tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-244167082024-03-13T17:42:10.508+01:00Neila's Biz TipsInternet Affiliate Marketing ~ How To Start Home Business On A BudgetNeila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-36073684761283328092021-07-05T09:19:00.005+02:002021-10-13T21:32:43.070+02:00Revamp your Old Blog for 2021<p>
I want to have AdSense (again) on my old BlogSpot blogs. The times when you
just had to place the widget are gone. Now Google does not anymore
automatically fill it. Why? The times of in-built PageRank, when Google
preferred their own blogs slightly over other publications are gone as
well.
</p>
<p>
A blog must fill very strict and hard criteria now to even get (re-) indexed
on Google. Mine were not. I found out only after wondering for a long time.
First, I was told on the dashboard "something" had to be done to be ready for
AdSense. Scanning over
<a
href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9335564?hl=en&ref_topic=1250104"
target="_blank"
>Google's Publisher Policies</a
>
I saw clearly: Of course legal pages are a must.
</p>
<p>
Since my article is going to be well over 2300 words, I'd better insert:
"Please Bookmark my Article, and be sure to come back to read on you stopped
😊 Maybe I forgot something and you have a question? Please leave a comment!"
</p>
<div>
<ul class="toc_list" style="list-style: none;">
<h3 id="toc">Contents</h3>
<h3>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#legal"
>Legal Requirements for Websites</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#new-requirements-google"
>The New Requirements a Blog (orWebsite) Must Meet in 2021 to Get
Indexed and Listed By Google</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#question_11"
></a>
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#question_12"
>1000 Words</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#articles"
>A Blog should contain veritable Articles</a
>
</li>
<li><a href="#question_14">Latent Semantic Index(ing) Keywords</a></li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#question_15"
>Thorough Researches on the Subject of Each Article</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#question_16"
>Perfect Spelling and Grammar</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/07/revamp-your-old-blog-for-2021.html#question_17"
>Conclusion about Ranking Factors</a
>
</li>
</h3>
</ul>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>
<p></p>
<span><a name='more'></a></span>
<p>
OK, OK, done the legals... (and here too improvements are needed). Only
strictly private blogs don't need legal pages, but as soon as you put anything
on to monetize a blog, you are seen as a company and your website must meet
the
</p>
<h2 id="legal">Legal Requirements for Websites</h2>
<p></p>
<ul>
<li>
<b>Imprint and Contact </b>(I better call it both, because I'm German, and
the DSGVO requires the word "Impressum" to be seen on every page and
reachable below 3 clicks.
</li>
<li>
<b>Privacy Policy </b>-mainly about which personal data are collected from
visitors, how we, the webmasters, use and protect those.
</li>
<li>
<b>Cooky Policy </b>- personal data of visitors are usually collected using
cookies, but basically the same as above.
</li>
<li><b>GDPR / DSGVO compliancy </b>together with</li>
<li>
<b>the obnoxious Cookie Opt-In Banner </b>and I'm really excited when
reading just now, that Google will come up with a new solution for Blogspot.
It sits in the news below the AdSense statistics, and I must read about it
as soon as possible.
</li>
<li>
<b>Disclaimers and TOs </b>- well, this is not a Web-Shop, so it may be
neglected a bit (I hope) - unless you are blogging about anything health- or
law-related (oO...).
</li>
<li>
<b>Affiliate Disclosure </b>- Any advertising must be clearly declared as
such. Affiliate-Links inside content are a bit difficult to mark. So today
most bloggers I visited came to the solution to mark them with asterisks,
and I will do it too (*--*) also the affiliate disclosure in my new WP blog
will be put in a widget in the sidebar, linking to my affiliate-disclosure
page.
</li>
<li>
On a blog about Online Home Business, this means beating three birds with
one stone, lol. (if you want to see more please return when I'm finished
revamping this blog 😊
</li>
<li>
<b>An SSL Certificate - </b>No need to bother about this on Blogspot -
but check the<b> Settings </b>if you haven't yet:<b>
Your URL must start with HTTPS! </b
>A blogger can simply switch this on. But new Webmasters should pay
attention, that their Host has included an SLL Certificate with every Domain
that is registered or hosted with them. Otherwise, the website is not
considered secure, which among general trust will prevent AdSense and
influence Ranking negatively.
</li>
<li>
<b>Copyrights</b> - a huge subject on its own. Most important in short:
Pictures - whether required or not, if you use free stock photos, better
always imply an attribution in the caption below. Also when you buy a
license - one never knows... Read the Terms and Conditions of the
distributor to make sure commercial use is really really allowed and how
far. And protect your own Site as a whole against copyright infringement.
Therefore it is often recommended (though legally required only for shops
/sales pages) to have Terms and Conditions besides Disclaimers on your Site,
if only for copyrights and spam protection.
</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Why Is my Blog Still Rejected for AdSense?</h3>
<p>
<b>Changes over changes going on inside Google, </b>and of course not fast
and stringent due to Corona. A webmaster must have a lot of patience, even
with a giant like Google.<b>
The next complaint - without further explanation - was "Thin Content". In
the Google AdSense Help Forum, I only found out that everyone else was
like "WTF??" just like me.</b
>
</p>
<p>
<b
>Then, finally using the Webmaster Tools, the first problem I detected
was: Only the Title, meaning not even the whole Startpage obviously was
indexed on Google! After nothing but "Eeeek!" I went into detail: What Is
Required to Get a Blog re-Listed with Google?</b
>
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
The New Requirements a Blog (orWebsite) Must Meet in 2021 to Get Indexed and
Listed By Google
</h2>
<p>
We must work hard nowadays to catch up with Google's steadily changing
algorithms. I always try since my return to the net, but I am not
a <span
face="arial, sans-serif"
style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"
>qualified </span
>SEO person and can't present a list here, and sorry, not even any links to
any sites I read. I just googled the most pressing questions I had and found
some answers, which I can report here. What I still don't know:
</p>
<h3>Why Are My Blogs Not Indexed On Google anymore??</h3>
<p>
Well, first I came across Google Analytics implication, and learned, that
without Analytics, you can't have Adsense. I didn't get around this stuff
being ten times more complicated now, and I think I claimed this blog here
twice for Analytics by accident. In the<b
> Settings of New Templates, you can insert this Analytics Code,
Starting with UA. But the new Analytics has no UA anymore. </b
>So I was unsure if the new number worked. - And of course, no way to find
anything about this in the Support.
</p>
<p>
Well, now this is done, and my blog is slowly getting re-indexed. But this
is only for statistics and AdSense and does not refer to websites
in general.<b
><span style="font-size: medium;"
> A Website does not generally have to use Google Analytics to get
indexed. </span
></b
>
</p>
<p>
I'd still like to find an answer to my question. Does Anyone Know about a
Google-Slap against their own blogs? Or am I the only one who happened to
find this out? It sure would be paranoid to think it was only me,
so...
