Why would you pay for advertising if you could just get it for free? Well, the truth be told, most free advertising methods are mostly alot of hype. You often get what you pay for: nothing! Even the good free methods are often misunderstood & not used to their maximum benefit.

The purpose of this article is to show you a few proven methods of getting quality traffic to your site for free. I also want to show you how to maimize these methods.

Method #1: Link Exchanges

Link exchanges, or swapping links with other sites, has two advantages. First is the traffic that those links will drive to you. Secondly, & even bigger is the improvement in your search engine rankings that inbound links give you. Here, though, I just want to deal with the first, because there us not enough space here to cover the second.

Things you can do to improve traffic from link exchanges

1: Only swap links with high-quality sites

2: Only swap links with relevant sites

3: Swap home page links with a few really good, relevant sites

4: Make your link titles enticing

If you’re looking for sites to swap links with, here are some tools that help you locate potential link partners:

http://www.linkalizer.com

http://value-exchange.sitesell.com

http://www.linkmarket.net

Method #2: Exit Traffic Exchange

Here’s how an exit exchange works: when a visitor leaves your site, the site of another member of the exchange pops up. Each time that happens you get a credit. Depending on the exchange, you may need from 1-2 credits for your site to pop up on another members site.

The obvious drawback to this method is that the visitor did not choose to go to your website, so it’s not a very high-quality visitor. The best way to use these visitors is to direct them to something free on your site.

Method #3: Articles

How does one market with articles? Easy. There are hundreds of website owners & ezine publishers out there looking for quality articles to include on their site or newsletter. You allow them to use your article, as long as they put a link to your site at the end. The easiest way to do this is to submit your article to free article directories, which you can find by searching the web.

Use these three methods, & I guarantee that your site traffic will increase. What’s more, it won’t have cost you a cent!

Adam Thompson is a full-time internet marketer, co author of “Duplicate Our Success: Step-by-Step Guide To Home Business Success”. If you’re looking for more free internet marketing resources, go to http://www.internetsuccesskey.com

You are free to reproduce or use this article, as long as you keep the above aythor’s information, & make the links active.

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So, who’s been visiting your website lately? What do you mean you don’t know? How can you tell what’s working if you don’t have some sort of tracking in place? Measuring website traffic, also known as “stats,” is how you know who’s visiting your site, where they’re coming from, how long they stay, entry and exit pages and more.

You need this information to make informed decisions about your site. You can use it to understand your guests’ buying patterns and to measure the effectiveness of your marketing and promotional strategies. It can also be used to show you which areas of your site are the most popular and the pages no one seems to visit. You can use this information to redesign your site and play-up the popular pages while eliminating the ones no one views.

So how do you get this valuable information? There are a number of ways to collect stats on your website. You can:

1) Purchase Software 2) Use a Free Online Service 3) Use a Paid Online Service/ Third Party Auditors 4) Use your own Web Host

Let’s take each option one by one. First in the group of choices is buying stats software. The problem with this option is the hefty price tag. Most of the good ones don’t come cheap.

Webtrends.com – http://www.webtrends.com

The leader in stats software, they offer a variety of solutions for everyone from the small business owner to large corporations. Prepare to shell out some big bucks depending on your needs. Visit the site and download a trial copy.

Websitereporter.com – http://www.websitereporter.com

Professional website stats software with many options. Website Reporter 3.0 offers a free demo and runs on Unix or NT and only costs between 50 to 75.00. Tracks total hits, maximum hits and date, report traffic, top entry and exit pages and much more.

Fast Stats – http://www.mach5.com/fast/

At only 99.00, this one is in everyone’s price range. Tells you who’s visiting your site and does it very quickly. Includes a hyperlinked tree view report that graphically shows how visitors are moving through your site. Runs only on Win 95,98, or NT, but can analyze log files generated by Unix servers.

Openwebscope.com – http://www.openwebscope.com

Free to download and 69.00 to register. Easy to read charts and graphs tell you in an instant what visitors are doing on your site. View sample reports at the site to get a feel for what the software can do.

