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Yesterday I imported this blog to Facebook, in my notes page. It is a very easy procedure, I described in great details, how to do it, in other Blog Post.

The feature I like the most is that  all the time when I’ll update this blog, automatically I’ll get a post in my Notes Page in FB:

http://affiliate-marketing.crabbysbeach.com/blogs/facebook/import-your-blog-on-facebook/

So I am looking now for other tools which can free my time.

I suggest to look it over to Mandossian’s:

http://www.facebook.com/beproductive#!/video/video.php?v=416203408812&ref=mf

You can find how to “Auto-Tweet” your articles.  Each time you have a new article published on EzineArticles you can have it automatically announced on your Twitter page. This is a great example of AI – Auto-Integration, and is a great example of  “automatic re-purposing”. take advantage of it!

Another brilliant site is  Mashable, where daily bases you will get what is hot and what in not. And by the way I like their style, they “report you decide” what is good for you, and it is gone in a professional way without to twist an arm and a leg!

http://mashable.com

My favorite pages are: Social Media and Tech.

Until next time be well informed

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This morning I stopped by a Starbucks coffee shop to buy a big latte for me, as a lot of work was waiting me on my office.

I met Daniel, a college student from my neighborhood, a nice young fellow, who always had questions.  I was in a hurry, but until my latte was “professionally” made, I changed a couple of works with Daniel.

He asked me “how we make a profitable blog”. My answer was:

• Publish terrific rich content with a lot of value
• Then drive traffic, traffic, and traffic

I saw in Daniel eyes that he was disappointed with my answer, but I had to live and I promise an email later.

Now I am sitting in my tiny office, sipping my latte, and I am wandering what disappointed Daniel.

Driving traffic is not a deep down kept secret nowadays, he knows this, he learns in college about it. I try to connect the dots from our other conversations, and I conclude, that he is allergic to work “traffic”, he thinks that it is too big fuss about it, and it is too time consuming to do it, I think this is it.  To time consuming…

Well, how I can explain to him the driving traffic process, without to pronounce the work “Traffic”. Hm!

This is want I come up with.

Ezine Article it is a challenge place to be, they are:

• A rich sources for informing, learning – as they have plenty of links in the box
• If you chose a specific keyword and you look at the most watched article (at least 3000 visitors, Wow!), you easily can collect great long tails keywords from the articles with so many visitors, why? Because it is working! When was last time when you got 3000 visitors?
• You will find the trends just looking at which DP is successful vs. you know what
• Did you write articles? What you are waiting for?  Where? Here:
  • Xtreme Marketing Tips
  • Pro Biz Tips
  • Unimax Power Pak
  • Online Exchange
  • SoloAdsOnly
  • Admistress Advertising
  • Net Income Site
  • Avenues 2 Success
  • The Vital Marketing Tools Ezine
  • BizSiteBiz Ezine
  • The Millennia Web Magazine
  • A+E Publishing
  • Online Exchange
  • SoloAdsOnly

Important note: Publish first in EzineArticle, wait until you are approved, then jump and post almost the same article on other ezine… 

Do you hear about the most effective banner exchange programs?

You can advertise your banners right now, in minutes:

• Ad Ready
• Click4Click
• Exchange Ad
• Impressionz
• Traffiq
• The Banner Exchange

Do you want to know which Forums I like the most?

Here they are, but please review the forum’s terms of service to make sure that they allow marketing on their forum, what king of signature box you can have (don’t tell me that I forget the alphabet order, because I put them in my favorite order):

• Digital Point Forums
• The Warriors Forum
• My Marketing Forum
• Associates Forum
• ClickbankSuccessForum
• eWealth
• Instant Buzz Community Forum
• Free Advertising Forum
• Marketing Study Hall
• MoneyMakerGroup
• WhyDoWork
• IM4Newbies
• Michael Green’s How-To Forum

Pst! Did I pronounce the word “traffic”? No! Didn’t I?

Then I’ll cut and paste that list and e-mail Daniel right away and I’ll  go tomorrow at Starbucks coffee shop again, I am sure he will be there.

Until next time, be informed

Michey

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27 hours later… The Arbitrage Conspiracy Is Live!

