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	<title>All Things Internet Marketing &#187; google</title>
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		<title>Testing Your Web Page Effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.colshar.com/blog/2008/06/testing-your-web-page-effectiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Fleming</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[split testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website optimizer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been in the Internet Marketing game for very long, you will have heard a lot about how important it is to TEST different elements of your landing and sales pages to get the most out of you traffic.
There are some good programs out there that will help you to do that, BUT [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have been in the Internet Marketing game for very long, you will have heard a lot about how important it is to TEST different elements of your landing and sales pages to get the most out of you traffic.</p>
<p>There are some good programs out there that will help you to do that, BUT did you know that GOOGLE has a FREE multi variate testing tool that does an excellent job of this for you?</p>
<p>Why purchase expensive software when the tool you need is already available for FREE???</p>
<p>What does this tool do you ask?  Well, it allows you to set up a main page, and rotate different sections of that page to test to see which combination is more effective.</p>
<p>This is what Google tells us about it:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Website Optimizer works by testing different versions of the content on your live site to see what will lead to the highest conversion rates. We&#8217;ll guide you through the process of setting up an experiment to test your content by following these steps.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em>Pick a test page and a conversion page.</em></li>
<li><em>Tag both these pages with experiment tags we provide.</em></li>
<li><em>Push the tagged versions of your pages live. (Your users won&#8217;t see any changes yet.)</em></li>
<li><em>Once your pages are tagged, you or your marketing team can make the rest of the changes without technical help from within the tool.</em></li>
<li><em>Add different variations of content you&#8217;d like to test into the Website Optimizer tool.</em></li>
<li><em>Preview the variations on your test page within the tool. (You can have your team preview them too.)</em></li>
<li><em>Launch the experiment.</em></li>
<li><em>When your test page is opened in a browser, the experiment tags on your page will contact Website Optimizer and request for a set of variations to display on the test page.</em></li>
<li><em>When a user visits your test page, they will see one combination of your content variations. (We make sure users will see the same combination even if they visit the test page more than once.)</em></li>
<li><em>If the user proceeds to your conversion page, we&#8217;ll record a conversion.</em></li>
<li><em>Soon after your experiment launches, we&#8217;ll begin to provide you with reports about performance of your test content.</em></li>
</ul>
<li><em>Use the results to make educated decisions about your test page.</em></li>
<li><em>When we have collected enough data, the results will be available within your account.</em></li>
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<p>You can test different headlines, layouts, elements of the page etc and you get extensive reports on which combinations result in the best performance.</p>
<p>Check it out now by going to Google and adding Website Optimizer to your account.</p>
<p><strong>Why pay for something you can get for free?</strong></p>
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		<title>The Benefits Of AdWords Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.colshar.com/blog/2008/03/the-benefits-of-adwords-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Based Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adwords]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pay per click]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Trevor Ganderson
Google pay-per-click advertising is so popular because of  the benefits of AdWords tools. More and more people are using this Internet  marketing method, and earning huge amounts of profit too. From e-commerce  website owners to fresh affiliate marketers, Google AdWords has been able to  boost the sales of almost [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="uawbyline" style="font-style: italic">By Trevor Ganderson</p>
<p class="uawarticle">Google pay-per-click advertising is so popular because of  the benefits of AdWords tools. More and more people are using this Internet  marketing method, and earning huge amounts of profit too. From e-commerce  website owners to fresh affiliate marketers, Google AdWords has been able to  boost the sales of almost everybody who uses them.</p>
<p>Large business  enterprises use Google AdWords, and so do the small consultants and service  providers. And the AdWords tools work for all businesses, regardless of nature,  scope or scale. These tools help bring you customers and they also help analyze  your customers and their needs. So they work in a two-fold way.</p>
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<p><strong>Bringing  Customers:</strong></p>
<p class="uawarticle"><strong> </strong>Since this is predominantly an advertising service, it helps direct  targeted traffic towards your website. As a matter of fact, AdWords tools are  still the most popular choice of e-advertising among Internet marketers! The  pay-per-click model, if used wisely, can prove to be very cost-effective, as it  shows your Ad to only those people who are actually looking for your products.  This greatly refines the quality of your visitors, bringing in more of potential  customers as against just casual browsers.</p>
