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URL Marketing

Tracking data on websites, can be easy and hard at the same time, over the last few months we have been tracking what might be considered to some at least to be an un-natural event in google analytics, at least we have observed data that seems to be only counting original IP address hits, and not counting return hits from the same IP address.

This is concerning since for many webmasters, repeat business is something that everyone should strive to get in a good web presence.

Developing traffic in these days can be a difficult experience, however, divergent IP addresses can help you in many ways that you may not have previously considered.

Did you know that IP addresses are a very powerful tool in marketing.

You can you use unique IP addresses to raise the value of your website?

What is it and how can it help you grow your website traffic stats.

Unique, IP addresses, yes, that is what URL marketing is all about, because having a unique IP address makes a difference.

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How operating your own website can be a challenge and how marketing is the solution and the answer to the success of your website.

The key to getting more traffic is getting traffic?

Which gives you the catch 22, how can you get more traffic if you need traffic first in order to get more traffic.

So how can you have your cake and eat it too, well as the old saying goes you can’t have your cake and eat it too, right, well perhaps not, but you can have your traffic and get more of it too.

Unique traffic counts for more than you know, not just because each hit is counted as a separate hit but because the more unique hits you get the better you look to larger websites.

Does that make sense?

The more unique traffic you have the better results you will get, the more unique traffic you get the more larger search engines, will index and give your website more links.

See how this can work in your favor?

reduce WordPress Blog Comment Spam

Ok this is a tough topic, because for the most part, Comment spam is not only offensive, but abusive, but what if it could be made to be productive?

Ok stay with me for a moment, while I take you through the comment spamming process.

The idea is to advertise a URL, by commenting on a comment, I know sounds sort of scary, but there are software products that people use from a desktop or even from a website, so what is happening is that no one is really reading your blog post, and that is problematic, you want people to read it, but what if some people read the blog post because it has comments?

What then?

If you stop all comment spam, then that reduces the number of hits your website gets, right?

Technically, but what if you could make use of that automatic software?

Is there a benefit to be had from these automatic software posters?

Perhaps, there is and in more ways than one.

Here is an excerpt from an article about comment spam,

“One of the most serious problems with any blogging system, including WordPress, is that the comments area is wide open to that scourge of the Internet, spammers. In this case, it’s comment spam.

Comment spam is created by people seeking to boost their Google rankings by having lots of links pointing to their own websites. This causes a wide variety of problems:”

Now, here is the thing, they are right, to a point, but if you cant beat them or defeat them, how about turning the tables on them?

I began to think about how you could make the comment spam into real benefits for a website and I came up with a couple of good things.

1. a ping is a ping,

2. comments are comments, well most of the time they are.

What I realized is that if I designed a plugin that would allow a comment for say a certain period of time and if during that time someone confirmed that the comment was a real comment, then it would get posted, with a do follow link and if it was not confirmed, by a real person then it just gets deleted.

This way if they are good comments then you and they get a benefit, but if they are robots, or just not real people then you turn the tables on them and you get the only benefit, and that is a ping…

Get it, Good, because while you may not be able to stop it you may be able to take advantage of it.

license validation

A recent question came up on a forum that was of particular interest to several members of that community and it is of interest here as well, it was the question of licensing and validation, how it effects the buyers of products that require daily and or even hourly validation of a products veracity, how can you make sure that your users are entitled to use your software?

Many felt that since they had spent money to be able to use a product that any interruption in the ability of that customer to use that product constituted, not only a failure of service on the vendors part but also a failure of the product to provide the value for which it was sold and for which the buyer paid for its use.

 

When you look at the situation in that light you cannot fail to appreciate the irony of the few causing trouble for the whole body of customers, the example being the few who may not have obtained the product lawfully causing the main body of customers to suffer with being denied access to products. So is there a balance between the rights of the product owners, to keep people who have not paid from using their products and the rights of those customers who should rightly have unfettered access to their products at all times? 

The answer may not be as easy said as it is done, for many reasons, however, one might thing that the needs of the many would outweigh the needs of the few. Of course without paying customers what would you have? When you consider the risk of the alienation of your customers by deny access to products that customer had purchased, could cause a serious bank account issue, you have to consider the needs of the customer first and foremost. Which is an interesting thing to observe in many companies which apparently take the opposite approach and would rather deny access to everyone and thus effectively fail the very people that are providing your revenue, which in the old days, would have been called biting the hand that feeds you. Which any sane individual would have seen as the most truthful thing ever.

Yet, that is not what we have seen over the course of the last year in stead we have seen the value of the customer consistently denied in favor of the needs of the few. This makes no business sense at all, yet many large corporations are in fact doing just that, without regard to what customer think, say or do. Perhaps when revenue begins to decline and everyone that can be blamed has been blamed, and still no solution has been found, perhaps they will see what this post is all about and then collectively attempt to assuage the guilt of failure with apology, however at that time I rather suspect that once the fox is allowed in the hen house, the damage has been done, it is only though the insight of foresight, that a true solution to the problem can be obtained. Consider the customer first.,

Analyst for the Small Business

Could you think your way out of a problem if you did not know nor had you any experience with the problem?

