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08
2010
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“The Best List Building Secrets Exposed!”

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List Building Secret #1 – Make Your Content Relevant Keeps Your Subscribers Happy And Boosts The Amount Of People Who Will Recommend Your Newsletter To Their Friends.

One of the biggest problems I see newsletter and ezine publishers having online is that they write about subjects no one in their market is interested in. They just write about whatever they think people want to know about without doing any of the research, which is a huge no no.

Another problem is, publishers who have a market well defined don’t then write the content in their newsletters that interests their readers. There is no use having an ezine on coin collecting and running articles on stamp collecting just because you couldn’t be bothered finding the right content for your Robscashcreators e zine.

This is easily overcome. Just send out an email asking your readers what they want to read. Also sign up for other ezines in your market and see what they are writing about.

List Building Secret #2 – Add More Subscription Boxes To Your Website

Sounds simple enough, but few people actually do it. If you have a 100 page website, you should have 100 newsletters subscribe boxes on your website.

You can integrate a subscribe box just about anywhere in a website. You could add one just before an article starts, in the middle of an article or even at the end of the article.

As long as you have good content on your website, you won’t have a problem getting people to subscribe to your newsletter.

An interesting way to do this for a content site is as follows.

Have a look at this website and see what he does to get subscribers, it’s very clever.

http://www.U2canfindwealth.com

List Building Secret #3 -  Offer An Outstanding Bonus Or Gift

I’ve had a problem in the past with offering freebies to get people to subscribe to your newsletter, but I also know it can work well, if done properly.

Why do I have a problem with it? Well I really want subscribers to be signing up for my newsletter because they want my newsletter not because they want the freebie I’m offering.

The best way to offer a freebie is to create one yourself and not something you have reprint rights to with 500 other people. You want it to be unique, and you want it to be something that plugs your newsletter heavily.

Do you know what makes a good bonus? Back issues of your newsletter!

List Building Secret #4 – Use Free Viral Ebooks To Get New Subscribers

Want to get thousands of new subscribers for your ezine without spending a cent on advertising and you’ve tried all the methods above but you still want more? Viral marketing is the way to go! Writing viral ebooks that get passed around.

Writing viral books is nothing new, but it’s still a great way to get your newsletter noticed.

There are a few methods you can use when creating viral ebooks.

You can either create them as a free product, or charge for them and give people the reprint rights to the product so they in turn can give your product away while making some money in the process.

I prefer the reprint right route. The key here is tho, once the momentum of the first book wears out, write another and another and another and another! All in the same method, all with reprint rights and all with your newsletter subscribe from plastered in them.

The goal really isn’t to make money from the sales of the book, it’s to get more subscribers.

So again, find a group of publishers in your markets, let them know you created a new ebook with sales letter that they can use and plug straight into their website and give them a mailing promotion to use and tell them they can have the book for free and that they can either sell the book or the book and the reprint rights to their customers.

This is easy money for them and more subscribers for you!

Doing audio interviews with experts in your field also is a great idea to get more subscribers. I’m not going to get into how to create audio products as that’s a whole other book, but interviewing experts over the phone and recording it on mp3 will get your newsletter splashed all over the Internet, especially in fields other then Internet marketing where people don’t expect to get this much quality information for free

When you take marketing tactics from the Internet marketing field and apply them into other niche markets where they have never been seen before, you will get noticed more. Everything has been done in the Internet marketing field, we are all  immune to even the most brilliant marketing tactics as we see them almost everyday, but other niche markets eat these things up.

Creating audio interviews isn’t hard at all equipment wise and finding experts to interview is a piece of cake. Do you know how I find experts in any field almost instantly?

Well most FAQ pages at FAQS.Org/faq/ have who its written by and an email address for them. These guys are obviously knowledgeable in their fields, and they would make great experts to interview.

Tell them you want to interview them because you’ve read information they’ve written and it was great and you think your subscribers would appreciate the information. Most will do this without charging you a cent if you are outside the marketing field, they will just get a thrill out of being interviewed.

Once you have these interviews, tell all the publishers you’ve been in contact with recently that you have this great set of mp3’s just completed and you want to offer them for free to their lists.

Setup a section on your website with the download link to these mp3’s and also put a subscribe form near them for your newsletter and you will be surprised how many people will sign up AFTER they listen to your mp3s. Don’t make is so these people have to sign up for your newsletter before they get the mp3s.

List Building Secret #5 – Use Pop Up Windows

Pop up windows are still effective ways to get subscribers, especially in niche markets. Creating popups on your website is as easy as pie. There are however a few different type of popup windows you can use.

The pop up window on exit, which pops up after you leave a website and the popup window on entry which obviously pops up when you first go to a website. I prefer the exit popup. So when someone leaves  a page on your website they get a popup window asking them to subscribe to your newsletter.

