A month ago Jonathan Leger post an article about “Avoiding the snare of trash traffic”, and i was fascinated by it that i did my own testing. It’s true that you could get thousand or even millons visitor to your site. But the question is, is it worth it. With just 45 bucks or less you can get your site swarm with visitor. How this is done, literaly the so called “Traffic Broker” will line up all the links that you submit to them into a system called “Autosurf”.

What will happened then is the visitor will get commission by just visiting you site with a certain amount duration of time, (usually 8 second). Apparently, this is useless to us marketers as the visitors are clearly no targeted. They’re only care about the commission. Since the system will auto rotate the sites, some might not even bother to see the website.

The above stat i did with 2 different traffic broker with 3 different sites of mine. Clearly you can see i’m getting hundreds of raw clicks, which means either it’s the same visitor visits my sites or there’s a bunch of auto surfers coming from the same IP network address.

As i said, the auto surf systems usually sets up to 8 second before continuing other sites, you can see the Level 1 stat are the only level that has number people stayed in my site, even so there’s about 68.3% my visitor stayed for 8 second, i’ve lost my other 29.7%. Hmm, there’s 5% on Level 2 and 3, probably one of the visitor got his pc hung up or maybe he’s really interested, but which ever is it, i’m still not getting any sales (Yes, these 3 site are sale page, selling products)

As a conclusion, i think these so called cheap traffic are not worth it. Unless if you try to test to proof something or simply just want to impress people that you’re getting hits to your sites.

Looking for keywords that has high search count is easy, obviously you can use any keyword tool. But hunting for keywords that markets hunger for is another story. What us marketer want is a profitable keywords. Keywords that make sales. In order to look for the untapped profitable keywords, i would go to these sites:

• Magazines.com
• Ebay Hot Items (pdf)
• Shopping.com
• Ebay Pulse
• Amazon.com

and look for keywords that market are hungry for. Normally would i choose between 5 to 10 profitable keywords.Then, i use keyword tools to broaden up the keywords. And look for long tail keywords. Why long tail, because i know a single keyword is going to be very tough to compete, especially if i’m using PPC. I also use selected keywords from above site with Bum Marketing. And it works wonders.

You see, some non-profitable keywords have high search volume and might end up top place in ranking. For example “Paris Hilton” keywords has tens thousand search per day, though you can’t use it to make sales, unless of course if you sells Paris Hilton accessories.

P/S: I’m highly advice you to bookmark the above sites, you’ll never know when you need them.

In this post i will show you a simple hack on how to look for a high PR or high traffic blog for you to post a comment. Now, some of marketers will not agree by getting high Google PR will guaranty traffic to your site, but then i’ll let you be the judge.

A couple weeks ago Google have upgrade their Page Rank system, which let them allow to detect people who buys, sells and trade links and probably other stuff that avoids people cheating their PR sites.

One of ways to get your site link up in a high rank blog or site regardless their PR’s is too look out for .gov or .edu domains. Domains with .gov and .adu are most likely get into Google’s first priority, as these domain are the most trusted domains compared to .com, .org, .net and any other second level domains. So how do you search .gov and .edu blogs, the trick is to use an attribute in Google search, just key in these attribute:

site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” “keywords“

Where “keywords” are the key phrases that you want to search for. And change .edu to .gov if you want to search .gov blogs. Now, what about the no-follow tags. The post might be useless if there’s a “no-follow” tags in their blog. The only way to avoid sites with “no-follow” tags is to manually search them. Here a simple step:

1. Right click on the page you want to post and click View Page Source.
2. The page source will appear, press “Ctrl+F” a search box will appear at the bottom frame.
3. type “no-follow” or ” nofollow”, and if there’s any, don’t bother post on that blog, well unless if want to.

The bottom line with this hack is getting an .edu or .org with no “no-follow” will get your site flooded with traffic or likely increases you Google PR. I have tried this trick with one of my site for 2 month, and i can say it has return a decent traffic. But again i’ll let you be the judge and try it your self. If you have any questions or feel skeptical with this hacks post, i really like to hear your comments.

P/S: Please Be Warned This Hack Is Not Intend For SPAMMING. Use it Ethically.

Writing an article are easy for some. A good sales copy are vital especially if you really want to make your copy sale. For those who thinks writing is hard are people who are actually never wrote anything, in this case copy writing. What most important is at least try and practice will make perfect.

The main factor that draw back people from writing is the existence of Mr Editor. Who is he? you might ask. Well he is you when your start thinking when you’re writing. Of course, what could you ever write if you can’t think, that’s just silly. It’s t the ‘you’ person after you write a single phrase or paragraph. More often you will try to scan all the words you just wrote, and try to arrange to make it sense or into a better sentences. This will eventually stops you from the flow of writing. Furthermore, trying to make correction and editing rather than writing.