They used to call this consulting, but in our experience most small business owners do not listen to advice at all.

Which is why they really need advice, more so when you have a rough and tumble economy like we have now.

Small business owners may not think they need a business analyst.

One of the most important things you can do for your small business is to create and generate a plan that works time after time.

Small businesses are sometimes caught up in trying to survive and overlook a key element in their success.

The business analyst can actually come in and determine what the small business owner can do to expand his or her business.

The small business owner can benefit just as much from a business analyst as a large corporation. There may be times when the business analyst sees the big picture when the small business owner can only see the bottom line. The new small business may not feel the added expense of a business analyst is worth justifying. In fact this is just the case.

The small business can benefit from the business analyst in many ways.

The business analyst may be able to offer an unforeseen income generating avenue. Advertising techniques the small business is using may be proving fruitless. The business analyst may be able to implement bluetooth advertising.

The small business could target specific clients instead of a general population with his or her advertising dollar. The business analyst may be able to suggest point of sale income not thought of by the small business owner. Other elements the business analyst could suggest would be repackaging in different sizes, where appropriate. Offering complimenting sales items may have not occurred to the small business owner. The business analyst is there to show a different perspective.

The business analyst will be able to assess the small business and determine what business decisions should be made. He or she can instruct the small business owner of new programs available. The business analyst will be able to offer advice as to new technology the small business owner is not taking advantage of. The small business is able to be aided in several ways by the business analyst.

The business analyst is a visionary. He or she can show the small business how to implement innovative business techniques. These techniques may have never been before thought of by the small business owner.

The business analyst can view the broad scope of things to determine a need by the customer. The small business owner may have no idea these areas of opportunity exist. It is up to the business analyst to show the small business what will work and what will not work for the business.

Building profits and customer relations are the two key components that make up what the small business is focused upon. A good business analyst will be able to integrate these key elements into a plan of action for the small business. The business analyst can act as the liaison between the small business and the customer to determine if the needs of the customer are being met. A report can then be generated to determine how the small business can use this information.

The small business and it’s customers can benefit from the knowledge a business analyst brings to the table. The added expense of a business analyst can significantly raise the profits of a small business. It is worth researching whether a business analyst will be able to use his or her skills when it comes to a small business.

FTC no tracking?

Is this the end of Affiliate Marketing…

Ok, it could be something to consider, the FTC seems to want to take an interest in how the internet works.

DNT could stand for do not track which would in effect put many thousands of websites out of business along with the ad networks that support them.

Some people have to wonder, about the idea that could cause millions of dollars in damages and other issues for vendors and website owners.

So what would happen if websites just started posting a splash screen that states, Hi, thank you for your interest in our website however it appears that you have elected to turn off cookies, at this time sadly we have to deny you access based on your browser settings, have a nice day now I am sure you will find some website somewhere, to get the information you want, Hey how about trying the FTC and see if they can help you out?

See how crazy it could get, well that might happen soon, simply because the FTC is sticking its big nose where it does not belong.

buying software online

There are many different places online where they offer you a discount for buying software, however very often you may not be getting what you think you are getting here are a few things to watch out for when considering buying software online.  

buying software on ebay can be a risky thing, so make sure you understand some of the things you may want to know about a software vendor.

  1. Version what version are you getting is it a full version or is it an educational version, is it an upgrade?
  2. Watch out for tricks that some vendors may try to play on you.
  3. beware of ebay sellers with little or no feedback…
  4. check out a vendors previous auctions and feedback.
  5. Google that vendor to see if there have been complaints in the past.
  6. Avoid vendors that offer to sell you a deep discounted software program, (it might be counterfeit)
  7. Send them an email, if they reply and answer your questions, (all of them) then you will know more about them.

The bottom line is that if you are not careful you could end up spending money on software and getting nothing in return be fully aware of a websites policies concerning selling and how vendors work in that company. Some companies will tell you in the fine print that they do not cover you if a vendor has no feedback or they have less feedback this is not a good thing and if you find a company like that the best thing to do is to avoid them entirely. Take for example, Ebay.com here is an auction for software that is very popular, try out our process, check the vendor out, see what their feedback is, find out if they have complaints, and contact them to see if they reply to your questions about the auction items.  

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Developing software

Writing software, creating software can help build your business.

building software is a process that you can follow using a set check list, however that is only a part of the entire process.

Software use in many small business companies is on the rise and it is being supplied from the traditional outlets either. One of the most interesting aspects of this modern technologically world we live in is that the old time supplies such as Microsoft and even apple seem to be moving to the back of the bus so to speak.

types of software and how they work.

With so many open source options available today why would a small business company spend so much money on a software solution that perhaps may not be as popular or even as effective as some of the open source solutions out there. A great point in case is this hotel that I am not staying in yesterday they lost several hundreds in profits because they purchased some software from a vendor and that vendor let them down, they were unable to process any payments, they had customers standing in line waiting for the opportunity to do business with them.