This can get annoying so what you want to do is use a popup that allows you to tell if a persons already seen your popup before so it won’t keep showing.

You can find these sort of popup scripts at….. http://www.nowsell.com/pop-ups/exit-popup-scripts.html

Or if you want a piece of software to do it for you, check out http://www.dynamic-popup-generator.com/gindex.htm

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01
2010
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Facebook And Business Marketing Ads

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Facebook is not the first social network but it is the most popular one.
There have been many other social networks before Facebook and while some of them were popular at some point in time, none could reach the popularity of Facebook. In addition to keeping in touch with your friends, Facebook can be (and is) used for business or blogs like Robs Cash Creators. You can use it to promote your products and services, to acquire new clients, or to get traffic to your site or blog.

Like Twitter, Facebook is just one of the many ways to get some traffic to your site. Many marketers believe that it is just a matter of time for the traffic from Facebook, Twitter and the other major social networking sites to surpass the traffic their sites get from Google, Yahoo or Bing. While this time might come, don’t take this as a promise that even if you do everything right, Facebook, Twitter, or any other similar site will do traffic miracles for you. For some people Facebook works like a charm, for others it doesn’t work at all. The same applies to Twitter. You can’t know in advance if Facebook and/or Twitter will crash your server with traffic. Just try both and see which one (if any) works for you.

Unlike Twitter, which is very simplistic, Facebook offers more possibilities. Yes, you might need more time in order to explore all the possibilities and take advantage of them but hopefully these efforts will have a great return in terms of traffic. Here are some tips that can help you turn Facebook into a traffic monster:

Your profile is your major weapon
As with Twitter and any other social network, if you don’t make your profile interesting, you will hardly become popular. Give enough background information for you and don’t forget to make your profile public because this way even people, who don’t know you, when they encounter your profile, they might become interested in you and become a supporter of you and your blog or facebook.

Include information about your site on your Wall and in the photo gallery
Facebook gives you the opportunity to write a lot about you and your endeavors, as well as to include pictures, so use all these opportunities to build interest in you and your products. It is even better to post videos and fill in the other tabs, so if you have something meaningful to put there, just do it.

Build your network
As with other social networking sites, your network is your major capital. That is why you need to invite your friends, acquaintances, and partners and ask them to join as your supporter. You should also search for people with interests similar to yours. However, don’t be pushy and don’t spam because this is not the way to convince people to join your network and find wealth.

Post regularly
No matter how interesting the stuff in your Facebook profile is, if you don’t publish new content regularly, the traffic to your Facebook profile (and respectively the Facebook traffic to your site) will slow down. If you can post daily, it is fine but even if you don’t post that regularly, try to do it as frequently as you can. If nothing else, updating your status regularly is more than nothing, so do it. Or write about an event going on in your life, such as your family, pet or your plans in life.

Be active
A great profile, an impressive network, and posting regularly are just a part of the recipe for success on Facebook. You also need to be active – visit the profiles of your supporters, take part in their groups and other initiatives, visit their sites. You are right that all this takes a lot of time and you might soon discover that Facebooking is a full-time occupation but if you notice an increase in traffic to your site,and additional sales then all this is worth the extra time spent.

Arrange your page
Unlike other social networks, Facebook gives you more flexibility and you can move around many of the boxes. If you put the RSS feed with the links to your blog or website in a visible space, this alone can generate a lot of traffic for you and put more money in your pocket and become your Cash Creator.

Check what Facebook apps are available
Facebook apps are numerous and now new ones are being released all the time. While many of these apps are not exactly what you need, they can work for you in a great way. For instance, Market Place widget/plugin or Blog Friends widget are very useful and you should take advantage of them. You can also use the widgets for cross posting (i.e. posting directly on Twitter from Facebook) this is another time saver for you and will allow you to post more often.

Use Facebook Social Ads
If you can’t get traffic the natural way, you might consider using Facebook Social ads. These are PPC ads and starting a campaign is similar to an Adwords campaign on Google or Bing and a whole lot cheaper!.

Start a group
There are many groups on Facebook but it is quite probable that there is a free niche for you. Start a group about something related to your business and invite people to join it. The advantage of this approach is that you are getting targeted users – i.e. people, who are interested in you,and or your product, your ideas,your blog or website and your Cash Creators etc.

Write your own Facebook extensions
While this step is certainly not for everybody, if you can write Facebook extensions, this is one more way to make your Facebook profile popular and get some traffic to your site or blog.

Use separate profiles
Unfortunately, social networks do expose a lot of personal information. Many people are rightfully worried about their privacy on social network sites and that is why it is not uncommon to have one personal profile for friends and one business profile to promote their business. You can have one single profile for both purposes, but if you have privacy concerns, consider separating this profile in two – you’d better be safe than sorry.

