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Today I feel so blessed that I am able to work at home making money online blogging, even though I am just a year away from 60 and only have a grade 9 education. This just shows me that just about anyone willing to learn can make money online.

I don’t know where you’re from but in my neck of the woods that’s pretty darn cool.

I won’t go into the long boring story about why I quit school and ran way from home but let me tell you that by the time the Internet became available I was so itching to quit my low paying day job.

I Thank God For The Internet, Every Day

With little education most of my jobs didn’t require much of my brain. This gave my brain the opportunity to do other things while I was working hard labour jobs.

I had a computer and then the Internet. So I began looking for ways to make some money online and maybe not have to work  so hard. Don’t get the idea I was lazy because I was always the harder worker.

The first thing I did when I got the Internet was to learn how to play guitar. During that time I also learned about web design and started building web sites for friends in my off hours.

In no time I was able to quit my day job and began to work from home as a web designer.

I went from working 8 hours days of hard labour to night day on my butt as a web designer. Yeah I had lots of money but was exhausted and had no time off for family.

Oh yeah, over the following two years I put on more than 60 pounds because I went from hard labour to sitting on my butt snacking and working. I had to find something else as my life was out of control.

Even though I was a web designer I had no clue about optimization or online marketing so I had to start studying and that led me to Clickbank.

The Clickbank Marketplace Rocks

I stopped taking on any new web design clients and focused on learning for a few months. It was so great that I was working from home as it gave me the time I needed to find a way to make money through the Internet.

I soon learned about Clickbank, well actually the Clickbank Marketplace. I was glued to it looking for ebooks that would teach me the skills I needed to have a successful website.

I started learning about Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and ebooks with resell rights.

Today I have many sites, mostly blogs which are mostly focused around my hobbies and interests. Below are a couple of examples of my sites.

Example 1: I am a fishing nut and can’t seem to get enough. I always wanted to make money from my love of fishing but life didn’t take me in that direction. Today, many years later, I now make money blogging about my fishing fun.

Example: 2: As far back as I can remember I wanted to have a garden to grow things I love to eat. It only took me until I was 50 to get there. I started saving money gardening vegetables for home and guess what… you got it. I started a gardening blog and now I make money with that hobby as well.

Invest Your Time And Money

If you are looking for a way out like I was a few years ago then my advice to you would be to take the time and learn how to make money online. The Clickbank Marketplace is the place to start looking.

The reason I recommend looking at Clickbank is two-fold. 1) because you will find a variety of ebooks on the subject of how to make money online, 2) if need be you can get a refund.

Before you invest any money I would look for reviews on the products you’ve found at Clickbank. Look for pros and cons that will give you an idea of whether it’s an ebook for you or not.

The thing is that most reviews can be misleading, because they want you to buy it from their link so they can make money. So use good judgement and go through as many review as you need.

Is It Worth It?

It is so worth it but it will require work and dedication. The dedication part is why I go for my hobbies and interest. I don’t have the problem of losing interest in those niches.

I have started blogs in niches outside my interest and it was hard work. As hard as I tried I would lose interest and let the sites slide. This may only be me but I have a hard time focusing for long periods of time on things that don’t hold my interest.

So get over to Clickbank and find the ebooks that will help you learn how work at home to make money online and stay focused. When you’re there come back and let us know how you are doing.

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Are you frustrated with the amount of time it takes to rewrite and publish articles to your favourite article directories and networks?

I certainly was at the point in my online business where I just couldn’t produce enough content for the number of blogs I had started. That’s when I started looking for a faster way to create articles without hiring writers and is when I found The Best Spinner article rewriting software and my life changed.

I can say all the great things that come to mind when it comes to saving time using The Best Spinner but the truth is you aren’t going to really believe it until you check it out for yourself.

Ah, I see that you didn’t follow the link so let me give you a few reasons to check out The Best Spinner.

Just What Is The Best Spinner?

The Best Spinner is a software application which helps one write or rewrite articles from just one main article. TBS can spin hundreds of articles from just one original.

The way that TBS works is to exchange words and phrases from the original article with words and phrases from the huge user generated database of words and phrases. Today I can create spun articles nearly as fast as it takes me to write an article. So much faster than doing things manually.

What’s The Best Spinner Gonna Cost Me?

