Monday, 11 August 2014

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    "Lihi Raviv" <submissions@isnare.net> Aug 11 01:42AM +0800  

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    Article Title: The Big Question of Digital Assets
     
    Author: Lihi Raviv
     
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    The recent endorsed plan of the Uniform Law Commission this week, giving families access to – but not control of – the deceased's digital account, is raising some big questions. If this legislation would be adopted by the legislature, a person's life could become as much a part of estate planning as deciding what to do with physical possessions. This might also jeopardizes the privacy of both the account's owner and the people who communicate with them.
     
    In the past few years, questions keep surfacing in regards to digital assets: What happens to our online accounts after we die? Should family be able to access a deceased user's profile at all? Amazingly enough, the internet is not as prepared for dealing with death as expected and despite putting every bit of our lives online, it seems that we are not ready for the digital afterlife.
     
    What Really Happens After We Die?
     
    One reoccurring issue that many families are dealing with is how to keep email and social media accounts active and accessible so they won't lose their loved ones' accounts or profiles. Families feel that it is their right and obligation to see or supervise their loved ones' online legacy. Wanting to hold on to emails, pictures and videos, families have to deal with Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts that are being frozen, deleted or shut down.
     
    None of these services allow families or friends to retrieve the passwords of the deceased. Their argument is that it would violate the user's privacy. After losing a loved one, families dread losing their memory through their vanishing online identity. Many find themselves in legal battles over these issues. This raises an interesting debate about the rights of the deceased and family members in the new digital age.
     
    Clean Up Your Digital Life
     
    Our digital lives are spread across so many different services and social media platforms today. We upload photos, videos and text into Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and Vine. We check-in through Foresquare, share through Reddit, rate with TripAdvisor and Yelp, leaving many different pieces of the puzzle of our lives everywhere.
     
    The internet may seem like a vast scrapbook that is going to be there forever but it isn't. It could all be gone in an instant. infibond (www.infibond.com,) a new social media networking platform dedicated to dynamic online memorialization and personal legacy, was born to overcome this particular obstacle through its newly created platform.
     
    "We created infibond out of a need," said CEO Yoram Kraus. "37 million people pass away every year, leaving behind 250 million grieving family members and friends. We noticed there is no solution for eternal life on the web - social media accounts get deleted, frozen or shut down in many cases after a person dies and many times, families lose the memories, emails, photos and videos of their loved ones."
     
    infibond functions as a complementary tool to social media networks. When a social media user passes away, his account can automatically be transferred into infibond with all of his content. Other users can use this tool to collect their information – text, images, videos – and transfer it from their different social media accounts into one place, an infibond account. infibond functions as a scanner - scanning, locating and collecting information based on user preference and permissions, and putting it into one secure account. It's easy to get lost trying to find old memories in this digital pile. infibond was created to help users fix this virtual mess, organize, archive and straighten out our digital lives.
     
    The Importance of Digital Legacy
     
    People often ask themselves who they will irrevocably impact after they are gone. A personal legacy is the unique footprint we can leave as a record for our lives, and the arrival of the Internet has dramatically improved a person's ability to create and preserve his personal legacy.
     
    This is a new and exciting opportunity to create a complete personal legacy for the benefit of a person's descendants. It involves a different strategy of planning and creating records of what one's life has been all about. We know so little about our ancestors so this new way of archiving life will no doubt have a huge impact on people's lives in the future, getting to know their ancestors on a much deeper level, having these personal records available and retrievable.
     