Facebook is changing all the time and no matter how hard you try to follow these changes, there will be new and new possibilities for you to explore. That is why it is not possible to compile a complete list of all the tactics you can use in order to drive traffic from Facebook to your site. Anyway, if you try just the basics for Facebook success we listed here, chances are that you will see a considerable traffic increase.

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How To Make Money From Your Website!

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For millions of people web sites are the major source of income. Thanks to the various ways to monetize a site, it is possible to make a living as a web master. However, this doesn’t mean that every web master is a millionaire. Well, if you know how to monetize your web site such as RobsCashCreators, you might not get rich but at least chances are that under the worst possible scenario, you will be able to cover your hosting fees and the other expenses you make for your site.

Currently the most profitable ways to monetize your site are PPC, CPM ads, CPC ads, CPA ads, direct sales of ad space, and selling merchandise/goods/services. These ways are described in this article.

CPM Ads Can Bring In Cents

CPM ads (an abbreviation for Cost Per Thousand) is the oldest type of site monetization. You put banners on your site and advertisers pay you based on the number of unique impressions/page views your site has.

CPM ads are the easiest form of site monetization because they require almost no effort on your side, but they are also the least feasible because as a rule the rates are low. Some CPM ad networks pay as low as $.05 per 1,000 uniques, which means that you need millions of visitors in order to make $100-200 a month.

Popups and layer ads pay a bit more ($.5-2 per 1,000 uniques/pageviews). They could bring you a few dollars a month but many visitors find them especially irritating and this is why many web masters are not willing to put popups and/or layer ads on their sites.

There are high-paying CPM ads – for instance ads paying $2-5 per 1,000 uniques but usually the networks that run them have very high traffic and quality requirements for the sites that are eligible. As a result, it is very hard to get into these networks and take advantage of these well-paid CPM ads.

There are many CPM networks we can recommend. For sites with lots of traffic the choice better and some of the good options are Advertising.com, TribalFusion, CasaleMedia, and ValueClick because there CPM rates are good. AdBrite, AdToll, Right Media, and BurstMedia are also good. Some of these networks are CPM-only, while others have other types of ads as well. Google also has CPM ads, so you may want to try them.
CPC Ads Are a Profitable Way to Monetize a Site

CPC ads are different from CPM because with CPC you get paid not when visitors view ads but when they click on them. The good news is that CPC rates are much, much better and as a result, it is possible to make a decent income even with a small site with not so high traffic. The key with CPC success is to have a well-targeted site in a niche where there are a lot of advertisers.

The most popular CPC network is Google Adsense and even though there are other CPC networks, the income you can make from Adsense is much higher. The reason is that Google Adsense has many advertisers and if your site is in a profitable niche, CPC can be the best way to monetize your site. Additionally, unlike some of the other CPC ad networks, Google Adsense is open to publishers from all over the world.

Usually CPC ads are text ads and you publish them in blocks. However, there are also intext ads, where the keyword is underlined and when the visitor puts the mouse on it, a tooltip with CPC ads appears. Intext ads are less obtrusive but it takes much more effort for the user to notice them , which means that your chances to make money are further decreased.

Currently CPA (an abbreviation from Cost Per Action) is the most profitable way to monetize a site in a profitable niche. CPA, also known as “affiliate programs”, pays you a commission when your visitors perform an action. Most often this action is a purchase, but it could also be something else – i.e. download a free trial, or signup for the service of the advertiser.

Affiliate programs can make you rich because there are many products with really fat commissions. For niches such as health, finance, travel, etc. affiliate programs are a real golden mine.

However, affiliate programs require a lot of efforts on your side and still there is no guarantee that the offers you pick to promote will convert well and will make you money. Sometimes even the highest converting offers won’t convert on your site and the only thing you can do is replace them with other offers, hoping that they will convert better.

There might be hundreds of CPM ad networks but for CPA they are thousands. It is practically impossible to try all of them personally and this is why we would like to recommend some of the best to start with. Amazon, eBay, ShareASale, Commission Junction, Clickbank, Max Bounty, Azoogle, Never Blue Ads, LinkShare, or PepperJam are just a few of the greatest CPA networks we can recommend.

If you are not happy with the CPM rates of ad networks, or CPC and CPA don’t convert well with your site, you could try to find direct advertisers. However, have in mind that such an endeavor is not necessarily bound to succeed and if your site doesn’t have audience advertisers can’t reach elsewhere, you will hardly be able to negotiate good prices.

Openads Ad Server and OIO Publisher Ad Platform are two of the sites where you could try your luck. AdBrite also allows you to price your ad space. In fact, almost any major network gives you the chance to put a widget on your site to invite advertisers directly to advertise on your site.