<p><strong>Analyzing The Customer Needs:</strong></p>
<p class="uawarticle">  There was a time when you needed to hire a special focus group to determine what  exactly your customers were looking for! But AdWords tools do away with the cost  of that special focus group. With these tools, you can not only bring more  customers to your website, but, you can also easily see what exactly is bringing  them to you. These tools automatically give you a detailed report as to which  keyword in your list is getting the maximum CTR. You can also use these reports  to find out which keywords or set of keywords are leading to the maximum sales  orders. This will help you determine your niche market. Not only that, but  AdWords tools also give you other keyword suggestions related to your products,  that people search for, so that you may incorporate those too in your  campaign.</p>
<p><strong>Testing And Surveys:</strong></p>
<p class="uawarticle"> With AdWords tools, you can easily play  around with your Ad design &#8211; the heading, the text, any images &#8211; to find out  which &#8220;word&#8221; works better, or which &#8220;phrase&#8221; touches a deeper chord with people.  You can use your creativity to its full potential, and let Google AdWords take  care of all the nitty-gritty for you! You can even use these tools as  &#8220;pre-launch surveys&#8221; for any new products or services you may have in the  pipeline. The response to Ads related to such products will give you a fair idea  of the kind of market you can expect for them.</p>
<p>After all is said and  done, the bottom-line remains that the uses for Google AdWords are just too  many! If used effectively, these AdWords tools can do all that you might require  a focus group to do for you, and much more than that!</p>
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<p class="uawabout" style="font-style: italic"> About the Author:</p>
<p class="uawlinks">Trevor Granderson is a Entrepreneur that has been earning a  living online since 2005. Trevor has used the <a href="http://www.duvetcash.info/">Duvet Dollars</a> system to earn money online.  He also owns a membership site that provides online marketers how to info from  various <a href="http://www.netpromarketer.com/">internet millionaires.</a></p>
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		<title>Ppc Management And Quality Score Details</title>
		<link>http://www.colshar.com/blog/2008/02/ppc-management-and-quality-score-details/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Based Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertisements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pay per click]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Basch
If you are a regular advertiser who uses Google Adwords,  you probably already are familiar with Google&#8217;s Quality Score. Each and every  keyword within your adwords account is assigned a quality score by Google. This  score is calculated by Google to represent how relevant your keyword is to your  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="uawbyline" style="font-style: italic">By Brian Basch</p>
<p class="uawarticle">If you are a regular advertiser who uses Google Adwords,  you probably already are familiar with Google&#8217;s Quality Score. Each and every  keyword within your adwords account is assigned a quality score by Google. This  score is calculated by Google to represent how relevant your keyword is to your  advertisement and destination.</p>
<p>Quality score influences a number of very  important factors within your adwords account. It affects your ad&#8217;s display  position on the Google network and determines your minimum required bid in order  for your pay per click ad to run. There are no factors more important to the pay  per click advertiser than ad position and ad pricing, so understanding Google&#8217;s  quality score is a worthwhile effort.</p>
<p>The quality score is Google&#8217;s  attempt to keep advertisements tightly related to what their users/customers are  looking for. The thinking goes that Google&#8217;s customers will enjoy their search  experience more with the advertisements closely related to their interest area  along with the search results. Although it may be difficult to implement a  perfect computer-driven ranking system, this way of thinking seems  correct.</p>
<p>The published components of Google&#8217;s quality score are the  following:</p>
<p>1. How closely a keyword is related to the ads in its ad  group. This element should cause advertisers to implement their ads and keywords  in closely related units, rather than tossing all keywords together in one  group. Doing the later will likely lead to high minimum click prices and lower  ad spots.</p>
<p>2. The historical performance of the keyword on Google.com.  This factor means that if you don&#8217;t have your act together today, you will  likely end up paying a higher premium for your ads tomorrow and into the future.  Google has decided to reward advertisers whose ads have a higher  CTR(clickthrough rate), so attention-grabbing ad copy and relevancy is a  must.</p>
<p>3. The historical performance of your entire adwords account. Yes,  you read that correctly. Google factors in the CTR from your entire account  history when determining your minimum bids and ad positions. This, more than any  other factor, dictates that you pay special attention to your account&#8217;s quality.  Get good or pay more, it&#8217;s pretty simple.</p>