</p>
<p>
I was really shocked by my findings and am still a bit afraid that Google is
going to dump Blogspot after all. I have lost so much content before - some
of which I was happy to find with the Way Back Machine - more about this
later, in the very first post, Google found here, much to my dismay, as that
post about "Multiply" is really redundant since the platform closed.
</p>
<h3>
<b
>But back to the subject of this chapter: The New SEO- and Content
Requirements for Blogs</b
>
</h3>
<div>
Content still is King. Fresh Content, Unique Content, Keywords, - anything
SEO we still know is still valid so far. What has changed drastically
is:
</div>
<h3>
A Blog Post must contain at least a thousand words to get indexed.
</h3>
<p>
Longer content is considered more valuable, giving more complete information
on the chosen keyword subject. (I should do this here too, but this post
here is more a warning than an instruction for seasoned bloggers and content
marketers and the only precise tip I can give here is: do what I did and
find precise information by SEO bloggers on how long a blog post should be
on Google. In this here more involuntary written post I can only promise to
insert my resources later, when or if I find them again :-( But then, I know
what I wanted to know, and can tell you the most important stuff I needed to
know for me.)
</p>
<p>
<b>The average post length for well-positioned blogs </b>is reported to be<b>
1600 words. </b
>So the hard-to-explain difference between blog posts is no longer relevant.
Forget last year's assumption about 500 words or "as long as it needs to
be". In my eyes, 1000 words is much too long for anyone to read. But SEO
experts say no, and scientific explanations about readers' attention span
require at least one or two own articles in the category of online
marketing.
</p>
<h3>A blog should contain exclusively veritable Articles </h3>
<p>
So <b>forget everything you know about blogging and its beginnings. </b>It's
no longer a casual conversation with your readers. Veto here: this can be
combined. I don't have the time to learn how to write articles - in two
languages even, and I must hope I can still rely on what I learned in school
50 years ago.
</p>
<p>
<b>That means for me as a content marketer </b>(is the word "Infopreneur"
still used?)<b>
and a blogger: blog like you always did for promotion, get more into depth
and consider some SEO principles stronger, make it at least 1000 words,
but still without the fluff. About style, I trust my "All in One SEO
Plugin" in WordPress, which scolds me when I have too large Paragrps, over
300 words without Subheadings, too much or too little passive voice (?),
and go for 100 words - when you do, it somehow always goes for over the
goal automatically.</b
>
</p>
<h3>Other Not Unimportant Stuff </h3>
<div>While I'm on the subject of SEO, articles, style, and keywords...</div>
<div><br /></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">LSI - Latent Semantic Index(ing) Keywords</h3>
<p>
I just found a free tool https://lsigraph.com/
this helps to find LSI keywords.
</p>
<blockquote>
<i
>"LSI Keywords are keywords that are semantically linked to a target
keyword or a search query. It helps search engines to thoroughly
understand the topic of a piece of web content.<br /><br />In SEO context,
LSI keywords are keywords that we should be using in our content to help
search engines understand our content deeply, leading to higher ranking
potential."</i
>
</blockquote>
<p>
For example, Keyword is "bank" Google spiders look for LSI keywords like
"sit" as opposed to something like "deposit" to find out which kind of bank
the text is about. This is a new AI trick the search engine spiders have now
and for ranking as important as the keywords themselves.
</p>
<p>
Finally, I found a practical Thesaurus: https://www.wordreference.com/
(Guess synonyms are LSI keywords too)
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Thorough Researches on the Subject of Each Article
</h3>
<p>
Do better than I demonstrated above, lol, each article should be planned. If
you think you know enough about your subject, ok, just write. But if it
contains any knowledge from recent researches, have the sources at hand.
From now on, I will organize it this way:
</p>
<p>
I open a new Word document - copy and paste the URL of any page you find
interesting, a must if you find something you can cite anyways. (And
citations are content, words that count if you struggle with the count f
them, lol. Although, they are valid outbound links, which Google likes.)
Needless to say: don't overdo it, 'cause the whole thing has to be your own
unique content.
</p>
<p>
But the required length comes from the wish for in-depth information
which google assumes the reader has. So don't hesitate to show you did
research and give your reader the chance to more information via the links.
(Don't worry, up to now you are not required to link to your competitors -
just you may not steal their content. That might get you sued.
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Perfect Spelling and Grammar</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">
(Just for the sake of completeness in this probably far from complete
listing) I use "Grammarly" for spellcheck (to find and correct my 1000 typos
and the occasional wrong comma). I don't pay for it to correct my grammar.
If my A grades for Languages have worn out - who cares? The point is
readability.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Normally, I still write right into the CMS (means on the blog). Maybe, with
the (superfluous, annoying) word-counting I will change to Word documents.
Caution! once more: A Word- or Open/Libre Office Document must not be copied
and pasted directly to a CMS, because docs have their own heavy formatting,
which might not look nice online, but especially will prevent the ranking
factor Loading Speed. So before it goes to the blog, can be copied and
pasted to a simple text file first, and then to the blog.
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Conclusion</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Before you revamp your blog check if it isn't<b>
maybe de-indexed by Google,</b
>
not the Startpage, but any random post. Getting familiar with the new
functions of the Google Webmaster tools is a good idea in any case.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b> Feed "King Content" </b>fat, but only with useful content.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Read about<b> SEO </b>whenever you find a bit of time.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>
Know about the official and unofficial ranking factors like
</b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>SSL on</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b> Page Speed</b> - Not much you can do about that here except adding the
Load Lazy property to pictures (yes, I also have to google every time to get
the correct codes I must insert in the HTML 😧 but what should be has to
be... ). And while you are looking at the HTML, check if it is clean
(especially old posts tend old tend to be odd with hundreds of superfluous
spans and such, and because the mistakes did not show in red. )
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>Keywords with Pictures </b>- a picture should have a descriptive name
before upload (oO), title- and alt-tags, the mentioned load lazy attribute,
a caption, if it comes in handy.
</p>
<div>
<b>Mobile Friendliness </b>- I did get a new theme instead of the
traditional one when they came out and wondered where they had gone... Now I
see: I need a new theme again, my current one is Not Mobile Friendly.
Please, someone, tell me, where I find the best (free) Blogger
templates!
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
(<b>Download a Backup! </b>- this has nothing to do with SEO and Ranking,
but better is better.)<br />
<p>
<b>Neither Advertisements Nor Affiliate-Links should Harm your SEO - </b
>of course Banner- and Link-Farms still do, as before. By law, the reader
must clearly be told what is advertising and which content is
sponsored.
</p>
<p>
Wished, I could say "Check my exemplary legal pages", but I did them hush
hush and must work them over, and copy and add them all to each of my
blogs... - right after I found a new template.
</p>
<p>
Since now I am over 2300 words: "Please Bookmark my Article, and be sure
to come back to read on you stopped 😊 Maybe I forgot something and you
have a question? Please leave a comment!"