After reading previous post, you know the good, the bad and the ugly, and I hope you also read the PDF report, and listened the VIDEOS.  Now you can make an educated decision about the most intrigue launch of 2008:

Arbitrage Conspiracy

The doors are open and you are invited:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/AC

I’ll give you some interesting fragments from Gauher Chaudry’s comment, a very well-known marketer in CPA and traffic brokering methods:

“I have not seen the course, so I can’t comment on the calibre of the material.
…
What you will read is not hype, but rather the truth. Sometimes the truth can get distorted during these rather large product launches.
…
I was well aware of this course almost 3 months ago because the guys behind it, Aymen and Emmanuel are both Pay Per Click Formula and Pay Per View Formula owners.
…
Aymen has been gifted with great intelligence. He is only around 25 years old, but talks like he has 50 years experience under his belt. No joke.
…
Emmanuel has shared with me insider tips and even sent me some of their PPC tools that were created in-house.
…
So while I can vouch for their credibility, I still can’t say anything about the course itself…”

Well this credibility vouch, coming from Gauher Chaudry, means a lot to me.

Let’s become a co-conspirator, and join me and Aymen team as we all pull in massive profits in 2009!

http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/AC

Until next time all the best
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WOW! Today my inbox is full again with a big product launching… full of buzzz,  enthusiasm and hope.  It’s really hard to stay focused on what you’re doing when there’s so much noise and distractions hitting your inbox.

This introduction doesn’t mean I don’t like product launching but I have my own way of reacting to them!

If the launching is perfectly orchestrated, I am not commenting because in this case, hundreds of affiliates are doing their part, JV are awake day and night counting their money, it is not much to add to it.

If a launching raises questions, lack of enough details, obvious hype, and so forth, I comment because I feel that I can contribute to it in a modest way.

Arbitrage Conspiracy Project is one I decided to comment, you will see why.

First I’ll give you the general background.  It was a conference in Las Vegas, per invitation only where “Aymen and Associates”, nobody knows Aymen second name or the associates names; and they talk about their project called Arbitrage Conspiracy.
I wasn’t in Las Vegas, I don’t know details directly from the source, but people I trust and know very well positively commented on it and I started to be interested in this project.

In a nut shell, the project consists of a 12 week course in which Aymen will teach how to master PPC AdWords and other top notch techniques which will bring you between: 10k-100k net profits a day. This really sounds hype but one is innocent until  proven guilty, right? I continue to be curious and interested in Aymen’s project.
I am not a stranger to this subject, 2-3 weeks ago I read Eric Louviere’s 72 pages PDF, called “Six-figure Apprentice Program”, it has the same subject of to make money with CPA, obviously using PPC (Pay Per Click).

I did my part of learning curve:

• I signed in and got a free report called: Arbitrage Conspiracy, and I read 25 pages word by word
• Last night I listened to a conference in which Brad Fallon well known IM and a lot of other gurus asked questions to Aymen
• At the end of the conference we had Aymen’s promise that we will stay today glued to PC at 11:45 AM when the official launch will occur.

What I noticed:

• Aymen started with $50, knowing enough about PPC, I don’t think that is enough to start with this amount – this looks hype to me
• No need for website, product, list etc, it is a stretch because you have to create landing pages, these means domains, also need to buy some tools, memberships – this “no need” concept is at least 50% hype
• You can be up and running in 24 hours, well it is enough to apply to CPAs and you need days and weeks to be approved. I applied to 6 good CPAs and after one week I found out that 3 of them approved me and 3 of them rejected me. I cannot see how in 24 hours you are ready to go – this is other unnecessary hype
• In last night’s conference the gurus ask very good questions, and Aymen gave vague answers, it is true that an hour is a limited amount of time but he can chose just one subject in which he gave enough detail to convince people that he is the real deal, didn’t he?  Actually this worries me the most, his lack of details
• Today at 11:45 AM he was suppose to have the big launch, it is 9:30 PM now and we still don’t have the launch
• It is to much secrecy; we don’t even know his second name, or associates names, why? We in the States are very open about everything, looks like he is part of a different culture, which is not a problem, but the secrecy is strange.

Well this is my conclusion:

• I am not saying buy or do not buy the 12 weeks course, you have to do your own learning experience, read the blog: http://www.arbitrageconspiracy.com/blog/ 
• A lot of people are convinced that there is great value in Aymen methods and I respect this even though when you have a lot of value, you don’t need hype at all
• But prior to take a decision, you have to determine if this 12 weeks course is for you, if you are technically good enough to load scripts, design landing pages, instal new software
• You have to figure out if you can afford, we don’t know the price yet and judgeing by the guru-interest, it will be an expensive one 
• The promise of a potential $100k per day is unusual promise, in a case like this you don’t jump without knowing exactly what you suppose to get, this is why I want more details about it, and we hope that a part of them will come at launch time.

Please don’t jump to conclusion that I am critical, I am not, I just want to see more details and also to find out why they chose to use hype when the quality of their project doesn’t really need it. And I want you to make informed decisions.