Most people writing a review would leave the price out or put it right at the bottom for fear of losing their reader. Not me, The Best Spinner has a great price and is worth hundreds more per year.

TBS is subscription software you pay for yearly and is only $77/yr, however I had my beginnings with The Best Spinner for their $1.00 for a 7 day trial and was sold in the first hour I had it.

It works out to something like $6 per month, heck you would spend more than that for a quality article to be written.

What’s The Best Spinner Going To Do For Me?

The Best Spinner has a load of features and far too many to list here so I will list what was important to me.

1. TBS is within the price most can not afford to pass up.
2. TBS will create multiple articles faster than you can rewriting one manually.
3. TBS members have created a user generate database of words and phrases to swap within your articles.
4. TBS will protect your keywords and phrases for you if you would like.

Any Negative Points To The Best Spinner?

During the time I have been using The Best Spinner I would have to say the only thing that I feel is a problem is the Auto Replace Everyone’s Favourites. This feature is danger if you don’t know what you are doing yet.

The Replace Favourites doesn’t have the ability to understand context and for that reason doesn’t know which words and phrases NOT to use so your article can quickly become completely useless.

Summary of The Best Spinner

This was a rather short review of The Best Spinner but I believe seeing is believing. I tried the $1.00 trial and was sold so fast it spun my head. Give it a try for yourself and then come back and leave a comment sharing your feelings.

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A huge part of my work at home online business revolves around quality and keyword focused article marketing. This also includes keyword focused backlinking. It’s been hard work that has paid off as my income for 2011 has double since just last year.

I don’t work in just one niche as I have just too many interests for just one site so I have numerous sites. Eventually I reached the point where I just couldn’t write all the quality content I need, by myself.

My first idea for more content was to start accepting guest posting from other bloggers. Well that worked great for some of my niche, just not all of them, so I still had to come up with more quality content.

I could have gone to article directories but they are full of duplicate content so my next idea took me to a few article networks where they accept spin code that generates content that’s somewhat more unique. I listed the ones I joined below:

• ArticleRanks.com
• SEOLinkVine.com
• ArticleMarketingAutomation.com
• MyArticleNetwork.com

Free Sometimes Comes At A Cost

It wasn’t long before I learned how skilled some writers were at knowing just how NOT to write quality articles as I was rejecting about 95% of all the articles I looked at. Most articles had titles that made little sense and appeared to use zero keyword focus.

Time is money and I found I was wasting way too much trying to find quality content. Some how I think a lot of article marketers have lost the meaning of article marketing and have put quantity before quality.

What Is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is about using niche related keywords in order to create content that will draw targeted traffic from the major search engines, as well as other places, to your pages with the purpose of earning an income. – J.M.

Article Spinners Spinning Articles To Death

So, what is that is causing this issue with poor quality articles? Improper use of article spinners!!

I write articles 5 days a week. I also do a lot of article spinning using The Best Spinner, to help me work faster. It’s up to me to work smarter though.

Using The Best Spinner I create articles and then spin them into spintax code I can use on these article networks in order to publish many more articles from my original article. This is where most article marketers drop the ball.

Here is how I produce articles.

Niche Research: As part of my niche research I find the keywords I need to use, keywords I can actually rank for, in order to make money. Then I start writing keyword focused articles.

When I use The Best Spinner to spin multiple articles I use a feature designed to protects my keywords from being spun to death. It’s actually right here that most article marketers make their big mistake.

Example: An article title that reads something like: Work From Home Ideas, could easily turn into something like, Labor From Residence Notions, which kind of destroys any idea of a keyword phrase.

You can well imagine how the article would look like if the title was allowed to be spun to death like that.

This is usually an indication that the author is more interested in quantity of articles rather than the quality of those articles and is why I reject so many articles today.

Actually I have looked at my stats for the networks and I see that I reject just about 95% of all the articles I look at. On the other side of things I have close to 95% of my articles accepted.

Why Would I Destroy My PageRank?

Think about it. I have a number of pagerank 3 and 4 sites I have worked hard at. Do you think I am going to publish NON keyworded articles and chance losing my page rank, not likely.

If you looked at the two titles I showed above which would you accept and which would you reject? Personally I am going to accept the one that matches my keywords, it’s a simple choice to make.

