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Jul 13 2010

By Wong Asriman

How To Avoid Getting Your Adsense Account Terminated

Google, being the undisputable leader in search engines from then until now, is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines.

Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.

For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated. Nothing like a good action taken to keep wrongdoers from doing the same things over again.

So for those who are thinking of getting a career in Adsense, do not just think of the strategies you will be using to generate more earnings. Consider some things first before you actually get involved. Continue Reading »

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May 25 2010

By Wong Asriman

The 3-Steps Formula To Your First $1000 Online

If anyone wants to succeed online, he has to start making online as fast as possible. It starts with the first dollar, then ten and it builds up quickly once you get the momentum.

Marketers that give up early in the game often give up because the time taken from the day they first started to their first paycheck is just too freakin’ long!

Fortunately, if you observe closely enough, getting results fast and early in your Internet marketing business is POSSIBLE and highly achievable. And we’re not talking about get-rich-quick schemes here.

I would never ask you to join such programs; they are a complete waste of time. With that said, it’s important that you do not confuse get-rich-quick with what I’m about to share.

They are totally different.

Here’s my 3-Step Formula to Making Your First $1000 Online Fast:

Step 1: You Need To Have Your Own Product Continue Reading »

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Apr 12 2010

By Wong Asriman

How to Use Banners to Drive Traffic to Your Sites

Filed under Blogging

Banner advertising means advertising in someone else’s space by placing a banner there and paying the rent for the space. In the online world, banner advertising takes up space on other websites to promote a business.

The banners could be horizontal or vertical, placed at the top, bottom or the middle and of various dimensions. Based on all these points, there are great differences in costs of the banner spaces. Also, the kind of banner matters. Banners of offensive businesses will cost more to host.

The banners may display the link of the website. In any case, the whole banner is always clickable and will take the clicker to the website of the advertiser.

Banners have visual appeal. When made professionally, their esthetic appeal is enough to bring in visitors. Intelligent wordings in the banners add to their appeal.

These banners will be kept for some time on the host site. This allows for prolonged visibility. If banner spaces are brought on popular websites, a greater amount of traffic can be funneled to the advertiser’s website. However, this can increase the cost.

Banner advertising requires a visitor to do next to nothing. Only clicking on the banner is enough to direct them to the website.

The expense is the major stumbling block. Banner advertising has no value if it is done on sites that no one visits but to buy banner space on popular sites, the costs will be higher also. Furthermore, these banner ads need to be professionally designed and provided copy for, which is again an expensive proposition.

Banners do not have permanence. Banners have to be bought for time as well as space. This is a drawback in comparison with most other online marketing methods that have more permanence.

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Apr 10 2010

By Wong Asriman

Tips for Driving Traffic To Your Blog

Filed under Blogging

Here are 10 tips that should  apply to your blog:

• Reader Friendly Content:

At all costs keep your content – articles, poems, photographs, videos – reader friendly, that is to say, it should keep more and more readers interested. Your reader must be at the center of you post in a way that your reader must feel that he is gaining something out of reading your post. This is the basic rule in marketing.
• Worthwhile:

Never let the reader feel that he has been tricked into reading your post or clicking on your blog link. You are thwarting all your long term chances of that reader coming back to your blog, in which case your blog rankings over the long term are in a dicey position.
• Check for errors:

Making grammatical and spelling errors can be a major put off for many readers. They may not visit your blog again simply because the errors that you make are too high. Always proof read your blog. A small typo here and there can be understood, but make sure you don’t make any major errors.
• KISS:

Or, Keep It Short and Simple. This is the thumb rule you must follow at all point. Long winding posts tend to get boring. And it may contain nothing that is interesting to the reader. Also no one has the time enough for your blog, no matter how well you write. In fact, your blog will be much more appreciated if you put your thoughts simply and shortly.
• Interesting:

Make sure that you hold your reader’s attention by making your posts snazzy. They must not be written in a tone that is tiring to read. Write short sentences and keep then crisp and precise. Always hit the point immediately in the course of your article.

• Link:

Keep linking the blogs you read to yours in order to build a network those people will be in turn encouraged to link you. Remember, linking increases rankings.
• Keywords:

Using the keywords of your posts frequently increases the search ability of that particular article of yours which in turn leads more people to visit your blog.
• Clear Thoughts:

Make sure you put your thought clearly before the readers so that it does not become tedious for them to read.
• Colloquialism:

You can write in a friendly tone. Avoid using too many slang words, but otherwise, if your post demands it, you can be colloquial.
• Post Title:

A catchy post title or headline is half your business solved. It can glue a reader to your post almost immediately. However, do not put misleading post titles, or you will lose creditability.
So, you see the tips don’t need Phd or rocket science title to understand. You can apply it easily and see traffic come to your blogs.

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Mar 20 2010

By Wong Asriman

Contact Information On Your Websites, Important?

Filed under Blogging

When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your products 24 hrs a day and also your customers may be from other states that are thousands of miles away. Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you.

People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often.

When customer wants to buy online provide enough options like credit card, PayPal or other online payment service. In the field of search engine optimization (SEO), writing a strong homepage that will rank high in the engines and will read well with your site visitors can sometimes present a challenge, even to some seasoned SEO professionals.

Once you have clearly identified your exact keywords and key phrases, the exact location on your homepage where you will place those carefully researched keywords will have a drastic impact in the end results of your homepage optimization.
One thing we keep most people say is that they don’t want to change the looks or more especially the wording on their homepage. Understandably, some of them went to great lengths and invested either a lot of time and/or money to make it the best it can be.

Being the best it can be for your site visitors is one thing. But is it the best it can be for the search engines, in terms of how your site will rank? If you need powerful rankings in the major search engines and at the same time you want to successfully convert your  visitors and prospects into real buyers, it’s important to effectively write your homepage the proper way the first time!

You should always remember that a powerfully optimized homepage pleases both the search engines and your prospects. In randomly inserting keywords and key phrases into your old homepage, you might run the risk of getting good rankings, but at the same time it might jeopardize your marketing flow.

That is a mistake nobody would ever want to do with their homepage. Even today, there are still some people that will say you can edit your homepage for key phrases, without re-writing the whole page. There are important reasons why that strategy might not work.

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