Note: we just get I word from Aymen, they decided to delay going live until tomorrow  Dec 11th  at 12:00 PM PST or 3:00 PM EST and he promised an extra surprise bonus for everyone. 
Until then you can read the Arbitrage Conspiracy Blog: http://www.arbitrageconspiracy.com/blog/ listen to the videos, sign in and read the free report.

Until the next time, all the best
Michaela

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What are Google Gadgets, where can they be obtained, which are the advantages and disadvantages of using them? I consider those legitimate questions and I am answering with a post. Mary thanks for asking.

Gadgets are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded directly in your Desktop, Sitebar or you can use Gadgets to make your web pages more interesting and useful to your visitors. They are important because nowadays we are more visual oriented, lecturing is out even in schools.

We have the following categories of Gadgets:

• Featured
• Desktop or SiteBar
• Website

A different classification divides Gadgets in:

• Gadgets created by Google
• Gadgets powered by Google, they are miniature objects made by Google users that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web 

In general first 2 types of Gadgets are created by Google and type 3 is a directory of Gadgets powered by Google, but it is not in stone, and don’t forget each day more Gadgets can be added to the directory, creating rules on a such dynamic field is not working.

With Gadgets created by Google you have full confidence to use them, they are safe.
The Gadgets created by users are increasingly juicy targets for hackers, you can use them but I admit it is a risk you take.

The Google Gadgets are FREE, go to:   http://desktop.google.com/

from where you can install Google Desktop. During installation you must chose:

• Desktop search
• Sidebar with gadgets

Google Desktop search help you:

• To search “your computer” as easily as you search the web with Google, find and launch applications and files with just a few keystrokes
• Gives you up-to-the-minute information through interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on your desktop or on your iGoogle page to show you new email, weather, photos and personalized news
• Provides for you full text search over your email, photos, music, files, chats, web pages that you have viewed, and more

When you do a Desktop search, you’ll go to a page showing you the most relevant search results, each of which include: the file name, and a brief snippet with your search terms highlighted.
The fastest way to search the web, and your own computer, is to use the Quick Search Box in the center of your desktop, you must press the “Ctrl” button twice to call up the search box, and press “Ctrl” twice again to hide it.

Also you can:

• Filter for a particular type of item, using the links at the top of the page
• Type just a few letters or words into the search box and your get instantly the results
• Use it to launch applications without having to surf the Start menu; for example, you can launch Open Office by typing “ope” into the Quick Search Box and selecting “Open Office” in the list of results that appears
• Finding Deleted Files, Google Desktop creates cached copies of your files each time you view them, and stores these copies on your computer’s hard drive. You can often use Desktop to find items you accidentally deleted
• Use Advanced Search Form, you can easily specify the type of search you want to do without having to remember specific search operators, or restrict what time period your results are from
  Outlook Integration. Google Desktop makes searching your Outlook email more convenient by adding a toolbar into Outlook. You open Outlook and type a request into the search box. Outlook will display the search results. Each result also shows a message snippet containing your search terms. You can sort the result list by clicking on its column headers and can jump to locations in the list by typing a letter. The Outlook Integration make Outlook more friendly.

Google Desktop search really is a handy tool.

First you install it, and Google Desktop starts indexing the email, files and web history stored on your computer. This is one time process and indexing occurs only when your computer is idle for more than 30 seconds, so it shouldn’t slow down your machine’s performance, but the duration depends on the number of items you have.

After installation is the Google Desktop job to make sure your index stays up to date based on your daily activity.

Google Gadgets on Sidebar
Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized, it is as a control panel for your gadget. The sidebar gadgets let you:

• Add Google Gadgets to customize your desktop: iGoogle, get news, weather and more
• Add Gadgets Interface

To find new gadgets, click on the “+” button at the top of your sidebar or select “Add gadgets” from the option menu, now you can view gadgets by category by clicking on the left menu or search for specific gadgets by using the search box in the top right. If you find the gadget you want, just mouse over it and click the “Add” button.
 
Note:
If you’d rather not have a sidebar, you can:

• Minimize it into either a deskbar, keeping small search box right in your Windows taskbar or use a floating deskbar which includes a search box that floats above all other windows and can be dragged anywhere you want on your desktop. This is so cool, just try it.
• Both options allow you to quickly launch applications or search your computer and the web.

Examples of Google Desktop Gadgets, last time I looked over I found out 49,613 of them :
Weather Globe, a huge variety of Clocks, Media Player Remote,, Games, Music Player, Wikipedia Search, TV Set, Gmail Notifier, Count Down Timer, On-line Dictionary, eBay Auction Watch, Laptop Check, Facebook Gadget, Vista Game Gadget, BBC News, Stock Market Tracker, Universal Currency Convector, Temperature Convector, Technology News, Google Video,  Virus Alert and  so on.