</p>
<p>Hoping to see you later</p>
<p>Neila~Sabine R.</p>
</div>
</div>
Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-66907177499043297772021-06-26T19:20:00.002+02:002021-06-26T19:23:18.369+02:00Wealthy Affiliate 2021 - A Review from Outside<p style="text-align: justify;">
How can I write a review of a company from outside? I am an affiliate of
Wealthy Affiliate (accidentally). I was lured into their "Free Membership",
searching for a decent program or community to learn all the new tricks and
capabilities an internet affiliate marketer needs today. I was absent from
business for about ten years. Somehow, it is really like starting out from
scratch. But, apart fom also having been a coach at an Internet training school back then, I know how important it is to be in a community for online marketers. - Well, this community is not free.</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">(the Company advertises, but in real provides only higly restricted acces to the services for so called free starter members. Plese check my previous review below</div><div style="color: #3367d6; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/05/is-wealthy-affiliate-scam.html" style="color: #3367d6; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/05/is-wealthy-affiliate-scam.html" style="color: #3367d6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Is Wealthy Affiliate a Scam ?</b></a> for "What is in it for Free") </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But of course, at every second click, the offer to upgrade to do what I wanted is put in front of my nose to show me in detail what I'm missing out on. Thus I do know what is going on inside.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;">What Wealthy Affiliate Offers for Purchase</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">1. Coaching for Affiliate Marketers of all Levels to Build an Online Home
Business</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
Looking at all the advertising hype within the reviews by exclusively paid
members<b> with qualification, </b>I must admit it<b>
probably really is the best affiliate marketing platform and training to
help you make money online.
</b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>
They offer an all-in-one solution for a success with Affiliate Marketing.</b> Of course, as a so called free member I can see everything they offer,
including most articles, dicussions, the questions and helpful answers. I can
say:
<b>Yes, it is true: Profound High Class Training by Professionals for
Professionals. </b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
A bit overwhelming for impatient Newbies, but they admit inside that it takes
some time before you see profits. (I think, they should first teach them how
to promote seriously and credibly, when during the first lessons they teach
how to promote writing a review of Wealthy Affiliate...)
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">
2. Managed Wordpress Hosting Included</h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wealthy Affiliate offers their own managed WP hosting. 10 Websites</b>, <b>good speed</b> (I must admit, I don't know if 10 Domains are included, nor have I tested the (limited) speed of my own free website on the Siterubix Subdomain yet.) But <b>at least 2 Domains seem to be included</b>. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">WA Managed WP Hosting includes: </div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">SSL Certificates</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Instant DNS Setup</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Hosting Speed: <i>"Amazon c3.large (faster)"</i></li><li style="text-align: justify;">30GB Web Space</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Bandwidth: 500K Visitors Month</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Unlimted Email Accounts</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Site Builder - Generate Press</li><li style="text-align: justify;">
Staging Environment (In older reports I read none, but I trust, this has been added)</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Enterprise Security (whatever this means, but they<i>"have several layers of security that shield your websites and keep them secure so you can sleep easy."</i></li><li style="text-align: justify;">Bot net Security</li><li style="text-align: justify;">24/7 Access to Server Admins</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Community Access with Website Feedback, 1on1 Mentoring and - </li><li style="text-align: justify;">SiteComments (??? lol - but considering that on my 78% restricted free Website also the comment section is not included, they must feel compelled to mention this bfore I get off the hook)</li></ul><p></p><div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>This hosting seems solid and comparatively inexpensive at 49$ a month, specially with the SSL included.</b> From what I can see now, I can of course not judge on the manged hosting, nor if an experienced webmaster wouldn't find it too restrictive with no easy access to the background construction and difficulties to imply 3rd-party-plug-ins, probably no automatic updates either without constant contact to the server admin. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But as a beginner-friendly turn-key solution it will serve its purpose perfectly. As much as I loved building websites, I know how it can distract one from building their home business as an Affiliate Marketer. </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">So far, beside all the (unnecessary and questionable) hype, </div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I can fully recommend Wealthy Affiliate as a Beginner-Friendly Turn-Key Solution for Affiliate Marketers who want to Build or Improve their Online Home Business.</span></b> </div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" rel="nofollow" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x6YOfF-iTcA/YNaWLUW5KvI/AAAAAAAABFM/VfdW4uEO4XYqHW3w9kWY9QbM4ZuIY8UngCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/wa_uncover_secrets_250x250.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For experienced affiliate marketers, if you face any obstacles with the progress of your business - when can you ever stop learning? Don't underestimate the value of a community! You get Feedback and analyses on demand, comments, maybe even backlinks, shares, followers, and so on.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I forgot to mention the new<b> SEO </b>and the dedicated<b> Keyword-Research Tool, </b>the <b>Cookie-Free Plugin for Google Analytics,</b> and hopefully Adsense as well (which might not be so necessary for non EU webmasters, but here in Germany, tied-up with totally exaggerated cookie-opt-in and privacy regulations, I don't see how I'll be able to use Adsense, even Adwords/ Google Ads on my domains here again.) </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">So, now that you know what it costs:<b> </b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Seven days free - first month 19$ - regular 49$ per month </b> </div></b><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">and what you get for your money: <b>Hosted (WP) Website(s) including Personal Custom Domain(s) - Extensive Feedback - Extensive Coaching, including Videos (t</b>he basic free parts could use a bit refreshing though<b>) - Live online Coaching - Personal Mentoring by Experts </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Are you ready to Click the Banner and <b><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Purchase The Services of Wealthy Affiliate</a></b>? 🤩</div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>But Wait!</b> </div></b><div style="text-align: justify;">Let me tell you how to get the most out of it right from the beginning without all the frustration I had to experience with my "free" membership. (And let me join with the hype - maybe they are right and advertising needs this again nowadays.) This might be the most important review of Wealthy Affiliate you ever read. (and you will hopefully thank <b>me </b>later<b> </b>by bookmarking my blog, and returning later to <b>sign up from my affiliate link.</b>) </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before the Checklist, a look at the Wealthy Affiliate Hype and the Questions it is bound to raise.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Want to Build an Online Home Business for Free? -</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Forget it! Those Times
Are Gone.</div></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
A headline like this (the first part, I mean), I found over and over on the
net concerning Wealthy Affiliate. And below such a scammy statement, you find
the form to sign up for free. So the reader of such an "unbiased review" or
advertisement might think: So what, it's free, let's have a look. And Snap! -
They sit in the Trap. (Yes, I for instance).