Trying to edit will definitely distract. Not to say that this Mr. Editor of yours is a burden when writing. It will come in handy when it’s needed. Avoid any distraction will help allot.Create a situation where you can be a peace. Then write anything on the related subject. Write whatever come out from your head. Don’t stop writing. It might be sound crazy or even not making any sense if you just write. Remember don’t ever read every last sentences you write. Just write and write but don’t read. Even if you ran out of ideas. But if you really stuck, go ahead google for some idea, but don’t overdo it. Look some points from Ezinearticles or from any other article directories.

After you have completed your article, you can call Mr Editor back to his duties. Read the article, look for spelling or grammar mistakes. Edit it, add word or remove them…. do what you want with your article now. Make them have sense when reading. By the time you have done editing, you now have a complete article which you have created in minutes. And remember if you really don’t have any idea on the subject you want to write, spent a few minute on google or article directory to get some points of informations.

Every online entrepreneur now days know what Paypal is. It’s an online payment gateway. It’s a way people now day make’s virtual payments through the internet. It makes sell and buy stuff virtually possible for all people over the world. Doing business with people from another continents can be done in a few minutes. Although there are other online payment options out there, Paypal delivers the best. It is the only payment gateway that allow you transfer money directly to you bank account, which mean you received instant money.

Although Paypal is the most preferred payment gateway among online entrepreneur, they are very strict with their customer action. Thus maintain its function and policy. It’s their nature to keep Paypal always in fit. Read and understand their policy is important to avoid any so called ‘Paypal frozen’ or suspend.

Ignoring or fail to comprehend Paypal anti- Multilevel-Marketing, Get Rich Quick and Pyramid Policy will definitely get your account frozen. These are the first thing users should keep their eyes open, and always be aware on what they are dealing with. Any internet marketer should also avoid lumps affiliate programs that pay more than one tier commission.

Even though it sounds easy enough to avoid an account being frozen by Paypal staff, well the truth is it’s not. People now days tend to involved in Multilevel-Marketing, Get Rich Quick and Pyramid scheme without their awareness or willingness. They been scam with all sort of hype sales pitch and emails which claim that they are Paypal certified and not a Multilevel-Marketing, Get Rich Quick or Pyramid scheme. And often people will fall into their traps thus getting their Paypal account frozen up when Paypal scans it.

So there is no 100% legitimate ways to keep your account safe. Even some experience online marketers get their account frozen up. Right or wrong, this is the growing perception of how Paypal implement its often-vague Acceptable Use Policy.

The simplest way to get around this situation either complies with Paypal’s policies or simply finds another provider. Comply with Paypal’s policies as best as you can and try to avoid falling foul of unfair or inconsistent decisions by Paypal staff. The bottom line is, online marketers should perceive Paypal’s Acceptable Use Policy and the way Paypal enforce it. Always keep your eyes and alert with their updates, news bulletin and changes in policies will also help your Paypal account from being suspicious or misunderstanding by Paypal staff.

But then if your account has been frozen without warning by Paypal and they haven’t reply to you. Since Paypal allows 2 accounts at a same time, you might want to create a new Paypal account. Until they have resolved your initial account problem, you can use the second account for your online business. As they always say, business must go on, even there’s an obstacle ahead.

Without a doubt, affiliate marketing is the easiest way to create a living online. It is also the most efficient and fastest way to earn money online. Most internet marketers make a living with affiliate is because most affiliate program are free to join. There will be no any initial investment needed. The second and the best part is, the affiliate will only tasked by pre selling of the affiliate merchant’s products.

Initially all the payment processing, the product delivery, the sales page and the post sale will be done by the affiliate merchant in advanced. But with all the hard work of the affiliate merchant, it doesn’t mean that the affiliate can take it easy and put less commitment into it. In fact the affiliate should struggle and put full of his commitment to his affiliate program. Put some effort in and it will definitely increase the chances of getting more sales.

At most of the time, this will also require some money. An affiliate will need a web host and a domain name. At most 8 bucks for the domain name and another 8 bucks for the web host. But getting a professional looking website might put a hole on an affiliate pocket if he can’t do it by himself. This can be quite troublesome when trying to hire a trusted web designer. It will cost more money and time. One of many advertising option when internet marketer dealing with, is PPC. It is also widely used by affiliate. But then again PPC are very costly nowadays. And it will keep getting expensive every time there’s a bidder bidding.

But not everything can be costly to get an affiliate promotion running. Out there, in the world of internet, there are tools that will guaranty an affiliate success, and they can get it for at no price at all. So below are the 5 top tools within this category. Knowing them will definitely give the edge an affiliate need. And by using them you could get your self a head start to make your online business into the next level.