    Although it seems that this digital age is much more complicated when it comes to dealing with death, more people realize the advantage of thinking about their digital footprint, choosing the right people to curate their profile and planning ahead, leaving more room for peace of mind in the final days. "Confronting people with these decisions early on saves a lot of headaches and heartaches down the road," adds Kraus, "Many people don't think about these kind of things until they are faced with it and do not realize what is about to be lost. "
     
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    "Neil Rimmer" <submissions@isnare.net> Aug 11 01:36AM +0800  

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    Article Title: CRO Expert Reveals Why Your SEO May Be Killing Conversion Rate and How to Fix It
     
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    A conversion rate optimisation specialist, also known as a CRO expert, is paid to generate more online sales by optimising the various web components that make up a website. To find the weak web components, conversion rate experts use sophisticated traffic analysis tools and heat mapping software. Once the problems have been fixed, a CRO expert can deliver far greater ROI than SEO, PPC, or even social media marketing because the increased sales last for years after the work is completed. This is because conversion rate professionals make permanent changes to your core website components, including:
     
    •Website Design
     
    •Direct Response Copywriting
     
    •Paid Traffic Campaigns
     
    •Web Programming
     
    •Website Marketing Funnels
     
    •Call-to-Actions
     
    Once the changes are made, a CRO expert will statistically verify results via web split testing and careful monitoring of Key Performance Metrics, or KPM's. From start to finish, a typical CRO project can be completed in 4-8 weeks, including verification.
     
    Unfortunately, most website owners spend months or even years trying to optimise themselves. And because they don't use website traffic analysis to isolate the conversion problems, most assume the issue is caused by bad copywriting and/or design of their primary sales or landing pages. But while there may be indeed be serious copywriting and design issues on the main sales page, they could all be fixed to perfection and still not dramatically increase overall online sales. How is this possible?
     
    Because your visitors aren't even seeing the sales page. Seriously, let's look at a sample website that:
     
    Receives 200 unique visitors each day
     
    Generates a .5% conversion rate for the entire site
     
    That means the site is generating just one sale per day and sounds pretty bad, right? And if you were not a CRO expert, no one could blame you for assuming the problem was probably on the sales page. But what if you also knew that a mere 15% of total traffic even made it to the sales page?
     
    How much does that change the calculus? Well, that means the sales page itself is converting at 3.3% because just 30 visitors are reaching the sales page each day to generate that one sale. Suddenly, it doesn't make too much sense to go investing money to replace your sales page if it's converting above 3%, does it? And you certainly don't need to be a CRO expert to know that the real conversion problem is actually your sales funnel because you simply aren't getting enough visitors to your sales page.
     
    This is a very common problem for websites that get a high percentage of organic traffic and is caused by the very SEO that helps generate that traffic. You see, when reviewing website traffic data, a CRO expert is looking to see the distribution patterns and where the visitors end up. On newer websites that are more dependent upon PPC marketing, the vast majority of visitors will arrive to the site via the Home Page because this is where the ads are pointing visitors. With most traffic arriving on the Home Page, this makes it very easy to then funnel those visitors to the primary sales page and hopefully convert them into buyers.
     
    But with an SEO-heavy site that gets a large percentage of organic visitors, a CRO expert will see a very different distribution pattern in the web traffic data. Instead of most visitors arriving on the Home Page, they will be scattered and arriving on the "traffic generating" content created by the SEO experts to gain rankings and traffic. These are typically articles, blogs, and other informative pre-sell content that is designed to inform but not directly sell prospects. And sadly, most visitors enter the website on these informative pre-sell pages but never reach your primary sales tool. Thus, the very SEO that is bringing much-needed traffic to your website is also the very thing that is scattering visitors and preventing them from reaching your primary sales tool and thus killing conversions.
     
    Fortunately, a CRO expert can fix this issue by creating a powerful CTA that redirects prospects to your sales or landing page. In fact, the primary CTA (redirect to sales page) should be placed at the bottom of the article or traffic-generating content and a secondary CTA (sign up for free lead generation product, etc.) should appear in the right hand column. This primary and secondary CTA should appear on all traffic-generating SEO content and will dramatically increase the percentage of visitors reaching your main sales or landing pages and ultimately increase online sales.
     
    Using simple but highly strategies, a CRO expert can quickly and permanently increase your website conversions by up to 100% or more. In our example above, just getting 15% more people to the sales page would double the existing conversion rate. And by adding CTA's to your primary traffic generating content, you can quickly redirect visitors to your primary landing pages using this simple but effective conversion rate optimisation strategy.
     