Now let’s take a look at your options when it comes to free stats. Many sites offer free stats in exchange for placing a small banner or button on your pages. Many of them are really good if you don’t mind the small graphic.

Freestats.com – http://www.freestats.com Free Stats is free and easy to use. The downfall is the code they give you inserts a banner on the pages you wish to track. They do offer a “gold” service that eliminates the banners for only 5.95 a month.

Thecounter.com – http://www.thecounter.com

The Counter supplies in-depth traffic reports. Tracks the number of visitors, referrers, browsers, and more. Simple to use add a few lines of HTML to your pages and you’re good to go.

Stattrack.com – http://www.stattrack.com

Stat Track is more then just a counter; you get detailed information about your web guests. To use it you will have to tolerate a small 88X31 button on your tracked pages. Sign up, paste the code and you’re done.

Now, let’s move on to third party or pay stats services. Third party means another server collects and tabulates your website traffic, not the server your site is hosted on.

Professional SuperStats- http://v2.superstats.com/service_options.html

Offers advanced real time tracking and historical reporting on site traffic. Not software, it’s easy to set up. The tracking code is invisible to your site visitors, no banners or buttons. You can also export the data to MS Word, Excel or PDF format for further analyzing. Only 19.95 per month or 200.00 US dollars for the year.

Bondsmith.com – http://www.bondsmith.com

Provides traffic measurements and third party auditing services to website owners. Excellent for proving traffic patterns to potential advertisers. Sign up and get your first month for free.

Site Gauge – http://www.sitegauge.com/reports.htm

Offering a free service, but you have to show banners on your site. For only 19.95 a month for up to 20,000 page views I’d go with the Pro service. It’s invisible on your site and the stats collected are really in-depth. You can also request that the stats be e-mailed to you daily.

The last and final option is your web host. Some web hosts will be able to supply you with stats but not all of them. You’ll have to ask yours if they do and if there is any charge involved. Usually they supply you with this information for free as an add-on to you hosting service, but I have seen some that charge a small fee for access. Make a point to ask, as many of them won’t point it out to you otherwise.

There you have it, stats in a nut shell. By analyzing your website statistics you’ll be able to make more informed decisions and know what’s working and who’s visiting your site. The breadcrumbs are there…. do you have a system in place to find them?

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“A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web application presented as a webpage consisting of periodic posts, normally in reverse chronological order”- en.wikipedia.org. As you add content to your blog, new posts are automatically positioned on top of previous posts, so your visitors can see “what’s new.” Then they can comment on it or link to it or e-mail you if they choose to do so. A weblog is edited, organized and published often through a content management system or CMS. The blogs are online diaries or journals where blogger expresses his feelings, creativity, research work with like minded surfers through her periodic articles. Or weblog can be resembled to an online diary where blogger submits his frequently visited links for reference of the visitors.

The history of weblog can be traced back to the first website, http://info.cern.ch/, the site built by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. In the ’90s there were a handful of websites and the life was so easy. But with with the cluttering of thousands of new websites each day, things turned to be complicated and it became harder to find relevant information easily. Some novel eWiz like Brigitte Eaton, Jorn Barger, Peter Merholz, James Garrett,Cameron Barrett produced an alternative way to thread a particular topic related websites in a page or link for more convenience of the surfers to find content oriented sites in a single bucket ! The idea grew popularity, and a number of webmasters each day sent their URLs for listing in their websites. The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997. The shorter version, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz in 1999. As of March 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary included the terms weblog, weblogging and weblogger in their dictionary. Until ‘98 there were only a handful of weblogs in the net, but according to a report, more than 14 million blogs being published by the first quarter of 2005 !!

The popularity of Weblog is gaining momentum. As per a survey conducted by Comscore.com, 50 Million US population ( i.e- 1 in 6 of total US population or 30% of the total US online population) visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. This represents a 45% increase compared to the quarter one of 2004. Blog visitors are 11% more likely than the average Internet user to have incomes of $75,000 or more. According to the study, an average blog visitor spends 23 hours per weak online, while average Internet users spent 13 hours online.”The study also found that the blog visitors are 30% more likely to buy products or services online. While less that 40% of the total Internet population made an online purchase at Q1 of 2005, 51% of the blog visitors did”- Comscore.com. This is just a replica of the universal acceptability of weblog these days. If you are an online marketer or thinking to start an online venture, I believe weblog is the best tool of Internet marketing. Do you don’t think so??