<p>4. How closely your landing  page relates to your effort. When a potential customer clicks on one of your  ads, it makes sense that the page they are sent to should closely relate to what  they are searching for. This benefits everyone involved as the user can more  quickly find what they want, Google looks good for helping them find it, and you  are rewarded by having a much improved chance winning that customer&#8217;s business.  This element of the quality score is more subjective, but makes sense from the  big picture perspective. Google rewards your good service to their  customers.</p>
<p>In the end, paying strict attention to, and optimizing for,  Google&#8217;s quality score for each keyword in your account will result in lower  minimum bids and higher ad positions. Both of these factors affect your return  on investment for your advertising dollars and are therefore worth understanding  intimately.</p>
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<p class="uawabout" style="font-style: italic"> About the Author:</p>
<p class="uawlinks">With more than four years of pay per click advertising  experience, Brian Basch will guide your advertising in order to improve your  return on investment. Leverage his <a href="http://www.propayperclickmanagement.com/">ppc management</a> knowledge and  differentiate your enterprise. Just visit:  http://www.propayperclickmanagement.com/ Grab a totally unique version of this  article from the Uber <a href="http://www.uberarticles.com/home.php?id=39654&amp;b=757">Article  Directory</a></p>
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		<title>Why Are Articles Important For Your Affiliate Websites?</title>
		<link>http://www.colshar.com/blog/2008/01/why-is-articles-important-for-your-affiliate-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affiliate sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anson Hall
Affiliate websites can be divided into two main  categories. There are websites that have only one to two pages and on these  pages there are only links to the affiliate products. You can easily find  thousands of such sites from Google or Yahoo. However, you should not aim at  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Anson Hall</em></p>
<p class="uawarticle">Affiliate websites can be divided into two main  categories. There are websites that have only one to two pages and on these  pages there are only links to the affiliate products. You can easily find  thousands of such sites from Google or Yahoo. However, you should not aim at  creating this kind of websites since there is no real content in  them.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there is another kind of affiliate site. In  these sites, there are actual contents! And the links are usually embedded into  the contents. Undoubtedly you will need to do this if  you would like to earn  some money from your websites and you will not able to make money without  putting the links into the website.</p>
<p>In fact, websites with real and  useful content are superior to those without any content.  Here the notion of  content means articles which relate to the niche of the  website.</p>
<p>At this point you may be a bit confused since you do not know  the difference between websites with and without real content. I can tell you  that there is a huge difference. Customers tend to trust affiliate websites with  informative articles. This is because they may have a lot of doubts when they  see the affiliate products. However, if you have informative articles on your  websites and give the customer tips on issues related to the products, you can  make the customers trust you and thus it will be easier for you to sell the  products to the customers.</p>
<p>Although it is important to have informative  articles in your website, you cannot create them without any knowledge. As a  consequence you will need to study the products and issues related to the  products. You will need to make the articles appear like advice given by experts. If  you can do this, the visitors to your websites will certainly trust you and you  can sell the products to them without any difficulty. And this is why you need  to do extensive research before you start your affiliate sites. Research is a  must in order to make money with your sites.</p>
<p>If you do not want to write  the article yourself, you will still have other options. You can hire a company  to do the job for you. You can easily find companies which will write the  articles for you. You can search for the keyword &#8216;article writing service&#8217; in  Google and you can easily find these companies. The charges will vary from one  company to another. However, you should bear in mind that there is always a  trade-off between quality and price. And you should not allow rubbish articles in  your websites.</p>
<p class="uawresource">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="uawabout" style="font-style: italic"> About the Author:</p>
<p class="uawlinks">Anson Hall is an affiliate marketing coach. He has a website  concerning <a href="http://making-money-online-and-seo.blogspot.com/2007/12/basics-of-email-marketing.html">Opt-in  Email Marketing Safelist</a>. You may also check his <a href="http://why-perform-website-data-analysis.x-discuz.info/">Tools for Website  Analysis</a>.</p>
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		<title>SEO For Newbies &#8211; FREE</title>
		<link>http://www.colshar.com/blog/2007/12/seo-for-newbies-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you just joined the ranks of Internet Marketers?  Are you finding it difficult to absorb all the information available on-line and in books, blogs and forums?  Take heart, you are not alone.