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    "Neil Rimmer" <submissions@isnare.net> Aug 11 01:28AM +0800  

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    Article Title: Fire Your PPC Expert If They Are Not Using This CRO Strategy to Keep Your Marketing Costs Down
     
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    Conversion rate optimization (also known as CRO) is a systematic process that boosts online sales and profits by optimizing on-site factors such as:
     
    • Direct Response Copywriting Tools
     
    • Website Programming Problems
     
    • Web Design, Layout, and User-Interface Tools
     
    • Sales Funnel(s)
     
    To zero-in on the exact issues that are suppressing online sales, conversion rate experts employ heat mapping and traffic analysis software. These tools eliminate the guesswork and avoid the expense of completely revamping entire sites or landing pages from scratch. While a time consuming process, the ROI from conversion rate optimization more than compensates for the delayed gratification and is far higher than for other Internet Marketing services like SEO, SMM, or Content Marketing. This is because compared with SEO, SMM, and other services, conversion rate optimization has three distinct advantages that help it deliver far higher ROI, including:
     
    1. Does Not Add to Marketing Budget:
     
    With SEO, content marketing, social media, or even ppc, you have to increase your online advertising budget to drive more sales. Conversion rate optimization actually reduces marketing costs in most cases and certainly doesn't add to them.
     
    2. ROI Grows Long After Initial CRO Investment Ends:
     
    CRO experts make permanent changes to your landing pages, web design, and web programming that will continue to generate increased sales for the life of your site.
     
    3. Conversion Rate Optimization Experts Concentrate Directly On Increasing Conversions:
     
    SEO, PPC, SMM, and content marketers are all selling you additional traffic that you believe will lead to more sales. But rather than selling you traffic, CRO experts are paid to directly increase website conversions with existing traffic. Not only does this making calcualating ROI far easier, but you can also directly track progress and results much easier than sorting through another SEO or social media report filled with traffic, search rankings, likes, and just about everything other than something that directly tracks increased conversions.
     
    In the end, conversion rate optimization can literally increase online sales by 100% or more and handily outperform any other Internet Marketing service for overall ROI.
     
    But conversion rate problems are not confined to on-site factors. In many cases, the primary conversion problem can be traced to weak traffic sources. Specifically, many PPC experts are diluting traffic quality and inflating traffic stats by sending far too many weak or untargeted prospects to the site. Because while traffic volume, click-thru-rates, and average cost-per-click are all relevant stats that certainly need to be monitored, the only one that matters to your bottom line is conversions.
     
    But PPC experts are almost programmed to be thrilled about getting clicks within their budget range, not to care how it converts. Fortunately, Adwords and most ppc platforms allow you to easily track conversions for the targeted keywords. In Adwords, you just need to click on Tools and then Conversions and follow the on-page instructions. If the platform doesn't track conversions, just make sure to use Google Analytics and configure the goals. Then, go to Acquisition, then Keywords, and then Paid to pull up a list of all paid keywords sending visitors to your website. Then, simply pause or eliminate those keywords that aren't converting in the platforms (Facebook, Adwords, etc.) themselves.
     
    Bottom line: Most websites are wasting up to 40% or more of their paid traffic budget on non-converting keywords. So if your PPC expert isn't actively tracking goals and eliminating non-converting keywords from your campaigns, then you should fire them for squandering your marketing budget.
     
    At the end of the day, your website is a machine designed to generate online income. Sadly, due to problems in web programming, web design, copywriting, and even the traffic sources themselves, most websites are lucky if they are generating even ½ of their true potential. And because conversion rate optimization doesn't increase your marketing costs, the additional online sales are far more profitable than those generated from SEO, SMM, or PPC. And in the case of paid traffic streams like PPC, conversion rate optimization experts can actually reduce marketing costs by eliminating non-converting keywords like your PPC expert should have been doing all along. And if they haven't…well, just imagine how you could have otherwise invested the money wasted on keywords that aren't driving sales.
     