Like Ezine ads, an Affiliate can use weblog as a futuristic tool of online marketing. With a decent and cool content writting, even a starter categorically can create a big blogsphere and use it as a perpetual passive mean of generating targeted traffic. The advantages of weblog over concurrent websites as a tool of online marketing are astoundingly multifarious.

First, weblogs are SE friendly i.e. you never have to submit your blog to any search engine. After you publish, your blog it will be submitted to the common search engines by the blog service provider. You never have to bother about on page criterions. Your META TAGS and KEY WORDs will be set automatically, eliminating the risk of keyword manipulation.

Second, zero designing and operation cost. You never have to hire a web designer for designing your weblog, just choose the right template and publish.

Third, Ping and Podcasting facilities promoting weblog as a viral marketing tool. With single click you are informing the whole world about your latest article updates.

Fourth, the next advantage of weblog over a web site is the trackback facility, an automatic notification between websites of related content–such as a post on a particular topic or one which responds to a post on another blog . Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.

Fifth, blogs are more likely RSS ( Really Simple Syndication) integrated. All blog service providers, including Blogger.com provide RSS feed link. When you update your new posting in weblog and you use RSS feed, the SE crawlers will visit your site and publish your content to across world wide web, all silently.

Sixth, another great feature of blog is use of comment

Seventh, blog is a more personalized form of ezine. In ezines and websites we express either our knowledge or services, but in blog we can express our live experiences as if we are talking to our best friend. Personalisation of postings increases the Conversion Ratio of traffic to customer.

“Let’s be honest here… We’re all good at justifying excuses to ourselves. I’ve even done it a few times myself ! But there really is no excuse for not following your dream. You’re only hurting yourself.” – Corey Rudl. If you are an ambitious online marketer or if you are new to weblog, I can name a few of the best blogging service providers like Blogger.com, Livejournal.com, 360.Yahoo.com, Typepad.com, Blogs.com, Xanga.com, DiaryLand.com where you should publish your first blog to realize your dreams. Choose the write one and publish your own blog today. For more cross reference, content, RSS Feeding and listing of your blog you can use some of the Blog Directories like- Masternewedia.org, Blogger.com, Blogrankings.com, Blogcatalog.com, Blogsearchengine.com, Blogwise.com, Weblogs.com, Blogrolling.com, FeedBurner.com, EmarketingBlogs.com. Blog advertising related services are provided by-BlogExplosion.com; Prosperall.com, Blogclicker.com. Pluck.com provides free download toolbar which helps to customize your weblog searching. I highly recommend you to give a glance at their site. If you are dummy, please visit Samizdata.net for blog related glossary and content.

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This question is all I hear when someone realizes the power of blogging.

In an attempt to give real information to users and not the run around I have decided to post this article. When approached with the question of how to create a blog because everyone else is doing it so I do too. I have to say this is not an easy answer. Even though there are tons of sources to start a blog that does not make it successful.

6 Steps to a successful blog:

These steps mentioned above should provide a useful tool in blog building. I love to get feedback so if you have any new information or useful information about building blogs please send them my way and I will use them in my Next Article.

Darren D. http://www.surrealblog.com

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Looking for a Unique New Internet Money Maker? : Look at Prosperity Automated System.

There have been big technological breakthroughs on the operations side of the Internet, thanks largely to Google’s innovations and other search engines scramble to keep up with it. Internet businesses on the other hand are still developed along a few narrowly defined protocols with the odd tweak here and there, but there have been no major breakthroughs, that is until Prosperity Automated System (PAS) appeared on the scene about a year ago.