• Work From Home Ideas
• Labor From Residence Notions

The KEY to having great success through article marketing is to make proper use of one’s niche related KEYwords. Make the choice to create quality over quantity and you too will see your page rank go up as well as your income.

Are you aware that SEO or search engine optimization should be put on the top of your list if your goal or desire is to increase target traffic to your work at home website or blog? Definitely make it a top priority.

SEO accomplishes the task of getting that vital target traffic. This is done by improving the position of a given website in the search engine results pages or SERPs.

Your work at home business can have better success if your website keywords are closer to that #1 position in Google. Most experts in the SEO field use a number of SEO methods to improver ranking for their clients. Niche related keyword focused content is where one’s focus needs to be.

The following are just some of the benefits of having good content when trying to improve ranking

• In terms of visitors looking for a particular website, it will not be fancy graphics that they are looking for. They are usually hunting for information. They are looking for content that can answer particular questions that they might have. So if a website has quality content, it will be more favourable with the search engines. When your content is useful for your visitors, you will find that your website is rewarded with higher rankings.

• Not only do web users want to find answers to their queries, they are also looking for the information to be up to date. So adding fresh content to your site regularly is also very important. In order to meet this objective it is recommended that you add about two new posts to your website every week.

• People who are searching for something online will use particular keywords that make sense to them. By having lots of content on your website it gives you a better chance of having the relevant keywords that will send this traffic to you. By regularly providing content on your topic it should mean that you will organically have all the relevant keywords covered.

• If people like your content they will link to it because they think your article is worth sharing. Having enough incoming links will ensure that your SEO efforts are rewarded.

When a website has been constructed for the specific reason of selling a service or product, the main thing that has to be looked at during the process is the ecommerce design. If this is something you’re looking for then follow the preceding link to visit our web-site.

I work from home to make my living, which is so cool, but the fact that there is only one of me and I have no employees I have to make the best of my time and that means using the right tools for the task at hand.

When it comes to search engine optimization I need to know the best keywords and what I have to do to get ranking for those keywords. For that task I use Keyword Elite which is perfect for finding the money making keywords as well as KE shows me the top ten sites for each keyword phrase I give it.

For keeping tabs on where my keywords are listed in Google, Yahoo and Bing I use SEO Elite. I also use SEO Elite to see how many pages are indexed for any of my sites along with the current page rank for each of those pages.

I have found that it is quite a bit easier to make money affiliate marketing than a lot of others claim. Are they just trying to keep people from trying their hand at making affiliate marketing money?

If a little work at home marketer like myself can make money with affiliate products and a blog so can you, it’s just a matter of learning how.

My affiliate marketing efforts utilize article marketing to make money online, even while I’m out fishing with friends. The amount you make with affiliate marketing depends on how much you’re willing to learn about it before you begin.

I Learn So Much From Clickbank Marketplace Ebooks

It’s a no brainer for me. If I need or want to learn something new so I can make even more money affiliate marketing I head over to the Clickbank Marketplace.

Not every ebook you find on Clickbank is top quality so you want to do a bit of research before buying that ebook. What do others have to say about the quality? Worry not though if you do find that the ebook you select sucks you can request a refund and you will get it because Clickbank is on your side. Then just move on to the next ebook on the subject you’re interested in.

Where To Start With Affiliate Marketing

Today I use affiliate advertising on my sites in the form of banner advertising and affiliate text link ads. Before I started using banner ads I had to learn a little about affiliate marketing and that was were Clickbank and the Clickbank Marketplace really came in handy.

During the learning process you’re going to learn that it’s important to find affiliate programs that have products in your niche. This task can be accomplished quickly with a few select Google searches.

Here is how I search for affiliate programs and products: First I make use of quotes in my searches, like the following puppy training example:

“potty training puppy” +”affiliate program”

If my niche were in home gardening I would search using the following criteria:

“vegetable gardening” +”affiliate program”

A search like that will give you plenty of affiliate programs for most niches. The next step is going to be getting started with affiliate marketing and your website.

Beginning With Affiliate Marketing

Online marketing today is really a global phenomenon as more and more people are trying to find ways to make enough money to make ends meet.

This is great news for those around the world looking for any way to bring in enough money to survive when there are few jobs to be had.