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    "Neil Rimmer" <submissions@isnare.net> Aug 11 01:21AM +0800  

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    Article Title: Conversion Rate Optimization Expert Reveals 3 Reasons Why Optimizing Your Landing Page May Be a Waste Time
     
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    A conversion rate optimization expert (CRO expert) specializes in optimizing website components like copywriting, web programming, web design, and traffic sources to generate more online sales. Even massive tech firms like Apple pay 3rd party CRO companies to improve online sales by up to 100% or more because most sites, no matter how well constructed, were not designed for conversions. In fact, most sites are lucky if they are generating even 50% of their true conversion potential. But despite the rampant need for web optimization services, most online business owners have never even heard of a conversion rate optimization expert, let alone know what they do.
     
    Ironically, most websites have been optimizing for conversion rate for years without ever realizing they were performing a very distinct Internet Marketing service. Every time you try a new button, change design, alter direct response copywriting, or try to improve online conversions in any way: You are actually performing conversion rate optimization. But while a conversion rate optimization expert would use website traffic analysis to find and fix the conversion problems, most site owners start with the landing page. And although the landing page(s) is a good place to start when optimizing a website, CRO experts use web traffic analysis before starting any work for 3 simples reasons:
     
    1. Traffic Analysis Reduces Conversion Rate Optimization Costs
     
    Simply looking at a site and "guessing" which components are costing sales can be a very expensive gamble that rarely pays off. Including lines of programming code, your website is literally made of 1,000's of components that all must work together to convert a visitor into a buyer. Why guess when website traffic analytics tools can show you exactly where visitors are leaving sales funnels and isolate conversion problems down to the sentence level?
     
    2. Website Traffic Analysis Reduces Testing Time
     
    Once a conversion rate optimization expert has found the conversion problems and fixed them, testing is needed to verify results and calculate ROI. Tools like heat mapping software can help conversion rate experts quickly monitor progress through testing and isolate issues that require additional follow-up much faster than conventional website split testing. And since testing requires traffic and costs both time and money, anything that reduces testing cycles and helps identify issues faster ultimately saves the website owner money.
     
    In truth, most websites do have landing pages that need optimization to boost online sales. But equally true is that are often other factors that are suppressing online sales as much or even more than the landing page itself. In fact, using website traffic analysis, a conversion rate optimization expert might find 3 other conversion problems that might be even greater than the landing page, including:
     
    Weak or Ineffective Sales Funnel
     
    Even if the overall conversion rate is a mere .5%, the actual conversion rate of the landing page itself may be 3% or higher. However, if only 15-20% of total website visitors reach that landing page, then the conversion rate will seem very low. If you don't verify the percentage of visitors to the landing page, it may seem logical to completely scrap that page and create a new one. But until the sales funnel is fixed, you can rewrite and redesign the page again and again without producing any significant increase in overall conversion rate. To fix a weak sales funnel, a conversion rate optimization expert might:
     
    1. Add a Slide Show That Funnels Visitors Towards Landing Page: The most valuable and influential real estate on any web page is above the fold. This is why a conversion rate optimization expert will often add a slide show to a website to not only funnel visitors to the landing page, but also to get the primary unique selling points (USP's) above the fold on all web content. USP's are what differentiate your product or service from the competition and should be compelling reasons to learn more about your company. So by putting the USP's on the slides (with contextual images of course) and linking them to the primary landing page(s), a conversion rate optimization expert can both engage visitors and funnel them towards the web content designed to convert visitors into buyers.
     
    2. Add CTA's on All Blogs and Traffic Generating Content: In reality, the vast majority of site content is designed to drive traffic and pre-sell visitors on your product or service. However, your informative traffic-generating content must also funnel visitors to your primary landing page(s) for you to create sales and build your business. To increase visitor engagement and funnel more visitors to your primary landing page content, a conversion rate optimization expert will create an active link or CTA at the bottom of the page. This link will prompt action and link to the primary landing page(s) or Home page, depending on site configuration and business model.
     
    Weak, Untargeted Traffic
     
    Did you know that most ppc campaigns are sending 40% or more of total traffic that will never, ever convert into a sale? Even SEO companies will "pad their stats" by targeting weaker terms that easier to rank for despite the fact that they will never, ever lead to actual conversions. Basically, with weak traffic polluting your site, the conversions will appear artificially low.
     