PAS really does have something new to offer. While the writer does not pretend to understand the technology behind PAS, as a user he knows what it does and he loves it! PAS takes all the boring, grunt work out of Internet sales and marketing which up to now has consumed hours a day of our time: getting reliable leads, phoning them, following up etc. You know the routine. It’s mind-numbing, and only the most dedicated and the most numb-minded stick to it.

PAS is changing all that. PAS identifies likely prospects right from the search engines, as well as through extensive offline marketing, and after weeding out the tire kickers, only pre-qualified prospects finally reach your website ready to buy your product whether it be health food or sports equipment. In addition, the prospects also have an opportunity to buy and then resell the System itself and earn $3,000 USD each time. You therefore can have two or more two streams of income emerging from your website. While you have to answer questions on your own products, you don’t have to do anything to market PAS if you don’t want to. If there are any questions or prospect concerns, PAS’s experienced Team Leaders address them on your behalf.

PAS is the ideal business for different groups of people.

+ As PAS is truly a passive income opportunity, you don’t have to do anything to earn your money if you don’t want except purchase your System (by license agreement, like most software) and wait for the money to be posted to your bank account.

+However, if you want to take a more active role and have some extra marketing funds, you can do your own advertising and market more aggressively for yourself and your team. In this way you are likely to attract more prospects to your website and sell more product. PAS is a win/win/win opportunity for all. No one is left behind.

PAS is arguably the only company on the Internet that offers this degree of automation. Its future potential is enormous for those who are patient and don’t expect to get rich overnight. Right now there are only a few hundred associates in this young company so it is a great time to join. But take off it will when the Doubting Thomas’s and the skeptics finally admit to its merits and make a mad scramble to get on board. But when the quotas are reached, that’s it.

Prosperity Automated System is so subtle, so innovative and so clever that it has gone almost unnoticed except for the 400 smart people who have already bought into it, most of whom are laughing all the way to the bank! I think this low key approach is done intentionally. The owner and the associates want the company to grow slowly and methodically so they can resolve all the developmental issues before the surge to join takes off.

Be assured this company is not for the frenetic, Anthony Robbins, gung-ho types. If you want this go elsewhere. Join one of the many high pressure Internet companies developed for the benefit of its owners and the early opt-ins. Here you will have lots of opportunity to engage in countless conference calls, make 100s of phone calls a week, and be pressured daily to buy more and more product. Not so with PAS! It’s very simple, very straight forward, and very forthright and honest. It takes its lead from its owner, Bill Osterhout.

I have found most the people I have associated with in PAS to be, in a word, “mature”. It proves a point made many times. Employees or associates assume the temperament of their Boss if he or she is a strong personality. If he or she is a mature, positive, confident, low-key type, somehow this rubs off on the others. In my experience this is exactly the situation with PAS where the President Bill Osterhout, is just such a person. Associates respect him. Associates trust him. While Bill calls the shots–as he owns the company–he is smart enough to know he doesn’t have all the answers. Bill will always listen to you regardless of how way out your idea may be and the brighter and more successful associates are listened to with particular care. He listens quietly, and dispenses his measured response wisely.

To read more about this rare opportunity, check it out on http://passiveincomeweb.com. If you are a mature, patient person, have some experience in life, and some money to invest, you owe it to yourself and your family to visit this site. If you are the type of person I have described, I know you will really like what you see.

Written by Michael Brooke, Ph.D. retired university administrator and lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Google likes incoming links, especially links from high-ranking, on-topic pages that include keywords in the link text. Google doesn’t like over-optimized, high keyword densities and over use of keywords in headings, etc. like they use to.

Yahoo, on the other hand, looks at on-page factors more, such as keyword density, keywords in headings, etc. That is where the problem comes in.

Of course, they both look at everyting, but keep these two very important points in mind when you are trying to optimize your site.

When you search both Google and Yahoo for a keyword phrase, you will usually find a BIG difference in the Search Engine Results Pages or “Serps” as it is usually called. Serps just means the list of websites that show up when you do a search on any of the search engines.

Back to Yahoo and Google. Here’s why the results are different and in a nutshell what you have to do to rank high on each one of them.