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<b>I was in the wrong place at the wrong time for Wealthy Affiliate. And
whoever just signs up to have a look, is probably too! </b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<b>So, Don't Sign up for
<a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wealthy Affiliate</a>
before you read my Warnings and Hints on How To Be Ready Before Signing
Up! Otherwise, you might be frustrated, leave, and miss a really good opportunity.</b></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">
The old proven Marketing System of Membership Sites is Dead
</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was: Join free, look around, find out how it works for you, what an upgrade has to
offer,(ignore the constant upgrade-promts), <b>all in your own time.</b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
That's what I expected when I joined Wealthy Affiliate.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
Wealthy Affiliate advertises (omitting the exaggeragerations)<b>
free Membership in a Community, Step-by-Step Affiliate Marketing
Training, Live, 24/7 Coaching, a blog inside the Community, ask the
instructors questions anytime, two free profit Ready Websites.</b>
- and more I did not regard for my decision to join.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
I was so disappointed and angry when I returned some days later, that I wrote
this first review of Wealthy Affiliate. Please check this post
below:
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/05/is-wealthy-affiliate-scam.html" style="color: #3367d6; text-decoration-line: none;">Is Wealthy Affiliate a Scam ?</a>
</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Short (better ordered) recap : </p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Wealthy Affiliate is NOT a Scam.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
I don't feel I should apologize for this assumption though, because of of
their
<b>overhyped advertising, which "at my times" was strict a no-go and sure
Scam-Warning.</b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<b>All the "unbiased" flamingly positive Reviews </b>I found anywhere<b>
are written by Pro Members of Wealthy Affiliate and mostly asking for free
signups on a sideline. </b>(In spite of all this referral-hunting... .)
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Wealthy Affiliate is No MLM</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>It is a perfectly legit Company </b>which uses Affiliate Marketing. Meaning <b>the Affiliate is striving
to sell the Company's Product or Service to third party Customers. And the
Affiliate is paid Commissions by the Company. </b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Services offered
by Wealthy Affiliate are: Webhosting and Affiliate Training.</b></div></b><p></p>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4><h3 style="text-align: justify;">
Wealthy Affiliate is A Paid Internet Platform for Affiliate Marketers</h3><div style="text-align: justify;">(<span style="font-weight: normal;">offers no Money-back Guaranty, </span>no idea why).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In my eyes, the <b>free offer</b> is nothing more than a<b>
hoax to hook up subscribers</b>, and the <b>free testing phase is only a ridiculous Seven Days.</b> But this is legit advertising, because the sign-up, a website, and basic but good coaching and use of a keyword tool are indeed free forever, and nobody is forced to purchase, knowing that no money-back guaranty offered. </div>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Price: 7 days 0$ -- 1st Month: 19$ -- <b>Regular:</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b>49$/Month </b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">Prices are clearly visible revealed only after one joins free, and the 30$ off are not a time-limited special offer, but permanent (so far, I have seen no opposite statements) </span></div></span><p></p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
"Free" Starter Membership Without Access to the Community
</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">after the 7 day test phase: </div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Yes</b>, you get <b>2 Blocks of Training Lessons</b> - Affiliate Boot Camp, with
more for purchase, and starter training to find your niche, branding, and goals -
better stuff and live training paid.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Not</b> live, <b>No</b> Possibility to "freely ask any questions you
might have"
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<b>No access to the Community </b>- means <b>No</b> access to "your"
blog,<b> Not allowed </b>to comment, answer, even like, to take part in
the communication.
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><b>How about the Two Free Profit-Ready Websites?</b></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Neither free, nor paid. - Logically - No new Website is ever profit ready! So here we have another hoax for newbies to fall for! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Yes</b> free website (promised are 2, but I did not get far enough in the
Niche Marketing training to verify my second one - more about this
later). You must create your Site (write the articles) yourself. Apart from the instant install and ready to use, not much is done for you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You get a Generate Press WP Blog, Personalized Subdomain, Sitebuilder, but all very restricted, no customization (CSS etc.), even Comments are Disabled, and some of the basic free functions of Generate Press. But fast loading, and some useful Plugins (SEO, Statistics) are included. If the download function is unlocked, I don't know, so if you consider dumping it, better copy and paste your content, includig the default legals. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another frequently asked question:<br /><br /><h3>Can I Make Money with Wealthy Affiliate ?</h3></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Counter Question:</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"> Are there any affiliate programs you cannot make money with? Members earn higher commissions than the Affilates who are no members of course, afiliates even get residual income, because what they promote is a monthly membership, often held for years. </span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But be aware: Just because of the name and all hype aound Wealthy Affiliate you cannot make money with this program faster than with others.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Wealthy Affiliate is No Get - Rich - Quick Scheme, but A legit Online Platform</h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">where you can learn serious Online Affiliate Marketing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Checklist for a Qick Start with Wealthy Affiliate:</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">To get noticed, even when you are kicked of the community after seven days, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">be well prepared to join a new community. (Means: <b>have a profile picture ready, and a bit of text for your profile. Also, you need a cover for your blog at hand, 550x200px</b>) </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b>First Question </b>you will be asked in the Training, starting right after setting up your profile:<b> your earning goals. </b>And later, when you maybe don't have the chance to use your blog anymore, you will be asked howmany new mebers you plan to bring in (when you find 300 you will be invited to a conference in Las Vegas.) (Now you know, why everyone is advertising like crazy with as hype as hype can. Don't pay attention, no chance this year anyway.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">Next step is more serious: <b>Who do you want to be on the Internet?</b> <b>Your Niche, Your Branding, Your Representative new Domain Name. </b>There is more behind Branding than a<b> Keyword Domain and a target Audiance.</b> It is your whole<b> Internet Persona </b>- they don't teach that in the basic training. (And I won't in this article.) Basically, give it a thought, <b>brand yourself as yourself, an Expert in Your Niche. </b>If you are already known as an Expert in your Niche: Keep your Persona, make some changes about your niche, or think of an additional hobby you can make money with. Do not distract any traffic from your main website to the new one. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" rel="nofollow" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1B3KfqZpBQI/YNcQuPrOnCI/AAAAAAAABFk/QRcUHtYcGmYiEORDF7go7W_AeZDJBIf5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/wa_super_affiliate_250x250.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">If you don't know much about Niches, or can't decide how to split yours over 2 different sites, there is the easier option: Settle for Internet Affiliate Marketing as subject of your free Website until you've learned more, and promote mainly Wealthy Affiliate. -- Even when you plan to upgrade: the free subdomain does not hurt. You can Move your free WP blog to your own Domain in wealthy Affiliate, that is, they will do it for you. </span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Any Questions?<b> Comment here please! </b>(no comments possible on my fre😭e Site)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">And Here's The Link to Sign Up on for Wealthy Affiliate again: 😏 ⇒⇒⇑</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
