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I’m not going to do this every day, but here’s a few links you might want to check out:

MochiAds - If you write/publish flash games you can use the MochiAds network to add paying ads to the start of the game. And if you’re not a game designer no worries - you can incorporate games from MochiAds collection to your very own website, perhaps in an “arcade” page.

40 Most Wanted Wordpress Tips/Hacks - a very nice list of some interesting tweaks and design/functionality tips you can use for any Wordpress Blog.

Podcast Marketing - If you are interested in creating podcasts, this is a good site to start with, and they’ll even help you market your ‘cast!

Content Marketing Today - A news site / blog all about Content marketing. This seems to be about marketing information itself.

Search Status - a useful Firefox Toolbar for those who need some SEO information on  the pages they visit. Includes pagerank, google category, alexa rank, compete rank, incoming links, related links, and backward links (from Google, MSN and Yahoo)

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Traffic can come from many places. Apart from your regular visitors - perhaps fans of your site, visitors from your e-mail promotions, or contributors to your forum - those folk who find you from a search query are among the best.

These are qualified, pre-screened, visitors. They have come to your site expecting to find whatever it is they are looking for. And it’s the search engines job to match these searches with quality content.

The big search engines DO want you in their listings. Honestly - they’re not trying to exclude you, heck… they need you!

To that end they all provide various tools and guidelines to (a) ensure you meet the strict quality control and (b) ensure you are found for the right terms.

Google

Currently, the #1 search engine by almost every ranking method known to man. Google’s help and advice can be found at their Webmaster Central.

This section of their site includes their webmaster tools, their comprehensive Analytics software, their Optimizer to help you rank better, and information on submitting content: such as products, books, rss feeds, local listings and more.

The aforementioned tools are also worth a thorough look. Here you’ll find the all important Sitemap area where you can specify what pages on your site are indexed, and view statistics on the search terms you are found for and more.

Yahoo

Yahoo don’t offer an all in one webmaster area like Google, but you may find these links helpful:

Add Your URL To Yahoo - unless you want a paid submission, it’s usually quicker to get crawled from a link on a already listed URL. There are, however, special areas for submitting media and mobile sites.

Site Explorer - See what pages you have listed.

Other Yahoo Links - Webmaster Guidelines, Marketing Services etc.

MSN

Despite Microsofts efforts MSN Search isn’t as popular as the other two. They do however have a useful section at their latest incarnation, Live.com

Live.Com Webmaster Tools includes validation and authentication tools, guidelines, technical support, and a webmaster forum. Typical of Microsoft this looks rather corporate and the links can be confusing, but dig around and there’s quality information there

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101 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic
By Ruchir Chawdhry

Increasing blog traffic is incredibly easy. You just need a blueprint. A blueprint that lists what you should do to drive more traffic to your blog. In this article, I present to you 101 ways to increase blog traffic. Just follow the points given below to increase blog traffic:

1. Write great content. By writing out articles that are helpful/entertaining and engaging, you’ll double your chances of getting visitors and retaining them.

2. Write link bait

3. Use Yahoo! Groups (groups.yahoo.com)

4. Use Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com)

5. Join MyBlogLog.com. Add as many friends and join as many communities as you can per day.

6. Use a ping service like Pingoat.com

7. Leave comments on blogs in your niche

8. Write press releases

9. Participate in forums in your niche and put your URL in your forum signature

10. Link to other bloggers in your niche

11. Include your blog URL in your email signature

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If you keep up with technology news you can’t fail to have noticed that a new Search Engine, set up by former Google employees, has launched.

Called “Cuil” (pronounced “cool”) this aims to use context and relevance, rather than simply counting links and reading page content. Of course, this has been attempted before, so how does Cuil shape up?

This is from a users point of view. It’s probably too early to be talking about a marketing viewpoint. And after all, if this is focused on delivering results better than Google you’ll probably find it more difficult to optimise pages to try and force a high ranking - if Cuil takes off. The basic premise of providing quality content should help, however.

The first thing you notice is the way results are displayed. Although it takes some getting used to for those of us who treat Google’s list view as second nature, the grid view provided by Cuil is rather pleasing to the eye. At a glance you can usually see what each site in the listings are about.