Links from other websites are the most important thing to Google. The higher the ranking of the actual page your link is on the better. Remember it is NOT the ranking of the Home page of the site you are getting the link from, but the ranking of the page your link is actually on that counts.

The text in the link to your site is VERY important. It needs to have the keyword phrases you want to rank high for included.

Then the next most important thing to Google is the keywords in your Title tag and then the content on your page. If your content is over-optimized (too many uses of keyword phrases or too many keywords in your headings, etc.), that will hurt your ranking with Google instead of help you.

Of course, there are 101 other factors that count with both Yahoo and Google, but get the basics right and you will be well on your way to high rankings.

As for Yahoo, the content that is on the page is the most important. To rank high with Yahoo you need to use a lot of keyword phrases on the page, have a lot of keywords in the headings, have a high keyword density, etc.

Basically, Yahoo likes all of the things Google used to count as being important before Google decided that too many people knew this and were making the most highly optimized websites show up at the top instead of the most relevant sites.

Now you can see why the sites that show up high on Yahoo don’t show up high on Google and vice versa.

Bottom line: You could say that Google likes off-page factors (i.e. links) and Yahoo likes on-page factors. That’s an over simplification, but it is a good rule of thumb.

If you understand this one thing, you can get your rankings higher than most of your competitiors. Of course, you will have to get it all right if you want to be at the very top.

The problem is that you can’t completely do what it takes to please both Yahoo and Google. Of course, links help you with both Google and Yahoo, but the other factors seem to be either or.

If you have a reasonably good ranking on Yahoo and not Google and want to increase your Google ranking, I would recommend that you work on incoming links and particularly the text in those incoming links (and don’t make them all word-for-word the same).

Then start cutting back on the over-optimizing of on-page factors and see when your Yahoo rankings start coming down and your Google rankings start coming up. Try to see how close you can come to making them both happy if ranking as high as possible on both is your goal.

Of course, this has to be done slowly because Google and Yahoo don’t change their rankings that fast.

If you want to get the highest ranking on just one of the search engines and not worry about the other one, your job is much easier.

One last point.

Even though Google counts incoming links as being a lot more important than Yahoo does, the recent “search engine bombing” by political pranksters with the term “waffles” shows that Google is more immune to this than Yahoo. Obviously, Google wants a few other things to be in line before they will award top ranking to a site. Google is harder (if not imposible) to trick. Yahoo is not.

Craige Stacey has been studying search engines optimization as a hobby and has achieved some very good search engine positions in the past for membership website software

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Oops! I meant “web content management system for windows.” Do search engines understand consumer search engine typos? Typing something so close to what you are looking for, like typing “web content management system fr window” instead of “web content management system for windows” may not seem like a big deal, but search engine bloopers alter consumer searches more than we know.

The phrase used in the title, “web content management system fr window” is a real-life example of a common search engine typo. In fact, within that phrase, the “o” and the “s” are missed so often that search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN have recorded the phrase “web content management system fr window” as searched about 481 times on a monthly average.

You might ask how this affects your search engine searches. Well, let us use the same phrase for an example. Typing the phrase you are looking for, “web content management system for windows,” yields about 29.6 million indexed pages in Google, 14.7 million in Yahoo, and 2.3 million in MSN. However, the typo “web content management system fr window,” only slightly different from what you really meant to type, yields drastically different results: 654 thousand indexed pages in Google, 131 thousand in Yahoo, and 56.5 thousand in MSN.

That doesn’t seem so bad. Who doesn’t want to narrow down the search? The problem is that the number of indexed pages is not the only difference with search engine typos; the poor search engines are trying to find the most relevant pages they can to the misspelled search, but it may not find what you need. On the one hand, you have tens of millions of relevant pages with a correct search; on the other hand, you have hundreds of thousands of semi-relevant pages. Which would you rather have?

Search engine typos are very common, but they do alter the relevance of your results.

Joe Miller is an author of informational articles and online advertisements on business, technology, and health. ‘Web content management system fr window’ is actually ‘web content management system for windows’.

