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What is the bum marketing method?

This is a question which many newbies or super affiliate wannabes often ask in forums or blogs. The answer can be simple as you will understand shortly. In this article, I will tell you what is the bum marketing method and how can anyone make money out of it.

The bum marketing method is a simple way to make money using a high traffic page to direct traffic to a sales page to close the deal. It is another form of article marketing in short. Because it is so simple, any bum can do it which is why it is called bum marketing!

What are the ingredients for the Bum Marketing Method?

1. A search engine loved web site such as EzineArticles, Squidoo, Zimbio & HubPages.

2. A product sales page such as a ClickBank product page, other affiliate sales page or even your very own product sales page.

3. A unique and original article optimized for long tail keywords

Basically, using the bum marketing method, you will write an article about 300 words long centered on long tail keywords with a keyword density of around 1 %. Long tail keywords are targeted 4 or 5 phrase keywords that are specific.

For example, "buy a black iPAQ Pocket PC H3670" is a long tail. Such keywords are easier to rank in Google and chances are, the searchers are laser-targeted.

Next in the bum marketing method, submit it to EzineArticles, Squidoo, Zimbio or HubPages. Remember to put links on your article to your sales page or whatever destination site you want your visitors to go. In the case of EzineArticles, place your link in the author resource box. They do not allow affiliate links but you can always use a redirect or masked link.

With long tail keywords, your article can be ranked in Google within a few days. I have seen them in Top 10 within several hours!

When your prospects search for the targeted keyword, for instance, "buy a black iPAQ Pocket PC H3670" in Google, he/she will see your bum marketing article and read it. If your link is obvious and appealing enough, he/she will visit your site and Ah-Ha! Your visitor is more likely to buy, isn't it? See the power of the bum marketing method?

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Making Money with Your Blog!

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As mentioned in the introduction, a big part of doing SEO work is getting your web site search engine friendly (SEF since we are using acronyms). SEF entitles recreating or re-tagging your web pages to create flow. Think of it as a city road with traffic lights, one way streets and dead end signs.

So, exactly what does this mean?

Simply put, search engines don't see images, videos, flash components or anything other than text for that matter much less the flow of HTML tables, rows and columns the key here is to keep your web pages "accessible" to search engines. The Following is a brief list on do's and dont's to get a SEF web site.

1. Use header tags that match the page's title: If your page's title is "bluberries" use an h1 in the body that implies "blueberries"

2. Replace java-script image rollovers with CSS rollovers: If you haven't done so, it is a good time to get into CSS. CSS is key to design a stylish SEF web site. You can make any HTML tag look fantastic without jeopardizing search engine accessibility.
3. Get content: A site without content is a search engine's worst enemy. Good sources of content are FAQs, Glossary, News about your business or industry, etc. Don't get stock with just products and services, and don't hide text on images. If you have and image with text inside, re-do it without the text, use it as a background on a div and type the text.
4. Be generous to the WWW and don't let your web site be a DEAD END. Having links to other pages benefits you as it makes you an information provider. Partner with link exchange programs or talk to your business neighbors to exchange links.
5. Don't stick to Flash-only and Image-only navigation: Provide text links to ALL the pages in your web site. Pop ups are not links since generally they are linked to "#" or a javascript:void. It is a good idea to stay away from pop ups, not only they are skipped by search engines, they may also get blocked by pop up blockers.
6. Don't try to overload your web site with keywords: Keyword density is a thing of the past (for Google).
7. And the always popular KEEP IT SIMPLE.

Remember, if it makes sense to you it makes sense to them. Too often we see how people drift away by creating a web site that targets search engines and not actual visitors. Having a search engine friendly web site will aid in your optimization efforts without a doubt. Take care of your housekeeping before inviting people over and you'll have a site that attracts everyone.

William Jattin is the lead designer for Hatten Design, a Miami based web design company.

William Jattin is the lead designer for Hatten Design, a Miami based web design company for more information about our products and services visit http://www.hattendesign.com

Three Things You Must Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills.With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is

If you want to advance in article marketing, you need to be more aggressive in publishing your article online. Don't be contented with article submission sites. To create more inbound links for your website, you can also post your articles to your blog, websites, forums, or compile them to create an ebook.

Looking for other secrets to advance with article marketing? Read on!

1. Make use of killer titles. Articles with boring titles seldom create interest online because people automatically think that if your titles are not good enough, your articles are not worth reading so why should they bother and check out your content? Avoid this from happening by making your titles striking and attention-grabbing. It would also help to incorporate keywords on your headlines to make your articles highly searchable online.

2. Inform before your advertise. Impart some of your knowledge that you think will be valuable and useful to your readers. Make sure that the information you include in your content can help you establish your expertise on your chosen niche. When you are able to educate or help people, it would be easier to convince them to visit your website and join your newsletters.

3. Use compelling resource box. To increase your conversation rate, you have to make your resource box attention-grabbing and enticing. Communicate your expertise, the problems that you solve and your desire to help. Don't forget to include your website's URL and the reasons why readers should click on it.

