Internet and Article Marketing are passions of mine, so I am constantly testing different online media to see what works best. Making money online has been my main focus since 1997, frankly with hit and miss success until 2008. What happened in 2008? We opened the St. Augustine Hostel, Casa Yallaha.

We put a great deal of money into the Hostel and needed to see a quick return. St. Augustine is America’s oldest city and draws tourists from all around the globe, so marketing the Hostel on the Internet was the logical choice. I started writing articles about the city and Press Releases about the Hostel. Within a few months the Casa Yallaha website went from obscurity to the bottom of Google’s first page. Within 5 months we were in the top 3 on page 1, and stayed there.

But that’s not what this article is about. A few months ago, I started using Google Alerts to track how information about Casa Yallaha and our competition were being distributed around the Internet. Each week, sometimes daily, I am surprised by an Alert that a blog or website has picked up or published one of my articles. Considering I only wrote 9 articles, what better proof is there that Article Marketing works?

Most of the articles being re-published were done correctly, with our link in tact. Unfortunately, some kept the name in the article but not the link. Still, the proof article marketing works is there. Bloggers and webmasters need content for their websites, and they get it from article directories.

Just think if I had written 20, 50 or hundreds of articles. Each one would continue to spawn out in the Internet World telling our story, bringing in traffic and backlinks. Article Marketing Works.

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When I see a website landing page that goes on and on and on, I get bored and, if I have any interest at all, page down to the bottom to see the cost.

I have often thought these obnoxiously long landing pages cannot be converting well, and Internet Marketers should take heed and cater their pages to a more precise, to the point page. Here are a few Landing Page Tips for obtaining a better conversion rate:

• Keep it Simple in text and design
• Lead your visitors to a Call to Action quickly
• Have only one Call to Action per Landing Page
• Show Samples of the product
• Provide Testimonials
• Keep it as Short and to the point as possible
• Offer an Incentive – give something away for free if they act now!
• Test your Landing Page with a tool like Google’s Webmaster Tools

Your website’s success or failure is directly related to how well you create your landing page. Follow the tips above to increase your conversions and don’t forget to test how well it is doing. Testing is critical to Internet success.

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Creating a mailing list and keeping in touch with your followers is an important, probably the most important, aspect of Internet Marketing. Autoresponders can automate this task for you, but can be costly. As a result, many new Internet Marketers will not obtain this important business tool. I wanted to find a Free Autoresponder to use to test my campaigns before taking the plunge on buying a monthly contract.

Personally, I like to test a concept before putting much money into it. So I looked for months now for a Free Autoresponder and found two. One was a plugin for Wordpress, that frankly did not work. The other was one that is not free, but lets you use it free if your list is under 100. Perfect for testing a campaign to build an email list.

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Want to know how to get your website listed in the Search Engines Fast?

It is really quite simple. Search Engine spiders follow links on websites. They also look for incoming links to popular websites. So to get your website indexed quickly by the search engines, simply link to a high ranking website.

How do you find high ranking websites. There are several websites available that can tell you a website’s page rank. Simply Google it. Here is one I use all the time – http://www.prchecker.info/

Here another tip: Be sure to look for websites with the same general theme as your own.

No one needs to hear how bad our economy is right now. We all know it, and have lived it for going on three years now. So how do you attract money, or is it even possible? The answer is Yes!

It may require stepping out of your comfort zone to attract money to you. Here are a few tips on what may prove to be the best advise you will ever receive.

• Join a Social, Business or Religious Group

One of the best ways to attract money is to meet and mingle with other people. Expanding your circle of friends can open many doors for you.

• Attend a seminar or short course

My husband,Tim, attended a three-day course on commercial real estate a few months ago. He had been working in residential real estate for years and everyone knows how bad that’s been. So he stepped out to learn something new.

In doing so, he was very impressed with the teacher of the course and made it a point to talk to him. I won’t bore you with the details, here’s the bottom line. After several months of interaction with this man, he was so impressed with Tim he gave him several commercial listings to work. His teaching schedule precluded him from giving the listings the time and energy they needed and Tim was his choice.

• Do not let anyone deter you from your goals

The example of Tim above is more relevant than you may think. Tim was told by that same teacher in their initial interaction that he was too old to work in commercial real estate. No office would want to hire him at his age of 64. Yet, Tim did not let that deter him and impressed the man so much, he hired him.

You can Attract Money to you by stepping out of your comfort zone, meeting new people and not letting anyone deter you.

Good Luck.

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• Attract More Customers
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Videos are by far the best method of getting your product or service the most attention. The question every video marketer asks is: How do I get my video to go viral? Many people say viral videos just happen. Yes, a video going viral can “just happen”, but usually the video has been helped along. Here are some tips you should consider employing to help market your videos successfully:

• Keep the videos short – 15 to 30 seconds. Video websites accept videos of 100 mb or less.
• Create a “Can’t Resist” Title – Make it Shocking. Something like “Elephant Paints a Picture”, gets people’s curiosity up.
• Embed the video in Social Media sites like MySpace and Facebook.
• Post the video on forums
• Post the video on related blogs
• Build a large following on Facebook and Twitter and share the video.
• Send the video out to a large e-mail list
• Do not make an obvious advertisement, make the video fun and entertaining.
• Create more than one YouTube Account and start a buzz in the video’s comment section.

With tens of thousands of videos posted to YouTube every day, you can use these strategies to get your video noticed.

Search Engine Optimization is so important to Internet success, I have listed some terrific Free SEO Tools for you to use.

Here is a great website where you can:

• Test pages for duplicate content
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The Internet is bigger than ever before. Finding new ways to make money from blogging has become commonplace.

Blogging was initially used to socialize with others. In a few years, blogs exploded into a market for stay-at-home moms making extra money and for large corporations to make more money and promote their business.

It’s easy to make money from blogging. How much you make is directly related to how much time you’re willing to devote. Serious about making money from your blog? Try a few things that will help:

Consistent Posting

To keep people interested enough to come once and keep coming back, you need consistent posting.

The key to getting traffic to the blog is to continually blog. As a rule of thumb, one post every day is generally considered to be ‘regular blogging.’ Of course, you could blog slightly less than that and still be considered a blog that has regular content. As long as it’s regular enough that it keeps people coming back.

Quality Content

Quality content goes hand in hand with regular posts. People are not going to continue to come back to the site if they are not interested. Quality content that’s told from a fresh perspective is as essential as regular posting.

Advertising

To make money from blogging, there must be advertising on the site.

Google AdSense is the most common and most popular way to advertise on blogs. By simply going to the Google AdSense website and creating an account, you can place advertisements wherever you want them on the site.

Google AdSense works by placing relevant ads on your website and paying you depending on how many times a visitor clicks on them. This is by far the easiest way to advertise on your blog.

Why Social Media?

Social Media websites are simply tools for building relationships. For example, a website that allows interaction with the people that visit is considered a social media website.

A website that allows visitors to leave a comment, upload pictures, write a review, share links or simply communicate with each other is a social media website.

Examples of Social Media websites are:

• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Facebook

Just to name a few. Why is social media so popular right now? Because people love to interact and have a voice.

Businesses can learn more about their customers through social media than they ever did through print or television ads.

Social media is here to stay. Those that embrace it will be ahead of the game.