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The World Poker Tour is an extensive series of Texas Holdem games that challenges players to test their skill on an international level. The tour is televised and broadcasted around the world, drawing significant attention to Texas Hold’em. In fact, this tour is considered one of the major reasons that Texas Hold’em poker has experienced a recent boom in popularity.

The tour has been held annually since 2002 and garners more viewers every year. The broadcasts for the World Poker Tour are similar to the broadcasts for professional sports in that they both have a pre-game discussion, live commentary, and an after game wrap up.

The actual structure of the tour is a traditional tournament style where poker players work their way up to the final game by accumulating points. Each round has a different point value. Of course, the lower ranking rounds are not televised. The media spotlight only turns on a player when he reaches the high stakes, final rounds of the game. Every year the winner of this tour receives international acclaim as the world’s best Texas Hold’em player.

Please make sure that you include articles that are reaching the 200 word minimum. If not they make me very angry!!!

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Past life regression will often unearth the reason why we have arguments with people in our present lifetime or why we are worried of certain things. You have work colleagues around you in your current lifetime that you have extraordinarily met with before, now just imagine being able to locate what happened and what your relationship was to them at that time and lift blocks that plague you in your current time and even identify talents and bring them into your present time. Past life regression, aka PLR, is eye-opening. Visit AnneJirsch.com for Regression Therapy.

When you are having a past lifetime regression session you regress to the life you should most need to see about in your present time. This is superb and will probably point out a great deal about your present life and help you to go forward with your life with a greater understanding of yourself, your life and the sisters around you.

You might also identify why you are the individual that you are, now that is great. If you revel in nature maybe you were once a farmer, if you enjoy to travel maybe you were a gypsy. Instead of minimising our strengths we acknowledge every single one of them.

Each experience is wonderful and unique. Other participants have visited places they?d lived in before and just knew where to go.

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See which lenders are charging fees 3 percent and for how much. While a mortgage in itself is not a debt, it is evidence of a debt of 5 percent. So how do you find a lender or broker you can trust’ Although most mortgage experts say that rates 8 percent are pretty much the same wherever you go, give or take this tiny 9 percentage. Start with credibility. It’s not easy to know if the prices quoted by lenders are reliable. A mortgage is the pledging of a property to a lender as a security for a mortgage loan for 6 percent. In most jurisdictions mortgages are strongly associated with loans 9 percent secured on real estate rather than other property and in some cases only land may be mortgaged. Many of these fees are fixed but some can be negotiated.

Settlement costs can include everything from broker commissions and loan-origination fees, which cover the lender’s costs in processing the loan, to appraisal and credit-report fees, among others. Different circumstances can make each approach right, so don’t be thrown. But others will claim low rates to bring in customers or tell you that the rates 6 percent offered by competitors will change.

Some will quote you precise, competitive rates 8 percent. Both banks and brokers have their strengths and weaknesses. Arranging a mortgage is seen as the standard method by which individuals and businesses can purchase residential and commercial real estate without the need to pay the full value immediately. Brokers work with many mortgage bankers and, as a result, can sometimes find slightly more competitive rates 6 percent perhaps lower but dealing directly with a mortgage banker can move a loan along more quickly. It is a transfer of an interest in land, from the owner to the mortgage lender, on the condition that this interest will be returned to the owner of the real estate when the terms of the mortgage have been satisfied or performed.

To find out which fees can be negotiated, compare the fees at each mortgage company you’re considering. Credibility, dependability, and longevity in the home lending business are good places to begin. See mortgage loan for residential mortgage lending, and commercial mortgage for lending against commercial property. And of course, each loan and each borrower are different. Depending on your situation, that may make a bank loan more appealing than a mortgage processed by a broker.

The translation says: Woon je in Wassenaar of Rucphen en heeft u BKR registratie’ Lenen met zonder BKR is nog nooit zo eenvoudig geweest. Koop een ander huis met geld lenen met bkr registratie, 221954 euro is altijd mogelijk om te financieren. Van Enkhuizen tot Eemnes, financieren met BKR gaat hier altijd.

In other words, the mortgage is a security for the loan that the lender makes to the borrower. Different lenders charge different fees.

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