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The advertiser is able to place a Phota Ad in a category of his choice, manage his own account, and change the text links and photo whenever he likes. There is a link to a web site of the advertisers choice or if preferred we will host a web page on our system.

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It is Grand Prix time in Monaco so I am off to the port now to soak up some of the atmosphere and watch Blah Blah who are playing on the roof at the Rascasse.

Damian

Check out the video below to see what Zemanta can do to your blog.

Zemanta Blogger integration from zemanta on Vimeo.

Let me know what you think as always by posting your comments below.

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Damian

Check out a couple of my video sites

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The Sopranos
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Do you make any money with your blog?

Well Shannon Herod has just launched Blog with Success which the sub header announces as “A Step by Step System to Wordpress Domination”. (You can get a discount at the end of this post).

Many WordPress blog owners have become disappointed as their blogs have not yet paid for them to give up their Day Job! They were told (by the Gurus?) that all they needed to do was set up a blog, make a few posts which would drive extraordinary amounts of traffic to their sites and they would be able to sit back and count the cash.

Great idea but as we all know it doesn’t work like that. It is very possible to drive traffic to blogs but they absolutely must be set up the correct way. The optimized way.

The great thing about WordPress, is that there are a ton of options available to you to optimize your blog not only to search engines, but for Web 2.0, social bookmarking, audio and video, and much much more.

The bad thing is that if you don’t know where to find all the add ons, which ones are most effective or how to set them you can spend days banging your head against the wall and searching for the best way to set everything up and still not be sure when you had finished.

Now with Blog with Success you can get everything laid out for you in a super simple proven step-by-step system.

This system comes with a graphically packed PDF file that takes you by the hand and walks you step-by-step through every crucial aspect of setting up your WordPress blog.

I hardly ever finish the PDFs that I download or if I do I skip through and retain little. I much prefer to watch someone actually doing it so was well pleased that the system comes with over 20 videos to show you exactly what to do, step-by-step including :

* how to easily install WordPress in 3 minutes flat

* the three simple tweaks guaranteed to skyrocket your blog to the top of the search engines

* two plugins that will take your stagnate blog to SEO stardom

* the absolute easiest way to tag your blog posts

* surefire ways to make the search engines fall in love with your URLs

* how to quickly and easily add video and audio to your blog

* and much much more

If you want some proof of how effective this system can be, watch the video on the sales page where Shannon shows you how he gets ranked No1 on google for the keyword “Best Internet Marketing Strategies” and others.

Blog with Success is a great system. I will be using it to improve my blogs and will let you know the results and would love t hear about yours. Go ahead and post a comment below, and let me know how you get on.

If you want to get a US$10 discount on the $47 purchase price enter your details below and check your email.

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Damian

The quality and availability of the speakers
and
The networking potential with other attendees

I was fortunate enough to be able to spend quality one to one time with amongst others :

Sean Roach, Armand Morin, Tracy Repchuck, Adam Ginsberg, Simon Leung, Michael Cheney, Keith Wellman, Tim Brocklehurst, Gary Ambrose and Robert Puddy.

As well as to meet and talk with many other attendees about their internet businesses, (successes and failures).

Here’s a video of some of the speakers on day two at the World Internet Summit UK 2007.

Any one else out there with conference or summit experience please let me know whether they were good or bad and why. I am sure that as in most things internet related the quality and value for money will vary enormously. The best indication for me is always the quality and spread of the speakers which you should be able to judge before the event.

I will have a full set of DVDs of the 4 days of WIS London available shortly if anyone is interested in finding out more about these and the bonus package I am putting together to complement the DVDS please leave your details below.

If you have any area of internet marketing that you would like to be covered by part of the bonus then post a comment or send me an email to damian@damiansdomains.com and I will see what I can do.

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Damian

NextAdvisor.com recently compiled a Facebook Identity Theft Prevention Guide which which you can get at :

Facebook Identity Theft Protection Guide: 6 tips to protect your identity on Facebook

I would be interested to hear what others feel about the risks out there in cyber world!

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Damian

As a result some have actually become interested in using the web to market their own businesses or products or have seen some of the tools I use and realised how they could be used to improve their current web presence.

In talking to some of these people I realised how little of the basics they knew when it comes to actually getting started and I remembered that in fact 18 months ago this was exactly my biggest hurdle.

I had no idea what html, ftp, keywords, autoresponders, DNS, or webhosting meant or required. I just knew that if I went on Internet Explorer or Firefox I could find almost anything I wanted by searching on Google.

With this in mind I decided to run through the basic steps and tools required in setting up your first website business.

Keyword Analysis

Before setting up any business whether it be online or offline you need to do your market research in order to see if there is demand for what you are offering and what your competition are already offering to satisfy this demand.

The best way to do this for an online business is by keyword research. Basically this involves checking what phrases or “keywords” people are searching for on Google and the other search engines and reviewing how many sites are already supplying answers to these keyword searches.

There are many keyword tools available on the internet which will help you do this for example; GoodKeywords, Wordtracker and Google itself. These are all free sites (some may have a pro version which is charged for but you don’t need that at this stage.)

If you want something more sophisticated I use Keyword Elite. This is an absolutely amazing program which does the keywords research, creates PPC Ads, spys on your competitors ads and SEO techniques and reports back to you with advice how to improve you performance against your competitors.

Domain Name Purchase
Once you have done your keyword research and believe that you have found a potential market
then go to GoDaddy (or another domain seller they are all about the same price) and check name availability .

A few tips :

You should be looking for something that has the markets main keyword phrase at the start or the end with max 5 letters in front or behind it.

Always get .com avoid all the other variations, (people still put more credence in a site with a dotcom domain name.)

Avoid hyphens and numbers in the name as they make the name more easy to forget or get wrong.