</div></div>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-4203929937820477842021-05-15T11:26:00.009+02:002021-07-08T22:49:18.509+02:00Is Wealthy Affiliate a Scam ?<p>The Internet is full of so-called "unbiased" Reviews by Pro- Members of Wealthy Affiliate, who of course are hunting for free subscribers. They offer <i><b>"Two Free Profit Ready Websites"</b></i> on <b><i>"A Platform Designed For Affiliate Marketers Of All Levels".</i></b> And everywhere you see the Sign-Up Form, stating:</p><p></p><blockquote><i>"Zero risk and zero obligation with our free Starter membership. You are minutes away from starting your own successful internet business. Try Wealthy Affiliate Free, No Risk, and No Credit Card Required"</i></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">All their advertising screams Scam! No obvious price tags and they don't offer any money-back guaranty! Their website and all their paying members are just after luring in subscribers with the hook "Free" Membership, Websites, Affiliate Marketing Training by experts, including the co-founders Kyle and Caron - even only as a trial - as if this was all for free. </p><div><p style="text-align: left;">I came across Wealthy Affiliate when I was searching for a legit way to earn some money again on the internet, after being off for more than ten years. While inquiring about a program - I don't remember the name anymore (ADD, lol, but not funny) and it seems they are not so high in Google anymore - anyways,<b> that </b>was a scam. </p><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">aside:</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">I didn't look around there much (though I think I subscribed free) but my "red lights" went on first thing I was offered a cheap course to be better qualified for the jobs they offered: Social Media Manager, desperately wanted by large well-paying Companies around the globe. - but no experience needed, apart form this 30-dollar-coaching they offered. Lol, I sure know that social media managers are high in demand, and companies pay them a lot, but even more, they pay to coach their own appropriate marketing people to get them fit for social media. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">So I went searching if (I think it was called "Legit Online Jobs") was a scam, and I found site that offered an in-depth review, which, as I expected disclosed the scam. No real people behind it - like the nice Japanese Lady from Germany (yes, they could my IP, and change the authors' origins adequately) who gave a testimonial; but also the SEO was no real person and impersonated by an actress. - Job offers, yes, but few, old, and probably expired. </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">So... When I left this review page, I was caught by an exit pop-up for Wealthy Affiliate and joined. Right with the first log-in the upgrade prompts "attacked" me, with what seemed a limited offer for fast action takers and additional bonuses from my sponsor and Kyle. </p><div>Well, I am an action taker, but on my own time. Especially now, with too much "Real Life" on my neck, I cannot take action fast - rash rather, in this case. But I did my research as I always do: </div><div><br /></div><h1 style="text-align: left;">Is Wealthy Affiliate Legit?</h1><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes</span>, it is legit. </b><b>However questionable their marketing methods are, </b></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Wealthy Affiliate is a Perfectly Legit Company. They Sell a Paid Membership, and you get good value for your money if you choose to upgrade. It is NO Scam.</h3><div><p>Wealthy Affiliate was founded in 2005 and has been live and lively as a community of affiliate marketers since. <i>"16 Years of Helping People. 16 Years of Progress."</i> (But, Wake up Kyle! It is 2021, and so much has changed, especially this year. How about updating the basic (free) Training a bit besides your official website?!)</p><p>The co-founders are Kyle and Caron. How can you trust guys without surnames? - Google them, and you will find, they are real persons 😀 <b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kyle</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><b> Loudon</b> and <b>Caron Lim. </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;">You can also meet them "in person" on YouTube and such and in their training lessons. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;">So, my </span><b style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;">first step of inquiry successful: Wealthy Affiliate is no scam. They are not after your money for nothing, but sell </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>high-quality coaching, not only for newbies, also for seasoned webmasters and niche marketers.</b></span><b style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"> (with some small insufficiencies) </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;">A lively community, including the founders, especially Kyle, is ready to answer any questions about high-converting websites to build, including techie stuff. Members get a (free)</span><b style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"> website, </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>and (the most important thing for me,)</b> you get</span><b style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"> feedback on your website. </b></p></div><p style="text-align: left;">The sad thing, which made me so furious and raised my suspicion again: <b>When I came back after a while, well prepared for my </b>belated<b> start in the new community </b>(I had read it was a "freemium" membership model like one finds everywhere (think of LinkedIn - "9 people visited your profile - upgrade to know who it was")<b> - I felt I was literally kicked out of the community!</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>And that ruthless exaggerated referral hunting? That promise of a profit-ready website free?<br /></b><b>What does that tell me?</b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>No, Wealthy Affiliate is No Pyramid Scheme -- Not a dumb MMO or Get-Rich-Quick Scheme -- No MLM either. </b></h3><div><b>It is a perfectly legit Affiliate Marketing Company. </b>I still don't approve of the aggressive, scammy advertising methods, because that creates anything but trust. But it is up to the affiliate themselves how they promote. And selling a membership, planned for long term for a good provision means residual income, which is surely worth the effort. </div><p style="text-align: left;">All the hype and and referral hunt has nothing to do with downline building. Means, the company pays well, of course even better to paying members, but, it is just the nature of the company, that the referral will be a member of the training platform. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The new member<b> / customer pays their monthly fees to the company. And the company pays commissions to the referrer. </b>The new member does not pay anything to their referrer,<b> unlike in Network Marketing, neither the company Wealthy Affiliate, nor the referrer gets anything from the (new) community members' earnigs.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>This may be a bit confusing because of this membership thing, but it is not be confused with MLM in any way. Serious Affiliate Marketing. No Catch, No BS. - </b>Just some overhyped marketing by mebers who want to make money a bit faster, even though in the courses claerly state: It takes time, at least one and a half years, until any mentionable Affiliate Money is made. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><i></i></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i>(Did I mention somewhere already:</i></p><div><i><b>Affiliate Marketing is real decent work from home. - No get rich quick method. Includes more and longer hard work than a job. And you normally can be lucky to earn some cents. But it NEVER may cost anything to start. </b>Provided, of course, you have fun publishing online, and would run a website in any case. Websites are seldom free, Internet access neither. Those costs can't be counted, but they are normal household costs today. - unless you indeed earn decent money. Then don't forget to deduct them from taxable income
:)<b> </b>)</i></div></blockquote><div><i></i>
<h1 style="text-align: left;">Wealthy Affiliate - What is in it for free? </h1><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/banners/show/wa_change_life_125x125.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>Yes, you could join</div><div>today free, and start</div><div>working at once.</div><b>But stay in touch</b><div><b>with me here for</b></div><div><b>tips on how to get on</b></div><div><b>as free members!</b></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b></b>
<h4>The first thing to check whenever I join a free program. What can I get out of it without paying? <span style="font-size: medium;">Can I promote it with consideration and a good consciece? <span style="font-weight: normal;">( 😉 Yes, I can </span>==></span></h4><div><b>What I expected:</b> </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>A lively </b>(for a change) and<b> supporting Community,</b></li><li><b>Readers for my blog, </b></li><li><b>Training to bring me up to date with affiliate marketing. </b></li><li>A genuine<b> professional free website, as promised </b>(forget about "profit-ready", lol)<b> Support and Feedback on my Website. </b></li><li><b>Enough to look around and set myself up, without stress and pressure, while I evaluate</b></li></ul></div><div><b>What I got:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>See my other post please! <br /></b><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>https://neilas-biz-tips.blogspot.com/2021/06/wealthy-affiliate-2021-review-from.html</b></h3></div>
<h4><span style="font-weight: normal;">A high-class program that offers such a lot of possibilities and support in anything business as Wealthy Affiliate </span>can impossibly be free.
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> And nobody should really expect this. After joining, the optional price tag is permanently in front of your nose.
