You hear a lot of “this & that” when it comes to improved rankings from people on forums claiming that there method works. You just need to be careful and always on the look out from people who “Claim that they know it all when it comes to SEO. In this article, I will explain some of the concepts you need to know for search engine ranking improvement.

As we mentioned above, in the world of search engine optimization, links are a valuable asset to your website. However, not all links are created equal! Some links carry heavier weight than others. In fact some links are almost worthless from an SEO standpoint. Its important that the pages you link to from your web pages have a high page rank from google. The difference between a high ranking web page and a low ranking web page is like this -

- A high page rank page carry’s more “voting power” that is then passed onto your page once you link to it.

- A low page rank page you link to doesn’t have the “same voting power” as the high page rank page does! So linking to a high page ranking site is of more benefit to your page.

Using an anchor text link is beneficial to your site too. An anchor text link includes a few descriptive words which, if click will take you to a page the words are describing. So basically in order to “bum up” a page on your site, you would simply use an anchor text link on a page and use the main keyword of the page you want to “bum up” within the anchor text. When you click the link, it will bring you to the page you are try to bum up in the search engines.

Using these strategies will help your site get good search engine ranking improvement. All you need to do it take action and you will start to see improvement over the coming weeks.

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There�??s a super easy way to get started on the most important part of your business. What makes all your marketing and PR fall into place is first�?�a good description of your target customer. Who are they? What do they do? What do they read or watch? Where do they get their information? Sometimes it�??s hard to target market because as small businesses, we don�??t want to miss anyone. But if you don�??t know who you want to reach, how can you figure how where to reach them? And even more so, how do you send a message that you know they�??ll listen to?

Need an example? Here�??s mine for www.waxcoach.com. I came up with some characteristics that I thought would help me find my target media (which is the next step, but let�??s not get ahead of ourselves.) My customers are this –sole proprietors, authors, inventors and small businesspeople. They like to understand ALL the mechanisms of the business. They are involved in networking groups, want to be worth millions, and are very smart. They read magazines but go online for most of their information. They are between the ages of 28 and 45 and are 75% women, 25% men. (I got that gender split because that�??s the percentage of new businesses currently being started by women vs. men.)

Now that I know my target customer, I can figure out where I want to spend my time promoting my business. I�??ll decide whether to try for media placements or buy ads later. But picking my media targets should be pretty easy now! You could probably tell me where I should get some mention (and please do if you think of it )

Now I can narrow down my target media, based on my target customer. If I�??m a bit off base, I�??ll know quickly because I won�??t get the response I want. Maybe it will take a few tweaks�?�. maybe there are more men in my target than I think? Or perhaps the world is full of 50+ entrepreneurs? I�??ll knead my target market until I get it right, just like pie dough.

So back to YOUR business. Before you do anything, define your own target customers. Look at your current customers, that should be your first clue. No customers yet? Then use your best instincts to decide and keep it well defined. Trying to hit EVERYONE in the hopes of not missing ANYONE and you�??ll spread it too thin. Pick your people, and go for it.

Bonnie Harris is the president of Wax Marketing, a marketing and PR agency for small business. She also operates waxcoach.com, a DIY marketing and PR site for entrepreneurs. Bonnie can be reached at bonnie@waxcoach.com

First you must remember that AdSense revolves around marketing. If you are not marketing your website correctly, you will not get the hits you need to make a good salary. You need to create a website that not only you enjoy, but so will many others. The people are coming to your website for something you have on it. You have created a website that others want to view and while they are reading your content, they are also noticing the ads you currently have running on it. To ensure that you make money with your website, use AdSense and earn some revenue every time someone clicks on an ad from your site. Make sure to keep your website updated and active with frequent additions to information. A blog that is updated daily is a great way to do this and you can write many articles on one subject that your website focuses on. Doing this will enable search engines to find more keywords on your page and can direct more traffic your direction.

You must be able to locate a spot in the market that is not overused nor underused to create your AdSense market in order to make money that is not just enough for a cup of coffee a day, but real money. You can make money that will pay the bills and a whole lot more. The best way to do this is to google the keywords you want to use and see how many pages it can locate. If the numbers are somewhere between one thousand and ten thousand, you probably have a good idea and AdSense will help you make money with this great idea.

A great guru will then build the webpage to keyword specifications that they will have found works the best. They will generally apply a blog and add a few articles specific to the subject, let Google AdWords match ads to your website, then kick back and wait for the revenue to start pouring in. Of course, you will have several websites and most likely you aren’t just kicked back at first, but regularly updating your sites. Even so, that still only takes a fraction of the day.