In addition to CPA ads, where you are selling other merchants’ products, you can try selling your own merchandise or products/services with your brand. This technique works well mainly for popular sites with loyal audience and is hardly the easiest way to monetize a site. You could try to sell merchandise/goods/services as a supplementary service and if you see that this monetization technique works, you can expand the business. CafePress is one of the best places where you can sell merchandise with your logo and the greatest thing is that they print on demand, which means you don’t have to keep your merchandise in stock.

The monetization techniques we described here can be combined. You can run CPM ads together with CPA or CPC. You can also combine multiple ads from the same type (i.e. CPM, CPC, or CPA) from different ad networks, provided that this doesn’t violate the terms of these networks. There isn’t a universal prescription about the best way to monetize a site. The basic rule is that you need to try and see what works for you. The fact that a given monetization technique works for somebody else doesn’t mean that it will work for you, so you need to try and see for yourself.

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29
2010
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How To Get Free Targeted Traffic Using Twitter

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Twitter is one of the latest and greatest Web 2.0 apps and it gets tons of traffic. However, from the point of view of a SEO expert, it is more important that Twitter can get you tons of traffic as well. So, if you still don’t have an account with Twitter, personal or business like RobsCashCreators you’d better open one.

Twitter is simple to use and this is what made it so popular. Twitter is fashionable right now, so enjoy the moment. Even the creators of Twitter admit that as with FaceBook and other Web 2.0 sensations, Twitter will inevitably go out of fashion some day, so hurry up and get some traffic for free now, when it is still all the rage of the internet.

Twitter is simple to use, yet it is really powerful. You might need a couple of hours to get familiar with the basic functionality of Twitter and of some of the extras it has but you can harness its power, even if you don’t know it very well.

Unlike most of the other places you can get traffic for free, Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, which means that there are restrictions on the number of characters in a message. Therefore, you need to be concise in your Tweets and use your space wisely. In addition to being concise, here are some more tips that will help you get a ton of traffic from Twitter:

Make your Twitter profile interesting
Your profile and your user-name are the first two things your visitors will see when they go to your Twitter page. If your profile looks boring, people won’t bother to read your tweets, not to mention visit the links you post in them. You can’t write a very long bio of yours, but you can enter a few words about you – i.e. your occupation, your interests, etc. You can also include a couple of keywords in your bio.

Pick a niche-targeted use-rname
Your user-name is very important. You need to pick a user-name that is targeted at your niche. For instance, if you are promoting your Article services and want to drive traffic to your Article site, you can choose something like Articlemaster, Articleguru, Articleservices, etc. Your user-name will show in searches other users make and this is why you must pay attention to what user-name you choose.

Put your site/blog URL in your profile
According to some statistics, 80% of tweeters don’t provide an URL in their bio! Well, maybe these people are not Article experts/Internet marketers and they don’t need this traffic but you as a Article expert can’t afford to miss it. So, don’t forget to include your URL in your profile!

Send the link to your profile to your friends, coworkers, and acquaintances
Your friends, coworkers, and acquaintances will be your most loyal audience, so if they don’t know about your Twitter page, make them aware of what they are missing. If you have their emails, or know their accounts on different networks, you can send a massive invite to your Twitter page.

Search for Twitter users with similar interests
You might have millions of friends, but more followers are always welcome. That is why you can use the search functions on Twitter and find people with similar interests. Find as many as you can and invite them all to your page. These people might not be as loyal as your friends, coworkers, and acquaintances but still you will get hits from them also. Some Twitter users report that about 2-3% of their followers visit their site a day, which means that if you have 1,000 followers, you might expect to get at least 20 or 30 visits a day to your site. This response rate might seem low but there are ways to increase it.

Socialize on Twitter as much as you can
When you are active in Twitter, respond to the posts of your followers and visit their links, this seriously increases your chances that you will get the same in return. In a word, actively follow those that follow you. And remember to be polite and leave a Tweet.

Tweet regularly
As with all other kinds of media, if you want to keep your audience, you need to feed it regularly. Writing a short tweet takes just seconds, but it is enough in order to keep your followers happy. It goes without saying, that you should tweet about useful things, so if you don’t have something meaningful to post about you or your sites, it is quite OK to post a link to an article, a video, a blog, etc. you found on the Net and that you liked.

Don’t spam
You might feel that every single user on Twitter is interested in you and your blog/site but this is not exactly so. You might be tempted to make as many users as you can aware of your Twitter page and your latest tweets but you’d better refrain from doing this, unless you want to see if you can get a ban or not.

Take advantage of Twitter-feed
Twitter-feed is one more useful service you can take advantage of in order to increase your reach. Go to twitter-feed.com and configure your feeds.