You have seven days to decide if you want to buy with a large reduction for the first month. This way of 'luring prospects in' is sure quite a bit sneaky. But this is the way online marketing works. Almost everywhere around the globe. (I doubt it is legit here in Germany to
offer any service without a price tag on it before you get into any contact
with the vendor in such a way.) </span></h4>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>Still, Wealthy Affiliate is No scam. </b>
</p>
<div>
<b>They do not take your money for nothing</b>, they just offer a free sample
with upsell, as usual in internet marketing.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>But <b>they don't expect you to waste your time for nothing creating benefits for them.</b> And, indeed what they offer for free has some value too.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
My first tip: *<b><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/?a_aid=ec18261d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join Wealthy Affiliate</a>*</b></div><div><b> <br />When you are well prepared from the first minute to join a new community. </b>(Means: have a picture ready, and a
bit of text for your profile. Also, you need a cover for your blog ready,
550x200px, and the answer to the first question you will officially be asked:
your money goals.)
</div>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Why am I telling you this? I'd appreciate you to join from my link 😉 and keep
in touch with me on this blog for more things I will find out going
on. <br />A good first impression is one of the subjects on the back of my head - seeing so many lousy profiles on FB and elsewhere.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
On Wealthy Affiliate, <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>you have only seven days!</b> </span>for establishing yourself a tiny bit in the community. When you have to deal with all those sudden surprises, like having to add this cover when clicking the Share button the first time, you will probably have to go without. So, use your seven free days better than I did! Read, comment, maybe start your training, maybe even rush through it and grab some of the better stuff...
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Before I forget:
<b>The Price-Tag: 1st month around 19$ - And this offer is probably permanent. </b>(I think, the 7-day fast action taker offer is a bit less. But it is only for
one month, so what.) <br />
<b>Regular Membership is 49$.</b> If they have rebates on a yearly subscription and cancellation regularities I could not check yet.
<b>I have not seen a money-back guarantee</b>.
</p>
<h4>Wealthy Affiliate offers <b>a good affiliate program</b>, as one could expect from a program of such name. The commissions are lower than those of the full
members, as I expected, but 33% is reasonable, and not to forget, the
commissions are residual.</h4><p style="text-align: left;">
This should answer the first question everyone always asks and seldom is
answered: </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>Can I make money with it? </b></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Yes, you can! It is affiliate marketing.</b>
You promote and earn <b>residual commissions.</b>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
I have not yet checked if they have independent vendors integrated with their
promotions, but then, I can't possibly switch my focus on one resource, while
I must concentrate on so many important aspects around my own Website.
</p>
<div>
<b>Affiliates get profound training</b>, (which I have not finished yet, and
during which I might even be allowed to ask questions - more later, so stay
tuned for obstacle warnings and don't get disheartened when you meet them.)
</div>
<div>
<b>Affiliates get their own website and learn how to build it </b>(one of
my reasons to join and I'm going to look into my promised free website very
soon.)
</div>
<div>
<i style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></i>
</div>
<div>
<i style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"></i></div><blockquote><div><i style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;">(another Sideline: </i></div><div><i style="color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;">I'm just about to get started again with my own website. Still
unsure if I make my homepage in the traditional way: A page saying "welcome"
some static content pages, legal pages of course, and one or two blogs. The modern way seems to be one basic blog, including the whole site.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">Basics in any case are: </span></span>
</i><p></p>
<p></p>
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<i><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">Solid WordPress hosting. Depending on your own skills with or without
maintenance from your web host.</span></span>
</i></li>
<li>
<i><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">A high-speed template. Neither readers nor Google-crawlers like to
wait long for pages to load. </span></span>
</i></li>
<li>
<i><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">An easy-to-customize template. It is Your blog, You are supposed to brand Yourself with your blog, so your blog should mirror You.</span></span>
</i></li>
<li>
<i><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">Obligatory wishes: an own TLD for each subject one blogs about,
private or for business. But to my experience, one needs indeed more than just one blog on the home domain. I can impossibly squeeze all about wellness, all about online marketing, and all my personal stuff in two languages into one blog. why?</span></span>
</i></li>
<li>
<span style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;"><i>Every URL of any Page must be as short as possible. So it would be unwise to have all those additional Categories. ) </i></span></span></li></ol></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><ol>
</ol>
</div>
<div>
And some members' sites I saw, were just like what I want.
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, I'll miss out on the <span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;">chargeable</span> deeper training and techie help, but am convinced I can learn a lot still. At least, I'll need to look inside on my own further. I hope they are wise enough to give a similar quality website - of course without their own domain - to the affiliates! And I hope, it gets indexed and ranked by Google! Community blogs of free members are not, but then they do not exist anyway. </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div>Let's recap: </div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Pros:</b></h4>
<div>
<h3>Definitely no Scam. </h3>
</div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<b>You get fair value for your money. </b>
</h4>
<div><b>When I compare what I saw from inside, 49$ / Month is a low fee for:</b></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<b>Step by Step In-Depth Coaching, also Live with Personal Dialog </b>
</h4>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>You Get to Build Profitable Business Websites, Hosting and </b><b>Full Support</b><b> included, and all needed web tools, plugins, SEO tools, and Keyword
Search </b><b>at hand</b>, (which the 'normal' webmaster would have to pay for too. I
didn't see the advertised "two free". Still, as mentioned above, the site I
visited IS looking great. They must be converting, otherwise, why should "the
World's Top Affiliate Marketers", as they call themselves, not have moved to a
better place without additional membership fees?
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>24/7 Support In an Expert Community. </b>Right, I saw no trash. And many
informative articles.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>A Blog that is Indexed and Ranked by Google </b>(Yeah, Big Deal! - But don't underestimate that this way, the blog is an automatic traffic machine and customer magnet. Every now and then, a pop-up appears to make the outside visitor sign up. Free converting traffic, without the hustle of list building
and email marketing!) I didn't check the 'built-in' PageRank yet. Well, SEO or
not,
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>I as a lonesome blogger was thrilled the day I joined the program and
especially the community! <br /></b>I was greeted and felt welcome. Finally, I thought, I found a place where people would actually read and comment on my posts when I blogged there!
</p>
<div>
<b>The lively Community - </b>even if only for a feeling there is someone to
talk to - <b>is a clear pro- for those who pay.</b>
</div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Cons:</b></h4>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b>There is really Nothing for free </b>(Especially at their <b>comparatively low price</b>,<b> that should be no con</b>, but they constantly use the hook 'free' for their marketing. like in " Two FR...
Profit Ready Websites" (I didn't see those, but checked the hosting plan,
which is included when they advertise these websites as "free". And the way
they mention them, lets them even look like they were ready-made. )They say:
"Try Wealthy Affiliate Free, no Risk, no Credit Card required" all true. But
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Trial Lasts Only Seven Days </b>- </span>what can be proven within seven
Days?? I am pretty bite-prone. Who does not like to join 'free'? And who does not know, that 'free' members get less out of anything than pros? Less traffic back for the click, fewer readers for my ads, and more clicking for me. Fewer commissions for referring someone who upgrades.