    A CRO expert uses web traffic analysis to isolate non-converting keywords in your paid traffic channels, like Google Adwords, and then eliminates them from the campaigns. While this web traffic optimisation strategy will not increase overall sales, it will help reduce paid marketing costs by up to 40% or more while boosting overall conversion rate. A conversion rate optimization expert can also use traffic analytics to refine seo and smm campaigns to increase conversions and ROI.
     
    Shopping Cart Problem or Confusion
     
    A landing page might be functioning perfectly and yet the site generating low conversion rates because of the shopping cart/checkout process itself. While a certain percentage of prospects will abandon the sale after entering the shopping cart for various reasons (don't have a payment method accepted by the website, etc.), known as abandonment rate, anything above 60% indicates a serious issue with the shopping cart. Some problems that would increase abandonment rate include:
     
    •No Trust or Credibility Logos
     
    •Pricing on Landing Page Doesn't Match Pricing in Shopping Cart
     
    •Confusing Checkout Process
     
    •Too Many "Add-Ons" or Upgrade Options
     
    •Forced Continuity Pricing (cannot purchase without enrolling in some program with continuity pricing)
     
    •Systemic Problem with the Checkout Process (shipping doesn't calculate properly, etc.)
     
    Basically, mistakes and too much aggression backfire big time in a shopping cart. And with many websites customizing their own shopping carts, it doesn't take much to spook visitors and increase the abandonment rate. But if the problem wasn't identified during website traffic analysis, a site owner would be likely to assume the issue was the landing page but 100% incorrect.
     
    Concluding Thoughts
     
    A website has many vital components aside from the landing page itself that help determine overall conversion rate. Unless the website owner or a conversion rate optimization expert reviews traffic analytics to isolate the problem, they risk wasting time and money revamping the landing page when the sales funnel, shopping cart, and/or traffic quality may be the true issue.
     
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    "Saleh Abraham" <submissions@isnare.net> Aug 11 01:14AM +0800  

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    Writing Articles - Affordable Internet Marketing Method
     
    You will discover, on daily basis, the millions of searches people do search for every particular keyword from Overture, Yahoo and Google, few of popular keyword suggestion tools. When these people type the keywords on search boxes of search engines, the seach engine immediately display those indexed websites that contain articles with those keywords that people search for. And this is the primary source of traffic to websites with keyword-rich articles. Yes, the magic word is keyword-rich articles. That is the content containing the information people search for.
     
    Have you the popular slogan "Content is king". You can say that again so that you will never forget it. That is why internet marketers write keyword-rich articles as one of the most practicable and functional Internet marketing media today. People who surf the internet just can't get adequate information on various fields. The most successful way to drive hot traffic to your web site is to provide information through these informative articles.
     
    You may ask, why is this so? The following are the major advantages derived from writing articles to enhance your Internet business.
     
    1. Article writing is virtually free.
     
    This is surely too good to be true? You almost disbelieve it.. No doubt, you have to pay some money for your Internet Service Provider. That's all. All you need to write articles are your ideas, your computer system, and your fingers to type. If you have these free tools, there is virtually nothing that will stop you from typing those ideas that will make you make up fine articles for your website. Tell me, on which aspect of that process did you really spend any money? Virtually free. Maybe later when your electric bills come.
     
    2. Your website will be discovered in a very short time.
     
    the next step is to submit that informative article of yours to popular article directories that get the most web traffic on the web, and just in a very short time your web site will be crawled by search engines. Just make sure you don't forget to include your resource box or byline at the end of your article.
     
    3. Automatically back links
     
    After submitting your instructive articles to directories, surely, other websites will make use of your article too once they are informative. Since you have the copyright to your articles, the URL of your website will still remain intact, and will therefore subsequently direct huge and substantial traffic back to your website.
     
    4. Your reputation gets better
     
    In the internet marketing system, if you do not nothing but present your products and services on your website, you will not gain much conversion rate. What is conversion? Conversion is when your traffic brings significant sales. You need to prove to your visitors that you are well versed on your niche. And is there any other more appropriate way to demonstrate that you are knowledgeable in your field than by writing articles that will allow you some opportunities to showcase your expertise?
     