Make Twitter Search love you
Twitter has a great search function and its main advantage is that it offers real-time results. Google might be fast in indexing pages but its indexing is not real-time. Users are hungry for hot news and nothing beats a real-time search. Many blogger’s report that they are getting more traffic from Twitter than from Google and partially this is due to the fact that their tweets are popular and users find them with ease.

Add Twitter gadgets to your site
There are tons of Twitter gadgets and new ones are being released every day. The cool thing about Twitter gadgets is that your blog visitors can become your Twitter followers. If your Twitter followers have many followers, chances are that some of these followers will notice you and will join your network. As we already mentioned, building a large and targeted network is key to getting more Twitter traffic to your site.

These are some of the main ways in which you can get traffic from Twitter. If you are creative and if you monitor what’s going on on Twitter and what new Twitter gadgets are released, you will certainly find more ways to drive traffic from Twitter to your site.

Take some time now and THINK about it! Then? JUST DO IT!

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16
2010
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The Importance of Backlinking

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If you’ve read anything about or studied Search Engine Optimization, you’ve come across the term “backlink” at least once. For those of you new to SEO, you may be wondering what a backlink is, and why they are important. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO. In this article, we at Robs Cash Creators will explain to you what a backlink is, why they are important, and what you can do to help gain them while avoiding getting into trouble with the Search Engines.

What are “backlinks”? Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL’s). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

A search engine considers the content of the sites to determine the QUALITY of a link. When inbound links to your site come from other sites, and those sites have content related to your site, these inbound links are considered more relevant to your site. If inbound links are found on sites with unrelated content, they are considered less relevant. The higher the relevance of inbound links, the greater their quality.

For example, if a webmaster has a website about how to rescue orphaned kittens, and received a backlink from another website about kittens, then that would be more relevant in a search engine’s assessment than say a link from a site about car racing. The more relevant the site is that is linking back to your website, the better the quality of the backlink.

Another reason to achieve quality backlinks is to entice visitors to come to your website. You can’t build a website, and then expect that people will find your website without pointing the way. You will probably have to get the word out there about your site. One way webmasters got the word out used to be through reciprocal linking. Let’s talk about reciprocal linking for a moment.

There is much discussion in these last few months about reciprocal linking. In the last Google update, reciprocal links were one of the targets of the search engine’s latest filter. Many webmasters had agreed upon reciprocal link exchanges, in order to boost their site’s rankings with the sheer number of inbound links. In a link exchange, one webmaster places a link on his website that points to another webmasters website, and vice versa. Many of these links were simply not relevant, and were just discounted. So while the irrelevant inbound link was ignored, the outbound links still got counted, diluting the relevancy score of many websites. This caused a great many websites to drop off the Google map.

Many webmasters have more than one website. Sometimes these websites are related, sometimes they are not. You have to also be careful about interlinking multiple websites on the same IP. If you own seven related websites, then a link to each of those websites on a page could hurt you, as it may look like to a search engine that you are trying to do something fishy. Many webmasters have tried to manipulate backlinks in this way; and too many links to sites with the same IP address is referred to as backlink bombing.

There are a few things to consider when beginning your backlink building campaign. It is helpful to keep track of your backlinks, to know which sites are linking back to you, and how the anchor text of the backlink incorporates keywords relating to your site. A tool to help you keep track of your backlinks is the Domain Stats Tool. This tool displays the backlinks of a domain in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It will also tell you a few other details about your website, like your listings in the Open Directory, or DMOZ, from which Google regards backlinks highly important; Alexa traffic rank, and how many pages from your site that have been indexed, to name just a few.

Building quality backlinks is extremely important to Search Engine Optimization, and because of their importance, it should be very high on your priority list in your SEO efforts. We hope you have a better understanding of why you need good quality inbound links to your site, and have a handle on a few helpful tools to gain those links.

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Jan
07
2010
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Importance of Sitemaps

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There are many SEO tips and tricks that help in optimizing a site but one of those, the importance of which is sometimes underestimated is sitemaps.
Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your site – i.e. on one single page you show the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make navigating your site easier and having an updated sitemap on your site is good both for your users and for search engines.

Sitemaps are an important way of communication with search engines. While in robots.txt you tell search engines which parts of your site to exclude from indexing, in your site map you tell search engines where you’d like them to go like to RobsCashCreators.

Sitemaps are not a novelty. They have always been part of best Web design practices but with the adoption of sitemaps by search engines, now they become even more important. However, it is necessary to make a clarification that if you are interested in sitemaps mainly from a SEO point of view, you can’t go on with the conventional sitemap only (though currently Yahoo! and MSN still keep to the standard html format). For instance, Google Sitemaps uses a special (XML) format that is different from the ordinary html sitemap for human visitors.