So how do the results rank? I tried a few searches, including “Fly Fishing”, “Motorcycle Mechanics” and “How To Sell Your House” to see how relevant Google and Cuil results are.

The short answer? Google and Cuil provided mostly different results, which is kind of pleasing as it at least shows Cuil is doing things differently. I also liked the way Cuil provides further search examples as you type, and the tabbed results window.

Ultimately, however, though less flashy Google was quicker to load (unsurprising considering the mighty networks running the behemoth) and I was able to find a relevant site quickly.

Mostly, I think this is due to habit: I’m more used to Google’s results page, and I tend to scan a search engine results listing very quickly and usually can see what is an information site, and what is trying to sell me something.

Cuil is definately something to look out for. They have a mammoth task ahead of them to even gain a small percentage of the search engine market. But I can say that it does work, it does deliver relevant results, and if we can all break our habits and try something new, perhaps it will in some way succeed.

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I’ve just come across an amazing package that’s being sold as a “dimesale” at just $7.

This collection contains three very useful products that can help you design and market your own website, something nearly all Internet Marketers spend a great deal of their time doing.

For your small outlay you’ll get:

Web Design For Internet Business Owners:

This is an audio guide and an book focused on designing websites with a business slant. This isn’t your usual ebook since it concentrates on important factors like font selection, site navigation, color schemes and multimedia. There are tips here that can make all the difference on that important first impression! The guide comes with resale rights and PLR rights, though you cannot pass those on.

Super SEO Guidebook 2008

This is a very thorough guide to the intricacies of Search-Engine Optimisation. If you want to rank high in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and others you need to know these basics as well as the advanced the techniques. Good SEO grows with you, and by implementing some basic strategies at the start and adding others as you go along you can have an “authority” site on a subject of your choice - by following the rules. This could be the only book you would need to own…

Super SEO Guidebook even has two useful tools included: Page Rank Ninja and Web Spider.

To round this package off there are five impressive and powerful “One Time Offer” templates you can use to quickly and easily add effective money-grabbing sales to almost any site you own. Just take the template, modify as needed, and watch the money roll in.

This package is $7 and comes with all the products above as well as some special bonuses on your thank-you page after ordering. You can even promote this for commissions, and I’m sure it can be some easy sales for you

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Joel Comm, Bestselling Author, has released version 4 of his famous Adsense Secrets book. And, unlike earlier versions of this comprehensive guide, this newly updated 2008 release is now just $9.97 !

This book has been on the market since 2005 (costing from $77 to $97) and continuously updated since then.

In Adsense Secrets 4.0 you’ll discover all the insider tips to making the most from Google’s extremely popular and lucrative Adsense advertising program.

Learn how to build content-rich websites that people will love, yet still make you money from Adsense. Find out how to optimise your site for the highest paying clicks, how to drive traffic to your site, how to format your ads, how to use articles and scripts, read your server logs, and much more.

This 222 page guide is all about using content on your pages and placing and using the right ads for the most possible money. It even includes real, working website example and case studies!

For under $10 this is a no-brainer. Grab Adsense Secrets 4.0 today.

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The “Warrior Forum” is a very popular message board where online marketers of all kinds share tips, tactics, information, strategies and advice. It was originally started by Allen Says as a paid membership site, but now the forum is open to all. The people who hang out here can help critique your site or business plan, provide special offers, and give away articles, ebooks and software. You’ll recognise many of the names there - many are VERY successful in their fields.

But as with any forum you can sometimes get lost if you’re just browsing or feel as if you’ve just entered some chummy, exclusive club. That’s where this site - Warrior Top Posts - comes into it’s own.

Basically, this is just a collection of the top threads found at the forum, both old and new. If you have a spare moment you can happily lose yourself there reading through the various topics. There’s literally everything there: from finding a Niche, to developing a site, to monetizing an exising site, right through to more general subjects as beginners guides and more specialised ones such as search-engine tricks, eBay and more.
This is a great place to find out what is really working for various folk around the web. Highly recommended!

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This system involves getting other people to post on your industry forums, but with your links. Of course, there’s a lot more to it than that - which is why you’ll need this guide for this unique and highly interesting system.

This guide is literally jam packed with information on finding the biggest and best forums, posting to them correctly, formatting and writing your “sig” files, and actually getting other people to the legwork for you!

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