Many gurus have several sites that they update frequently or run a blog on so that in essence others can assist with the updating. This enables search engines to view this website as much more popular and will bring it closer to the top of the search list.

Making money with AdSense is not only a possibility it’s a realistic goal. Just go out there, build yourself a website following these instructions and you yourself will soon be making money as an AdSense guru!

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The decision makers behind the search engines know there are important events, historic happenings and information that every human being in the world can share.

To give you a few examples, an ancestor, Eli, left his handwritten diary to this family. I have been reading it on occasion and transcribed one article, and shared this article on the internet. The title is Lady’s Book Magazine Review by Elisha Hotchkiss 1840. It is a delightful, and entertaining view by Eli on the day he recorded this entry in his diary. Elisha Hotchkiss was one of the first Mayors of Cincinnati and wrote in his diary while traveling by river to Washington DC where he met President John Tyler. The entry below was recorded when Elisha arrived in Washington, where he met the President of the United States of America:

January 1, 1842: Fate, fortune or chance has thrown us into the city of Washington. This is a gala day. The Presidents House is open. The people go there to greet him. The streets are crowded with happy, giddy strongs, winding their way to the Presidential Mansion. There surrounded by the Ministers of State and the Ambassadors of Foreign Princes, stands John Tyler, the President in the plain simple dress of business, ready to receive the salutations and congratulations of the people. The ceremony being past, all retire peacefully and happy. No Gens Des Armes with glittering bayonet’s were there to owe into silence, the disorderly, for all of the latter, there were none such there. The people who love to pay a willing homage to worth, it may be hoped that the temperance reformers after they shall have reformed all the drunkards, may engage in the cause of reforming the dandies, both male and female. Their services also might be extended to the preaching of those loathsome and unsightly encumbrances from their upper lips and chins. This latter reform would venue to restore but a few to the fellowship of humanity, from which many are now most unfortunately separated by their beauty and their personal appearance.

The above diary entries are worth sharing with the world and would be lost forever, as the diary is degrading, had I not shared this with you. And this is why the search engines reward you for submitting articles of worth.

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Most business owners advertise when their sales are down, or they just run the same add every week, giving no thought to whether it is helping their bottom line or not, before you place your next set of adds consider the example below.

My friend Alex and his wife Judy own a fish and chip shop. They were having financial trouble so I asked if I could help, and this is what happened. Alex was advertising in two local papers, the adds cost him $400 per week, so I asked him to start testing how effective the adds were. For one week Alex asked every single customer, where they heard about his store.

At the end of the week he found that only 25 people had responded to the newspaper adds. Each of these new customers, had an acquisition cost of $16. ($400 / 25 New Customers)

Then we counted up the amount of all the sales Alex had made in that week, and divided it by the total number of transactions. It worked out that on average, people were spending $8.50 each time they visited his shop.

So Alex was paying $16 for each new customer and they were only spending $8.50, he was making a loss of $7.50 on every new customer that he was getting.

Note: To be able to consider your marketing successful, your acquisition cost has to be lower than the average amount a new customer will spend with you.

To help rectify the problem Alex was having, we decided to change his headline, and his offer. I asked Alex how much he sold a scoop of chips for, he said $1.50, and how much does it cost you, only $0.50c he said.

Alex had a product that every person who was buying fish and chips would want, and it had a very low hard dollar cost. So I told Alex, great, were going to start giving them away.

Give them away, are you nuts, I will have hundreds of people flocking to my shop. Great, I replied, thats what you are in business for isnt it.

The next week, instead of his usual add, Cromwell Corner Fish & Chips, we used a coupon design that said, Free Scoop of Chips. The result was amazing, at the end of the week we had a total of 332 coupons.

His adds still cost him $400, and he also had to pay for 332 scoops of chips at $0.50c each, a total of $166. His advertising for the week now cost him a total of $566 but each of his new customers only cost him $1.70, and they spent on average $7.00 ($1.50 less because of the free chips). Alex now knows when he spends $566 on advertising he gets $2324 back. What do you think Alex does every time he comes across a spare $566.

Understanding Hard Dollar and Soft Dollar Costs

Hard Dollar is the physical cost to your business, eg each scoop of chips that Alex cooks takes 50c out of his pocket.