One might ask why two sitemaps are necessary. The answer is obvious – one is for humans, the other is for spiders (for now mainly Googlebot but it is reasonable to expect that other crawlers will join the club shortly). In that relation it is necessary to clarify that having two sitemaps is not regarded as duplicate content. In ‘Introduction to Sitemaps’, Google explicitly states that using a sitemap will never lead to penalty for your site.

Why Use a Sitemap
Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Of course, you cannot expect that search engines will rush right away to index your changed pages but certainly the changes will be indexed faster, compared to when you don’t have a sitemap.

Also, when you have a sitemap and submit it to the search engines, you rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site. Sitemaps can even help with messy internal links – for instance if you by accident have broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in other way (though there is no doubt that it is much better to fix your errors than rely on a sitemap).

If your site is new, or if you have a significant number of new (or recently updated pages), then using a sitemap can be vital to your success. Although you can still go without a sitemap, it is likely that soon sitemaps will become the standard way of submitting a site to search engines. Though it is certain that spiders will continue to index the Web and sitemaps will not make the standard crawling procedures obsolete, it is logical to say that the importance of sitemaps will continue to increase.

Sitemaps also help in classifying your site content, though search engines are by no means obliged to classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because you have told them so.

Having in mind that the sitemap programs of major search engines (and especially Google) are still in beta, using a sitemap might not generate huge advantages right away but as search engines improve their sitemap indexing algorithms, it is expected that more and more sites will be indexed fast via sitemaps.

Generating and Submitting the Sitemap
The steps you need to perform in order to have a sitemap for your site are simple. First, you need to generate it, then you upload it to your site, and finally you notify Google about it.

Depending on your technical skills, there are two ways to generate a sitemap – to download and install a sitemap generator or to use an online sitemap generation tool. The first is more difficult but you have more control over the output. You can download the Google sitemap generator from Google. After you download the package, follow the installation and configuration instructions in it.

The second way to generate a sitemap is easier. There are many free online tools that can do the job for you. For instance, have a look at this collection of Third-party Sitemap tools. Although Google says explicitly that it has neither tested, nor verified them, this list will be useful because it includes links to online generators, downloadable sitemap generators, sitemap plugins for popular content-management systems, etc., so you will be able to find exactly what you need.

After you have created the sitemap, you need to upload it to your site (if it is not already there) and notify Google about its existence. Notifying Google includes adding the site to your Google Sitemaps account, so if you do not have an account with Google, it is high time to open one. Another detail that is useful to know in advance is that in order to add the sitemap to your account, you need to verify that you are the legitimate owner of the site.

Currently Yahoo! and MSN do not support sitemaps, or at least not in the XML format, used by Google. Yahoo! allows webmasters to submit “a text file with a list of URLs” (which can actually be a stripped-down version of a site map), while MSN does not offer even that but there are rumors that it is indexing sitemaps when they are available onsite. Most likely this situation will change in the near future and both Yahoo! and MSN will catch with Google because user-submitted site maps are just a too powerful SEO tool and cannot be ignored.

Take some time now and THINK about it! Then? JUST DO IT!

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Dec
29
2009
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Ways To Get Traffic for Free

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!


Getting traffic is one of the most important tasks for any web master.
What is more, you can’t get traffic once and then just reap the benefits. Getting traffic is an ongoing task and you must be constantly doing it, if you want to get traffic and keep it. Here are some of the ways to get traffic for free and create your cash creators:

Optimize your site for search engines.
Search engines have always been the major way to get traffic for free. That is why all you need to do your homework and optimize your sites so that they rank well for the keywords you target. SEO is still the most powerful way to get traffic for free. And you really need to invest some time and efforts in the optimization of your sites. SEO is not that difficult and if you want to get familiar with it in a nutshell, check out Google search for SEO help, and If you are too busy for that, you can start with Yahoo and Google web master tools.

Frequently update the contents of your site. .
If you expected some shocking secrets to be revealed, you might be a bit disappointed. One of the first steps in getting traffic for your web site for free is this trivial but vital – get great content and  update it frequently . In terms of SEO, content is king. If your content is good  updated you will not only build a loyal audience of recurring visitors, who will often come to see what is new, but search engines like Google and Yahoo will also love your site and help you create your cash creators.

Take advantage of social bookmarking sites.
Social bookmarking sites (especially the most popular forums and blogs among them) are another powerful way to get traffic for free. If you want to learn how to do it, check Google search for get Traffic from Social Bookmarking  articles, where they have explained what to do if you want to get free traffic from sites such as Digg, Delicious, etc.

Use your Twitter and Facebook or My Space accounts.
Social networks are also a way to get traffic for free. If you are popular on networks, such as Twitter or Facebook, or My Space the traffic you get from there can easily surpass the traffic from Google and the other search engines. It is true that building a large network of targeted followers on Twitter and supporters on Facebook and My Space takes a lot of time and effort but generally the result are worth while.