4. Make your articles scannable. When people open an article that's made up of lengthy paragraphs and barely contain page breaks, they are most likely to close it and move to other articles that are easy on the eyes. Online users prefer articles that are easily to skim through so they can quickly find specific information that they need. To help them out, make your articles scannable by using sub headings, bullet points, and numbered list when appropriate.

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When starting out online I found Internet Marketing terms very difficult to understand. The first time I heard of backlinks, fantastico and hits I didn't have a clue. It all seemed like jargon to me. In this article I explain 26 must know Internet Marketing terms.

AD COPY:- This describes the actual information contained within your advert. If you write an eBay listing then the information it contains is your ad copy. Effective ad wording will in general lead to more sales.

BACKLINK:- Refers to links on other websites that link back to your website. For example, if I place a link on website A to website B then this is classed as a backlink. Increasing the number of backlinks to your website is one way to increase the popularity of your website in the search engines.

CAMPAIGN:- Usually refers to advertising campaigns. It describes all the work you are doing to advertise a particular site, service or product. For example, if you advertise via Adwords then this is an Adwords campaign, if you advertise to your newsletter subscribers via email then this is an email campaign.

DEDICATED HOSTING:- A type of hosting where your website is hosted on its own dedicated server. Dedicated hosting provides greater computing power and capacity than shared hosting but is also more expensive.

ECOURSE:- An email course. Usually a series of informational email lessons which aim to teach you a specific topic.

FANTASTICO:- A commercial script library which automatically installs web applications such as blogs and content carts on a website. Fantastico scripts are usually executed through the cpanel area of the website.

GIVE AWAY RIGHTS:- This is when you have the rights to give away the product for free. These rights are particularly useful when you want to offer a free bonus with your paid products or provide a free incentive for people who subscribe to your newsletter.

HITS:- A single hit is recorded each time a file request is made for one of your webpages, images or other files. For example, if a visitor loads one of your webpages with two images this would count as three hits.

IM:- An abbreviation of Internet Marketing. Internet Marketing is simply the process of marketing products or services online to make money.

JAVASCRIPT:- Another type of coding/scripting language that can be used to 'write' webpages. Javascript was originally developed by Netscape. It can interact with HTML code allowing web authors to add dynamic content to their website.

KEYWORDS:- Words or phrases that you are trying to target and work with for a given advert, article, website or product. For example, if you are selling a chicken recipes ebook then keywords could include cooking chicken, chicken sauce etc. The use of keywords is particularly important when trying to generate search engine traffic, as these are the words people will type into search engines to find your article, product, website etc.

LANDING PAGE:- Landing pages are used by affiliates. A landing page is the page in between your advert or article for a merchant product. A review of a product containing an affiliate link to that product would be an example of a landing page.

MAILING LIST:- A list of people who have opted in to receive emails from you and/or your company. A good way to organise your mailing list is through the third party service Aweber which I use myself. Possible uses for a mailing list include sending out an ezine, sending out product details or conducting research.

NEWBIES:- This refers to those who are new to something and in the context of Internet Marketing it refers to people who are new to Internet Marketing.

OPTIN:- This is when someone has opted to be part of your mailing list. Most newsletters now require double optin where someone first opts to be part of your mailing list through a form and then confirms their optin (double optin) by clicking a link in an email that is automatically sent to them after filling out the form. Double optin allows you to comply with many of the rules governing junk email but also allows you to be sure that the optin has an active email address.

PAGE LOADS:- The number of times your webpage has been loaded. It is a popular way of counting people that visit your site but it is not as good as Unique Visitor Count.

RECIPROCAL LINKS:- The process of exchanging links with another website. For example, if I agreed to place a link to http://www.abc.com/ from one of my websites and in exchange they placed a link back to my website, then this would be a reciprocal link.

SALES COPY:- This is very similar to Ad Copy. It describes the information written on your sales page.

TEMPLATE:- Refers to a pre-designed webpage which comes with all the relevant text and images. All that is required is for you to fill in the blanks with your own text. For example, all my resellable ebooks (including this one) come with a pre-designed sales page that contains all the relevant text and graphics. All you have to do is perform any edits that you wish.

UNIQUE VISITORS:- A method of measuring traffic to your website which records the number of unique IP addresses that visit your website. For example, if you get 100 visitors to your website each day and 50 of these are from unique IP addresses, then you are getting 50 unique visitors per day.

VIRAL MARKETING:- A method of marketing which relies on people sharing the information you provide to them so that it can reach as wider audience as possible. The name originates from the term 'spreads like a virus' because your aim is for your marketing efforts to spread across the Internet like a virus. So if you provide some information to 2 people, they pass it on to 2 more people each, then those 4 pass the information on to 2 more people each, your information will soon begin to spread across the Internet. An example of viral marketing is the resellable ebooks in my eBay store. Whilst they provide valuable information to the reader they are also a great promotional tool for me, because the reader will associate the ebooks with The Ebook Cavern.

WORDPRESS:- A popular website and script that is used for blogging (writing and managing your blog). Wordpress blogs allow you to add pages to your blog as well as posts.

ZWORKS:- A meta search engine located at http://www.zworks.com/

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