<b>Seven Days Trial is just ridiculous! Of course, I did not take it seriously, and let the Seven Days with constant Upgrade Prompt slip. I still believed in the freemium membership. </b>According to my principle: When it works for me free, I might consider upgrading for better results, less work, and in the consequence more money.
</p>
<div>
<b>The Advertised "free" Part of the Membership Does Not Exist </b>
</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>
<b>I was indeed stunned when I came back </b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>to start "my" blog. - and every action was forbidden. I could not even read the messages in my inbox! Every Click Produced that Pop Up "To do
this, You Need To Become a Premium Member." - Take the Bribe or get the
### out of here - </b></span>
</div>
<p>
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Thanks, but I Have Friends in a nice Community - </b></span><b>not for profit, but the fun is also important. And I still don't want to dump
the time I spent with you in the Waste Bin.</b>
</p>
<b>I understand, as an Affiliate, I am no part of the community. But I want to make Commissions, and I want my promised free website. And They'd better
deliver the promised quality.
</b>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>
<b>Their Advertising methods are so questionable they must be mentioned twice. </b>I wonder why? Is MMO more fashionable than Business Acadamy? Do they not believe enough in their own coaching skills? Who knows. All the attractive features that are called 'free' no, they are not. They are
<b>included in the paid Membership. </b>
</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>
<b>Biggest Contra: Besides the practically non-existent Trial Period, </b>
</div>
<div><b>There is No Money-Back Guarantee!</b></div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>
<b><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">All in all, I can still Recommend Wealthy Affiliate for Marketers of Any
Experience Level.</a> </b>
</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div><b>
After I have warned you about the hype and spared you some disheartening
frustration,
I Recommend Joining the Affiliate Program, specially For Newbies.</b> Of course, I hope you join from my link, because I give you honest and unbiased information about Wealthy Affiliate, including the Negative Experiences (try to find other negative reviews), and I will continue - hopefully with better news. I even recommend upgrading, when you like what you see. Don't make the mistake to seriously upgrade and commit yourself just because you want to save 30$!
When you cannot make the monthly 50, it's not worth spending that money, and when you do make enough, - why care so much about the saving? It's <b>not</b> 30% off lifetime. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you seriously think of joining, you need to work the first 7 days 24/7 to make the best of it and find out any negatives you might detect. Don't register your domain right away, think well about your branding. Remember: You are an Affiliate. You need to strife to be kind of an expert in your niche(s).</div><div>You need to brand yourself, not the product you want to promote, If it sounds good,<b> brand your Keyword together with Your Name </b>(or Screen Name, when this better known) </div><div><br /></div><div>To your Success, ~Neila~</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=ec18261d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/banners/show/wa_university_495x95.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>
</div></div>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1161010115506161692021-04-30T02:01:00.005+02:002021-05-09T17:29:22.718+02:00Blogging for Business<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>"A blog will boost your business", the gurus say. - Does it really? -
testing, <br />testing -....</span><span> </span></span>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>It is a great tool for information, improvement of page rank, and getting
known more or less personally. Is it still? - or is this information
already outdated as so many other valuable and logical theories we are
presented in internet marketing?</span><span> </span></span>
</p>
<div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><span>Was blogging for business only good until 2010, when I wrote
about </span>it on Squidoo<span>, and has long become useless due to over-use?</span><span> </span><span>I hope not, because I love to blog. I started it long before I started a
home business - and now I am neglecting my none-biz blogs terribly for the
online work.</span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span>
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Marketing with Content, Information, and Communication
</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Right, Content-Marketing is, and will probably always be, the best working
method of Online Marketing. You can post banners everywhere - paid banners, of
course, - But who has not become banner blind? And free banner exchanges
attract only clicks from others who want to gain clicks on theirs. Without
attention-grabbing content, the page shown in any kind of traffic exchange
will be closed after at most 20 seconds, when the time is up, and sometimes
the surfers' eyes will be concentrated more on the timer than on the pages
shown.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Better traffic comes from search engines since they exist. That means for
businesses: A blog is a genuine SEO tool - of course, it needs a bit of SEO
too, but the most thing is included: Frequent Fresh Content.
</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">The Blog as the Center of Web2.0</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">
It would lead too far from the subject of business blogging if I went deeper
into this now. But while I was preparing my German blogging course, I of
course researched a bit on the history too, and I found a very interesting
resource :
</p>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html" target="_blank"><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Blood, Rebecca. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective", </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Rebecca's Pocket</i><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. 07 September 2000. 18 September 2013</span></a>
</h4>
<div>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;"></p>
<blockquote>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;">
<i>7 september 2000</i>
</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;">
<i>In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now
identified as weblogs (so named by <a href="http://www.robotwisdom.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jorn Barger</a> in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of <a href="http://www.jjg.net/infosift/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Infosift</a>, began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in
his travels around the web. In November of that year, he sent that list
to Cameron Barrett. Cameron published the list on <a href="http://camworld.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Camworld</a>, and others maintaining similar sites began sending their URLs to him
for inclusion on the list. Jesse's '<a href="http://www.jjg.net/portal/tpoowl.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">page of only weblogs</a>' lists the 23 known to be in existence at the beginning of 1999.</i>
</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>
<i>....<a href="http://www.peterme.com/" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Merholz</a><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">announced in early 1999 that he was</span><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19991013021124/http://peterme.com/index.html" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration-line: none;">going to pronounce it 'wee-blog'</a><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and inevitably this was shortened to 'blog' with the weblog editor
referred to as a 'blogger.'</span></i>
</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;">
<i>At this point, the bandwagon jumping began. More and more people began
publishing their own weblogs. I began mine in April of 1999. Suddenly it
became difficult to read every weblog every day, or even to keep track
of all the new ones that were appearing. Cameron's list grew so large
that he began including only weblogs he actually followed himself. Other
webloggers did the same. In early 1999 <a href="http://www.eatonweb.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Brigitte Eaton</a> compiled a list of every weblog she knew about and created
the <a href="http://portal.eatonweb.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Eatonweb Portal</a>. Brig evaluated all submissions by a simple criterion: that the site
consist of dated entries. Webloggers debated what was and what was not a
weblog, but since the Eatonweb Portal was the most complete listing of
weblogs available, Brig's inclusive definition prevailed.</i>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Before I get carried away, just 2 more Quotes from
<i>Rebecca's Pocket: </i>the first to show that the Web2.0 was not yet
existing then, but precisely foredefined
</p>
<p>
<span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;"><i></i></span>
</p>
<blockquote>
<i><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;">In Douglas Rushkoff's </span><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Media Virus</strong></span><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;">, Greg Ruggiero of the </span><a href="http://deoxy.org/seize_it.htm" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration-line: none;">Immediast Underground</a><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is quoted as saying, "Media is a corporate possession...You
cannot participate in the media. Bringing that into the foreground is
the first step. The second step is to define the difference between
public and audience. An audience is passive; a public is participatory.