    What you need to do is employ your creativity and jot down those ideas quickly to jump-start your article writing momentum. With all those advantages listed above, a writer's inability to remember or think of something he normally can do; often caused by emotional tension is the last problem you will ever be able to surmount.
     
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    Many bloggers are of the opinion that they only need to write blogs or build it and that will be sufficient for internet surfers to see them. This is very far from reality. It does not mean that your blogs will be seen by all just because you journal some ideas or informations out there on the World Wide Web. To ensure that your blog will be discovered and viewed by many people online, there are some things that you are able to do . Blog marketing can only be difficult when you make it to be so. At the same time, having a blog and making it known to the real world may not be as very easy as you may suppose.
     
    One of the popular means of getting your blogs known is to build links. Building links for your blogs will definitely help a lot in creating awareness for them there in the cyber world and thus get them known. However, just a few links are scarcely ever sufficient when you are making effort to build a serious customer base and get your blog known. To achieve a significant result, you will need to relentlessly work on your blog and get links to it always. The more links you build, the better traffic you attract to your site in this case.
     
    Also, one of the very important points of priority is to attach great importance to the higher authority sites, because the more links you can build from the high authority sites, the better off your blog is going to be. The search engines attach comparatively more credence to those high authority sites and so any site getting links from them will also have share of the credence. Obtaining links is a persistent activity. While you may take some intermittent breaks, getting links remains a process that you should do relentlessly.
     
    Another great practical method that you can adopt in your blog marketing is to add videos to your blog if possible. The major reason for this practical method is that it qualifies you to submit your blog to the video directories. Therefore if you can find any videos that will fit into the market of your blog it would be to your advantage in the blog marketing world to add them. Then, the next step is to submit your blog to all of the directories that it would go well together with. This would certainly be a great advantage for your blog.
     
    Are you financially buoyant enough and have sufficient funds to invest in your blog marketing campaign? it would be most definitely wise to use those to submit your blog to the paid directories. It is important to note that Google trusts the paid sites, and they know that some amount money was used to get your blog into those paid sites.
     
    Another excellent way that you can use to get traffic to your blog is to use a press release to promote your blog. You can have a press release written about your blog for a little fee and then submit it to all of the the press news sites you know.
     
    By following these tips on blog marketing through link building especially from the high ranked and authoritative sites, adding videos to your sites to be submitted to video sites and writing press releases on your blog you will achieve wonderful results in form of high traffic and your blog will get many hits.
     
    Your blog will get many hits from a press release and having it linked to these kind of sites will also help the page rank substantially as well. While the cost of all press releases range from the company or person that you have do them, many times they are affordable and will fit easily into a marketing budget that you may have.
     
    Using discussion boards such as forums and message boards with your blog link in your signature is still a great way to get your blog out there and known. Be sure that the message board that you post on is relevant to your blog or chances are that no one will be interested in clicking on your link. Also, if you came off as an expert in your market, you should have no problems attracting new readers to your blog from the use of message board posting. This can also be a great way to market a website and get that out there as well to be seen by the world.
     
    Find other blogs that are in the same market as yours and leave the writers comments. This will take them back to your blog and will also take their readers there as well. Doing this will bring some more traffic and is a great way to get your blog seen.
     
    Follow all of these great tips for easy blog marketing and you will have more readers reading your blog in no time.
     
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    Article Title: Handling Scams in Blog Marketing
     
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    Many people in the online world have really picked an interest in blog marketing. Almost everybody across the internet are blogging, and many of them have blogs. A blog is also known as a web log. Web log is actually the root of the term "blog". But you will hear the term blog more often than the term web log. What is a blog? It basically is just an online journal that you can use and publish for the world to read. A blog is is a shared on-line journal where people can post daily entries about their personal experiences and hobbies.
     