Get links with other sites in your niche.
Another way to get traffic for free is from other sites in your niche. Getting links with other sites in your niche is also good for SEO, especially if you manage to get links without the famous nofollow attribute. But even if the links are nofollow (i.e. they are useless for SEO), they still help to get traffic to your site. If you manage to put your link in a visible place on a site with high volumes of traffic, you can get thousands of hits from this link alone. If you need list of sites within your niche where you could get backlinks from, check the Google and Yahoo tools. However, be careful if you exchange links because linking to bad neighbors can do you a lot of harm.

Use any chance to promote your site for free.
Free promotion are always welcome, so don’t neglect it. There are many ways to promote your sites for free and some of the most popular ones include free classified ads such as craigs list. Submissions to directories, inclusion in various listings, etc. It is true that not all free ways to promote your site work well but if you select the right places to promote your site for free, this can also result in tons of traffic and help your ranking with the major search engines.

Create a free product or service.
Content drives most traffic when you offer something useful and free. There are many types of useful content you can create and they largely depend on the niche of your site. You can have articles with tons of advice,and or short tips but one of the most powerful ways to get traffic is to create a free product or service. When this product or service gets popular and people start visiting your site, chances are that they will visit the other sections of your site as well.

Use viral content.
Free products and services are great for getting free traffic to your site and one of the best  in this aspect is viral content. Viral content is called so because it distributes like a virus – i.e. when users like your content or free items, they send it to their friends, post it on various blog sites, and promote it for free in many different ways. Viral content distributes on its own and your only task is to create it and submit it to a couple of popular blog or forums sites. After that users pick it and distribute it for you. Viral content can be a hot video or a presentation but it can also be a good old article with or without an image.

Use offline promotion.
Offline promotion is frequently forgotten but it is also a great way to get traffic for free. Yes, computers are everywhere and many people spend more time online than offline but still life hasn’t moved completely to the Web. Offline promotion is also very powerful and if you know how to use it, this can also bring you many visitors. Some of the traditional offline ways to promote your site include printing its URL on your company’s business cards and souvenirs or sticking it on your company vehicles. You can also start selling T-shirts or coffee cups and other merchandise with your logo and this way make your brand more popular. Also promote thru craigs list ( it’s Free!)

Include your URL in your signature.
URLs in forum signatures are also a way to get traffic for free. There are forums, which get millions of visitors a day and if you are a popular user on such a forum, you can use this to get traffic to your sites. When you post on forums and people like your posts, they tend to click the link to your site on your signature to learn more about you. In rare cases you might be able to post a deep link rather than a link to your homepage and this is also a way to focus attention to a particular page. Unfortunately, deep links are rarely allowed.

Getting traffic for free is a vast topic and it is not possible to list all the ways to do it. However, if you know the most important ways , the ways we discussed in this article and you apply them properly, it is guaranteed that you will be able to get lots of traffic for free.

From Robs Cash Creators, To You And Yours, Have A Fantastic New Year!!

Take some time now and THINK about it! Then? JUST DO IT!

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Dec
13
2009
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Factors That Affect Human Performance

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We all struggle with the day-to-day ups and downs and dealing with the aspects of our lives and work environment. There is one question that I think need to be explored in more detail to understand how and why we have to deal with this day-to-day stuff: What are the factors to consider when managing/changing human performance?

Perhaps the answer lies in the human performance model, often used by training specialist who must take a holistic view when considering whether training is the root-cause for a performance deficiency.

The following factors will provide some insight in this view:

* Attitude and behaviors: How one thinks about their job and the work they perform. Is it an opportunity to gain satisfaction and reward or is it resented? Attitudes and behaviors are the most difficult thing to change and takes the longest period of time. Everyone by their pure nature all resist to changes. It is a hard thing to do.

* Climate: This is a prevailing set of attitudes about the job and work environment in general. Perceptions about the following are typical: How are the people treated and valued? Are the people respected and their issues properly considered, no matter how small? Does the working conditions and environment produce a climate commensurate with the work being done? Is there respect for the individual?

* System: This describes the systematic workflow process, operating practices, policies, and procedures used to give structure for completing the defined work output.

* Feedback: Getting the information necessary and in a timely manner to know when all is well, and if not, to make corrections.

* Supervision/management: The act of overseeing, coaching, mentoring and/or inspection.
* Motivation: An inducement or incentive for getting a desired outcome. How valuable is the work being performed, and if done well, how will others and I benefit? Consequence/reward systems are often used to influence the motivation.

* Skills: Both cognitive and overt skills (psychomotor skills) collectively produce a person’s expertise or know-how.

* Training and Education: The process utilized to induce or change in human behavior. Classroom, computer-based/e-learning, on-job (show and tell) or even “trial by fire” are all accepted methods, and yes, self-directed too.

