain your top search engine ranking over time is to make sure that you have your website listed in a handful of the top business directories such as the Yahoo business directory. Even though having your website listed in places like this can be expensive, it is essential if you do not want your overall rank in the search engine results to decline. If you are willing to spend the extra money necessary for a premium listing in some of these top directories, you will be able to pick the specific anchor text that you would like to have point to certain deep links on your website, which can help dramatically to maintain your long-term search engine ranking.</p>
<p>Probably the most important aspect of maintaining a top search engine ranking over time is the number of incoming links that you have from different websites that are using your desired keyword as the anchor text of the link. It is also important to have a perpetual link building strategy so that you are continuing to increase the number of targeted incoming links. By taking advantage of these strategies you will be able to not only secure a top ranking in the <a href="http://rickyweber.com/success/search-engines/">search engines</a> for your desired keyword, but you will also be able maintain that top ranking over the long term.</p>
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