Once you have found something suitable go straight to checkout don’t buy any of the addons that GoDaddy continually offer you or you will be working for 12 months just to pay them!

Domain Hosting

Next you need a hosting account, I have used a few and now use kiosk and hostgator and would recommend both, kiosk provides more free training and backup but they both offer a variety of options which will suit different users.

The prices vary as they continually offer new packages check them both and see what you think.

Whatever you do get a host who provides Cpanel and Fantastico it will make your life much easier later.

Web Site Building and FTP

Now that you have found your market, decided upon your domain name and hosting company you will need to design your web site. You could outsource this ( I will be writing a separate post on outsourcing later this week) but I believe it is a good idea to have at least a basic knowledge of how to put up a web site if you are going to be involved in internet marketing for any length of time.

Both hostgator and kiosk provide web site building tools but a good free website builder with clear understandable video training is My Free WebSite Builder check it out - it is free!

Now you have designed your first web site you need to be able to put this on your web host in order that other people can access it, to do this you will need some FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software. I use Filezilla and SmartFTP which are both downloadable and free!

Autoresponders

The next thing I would do ( I didn’t and it cost me a lot of wasted time) is add an autoresponder to collect all your subscriber details and manage all your email campaigns.

I use Aweber as do a good percentage of marketers.

There are others but Aweber is the industry standard as it has been around for ever (1998).

If you are going to do any email marketing you need to do this as apart from the time saving you never want to be accused of SPAM as you could get closed down.

Aweber will help ensure that you are never accused of Spamming.

That should give you enough to think about for now, as ever if you have any questions or would like information about a specific area of Internet Marketing post a comment.

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Damian

Obviously facebook’s owners love this as their advertising revenue goes up exponentially. But do they share that with the real owners of facebook - the users?

If they do my check must still be in the post….

I now only open certain posts from certain applications (less and less) however I recently came across a new social networking site which claimed to be “The Worlds First Social Networking Site Which Pays Its Users”. Intrigued I signed up mid January and as they declare users earnings midway through the following month was keen to see if they lived up to their promise…

Sure enough I logged in and was surprised to see that I had in fact earned money in my first 2 weeks on the site. I admit not enough to pay for a sandwich but I remember my first adsense site earned less in its first month.

This is never going to replace your Day Job but if you are spending time on facebook and not getting paid why not give it a try.

After all the whole business of making money on the internet, whether by affiliate marketing, adsense income, EBay , Amazon or selling your own products is about creating multiple sources of income - why not use Yuwie as another perhaps small but painless addition to your portfolio.

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Damian

If you would just rather believe that the way you are doing things at the moment is not the most efficient way of doing things and are prepared to work at not having a Day Job then read on…..

If you have been online for any length of time, then you have heard the term “Blog”. You may even have a few in your own marketing bag of tricks.

Blogs have been around for a long time now, but it’s really only been within the last few years that online marketers have discovered just how profitable they can be.

Because blogs can help generate a tremendous amount of traffic to your website(s), which means you are getting more eyeballs on your offers and generating more sales.

While a typical website can take hours to update, a site built around a blog can be updated INSTANTLY and search engines quickly take notice, literally ’slurping’ up new content.

So when you create a blog and use a variety of keyword related posts, you can easily profit off of the results, which search engines like Yahoo and Google deliver.

For example, if you build blogs around your own products - or even those of someone else - it won’t be long before hungry buyers looking for that product happen upon your blog.

And that just makes the whole sales process a breeze doesn’t it? Rather than try to convince someone that you have what they need, with blogs you can present hungry buyers with EXACTLY what they want.

There Is No Other Method As Effective Or Powerful As Blogging…

JP Schoeffel’s Blog Matrix Pro will help you quickly and easily build your own empire of niche blogs…entire websites based around any topic or market to just about dominate specific targets within that market!
Here is the link:

Blog Matrix Pro

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Enough to put anyone off …. and then the market moves and you learn that it is no longer enough just to set up a squeeze page but now it must be a video squeeze page ….

Well don’t give up I have been testing a product which provides you with :

* Professional Video Squeeze Page - to capture your visitor’s name and email

* High-quality Squeeze Video - to grab your visitors’ attention
and get them to opt into your list

* Content Mini-site - to pre-sell your affiliate product and earn you commissions

* 5-part Email Series - to follow up with your prospects and convert more sales for you on the back-end

* 250 Keyword-rich, AdSense article to draw traffic from the
search engines and earn you a little extra on the side!

Whats more they provide all of the above for not just for 1 niche a
month…but for 10! Yes 10 complete turnkey affiliate businesses
waiting for you!

You don’t even need your own domain to use this program:

* No autoresponder required - It’s included!

* No web hosting, domain or website required - Included!

* No special skills necessary - It’s nearly 100% automated!

when I first read the sales letter, I thought it would be a
$497 membership, as I would be ready to pay $67 for 1 single
of these affiliate package. I guessed that for 10, they would
give a discount.

Then after the usual “you won’t pay that, nor even that…”
I guessed it would cost $197…

I was completely wrong, and more than you can imagine.

Usually, to raise the click through rate of this post, I should
not divulge the price of this service. Well, I don’t really care,
this is too good not to share

YOU GET THE WHOLE THING FOR $37 A MONTH!

I truly find this amazing and need you to benefit from this amazing service.

It takes all the hard work out of Affiliate Marketing, imagine you get 10 sales systems each month for $37. Two sales a month from any of the systems will cover the membership price and at the end of 12 months you will have 120 sales systems working on autopilot for you for a total monthly cost of ……$ 37.

Seriously this is the best value product I have seen in the last two years and I cannot believe that they will keep the membership open for much longer at this price

This one works !!!!

Get it now before you regret it Silver Bullet

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Damian