Soft Dollar, is the perceived amount, or the amount you sell a product for, eg, each scoop of chips has a perceived value of $1.50

When you are developing your headlines or trying to come up with an offer to excite your clients, try and find things with a high Soft Dollar value and a low Hard Dollar Cost. A really good example is giving away a free consultation, because often the hard dollar cost is nothing. If you dont do consultations, start, even if only for advertising purposes.

Think what response a hair dresser would get if her add said, Free Bottle of XYZ Shampoo and Conditioner worth $25 when you get your hair cut and colored at Sallies Hair dressing salon.

Two things are likely to happen, firstly, she will attract new customers because she has a great offer, secondly, it encourages current and new customers to get a color as well as a cut which increases the average sale amount. The really key thing here is the Hard Dollar cost, Sally should be getting the Shampoo and Conditioner from XYZ for free or at a heavily discounted price because of the free advertising she is doing for them, and because it might switch people from other brands to their brand.

If you don’t have a product with a low Hard Dollar Cost, negotiate with your suppliers, think of the benefits for them, not just the benefits for you.

Sally knows that she can only cut 10 peoples hair per day, and if the offer is only valid for one week, then she knows how many free bottles she needs to negotiate. If she cant get all the free bottles that she needs, she could change the offer so its only valid on Tuesdays and Wednesdays because they are her slow days and she always has heaps of free appointments, this means she needs a lot less free bottles of shampoo and conditioner.

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Email Marketing Tip #1 - Use your existing database of leads to help you add even more leads to your list. This is a very rarely used technique that is very powerful.

You can give a free report to your current leads and let them give it away. Inside the report you can brand it so that for each one your subscribers give away, they get a percentage of any sales made on your products.

Imagine having two or three hundred people giving away your freebie and each one of them giving ten or twenty subscribers each.

Email Marketing Tip #2 - Never stop adding leads to your list. Just because you think you might have hundreds or thousands of leads on your list, does not mean you should stop adding to it.

Your email marketing profits will be a direct result of how many leads you have on your list.

You should be making about fifty cents to one dollar per lead on your list. So the more leads, the more profits. Very simple math will tell you that having a list of five thousand should be able to earn you nice monthly income.

Email Marketing Tip #3 - Use as many proven methods as you can to add fresh leads to your list. Strive each day to add atleast ten new leads.

You can add the leads by using a variety of proven email marketing techniques such as: writing and submitting articles, coregistration, ezine advertising, ad swapping, and many others.

The bottom line is to use as many of these email marketing tips as you can and keep putting a constant and consistent effort into it.

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Developing and deploying a comprehensive marketing program is critical to the success of marketing articles. This marketing plan should address all aspects of your business. Consultation with an expert is advisable. An experienced consultant can find gaps in your plan, or guide you through the entire process of marketing planning from beginning to end. However created, items on your marketing plan should be checked off as each is completed, serving as a tool to make certain nothing is missed, and a guide to your business’s success.

Blogging is an important tool for anyone wishing to be successful in article marketing. This relatively new phenomena is providing authors with more exposure and success in placing their articles. Best of all, it is free. Freelance websites are invaluable to writers as they allow you to list your services where those who need article writers can find you. Freelance work sites function much like bulletin boards that allow you to post the services you can provide and buyers can contact you.

To exchange ideas and information with other writers, consider joining a forum for writers. Forums are particularly valuable places to post questions and receive comments concerning your own work, or the work of other writers. Not just for kids, social networking websites like Myspace.com also make great forums for marketing your articles. Because of the marketing potential of these high traffic websites, many businesses both large and small are building a presence on social networking websites.

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Becoming a pay per click affiliate is actually very easy. The first step is to sign up for a pay-per-click program like AdSense. Once you sign up as a pay per click affiliate, the work begins. If you want to become a successful pay per click affiliate, there are numerous steps you must take:

Step One: Design a Web site on which you will display your pay per click advertisements. Most internet marketing experts recommend having only a few pay per click ads per page, preferably on the right-hand side of the page. You can also embed hyperlinks in the content on your Web site. Oftentimes, embedding links to the pay per click ad is the most popular way to go because it’s also the most unobtrusive method of having pay per click ads on a Web site.

Step Two: To succeed as a pay per click affiliate, you must create a content rich Web site and regularly update it. Research topics in your niche, and those that are related to the ads on your Web site, and write relevant content that will be useful to your visitors.