Most new Internet Marketers find it VERY DIFFICULT to digest and apply all the advice and tactics that they are bombarded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you just joined the ranks of Internet Marketers?  Are you finding it difficult to absorb all the information available on-line and in books, blogs and forums?  Take heart, you are <u><em>not alone</em></u>.</p>
<p>Most new Internet Marketers find it <strong>VERY DIFFICULT</strong> to digest and apply all the advice and tactics that they are bombarded with when starting out.  This can be so overwhelming, that many IMers <em>never even get started</em>.  The temptation is to keep looking for more information to try and clarify what they have already found.</p>
<p><strong>This can result in a huge proportion of &#8216;wannabes&#8217; becoming quitters.   </strong></p>
<p>If you find yourself in this predicament, we are putting together some <strong>SIMPLE &amp; STRAIGHTFORWARD</strong> free videos to help you with the basics.</p>
<p>One of the most desirable outcomes an IMer wants is for his/her website to be listed in the major search engines for their main search term, and preferably on the <em>first page</em> of search results for that term.  This can result in a <em>lot</em> of <em>free traffic</em> to the site &#8211; which is what everybody wants and competes for.</p>
<p>Google&#8217;s algorithms for including a web site in their listings is forever changing to reflect their mission to present the user with <em>relevant</em> information.  As web masters, IM&#8217;ers are using both white hat and black hat methods to boost their listings and page rank.  Page rank is Google&#8217;s assessment of your sites relevance to the search term used to find your site and how useful it is to the user.</p>
<p>Black hat methods are fast becoming highly detrimental to use as Google&#8217;s algorithms improve they will remove listings using these methods.  So <strong>Stay Away From Black Hat Methods</strong> supposedly able to increase your traffic and page rank quickly.  Your site <em>will be penalized</em>!</p>
<p>As an new web master, your goal is to make your site as search engine friendly and as relevant to your search keywords as possible.  Regardless of your product or service, if you want to achieve a high ranking and appear in the first 1-20 listings for search terms, there are some very important steps that must be implemented<em> before </em>you submit your site to Google or any other search engine. You also need to practice patience. Part of the search engine algorithms will be the age of your site.  The newer it is, the less likely it is your site will rise to a very high position.  Don&#8217;t be disheartened by this.  Once your site is in the indices of the search engines, you can continue to improve on content and relevence which brings your rankings up gradually every time they re-visit and re-index.</p>
<p>Due to the sheer number of new web sites being created on a daily basis by internet marketers and others, it will take time to get your site listed, ranked and into the search results.  Remember your are <em>competing</em> for the best results, it doesn&#8217;t happen by itself.  It takes know-how and <em>work. </em>Selling on line is a business, not a get rich quick scheme, and if you are to succeed, you must take it <em>seriously</em> and treat it like a long term business.</p>
<p>There are 16 Videos in this series.  Here is the first one &#8211; we will add one per day for the next 2 weeks so stayed tuned.</p>
<p><strong>View 1st Video:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.colshar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/video01.html" target="_blank" title="An Introduction to “On Page” Search Engine Optimization">An Introduction to “On Page” Search Engine Optimization</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.colshar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/video02.html" target="_blank" title="How And Why To Move Your JavaScript To An External File">How And Why To Move Your JavaScript To An External File</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.colshar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/video03.html" title="How Your File Size Can Effect Your Search Engine Efforts">How Your File Size Can Effect Your Search Engine Efforts</a></p>
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