How can you save money on your Adwords PPC budget and get more bang for your buck? Part of the answer is using negative keywords effectively. If you are using broad matching and have no negative keywords, you are potentially throwing a lot of money down the drain. This post will give you some pointers about the different match

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Is blogging to blame for the recent deaths of two bloggers mentioned in the news? This is a wake up call for all you bloggers out there to take care of your health first and foremost. After all, what's the use of making a ton of money from your blog if you don't have good health to enjoy it? Please keep your priorities straig

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Want a list of Google AdWords tips that you can put to use right away? How about 67 of them? I sat down and did a brain dump of all the things related to improving the performance of your AdWords ads that I could think of. These are things that I've learned over the years. In the spirit of sharing, if you see something not on

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Does the Google spider crawl your blog pages all the time or hardly at all? You can check up on how your blog is doing with respect to the search engine spiders with this nifty WordPress plugin. This will show you over time if you are gaining popularity with Google. It also tracks the Yahoo and MSN spider visits as well. If you

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What's the business model behind giving away free stuff? For instance, the Quit Your Day Job ebook is now given away free. A lot of other internet marketers are following the freemium model. With the rise of Torrent sites, this is an inevitable step. If your product is digital, chances are someone somewhere will share it on a

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Are you using social bookmarking as a means to promote your websites? If so, you'll want to install this Firefox plugin called Shareaholic. It will save you time and make you more efficient. It lets you view how many times a page has been bookmarked on delicious. It also lets you bookmark a page on many of the popular social b

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Contrary to popular belief that advertising on the content network using Google AdWords is a waste of money, I'm here to tell you that if you target the right sites where you target audience is likely to hang out, you can see great results. I review a free tool that saves you time when you are looking for sites on the content

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Imagine a world where all the banner ads and AdSense or YPN ads are blocked. How will this affect bloggers who primarily live off selling ad space on their blogs? Ever thought of it? There's a Firefox plugin called AdBlock Plus that does just that. Take a look at what the A-listers' sites look like without all the ads.
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There is so much attention paid to RSS feed subscriber numbers. People think that if you have tens of thousands of feed subscribers then you must have a large following. However, you miss the boat completely if you only focus on increasing your RSS subscriber count. Think about it, how many feeds have you subscribed to and how

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If you need to generate buzz and build traffic to your blog, consider holding a blog contest. This post will explore reasons why a contest may be a good idea and pitfalls to avoid. I will also point you to examples of blog contests and the types of prizes you can offer. Also, don't forget to set the ground rules for your co

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Have you taken full advantage of all the plugins that are available for WordPress to make your blogs search engine friendly and more importantly to attract readers? Take a look at some of my 'must have' plugins along with a description of what each one does. If you have been using WP out of the box, then you're missing out on a lot. These

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I'm going to give you an inside look at this new affiliate network that just launched to the public yesterday. If you're already a part of CJ, Azoogle, NeverBlueAds, etc. and you're making some sales, you should definitely take a look at this network. I will review both the pros and cons of this program. The AJAX driven interface is cool...

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Microsoft releases the beta for Ad Intelligence, a free keyword research and prediction tool available to current adCenter users. Find out how this tool can help you research new markets as well as expand your current keyword list. You can use it for PPC planning, research niche markets, getting keywords to write articles, etc. There is one m

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Are you relying too much on one revenue stream? Is Google AdSense your main source of income? If so, you might get a rude awakening one day if you get booted out of the program. This post highlights an example of what happened to a publicly traded company when they got banned by Google. If it can happen to them, it can happen to you. Make sur

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What's a webmaster to do now that Google is penalizing sites for buying and selling text links? Maybe the answer is to seek for new ways to sell text links without getting noticed. Here's how you can make it look natural and escape the scrutiny of the search engines. This should benefit both the buyers and sellers of ads. As a buyer, you'l

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