Make sure you use keywords in your content, but don’t use so many keywords that your articles become stilted and difficult to read. To determine the best keywords for your content, use a keyword tool like Overture or Word Tracker. Generally, you can use a free version of such tools, but there are premier versions that come with a fee.

Step Three: Drive traffic to your Web site. As a pay per click affiliate, you must drive traffic to your Web site, so that visitors can click on your ads. There are a multitude of methods you can use to drive traffic to your Web site, including article marketing, posting on forums in your niche, blogging, social bookmarking, and creating a lens at Squidoo.

That’s it: It may come in three easy steps, but realize you do have to work to create a worthwhile site. The one key to your success as a pay per click affiliate is to be proactive. Don’t just throw up a Web site with some Google AdSense ads on it, drop some content on the site, and be done with it. You must consistently build your Web site and pack it with valuable content, so your visitors will return again and again.

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To maximize your Google AdSense income, you should optimize the ads on your site. Following is some information to help increase your AdSense earnings:

Place your ads in the upper right hand corner of your site, if possible. Studies have shown that ads placed in this position have the best click through rate (CTR) relative to other positions on your website. The size of your ad is also a factor in your CTR. Large rectangle ads (336×280) seem to result in higher click through rates.

When designing your AdSense ad, create a custom palette for your ad so that color of the ad’s border and background match the color of your site’s background. This makes it look less like an ad and more like a typical link.

Another design tip, the color of your ad title should be the same color as other links in your website. This make them look more like ordinary web links within your site that visitors use to move from page to page within your site.

Never place your ads at the bottom of your web page. Ads displayed at the bottom of a site tend to be much less effective than ads in other positions.

Place your ads as close as possible to the main content of your site. Placing it just above, adjacent to, or just below your content has proven to be effective. Using these AdSense techniques, some people generate hundreds and even thousand of dollars each month. Try these optimizing methods and watch your click through rates improve.

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If you never tried this wonderful service, go to maps.google.com right now. It doesn’t matter where you are going… the shortest most up to date driving instructions and maps are seconds away.

G-Maps has been my choice for a few years already. The know-how in the geo-mapping arena has advanced remarkably yielding amazing immediate maps of most of the planet and directions to just about any place in the world.

I’m going to do a brief review of these three, which hopefully will save you some exploration time when you enter the websites.

I switched to Google Maps after using MapQuest for nearly 8 years (more about MapQuest below). What switched my allegiance after all those years, was examining the instructions at Google Maps. You know, when all else fails read the instruction?

It is a marvelous piece of technology which will present you with both maps nearly anywhere in the world and detailed driving instructions in many countries.

To try and cover all of Google Maps in this review would fail, so let’s look at the central features of the site and you can uncover the rest when you arrive there.

You can see earth satellite images all over the planet and superimpose streets on those satellite images, it’s very cool. All the key map categories are available to view.

You can see people wandering around Sagrada Familia in Barcelona or read the home plate logo at Coors field in Denver. In many parts of the world, you can also generate point to point driving directions.

Another exclusive feature of Google Maps is that it lets you to alter the route it has laid out for you, simply by dragging the route marking to another point. We often know alternate routes, learned by experience that we want to stick to. The other services will not let you change the path… with Google Maps it’s easy.

Rand McNally has been making road atlases for a very long time. Word has it that Fred Flintstone used their atlas. They still favor the printed map or atlas and publish a lot of them. Next time you stop at a gas station check by the register, I bet you’ll find Rand McNally atlases for sale. Now, having said that, they have excellent e-maps and directions. I find them especially effective for comparing routes with Google or MapQuest as a double check kind of thing.

MapQuest has been around since the good old days of the internet… 1996… so by e-standards, it’s very old if not ancient. AOL bought it in 2000 and remains in charge.

I have used Map Quest thousands of times and they always deliver. They have great maps for the US, Canada and Europe but are weaker in the rest of the planet in their quality and detail. US directions are totally detailed and usually very accurate. In some growth areas they can be a little behind, simply because of trying to stay current with new growth can be challenging.

The last chief feature on MapQuest, is that it will search for the least expensive gas or diesel no matter where you are in the US. It’s a good way to keep an eye on your fuel budget and it only takes about 30 seconds.

Between the three of these websites, you should be able to find your way around anywhere on the planet.

Joshua Nestor is a staff writer for Fun and Safe Driving, site devoted to promotion of defensive driving Among other things, site features encyclopedia, forums, videos, and map quest road maps