Search marketing, also known as search engine marketing (SEM), is the practice of using search engines to market your web site and generate traffic. The reason it is seen as so important is that search engine traffic is so targeted - the visitor will be looking for web sites in precisely the the topic in question.

There are two ways to get search traffic and two kinds of traffic from search engines. These come from the two results search engines display: there are the main results found from relevant sites and the sponsored results that are bought by advertisers.

Marketing in the paid results is knows as PPC marketing, because the ads are paid per click. You have to pay an amount for each visitor who clicks on your ads. The price of one click depends on the popularity on marketing for the keywords the search was for, and is determined by the search engine or by the market. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today marks the half way point for the month. I wanted to share how I am doing on hitting my goals for this month. You should look at you goals regularly and check how you are doing and what you need to do to hit your goals. I check my traffic and subscribers daily but it is good to create a list and know where I need to focus more. In my previous post I set my goals as:

• Finish my blog design
• Get a better logo designed
• 2500 Visitors
• Write 15 posts
• Get 25 subscribers
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With the close of the week I wanted to share some blog posts that I enjoyed this week and thought other bloggers should check out.

• How Internet Marketing is Like Valentine’s Day Date - Gyutae wrote an interesting article how you can take the same ideas involved with
  Valentine’s Day and apply them to Internet Marketing.
• Blogging is Like Building - Why Are You Building - Thomas did an article sbout the similarities about building a house and building a blog.
• Blogging Mistakes: Ten Things To Avoid - David wrote a great article on 10 tips to avoid when starting a blog. If you are starting a blog, just started a blog, or even thinking of starting a blog check this article out because it will save you headaches.
• 5 Wordpress Plugins That Can Dramtically Change Your Site - Kathryn made a cool list of some wordpress plug ins I have never heard of before but seem like they do have some awesome uses and I might try them on this site
• Is Having A Keyword In The Domain Important? - SEOnoobs had a post that made me think about domain names. He is not disputing if a keyword is bad but how a unique name offers better ways for branding.

I hope you enjoyed the links and have a good weekend.

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Over at Fat Kid Unleashed he is having a contest for his 18th birthday. He is offering:

• Six 1st Prize Winners will receive a free 125×125 ad on Fat Kid Unleashed for the entire month of March!
• Two 2nd Prize Winners will receive $20 in cash (via paypal)
• Two 3rd Prize Winners will receive 1000 entrecard credits

He has mentioned he was looking for sites that would offer extra sponsorship for his contest. I donated a 125×125 ad for a month to help with his contest. What was cool is I got a back link and a mention in his contest. What is best about it is I have not lost any money since it was an empty ad spot.

Make sure to go check out his contest and his blog. He has a nice site with informative information.

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The use of private label rights articles and products have become a huge part of running just about any type of business on the Internet. The demand for high quality well written private label rights products has seen an enormous increase over the past several months. One of the most appealing benefits about using private label rights products is that you can use them to promote your current business or begin your own business without having to put a whole lot of work into it. Others see creating private label rights articles and other products and reselling them online as the perfect way to make a nice income.

The overall popularity of eBooks has skyrocketed over the past several years. Those that enjoy purchasing ebooks find that they are not only inexpensive but they are convenient enough to either read online or printed off for offline reading. Since the demand for unique and well written eBooks has increased so rapidly over the last several years so has the number of writers looking to make money by creating and selling them. If you are a reasonably good writer that is knowledgeable about the topic that you happen to be writing about then you have an excellent chance of developing a nice income writing ebooks. This success though will not come without a large amount of hard work and dedication. Read the rest of this entry »

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Last month I gave away $10 to the top commenter last month. This month I am going to change it up. I am offering 500 Entrecard credits to the top commenter for the month of February. This will become a regular contest for the top commenter each month, the only thing that will change will be the prize. So keep checking out my site and give me some feedback.My only catch is no spam comments like “nice article” or “good post” I am looking for actual input.

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