1. Nvu Website Creator - Thinking of getting a web site creator software? What about Micromedia Dreamweaver - to expensive. Microsoft Front Page - to complicate. Well, the answer is the NVU Website Creator. With its enhanced yet easy to use feature make it easy for even the newbie’s to create a professional looking website. Download it at www.nvu.com

2. Wordpress - Everybody who love’s blogging knows what’s wordpress is. It’s a blog and it’s a movable type blog. Unlike Blogspot, Livejurnal and Wordpress.com, you can have your blog host in your own server with your own domain name. Wordpress is a simple blog program where you can download and use to build your own blog. Most internet marketers now days have their own blog, it’s as if a must for them. Blog are powerful tool for marketing. They are easily to get index by search engine and get indexed by web crawler compare to any other content management sites. Additionally the blog can be fully customized. Simply download Wordpress client at www.wordpress.com, and best of all it’s free.

3. Stat Analytics - Some internet marketers that fail selling their product is because they didn’t know what really when wrong with their sales page or websites. One of the easiest ways to overcome this problem is to analyze your website’s statistics and see what when wrong. Use Google Analytics for this purposed. It will show everything from how many hits or visitor you receive in a day, from where they come from, even what keywords they used to search your website. You will able to do a full research on how visitor see’s your site’s.

4. Backlink Creator - Building back link are equally important if you’re creating a blog that promote some products, or a review website center for affiliate products, or for some it’s called affiliate mall. Create a back links to other’s website will increase your page rank, thus the chances to get on the first page of search engine are high. Most likely this is the most preferred SEO tip by affiliate. Every marketers loves free traffic. For more information plus get free tools go to www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php.

5. Keywords Selector Tools - Keywords are the mother of all ingredients when dealing with search engine optimization. These selected keywords will be used for Meta tags, h1 tags, ALT tags, page title and most importantly the content itself. This tool are extreme useful to BUM marketers, as the rich keywords content are to be submitted to articles directories. If it’s done correctly search engine spider will took less time to find your site, and the content will most likely be in the first page of search engine. Looking for more keywords or struggling got he the right one? Go to www.nichebot.com. It’s a paid keywords tool, but it is the most powerful tool of it’s kind. Great tool if you looking for a profitable keywords.

All the tools above will dramatically increase the chances getting sales as an affiliate. The best parts with the tools are that they’re free to use. Go ahead, if trying to create a living with internet marketing, used them to profit. Just because they are free, don’t think that they are cheap and useless tools. In the matter of fact some of the tools mentions above are much more powerful than any other paid software or services.

What would you do when you bought a script - to be more specific, a PHP script which required MySQL database. And you don’t know a flip about these two thing. But to your curiosity wanted to learn or to test what and how the PHP script function. I once do this by simply upload all the files to my server using FTP client. But the problem with this, it takes to much time, It took me 20 minutes to upload hundreds of files at once. Well this is no really problem to me, i have all the time. The problem really happened is when things are not working the way i want. So i have to reedit some of the file and reedit again until i get the way i want, and sometimes i wil want the change the appearance. This is very tedious and time consuming when everytime i have to do editing.

So this is when WAMPServer came in. It’s a software where you install in you PC and turn it into a webserver - you have it open to the world or not. But i have it close, since i use it only for editing my PHP script that i bought or get it from the net. This software includes Apache, MySQL and PHP. It’s install all these three and walahh…. you have a Apache webserver with PHP and MySQL.

As you can see all the navigations will be in the task bar every time you start the programme. Now everything is just point and click. All you have to do is just place your script into the www folder and set your MySQL database with PHPMyAdmin.

By using WAMP i just save many hours editing my website, ecpecially if it’s using PHP and MySQL.Try it your self just go to WAMPServer and download it.

Last week i had my WordPress gone hare-wire. It was i nightmare when i saw my blog content is being duplicated. Not by other bloggers but by my WP blog itself. You see, when google sees your site has duplicate content, most likely your blog might get penalized by not being index in their search engine for selected keywords or phrases. And this happened when i realized that my blog aren’t performing quite well with optimized keywords even though i did major SEO tweaking.

So i check my content with copyscape, and there was no copy cats copying my stuff. Then i typed “site:www.romicozone.com” in google and wallah, it showed up the following top 3 result:

1. www.romicozone.com
2. www.romicozone.com/blog
3. romicozone.com

All these URL redirect to my index home page which mean these three link showed up the same page. And Google sees my blog content has duplicated content. But then i manage solve problem number 1 and 2 by following Wordpress Guide. For the number 3 problem, i had to somehow redirect the romicozone.com to the conical URL which is www.romicozone.com - see the www deferent. The easiest way to avoid this is create a .htaccess with the following code:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yoursite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Then upload the .htaccess file to where your Wordpress index.php folder is. It took me about 30 minute to figured it out and 5 minute to solve it. After 2 or 3 days (to make sure Google spidered my site) i check again my site in Google and both www.romicozone.com/blog and romicozone.com are gone.

So go ahead check your WordPress blog with “site:www.yoursite.com” in Google, and see what showed up. And follow above steps if you sufered duplicate content by your own blog.