Where To Start: I have discovered I get my best results when I work niches I know a little about. However since starting affiliate marketing I have used the Clickbank Marketplace to learn about things in niches that are new to me and now I earn even more income online.

Step One To Affiliate Marketing Success

When I started thinking about a work from home job as an affiliate marketer I was advised to start writing down topics I know stuff about. I immediately went brain dead so I just carried a pen and paper around and wrote down things as they came to mind.

Start with your skills and then move onto your interests. Don’t hold back, just keep writing things down. You can evaluate your list later but for now just keep writing things down.

I can’t stress how important it is at this stage to avoid evaluating your ideas before you finish your list. It’s like brain storming. No one puts down any ideas that come to the table, until after the listing phase is complete.

Once you have a list of possible money makers you can start looking online to see what kind of potential there is in that idea as well as the amount of competition you’ll be up against.

Competition is good but too much competition could mean you will have to work a long time without any positive results and that can lead to depression and giving up your new dream. Invest the time researching your ideas so that you find at least one idea you can run with.

You Don’t Need To Be An Expert In Most Niches

If I had to be an expert in all the niches I make money in I would have given up long ago but all you have to do is learn how to marketing affiliate products to your readers.

Affiliate marketing, even if your not an expert, can help you make a living online. I know this is a fact because I do it on a daily basis, in niches that I am just not skilled in at all.

How I Make Money Affiliate Marketing

I really enjoy fishing but I have never been in tournaments. I don’t have a boat. Heck I don’t even own a canoe but I do have a float tube and fish when ever I can.

I discovered that I love gardening but I don’t own much more than a rake, a shovel and a desire to grow things and I make money online. Actually it’s my biggest money maker right now.

I love my dog, cooking, traveling and so many other things that I can make money with through affiliate marketing.

How do I make money in niches I am not an expert in? Well I love to tell stories, true stories about my experiences with things, like gardening, fishing and other interests. Guess what? People love reading stories that touch them in some way and I make money.

Let me share a short example:

When I am fishing, even though I have very little in the way of fishing tackle or fancy gear but I know how to read water. I fish with guys that have it all, way too much actually yet I am able to kick their butts at fishing.

Do you think they listen when I share some of my thinking? You bet they do. Sadly before affiliate marketing I didn’t make a red cent sharing my knowledge but today those same guys go to my web sites where I share even more tips and tricks and they follow my affiliate links and I make more money.

Publish Unique Niche Articles

It’s great to write great content for your site and to get it indexed in the top search engines. You can get a lot of traffic and make some money but if you start to get links pointing to those pages you can get even more target traffic and make a whole lot more money.

Start by creating content, quality keyworded content, for your site. Then start writing unique articles that you will publish elsewhere with keyworded links pointing to your related articles on your site. Doing this will help to increase your web site rankings and authority which when done correctly brings in even more target traffic.

Keep that process of writing quality keyworded content and articles pointing to that content and you can rule the roost in your niche, just like I am doing today.

Then there is Guest Blogging which is an awesome way to get backlinks and again more traffic which you can make more money from using affiliate marketing.

The key to your success is going to start with you creating quality niche focused keyworded content.

Using Article Spinning For Better Ranking

I spent a lot of years writing content by hand and then rewriting those articles into many unique articles I could then publish to article directories without creating duplicate content. To accomplish this task I purchased a copy of The Best Spinner to help me rewrite articles.

Note: I belong to a variety of article networks where I get content for blogs I work where I don’t have much knowledge. The thing that you need to understand is I look for quality so I actually end up rejected as much as 95% of the articles I review because they are poorly written.

The reason their articles stink so bad is because they use article spinners without proof reading the results, therefore they publish crap and get rejected.

Another reason their articles get rejected is due to publishing them to the wrong categories or because of including non relevant links.

I spend a bit more time rewriting articles but I very seldom have articles rejected and I never include non relevant links on sites I don’t own.

Affiliate marketing works for me. My income increases every single year. Affiliate marketing will definitely work for you, you just need to take the right steps and focus on content that’s original and unique. Oh yeah and don’t be afraid to tell it in a story.

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When learning about making money via blogging you’re going to likely find more than one way to accomplish this task. Those who don’t bother to learn first are usually find it’s much tougher to make money blogging.