These are some of my thought with hopes that maybe this will help to resolve some of the day-to-day issues that we have to deal with each day.

From Robs Cash Creators, To You And Yours, Have A Fantastic Christmas!!

ake some time now and THINK about it! Then? JUST DO IT!

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Dec
02
2009
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Dan’s Business Failings And Success

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A Very Special Merry Christmas To All,

This article is written by my friend Dan, who lives in Toukley, Australia

You know, I was thinking the other day about my failed businesses… and believe me, there have been a lot of them, and I wanted to share what I’ve learned here on RobsCashCreators.com.

If you can’t watch the video for any reason, please read on. So basically, I was thinking back about all the many businesses that I had started and failed. To name just a few, I have been a mortgage broker, forex trader, share trader, property advocate, car importer, selling stuff on eBay… to name just a few.

Anyway, the truth is that most of these businesses failed. Now I’ve never been scared of failure… I’ve always had the attitude of “get up, dust yourself off, learn the lesson and move on”. For the most part, this is a good thing. It’s important not to stay down… but it’s not what i am talking about today.

When I was thinking back at these the other day, what caught my attention was that of all my failed businesses, there was only really 1 that worried me. In fact, it devastated me. With all my other failings, I just picked myself up, dusted myself off and moved on… but my most recent failing really ripped my heart out. This got me thinking “why” and “what advise can I give so people can avoid that”.

Here is what I came up with. I want you to imagine a swimmer that is training for the Olympics. This guy is waking up at 4.00am every morning without fail, sun hail or shine, to go and swim a few hundred laps before work. Then after work, absolutely exhausted, he goes back to the pool to swim a few more hundred laps. This happens everyday for 4 years, until he is finally ready to try out for the Olympics.

Now our guy is 29… this is really his last shot, if he misses it, he will be too old by the time the next Olympics roll around. He is up on the block… “take your marks”… oh now, he has slipped in…. false start… disqualified. His Olympic dreams are shattered.

Now let me ask you this… is this guy shattered? Well of course he is. So what about this… how could he have prepared himself such that he wouldn’t be shattered in this event. Well I don’t know about you, but I can only think of 1 way… and that was not to have worked so hard to get there in the first place. Of course, if he didn’t work so hard, he could never possibly actually achieve his goal…. but he wouldn’t be shattered.

Hopefully you are starting to see the point. Our swimmer is shattered because they gave their heart and soul to the goal… and if you do that, there is no way to avoid that feeling of devastation in the event of failure. So while I started this thought process trying to help you avoid it… now I want you to embrace it. I am going to go so far as to say if you have failed and it did not hurt bad… you did not try hard enough.

Don’t let this worry you… it happens to the best of us…. just be aware of it, and make sure you put your heart and soul into the next venture… because if you don’t, there is no way you can achieve your goal.

Don’t be scared to fail and fall hard. Will it hurt? Absolutely, but it’s better than the alternative, and that is a life of mediocrity. No one ever looked back on their death bed and though “I failed too many times”… to have tried a bunch of stuff and fail is something to be proud of… the only regrets people have on their death beds are to not have tried enough.

OK, that’s it from me… play with passion. I’ll speak to you next week.

ake some time now and THINK about it! Then? JUST DO IT!

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Nov
25
2009
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List Building, How To Build Your List.

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It is a fact that many people who are just starting online, they do not want to build their own websites, or they can`t because of the technical skills. They just put a lens on Squidoo, or a hub at HubPages, and start driving traffic there.

We highly suggest using your own website for that.
The reason number one – if you are serious about building a business – you MUST drive traffic to your own website, not anybody else`s. Reason number two – there are too many outgoing links and distractions on Squidoo and HubPages – these websites make their money on advertising. But our goal, as affiliate marketers, is get the reader to click OUR links, not Google Adsense or any other sponsored links.

You can get an .info domain name for $7.99 for the year, and the hosting package for $8 a month or so, where you can host unlimited domains.You do not actually need some serious HTML or technical skills to get your website or squeeze pages done. We will provide you with the squeeze page templates that you can customize, in the nearest future.

And how to create the squeeze page and add the optin form in it ,Probably by now you have spent a lot of money along the way. That`s one of the reasons this blog is out and is offered at no cost. So you stop wasting your money and start taking action to make this a success.

Simple fact is, your whole affiliate marketing business does not have to cost you more than $30-$300 per month. It can be done with free traffic methods, and if doing that, you don’t have to spend more than $30-$50/ month. Of course, if you use paid methods to send traffic to your squeeze page, things will move along a lot faster. No matter which way you prefer – free or paid traffic, we will cover the basics right here.

From Robs Cash Creators, To You And Yours, Have A Fantastic Thanksgiving!!

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