A retailers nightmare…

This is a business nightmare when you cannot generate revenue and you have bills that come in month after month then you know that you cannot afford to loose money… In this very challenging economy a business cannot afford to make these kinds of mistakes… The thing is this company allegedly paid like $8000.00 to a vendor and ended up loosing money because of all the problems that the software caused that business then ended up allegedly moving to an open source solution.

So, the old methods of using software vendors may not always be a good method of creating revenue.

Keyword traffic

There are a number of possible research methods when developing keyword topics.

keyword traffic estimator is a method of making an educated guess at how much traffic a particular keyword might have.

In fact the market for keywords is a very expensive one from as high as $8 to 15 dollars per keyword and up, it is hard to imagine just how much money some of these companies charge for thier products.  For example we asked a well known company for a quote on keyword access this is just access to a database, and they said, that they could provide that access for $800.00 US Plus a surcharge that would apply for addational calls to the database, now imagine that they are actually using Amazon Web Services, to provide the through put for this service, given the likely cost of the service which is about $78.00 per month, the idea of charging $800.00 per month, is not only marginally insulting but amazing.

Do not get ripped off, by companies that are trying to find a meal ticket.

We are not against the idea of someone making a profit but this is realy crazy.

It really does pay to shop around because we found a much better service, for much less, in fact the level of data that they provide is just nothing short of amazing. 

Visit them here because you just have to see this data it is just that good.

Learning about keywords is just part of what you really need to understand about succeeding online.

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Zac Johnson, a super affiliate, explains on how to use iSpionage to conduct new market research.
This kind of educational review establishes you as an authorithy, and gets you the best result in promoting iSpionage.

This tool is perhaps one of the most impressive tools I have see so far you should really have a look at it.
 

Productive wordpress plugins

How do you define productivity?

If you could save just 10 minutes per day how much time could you devote to things you really want to do every day?

when you study how much time it takes to do a task, such as typing, or posting to a blog you know after a while about how much time you need to have in order to maintain a website every day.

So how do you save time?

Getting the most work done in the least amount of time is that productive?

Yes, it is, because work is work and getting the job done faster is something that can help you get your blog noticed faster.

Publishing books

Writing a book is easy or so some say.

Self-Publishing Your Own Book, there are many different methods of publishing.

Are you an author who has a book that you would like to see published?

If you are, you should know that you do have a number of different options.

While the most common approach taken involves relying on a third party publishing house, you do also have the option of self-publishing your own book. When an author makes the decision to self-publish a book, he or she has complete control over the whole process. In fact, that is just one of the many pros or plus sides to self-publishing, as many authors like having complete control over their works of art.

As for the responsibility of an author in terms of self-publishing, an author must write the book, edit it, find a company to manufacturer the printed book, and sell it. Although the process does seem relatively easy to most, it is important to remember that there are a number of pros and cons to self-publishing. As it was previously stated, a self-publisher is responsible for the sale of their book.

For many this is a difficult process.

When a third party publishing house is used, they take on most of the work associated with selling a book, such as marketing. This is not how self-publishing works. Many self-publishers set up websites where they list their books available for sale.

Even then, however, that website must be marketed so that visitors will find it. Self-publishers also have the option of approach retailers, including bookstores, hoping to get their books available for sale locally. Another con or downside to self-publishing is the cost. Technically, you could say that even when using a third party publishing house, you still pay for the cost of getting your book published. This is because your publisher does take a fee out of the amount of money that you are paid; however, many authors don’t even take this cut into consideration. Even though it will cost money to have your book transformed into print, there are steps that you can take to reduce the cost. The most common approach involves having your book printed on demand, instead of having books on hand.

As previously stated, some self-publishers find it difficult to sell their books. Yes, this process can be difficult, but many other self-published authors have seen success. When you put the proper amount of time, research, and energy into selling a self-published book, you stand the most chance of making the biggest profit. This is because, aside from the cost of your expenses, you are able to retain all of your profits. There is no one else that must share your profits, unless of course you decide to hire help. Another pro or plus side to self-publishing is the fact that unknown authors are given the opportunity to shine. Some of the best selling books today are written by authors who already have an established history or name. In fact, unless you have an absolutely amazing book or a well-known name, there is a good chance that many publishing companies will not want to take a chance on you.

This doesn’t mean that your book is a poorly written one or that it has a bad story line. It just means that the publishing market is a tough one. One of the biggest signs that self-publishing may be right for you if you believe that you have a book that will sell, but you still receive multiple rejection letters from well-known publishing houses. Self-publishing is also an ideal approach for authors who write books that will sell, but books that only have a limited targeted marketed. For example, if you are interested in writing a book on your city or town, your targeted market may be quite small and publishers may not want to take a chance with that. Since there are a number of pros and cons to self-publishing, you should take the time to decide if self-publishing is right for you. Additional research can help you determine if self-publishing is truly your best option.