How much an individual earns blogging can really vary from just a few dollars a month to thousands, even tens of thousands. It’s going to depend on your blog theme and how you monetize that blog.

Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the most common methods and is my most favourite way to make money blogging. I just find affiliate products and services that match my niche and include them in my story lines.

I don’t usually just share affiliate product info. Instead I like to share how I use the product or service. The key is to make sure the product matches the content you’ve written.

Sponsored Blog Posts, Links And Ads

I’ve been marketing online for a decade and have more than a dozen sites on the go. It has become quite common to receive email requests or blog comments asking if I accept sponsored links or posts.

After 10 years of online marketing and blogging it’s common to get emails asking if I accept paid or sponsored ads or links. What I earn will of course depend on the niche and the authority my sites have in their niche.

I don’t accept all the requests I get because I only accept requests where their link or content is inline with my blog. If it’s not relevant to my site niche I am not going to put it in front of my readers and have them leave my site for being off topic.

Write An Niche Related Ebook

In my 60 years I have learned a lot of skills people want to learn, in a lot of different areas, or as we call them today, niches. It’s great to use that knowledge to write blog posts but I also use my know-how to write ebooks and then give them away to get people’s email address.

You ebooks should include quality information to make it work. People will give you their email address for the ebook. They will even pass it around, if it’s good.

This gives you the opportunity to include links in your ebook that lead readers to your money pages and back to your blogs. This can deliver you a huge amount of traffic and help you make more income online.

The Money Is In The Email List

It’s true, the money is in the list if you learn how to make money with a list. The main key is to NEVER spam your list with non relevant content or too many emails a day.

I join lists to learn more about what I do or perhaps to learn things in a new niche, like my puppy training niche and how to play guitar niche.

The thing is I can get off the list in an instant if something sets me off, like non relevant info in the emails.

When I am creating lists I use either Aweber and GetResponse as they are trusted autoresponder services that make email marketing easy and safe.

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Article writing is how many people make a living these days. But then again there are a lot of people writing articles that don’t see any positive results. There is a reason people don’t do well with article marketing, let’s talk about a few article writing tips that can put you on the map.

Without the click it’s kind of tough to make money so it’s important to keep your visitor reading all the way to the click. That has to be priority #1.

Tip #1 – Get Your Readers Attention

A vital step in article marketing is keeping the attention of your visitors. It’s not likely they will click your links if they don’t like the content.

How do you get and keep your readers attention? I most often use stories to keep the focus of my website visitors because it’s stories that keep me interested on other sites I frequent.

Testimonials are another great method for holding the attention of readers, especially if they are names they’ve heard before.

Tip #2 – It All Starts With A Catchy Title

A title can turn me away before I even click a link to visit a site. That’s because your page title appears in the search engines where you are competing for positioning. I tend to look at the listing and only click relevant titles.

Don’t get fancy with your titles either as you may dilute the keyword focus with too many words. Get right to the point so your potential visitor doesn’t have to de-cypher the meaning.

When I have to figure a title out while I am looking through search results pages I tend to just move on to the next listing. Competition is strong in most niches and easy to find more and perhaps better content.

Note: Those searching online for specific topics seem to like ‘TOP’ lists, top 3, top 5, top 7 or top 10 are all attention grabbers. Something like the title of this article: Top 5 Article Writing Tips.

Tip #3 – Find Hot Topics To Talk About

Hot topics get a lot of attention in just about any niche or market, so use them to your advantage, getting more traffic to your pages.

Remembrance Day was yesterday and is always a hot topic, especially as the original war vets are getting few and far between. In our area there is just one veteran still alive and he’s in the high 80s now.

Any holiday, festival, seasonal event such as Thanksgiving and Halloween. I am sure you get the point. Keep ahead of these topics so you have time to get that special traffic.

If you subscribe to a newspaper you will have all the info you need to be timely with hot topics. The more your site gets indexed the faster it is visited by search bots so you can get articles indexed really quickly. I have sites that get indexed in just minutes after writing a blog post.

Tip #4 – All Articles Need Spell & Grammar Checks

I am not sure about you but when I read an article that is full of typos and grammatically errors I get annoyed as today there really is no need to create poor quality articles.

Be sure you check each and every article for grammar and spelling errors, especially if you spin content with article spinners.