Google Gadgets on Website.
You can put Gadgets directly on any pages of your websites, to download some of them you go to a Google directory where you will find over 48,000 Gadgets:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open

Examples:
Map, Weather Forecast, Clock and Date, Search you Tube, The Weather Channel, Watch: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC Shown On-line,  ESPN Tabbed Sports Feeds, Midi Music Jukebox, Search eBay, Driving Directions, Pablo Picasso Art Of The Day, Travel National Geographic, Bible Verset Of The Day, Dayly Horoscopes and so on.

Those are Gadgets powered by Google, created  by Google users like you and me, they  offer a dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web.

There is an overlap between Google Gadgets and Gadgets powered by Google, to find out which you are dealing with, you click on the name on the top of the Gadget mini-picture and you will get a small description from where you find out who created the Gadget.

In summary, you really can reach millions of users, as  you can make your gadgets to run on multiple:

• Web pages
• Blogs, and
• Products like: iGoogle, Google Maps, Orkut and so on

This is the reason people use gadgets, it is a way to drive free traffic, and provide useful content in the process. This is the bottom line, many gadgets are viewed millions of times daily bases and can generate significant traffic for you.

I give you my example. When I just started my new blog, the one you are reading now, I posted 3 posts and I wasn’t ranked in Alexa yet.  One day I added a Twitter Gadget and Twitter Counter, and I was ranked for the fist time as 6,240,555. I continue adding posts, gadgets and plug-ins, and my rank in Alexa jump to 3,552,997 and now after 3 weeks it is 2,055,586.  It is not  the best rank possible, it is a modest improvement but for a three weeks old blog, I am happy about it.

If you want to create a  Gadgets, is not as complicated as you may think, just go to:
http://www.seoish.com/how-to-make-google-gadgets/

and you will find out step-by-step information about it.

Until next time all the best for you

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Hello!  I just want to share my observations about traffic with you.

I have a couple of websites, blogs, squidoo lenses, hubs and so on, and like everybody else I try hard to drive traffic to them.

Because the Internet trends, patterns, Web 2.0 applications, engine algorithms are changing so rapidly, we cannot relay on 2-year ago info.

I need to know what is working NOW, and what I have to change from my old patterns.

For websites.

I have started a habit to find out info about my traffic . I spend 10-15 min per day looking to the statistics on my cPanel. 
When I was looking for a host for me, I chose HostGator as they had Fantastico utility. It was an excellent choice. In addition to Fantastico, they have a big variety of other utilities, tutorials, statistics tools and an excellent live support.

You will be surprised how much you can learn just looking at the statistics.

Example:
If somebody asks me what page on my main website attracts the largest number of visitors, I couldn’t guess, as it is:

• The most simplistic page possible
• The page contains only 2 pictures and 4 links
• I created the page as a practice for a script I bought one  and a half year ago
• It has never been updated since creation and
• I almost forgot about it.

This is it:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/MyVideos.html

It is true that the 2 links are for sites which are collections of videos I created with the script:

• One is collecting all the videos created for eBay
• The other is collecting all the videos created for Studio Art Glass

It is also true that:

• My Squidoo lens for Art Glass S. Fellerman is ranked #552 in Alexa (last time I checked) as squidoo is ranked #552
• My eBay auction site is not ranked at all in Alexa and Google (this is the other mystery of Google search engine algorithms) 

But MyVideo.html page produces the most traffic possible and NOW I know WHY!

It is because it has 2 links to pages that are collections of videos which are dynamically allocated, each time a new Video is added or deleted. But don’t forget my page ( MyVideo.html)  hasn’t changed in one year and a half, and continues to inherit the visibility, the traffic from the video collection sites.

Isn’t this intriguing and useful to know? This is actually the proof that the backlinks to pages with high volume of traffic can benefit you for your own ranking.

And I found this looking at my statistics in cPanel.

For lenses, hubs, twitter etc.
For Web 2.0 applications are easier to determine if you have good traffic or not, as you can see the participation of other people.

Example – you can see that one twitter has 2,000 followers and the other has just 200, or a lens is ranked well and has a lot of comments whereas others are not, and so on. 

For Web 2.0 applications you also have a lot of widgets which are dynamically allocated, and now you can use some widgets in websites as well.

Note: I think I am an affiliate for the script creating a site that collects all the existing videos created for a specific key. I never used that affiliation; I will look it over, and let you know.

As always, you are welcome to leave your comments here on the blog.

Until next time, all the best
Michaela

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