    Whether your area of interest is to write about personal things, political affairs, religious matters or business issues. Perchance your area of interest is to use it to promote your products or services. You are at full liberty to use your blog as you wish. You should, however, be aware of the scams that are out there, and you should be aware of what to prevent from happening while you are marketing your blog. Possibly you are just coming across the word "scam" for the first time. What exactly is scam? Scam is any an elaborate and systematic fraudulent business plan of action
     
    Blog marketing has scams, no doubt. Really, any kind of marketing has scams. Blog marketing is just like everything else you are going to come around in your day-to-day experience. There is always someone there that is having or nursing a wish to scam someone else and extort money from the ones that do not know better. So the next question is what can you do to protect yourself from scams and scammers? The best and fundamental means of Shielding yourself from danger of blog marketing scams is to become familiar with them, and know what exactly they are. While this can also be hard to do because the scams are like chameleons. They change identities as much as you change your clothes. What you need to do is simply to be ahead of them, and definitely recognise what to be watching out for.
     
    From experience, we have learnt that when a blog marketing scam surfaces, you will, in no long time, find out that someone has written about it. These writers are going to try and warn others before they can fall prey to the new scam. Once again, just make sure that you read and be sure of what you are getting into. It is very possible, if you are deciding to pay for some marketing of your blog, that there is someone else over there that has already used some useful companies out there. Make sure you get feedback from your fellow online marketers for the best possible outcomes. Ask them to recommend or suggest places that are legitimate.
     
    If you have already fallen victim to scams before, in most cases there is not much that you can do other than expose the to the world to inform others about them. all the same, just remember, you need not worry much if you have paid someone through some payment gateways like paypal that protects you, then you have some time limit to claim your money back and even freeze the scammers account. But sometimes, that does not always work. Most of the time the professional and experienced scammers are all ready aware of such things like that, and they work too fast to escape to not being caught red handed. If that is the case, it is unfortunate you really can not do much else about it other than to raise an alarm and inform the right organizations in charge. this is quite unfortunate.
     
    Just as there are many blog marketers that will scam you with blog marketing, there are also many reliable ones that will not. There are always many dependable resources that you are going to find that you can use and have confidence in. The best thing to do if you are a newbie in the blog marketing world is to find out who is the best for the marketing that you are trying to do. Doing so will often keep you from falling into a scam, and losing your hard earned money.
     
    The key points are that you should understand what scams and scammers are, know how scammers work by reading the records of those who already experienced them, make research on new scams, ask for advice from experienced bloggers, report scams if encountered and be optimistic that not all blog marketers are scams.
     
    Unfortunately, you are going to come across those that have no regrets what so ever about scamming others. The only thing that you can do is your research at times to make sure that you are using a service or person that you can trust. Ask for references, and make sure that you will be getting the best that you can afford. You will not regret it in the long run, and it will pay off to check someone or a service out before you go and invest your hard earned cash. Actually contact the services or person's references to make sure that they are who they say, and that they can deliver what it is that you are looking for. It only takes time.
     
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    Blog, a name derived from web log is the new technological innovation on the internet. A blog, originally, is a shared on-line journal where people can post daily entries about their personal experiences and hobbies. Web logs are pretty much an avenue that you can use that will allow you to post your thoughts on virtually any subject or issue o interest that you want to. Blogs can be used for journalism, business, religious, ideological or political promotion, writing on various topics, and publishing, just anything that your heart desires or can imagine. However, if you are a beginner and new blogger as well as marketer, there are many very important things that you will want to know about online blogging.
     
    Well, blog marketing is reasonably easy if only you have already developed a marketing mind. There are many people that use blogs as a diary, and many times these blogs that are used for diary are not originally designed for the purpose of making them money, but simply as a platform to register there opinions out there and find others who may share the same thing with them. If you are one of those that have never even had a blog before, the simplest thing that you can do is to start one, and just archive or record some thoughts in it for a while. This will give you the experience to learn just what it takes and what it is all about to keep up a blog. When you are just archiving or recording your thoughts, you have nothing to lose but something to gain. It is mandatory that you make your blog public if you are not interested in letting others know or read what you have to say. That is your own personal preference. Nevertheless, by doing this you will see how blog works. Then after this practical experience, you can try to market a product or a service.
     