When I see articles that have not been checked properly it tells me the author is more interested in quantity of article over quality and I usually move on.

It only takes a couple of minutes to spell check an article so if you don’t bother why should other bother with your article.

I use a lot of articles from article directories and networks but quickly reject the articles with typos and grammar errors. There are lots of other to choose from.

Tip #5 – Write From Your Personal Experience

If you can write from the heart, especially from personal experience you can do so much better than just being technical or dry.

Using this strategy I can write articles for most of the niches I work in all day long. I do have a couple of niches which I am not very knowledgeable about and usually use PLR or articles from other networks.

I do so much better with the niches I am more skilled in and for that reason I tend to make more income from those websites.

I know this works because of the number of comments and visitors but also by how long they stay on the page. It took me a while to figure this out but today I write most of my articles and use personal experiences to keep my reader reading and eventually clicking my link.

Articles like that, from the heart, make me more money, bottom-line.

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Let me share with you just what a squeeze page is all about and what it is used for. Basically the purpose of squeeze pages, also called landing pages, is to capture your customers name and email address.

Many savvy marketers utilize squeeze pages to build their list. Beyond a shadow of a doubt landing pages are very effective as an Internet marketing tool.

Depending upon how you market your landing page, you could easily add a couple of hundred new subscribers. It is very important that the offer on your landing page is worth subscribing for.

Understanding what is a squeeze page is very important. This is the most essential page of your website. This is the page where you will invite the viewer to enter their name and e-mail address, this information is then being used with your auto responder for follow up messages.

In order to keep your landing page interesting, add your company name as well as your company logo. Make sure that the title stands out so that it catches the viewer’s eye. Add a few lines about yourself. Keep it short and to the point.

Adding a photo of yourself is also a good idea it will makes you more real, make sure it is a good one though. Another attention grabbing idea is to add a video to your squeeze pages. This will definitely get the viewers attention and will make them understand more on what is a squeeze page, you can then suggest on the video that the viewer adds their name and e-mail address in your opt in box for further information.

As with all marketing, a headline is critical to the sure success of your squeeze page. You must have an enticing and engaging headline to draw in the visitor. You will also notice that this landing page is very simply laid out. It should clean and only has one purpose.

Also notice the simple arrow graphic pointing down to tell people exactly what to do. People can watch the video, and then give up their name and e-mail address to gain access to your getaway. The challenge for marketers is to work closely with their designers to make them understand at least the basics, like what is a squeeze page and how to max out its potential.

The next step is to get traffic to your squeeze page using article marketing. You can easily work at home, niche marketing and sending target traffic directly to your squeeze page.

New marketers with dreams of making money online with a work from home idea should really take the time to learn a few tips about optimizing web pages to get the best results.

By optimizing I am referring to search engine optimization also known as SEO. SEO basically means using the right words for your niche which are called keywords.

You also need to use those keywords in the right amounts called keyword density and also placing them in the right places for best effect. Get this right and you can attract the ideal money making traffic directly from the major search engines.

Of course getting this wrong can leave you spinning your wheels and scratching your head wondering where the traffic is or why the traffic is not converting to cash.

My suggestion is to find your niche, research keywords and look at the top ten sites for each keyword to see if you can compete for that phrase. There is a lot of competition and picking the wrong keywords can leave you broke.

1. Keyword Stuffing Will Kill Your Chances

Yes keyword stuffing, meaning you are using your keywords way to many times per article or post, can destroy your chances of success.

I remember the first client I had that didn’t understand anything about keywords but knew he needed a web presence.

I explained what keywords were to John and their importance. I then asked him to write a few pages of content for his new site.

John sent me an email with the content he wrote attached. He had stuffed every conceivable keyword he could come up with and not much else. I actually burst out laughing when I started to read it and was sure he did it as a joke, but he didn’t.

I gave him a call back immediately and found he hadn’t done it on purpose at all. He was a little embarrassed and confused but once I explained about keyword stuffing and the fact that a keyword density of 3-7% is fine we got things on track and now his site is live and he’s getting lots of business.

It’s important to be real and write your content as if you are talking to your reader.

Just in case you’re not sure about what density percentage is a 5% keyword density means you use 5 keywords for every 100 words you write.

