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Home Business World Ezine
June 2004 issue www.home-biz-world.com |
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IntroductionA big welcome to all new subscribers. I hope you enjoy my home business tips and feedback. My good deed for this month will be to tell you about Felix Ibay's site: CaringForSuccess. Based around the philosophy that "When You Care For Others...Success Will Follow". More and more people, including me, are learning that success is hard to achieve by yourself - no matter how stubborn and independent we try to be. Joint Ventures, Mentors - these are things you need for success. Visit Felix's site, and take a long hard look at yourself. And how you can help others. Fr33biesMy main freebie is Free Resale Rights Vault. In case you haven't already heard about Mark Hendricks, he was the main force behind the 12 Days of Christmas giveaways. With this project, you can join for FREE and get some fantastic freebies, including many with resale rights that you can give away to others as an incentive to join your own list. The lead product he is currently offering is The Amazingly Simple Internet Strategy That Makes You Money And Builds Your List Fast...Even If You Have No Product Of Your Own To Sell!. To download this pdf file, right-click on the link and save as target on your PC. Marketing and Tech TipsI know that Google is still the most important search engine for most people, but Yahoo's recent changes are very impressive. They no longer use Google for input, but have their own algorithm, that rightly gives a higher value to page content than incoming links. I have a better free ranking at Yahoo than Google because of this for many sites. And now the Yahoo-owned Overture Pay-Per-Click engine has built so many partnerships with other search engines, they can no longer be ignored. I've opened an account with Overture for PPC advertising, that is giving me good rankings for lots of terms on lots of search engines, eg MSN. It's time to crank up the advertising. For info on the latest free and paid methods for getting listed with Yahoo, go to Yahoo Search Submit page. Basically you can still submit for free, or use Overture's Precision Match (competitive PPC) or Overture's Site Match (submission fee plus flat rate PPC), or Yahoo Express Submission to their directory (paid - big time). I've been pretty happy with the results from Precision Match so far - I haven't blown my budget, and I've had 3 people request info on my favourite businss in the last two weeks. Small, but satisfactory. Another PPC tip, is to not be competitive, but just make a low bid to get a listing on the engine. It won't blow the budget, and you can get picked up by other engines that supplement their listings with PPC listings. Findwhat.com is excellent in this way. It only costs $25 to get started. Their traffic is often shared with high quality engines like: CNET's Search.com, Excite, Webcrawler, MetaCrawler and Dogpile, And I heard about Poodle , which attempts to predict how Google views your page. Excellent. On July 1st, 2004, a new law becomes effective in California, USA. If you have a website that does business online and you deal with anyone resident in California, then you must comply. Basically, if you collect any identifiable information about your visitor, you must clearly state so in an obvious, dated privacy statement, and give people the chance to modify this information, and advise of changes to your privacy statement. Business ProgramsI held off on issuing this newsletter because SFI were making a major announcement on July 1. There are four parts to it:
I was exchanging links with another SFI-er during the week, and asked how her team was going. They had told her that if she spent 10 hours a week doing link exchanges, she should be able to get 4 upgraded members within 6 months. Well the challenge is on. I have 10 members, although they are all free so far. Hopefully the WholeSale Shopping and Partner Store innovations will be the incentive for people to upgrade. I was also putting some pressure on my host this week. The standard PRO membership comes with 2 add-on-domains, which means completely seamless forwarding. Now I have 10 different websites, in a mixture of add-on and simple forwarding (see them in the portfolio at Sydney Web Design) and thought it was time to see what happens when you want more domain names. The main reason they don't allow unlimited add-ons is to stop people creating heaps of domain names pointing to the same site, especially with safelists. But they happily gave me another add-on, so now you will see www.sydney-web-design.com instead of sydney-web-design.best-australian.com. Much nicer. I built a special splash page, to show how nice they are here Paid Email/Survey/SurfA few changes in the Get Paid area. Search-Incentive is no longer being pushed by MJV, as apparently we hadn't been promoting it hard enough, plus MJV found apparent overlap with another established site. So MJV will be concentrating on LookPilot as their main PPC search engine, which they have also revamped. Plus they've asked all joint venture partners (like me) to contribute 5 hours per week. So hopefully it will be generating some decent payouts soon. I've already written 3 splash pages and a business card for them, so you may see them on the traffic pages soon. As at 1 July, I still haven't received my cheque from AYS, which apparently is normal. Snail mail really sucks. I've also requested from BettyBucks, so we'll see how long that takes. I'll post the results on my blog. Good old Clicking2Rewards has paid this month as usual. Google has also just announced their new WebSearch for AdSense publishers, as another way you can earn from your site - display Google ads and now also display a Google searchbox, and earn from the clicks. The owner of interestingly-named zipperclickers.com asked me to put his site on a-get-paid-site.com. It looks intriguing, where you get paid immediately to your e-gold for each banner clicked. They didn't have a lot of banners when I went there, but you can check it out if you like |