    Using a blog to market something is relatively lower in price than using a website to do the same. Blogging is cheaper because there are lots of free ones out there that you can use to present your opinions, and they are really just as beneficial as having a website which you pay large amount of money for. No doubt there are some advantages to you having your own URL, but at least for a beginner, a free blog will work until you can get some basic ideas about blogging procedures and then you may want to move it all over onto your own server. The free blogs are just not that customizable. If you are not conversant with HTML, you will discover that your blog will look like everyone else's. But, that is still all right for a beginner. You can always make changes afterwards once you discover you are becoming gradually productive.
     
    When you have your personal blog, you are in full control of whatever you post on it. What is said, and what is not depends on how you feel and what you choose. You are after all writing it all, right? So, your potentialities has virtually no limit. Whether you want a blog that analyse economical views and present your own opinions on them, or you want to sell products and services, the choice is yours. Using a blog to put accross your views about whatever you want too is a very outstanding way to market and promote something.
     
    In as much as there are some bloggers out there that are making a lot of money with the use of blog marketing, we all know that it is possible. You will now just want to know how. Well, for any beginner or novice, I will advise that you start small, and that you be consistent. The million dollars bloggers all did the same. They started with one simple blog, built it up, and then added another blog, then built it up. If you are looking forward to making a massive income with blogging, you will actually need some help.
     
    Blog marketing is a very important procedure to learn. Once you can practically market goods and services from a blog, you can as well market them anywhere. Making money by journalling in a blog is one of the most comforting things that you will ever learn how to do. The secret is that you should not expect to make money over night, know that you have to be consistent in building your blog, and remember to consistently target what you want to achieve from it. You will only reap what you sow
     
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    Virtually most anyone that has a blog can practically involve in blog marketing. However, let us consider this: is it possible that just anyone that ordinarily owns a blog can do it so effectively that it gets the expected outcomes? Of course, just about anyone that has a little background idea of internet knowledge and common basic sense of marketing can market a blog so that it will generate the outcomes that you are anticipating. If your aim is to begin marketing a blog that you commenced for a while, and you are well well informed about blogging and at the same time you are very conversant with what blogging entails, then you are a step ahead of the beginners.
     
    Are you a novice blogger? Then there are some necessary things that you will want to recognize. The most elementary step that you will have to take is to start one, and just journal in it for a short time. This step will allow you to learn just what blogging takes and what it is all about to maintain a blog. When you are just Archiving or recording your thoughts and what is on your ideas, you have nothing to suffer and nothing to gain. Even you don't have to publicize your blog if you don't want others to read the content of your blog. That is your own personal preference. Notwithstanding, doing this will give you the opportunity to see how your blog works. Then after this step, you can move on to trying to market a product or a service. Just to familiarize yourself with blogging though, you should have one for practice. By doing this, you will surely be pleased that you did that later.
     
    A very important fact to note is that content is king, and even more important when you are marketing a blog, website, or what ever you prefer to market. You are in charge of the content that is posted on your own blog when you have your own. You can decide what you want to journal, and what you do not. After all you are your own master and you are writing it all, right? So, the sky is the limit. Whether your objective is to sell products that you make out of your home or you operate a blog that does website reviews and takes nominations, the choice is all yours. One of the great ways to market and promote goods and services is using a blog to pass message about whatever you want. You will sure achieve positive outcomes that you will love by using good original content.
     
    Blog marketing is not as complicated as you think it to be. You are going to discover that almost anyone can market goods and services if only they have developed the mentality to get ahead. Starting and setting up your blog is the first step and indeed the most significant one. You need to make sure that you have selected a good topic niche that will get you good outcomes also. You should make sure that there are not much competition for the topics that you choose. As a matter of reality finding a niche that hardly no one else has treated is kind of hard to do at times, but this can still be done if you search hard enough. Make a move by first thinking about things that interest you. If at all possible, find something that you know all about already, or something you can learn quickly as to become an expert in your chosen field.
     
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