2. Keep Your Keyworded Pages on Topic

I’ll admit I have messed up more than once and tend to get off topic rather easily so I know it’s important to stay on topic for best results.

The thing about getting off topic is that you reduce the value of your keyword focus for your niche and that means you could be losing potential traffic and money.

If you are blogging about puppy training then stay on that topic and don’t talk too much about your fishing hobby. Leave that for your fishing blog.

3. Avoid Black Hat SEO

I listened to the wrong guy a few years ago which caused Google to ban a few of my sites. That was the worse feeling to wake up to and left me wondering if I should continue marketing.

I had to do some scrambling to get my sites back in good graces with Google and trust me I don’t do the black hat seo crap any more.

The thing is most grey or black hat SEO strategies tend to abuse Google’s TOS. Google is King of search engines for a reason and they won’t let you get away with it for long and your sites will get banned.

It’s best to just stay within the TOS and work for your money like I do now.

4. Don’t Forget About The ALT Tag

A picture can say 1000 words may be true but search engines can’t read images yet but you can add extra content to your images that the search engines can read. This means you can explain what your image is and even use keywords.

In order to add text to your image code you have the ALT tag.

with each and every image I put on my web pages. I make sure I get an image that can speak to my visitor as a picture can be worth a thousand words but I don’t leave it there. I also use appropriate keywords in the ALT tag as search engines can read the ALT tag text.

Example: <img src=”/images/yourpic.jpg” ALT=”Your extra text and keywords would be added here” width=”200” height =”200”>

Again remember not to stuff keywords in the ALT tag.

5. The Title Tag For Your Text Links

Another method for adding content to your webpage, content search engines can read is through the Title attribute in your hyperlinks.

Example: <a href=”http://www.yoursite.com” TITLE=”Extra text and keywords can be added here”>keyworded text link</a>

Just like images can have an ALT tag or attribute hyperlinks or text links can have a Title attribute, which is basically the same thing. Use this attribute to add a bit more info about the link.

These five short tips can make a huge difference for your bottom-line. Just remember there are many ways to optimize your pages without doing things like keyword stuffing or black hat SEO.

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Good day, JP here to welcome you.

As an article marketer I feel I need to talk a bit about the poor quality of articles from some authors. I’m not really sure what they are thinking, or if they are thinking.

As an article marketer, working many niches, I have written some articles with regards to writing articles, revealing numerous problems I have had to overcome through the years.

My article marketing business started prior to article spinning software like The Best Spinner coming on the market. Before article spinners I wrote and rewrote each article manually making sure each article read like an educated human wrote it.

Keep A Strong Keyword Focus

Over the past few years I have talked about the importance of writing articles with a strong keyword focus. I’ve also explained that it’s vital to write helpful article for your readers.

Use A Variety of Keywords in Your Hypertext

I’ve talked about the significance of using hyperlinks that are keyworded pointing back to your relevant pages making sure you’ve varied the keywords for your hypertext.

Search engines today are much smarter than years past and expect to see natural variations in hyperlink text.

Using Article Spinners

I have discussed using software for spinning articles such as The Best Spinner, the spinner I choose after looking at 3 or 4 others.

Using an article spinner you’re able to create multiple one of a kind articles rapidly, all from just one original article.

Replacing Words With Relevant Synonyms

I have discussed the importance of checking your spun articles to be sure you’ve used word replacements that fit the context of your content. This is about the number one reason people fail with article marketing. If I can’t make sense of an article do you think I am going to click your link or publish your article on my site, not likely.

Find Top Article Directories To Publish Articles On

I’ve discussed getting one’s articles published on top five to ten article networks that have the best pagerank.

Don’t Forget The Spell Checker

I personally find it unprofessional to leave spelling mistakes in articles, especially if you are trying to make money. I can get past one or two and have even let a few slip though myself but when the entire article is full of typos something is wrong with the writer I think.

This morning I was looking on a few article networks for articles I could use on a couple of blogs and came across a few articles that were full of typos. Heck even simple words were wrong but what really caught my attention was the keyword focus. They even had their keywords spelled incorrectly.

When I have my articles spun using The Best Spinner and ready to publish I still perform one more spell check and proof read the article before clicking publish.

Well I guess I ranted long enough about this, hope it helps and always spell check your work before putting it out for others to complain about.

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