We need a definition of media that is public in its
orientation." </span></i>
</blockquote>
<p><i></i></p>
<p></p>
<blockquote>
<p></p>
<p>
<i> <span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073820756X/ref=nosim/rebeccaspocke-20" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining
Your Blog</a> by Rebecca Blood </span></i><span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.3333px;"><i>Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 2002. 114-121.</i></span>
</p>
<p></p>
<h2 style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 14.6667px; margin-bottom: -5pt; margin-top: 8pt;">
<i>Weblog Ethics</i>
</h2>
<p>
<span face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;"><i></i></span>
</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;">
<i>Weblogs are the mavericks of the online world. Two of their greatest
strengths are their ability to filter and disseminate information to a
widely dispersed audience, and their position outside the mainstream of
mass media. Beholden to no one, weblogs point to, comment on, and spread
information according to their own, quirky criteria.</i>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;">
<i></i>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
You will find that the rules she states for blogs to be taken as serious
sources of information do still apply today:
</p>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i></i></a></b>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>1. Publish as fact only that which you believe to be true.<br /></i></a></b><b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>2. If material exists online, link to it when you reference it.<br /></i></a></b><b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>3. Publicly correct any misinformation.<br /></i></a></b><b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>4. Write each entry as if it could not be changed; add to, but<br /></i></a></b><b> <a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>do not rewrite</i></a> </b><b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>or delete, any entry.<br /></i></a></b><b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>5. Disclose any conflict of interest.<br /></i></a></b><b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i>6. Note questionable and biased sources.</i></a></b>
</p>
</blockquote>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html" target="_blank"><i></i></a></b>
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">...And Then Social Marketing Began...</h3>
<div>
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Eyes shut and go for it!
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</div>
<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;">
... around 2005, I think. Blogging for business became the dernier cri. In
my 2010 Squidoo Lens, I described how this was disturbing the blogosphere
with Cassandra's eyes.
</div>
<div>
<h4 style="margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;">
Blogs and Social Marketing - Forget it! (?)
</h4>
<p style="margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;">No Community </span>(except
Facebook, where I miss it) without Blog --
<br /><b>But Does Anyone Read ?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;">
My Co-Entrepreneurs don't care about my News, just about their
own. Why don't my Online Friends either? Still, I close my eyes
and try to get through...
</p>
</div>
<div>
Oh, that reminds me... Nowadays there must be a picture in every post that
wants to be seen... And if you see it pleeease somebody comment! I <b>still
hope</b>, I was wrong, and the blogging community is <b>not</b> dead. Help nursing it better, <b>communicate!</b></div>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 8pt;"></p>
</div>
Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-80918836066907696612021-02-22T04:26:00.006+01:002021-04-11T21:45:11.702+02:00What Is PLR And What Do I Need It For?<p><span style="font-size: medium;">PLR is short for <b>"Private Label Rights". </b>This means: Done-for-you content, like articles, complete E-Books, or software you can edit as you want and republish under your own name as author. When you have to produce tons of content for your websites or blogs, PLR comes really handy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The best thing about PLR is, if you need expert content for your niche you cannot only provide it, but also improve your own knowledge, and later sell your own information product. </span>I myself am a PLR junkie. For exactly that reason: I can’t know everything about a certain subject, so, with PLR content, I can get two advantages in one. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, in this short blog post I can not explain all about PLR and to use it, but I'll surely come back to this subject. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">There are lots of in depth coaching offers to be found on how exactly to use PLR for your profit. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For instance Ronnie from</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="https://www.plr.me/friends?h=2AAwA8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">plr.me</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">has profound coaching materials for</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">members </span><span style="font-size: medium;">and affiliates (which is basically the same and <b>FREE to Join!</b>) When you join from my link, I have<b> </b></span><b style="font-size: large;">10 FREE CREDITS </b><span style="font-size: medium;">for you. (I get ten back also). For these credits, we can go <span style="text-align: right;">shopping.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Of course, you must pay close attention to the license. Sometimes you may not just publish it for everyone to read, sometimes you may not sell it, and almost never are you allowed to sell it with PLR license.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How To Avoid Duplicate Content When Using PLR</span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Don't use it as it is!</b> Sometimes I read one could use article spinners. - Not a good idea! If you ever used one, you know what I mean. The writing style gets worse and worse. Maybe today's article spinners are better with grammar and style, but still, you must proof-read and change. - So, as you must read it anyway, you can with little effort insert your own changes and additions. </span>When you use PLR articles as web content, your own additions should be on top, and you might google the headline. If you find it, change it on your site. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So much for now. Please check back for more, and earn some good PLR in the meantime </span><span style="font-size: large;">💟 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S. O-oh I forgot something: Are you in the Health- and Wellness-Industry? <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Here is a Free sample of </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://healthandwellnessplr.com/product/5-htp-supplement-plr-report/?ap_id=Spacelady" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">5-HTP Supplement Report - FREE PLR</a></span></div></div><p></p><p></p>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-31845248715703722402021-02-09T23:05:00.001+01:002021-02-24T17:13:57.514+01:00Neila is Back! Finally! New Biz Tips To Come<p> After so many years, I am finally back to my blogs. Now I must re-arrange everything. </p><p>Yes, I am still, or rather again an online marketer 😅. More specific: an affiliate marketer. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Why do I blog? </h3><div><b>Content Marketing</b> is still a <b>Must</b>. Nobody wants to see just ads. So recommendations need to come embedded in text. Not just any text, but a text that gives readers some value to make them interested in the content, and, with some luck, also in the promoted products or services. </div><p style="text-align: left;">I must admit, right now, I have no more websites - of course, I would blog there too as I did before - so my only chance is to renew my Blogger blogs. They are the closest thing to an 'own' homepage. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">What will Neila's New Biz Tips be About?</h3><div>After I worked as an Internet Coach for a while, I now know that much more than I thought is unknown to beginners, the general public, and pros even. You will find basics here about Online Affiliate Marketing - and, as I know, also online marketing pros don't know everything about what I learned from long years of experience!</div><p style="text-align: left;">I am still a freebie-junkie - without an own website, it might not make much sense anyway to buy lots of things. Unfortunately, the time of big JVs and Giveaways is over. But I still have some resources I can share and (and use). </p><p style="text-align: left;">How has the Internet changed? Which opportunities, tools, services, platforms, have gone? What is new? What is still working?</p><p style="text-align: left;">As I already said marketing with content is still the best way to promote. The creation of monetizable content, including a bit of SEO, and how to get freely useable content when you get stuck, will be my biggest subjects. </p><p style="text-align: left;">So far the lead-in before it gets too long. Now I must repair the settings. Content coming later 😄 Please stay tuned, in case anyone saw this! </p><a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/20880735/?claim=t23gg7rr3up">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-12462148908655099982010-12-06T19:39:00.003+01:002010-12-06T21:17:51.290+01:00New Blog Design How Easy Is That NowAfter long time without blogging - starting again next year - I wanted to test the new Facebook Badge and found the new template editor. Well, apart from that I must change this badge before I apply it for good, I am really happy about the dead easy design possibilities! <br />
<ul><li>No more hunting for better templates (well, there are some that look chicer, but all this customizing takes away too much time from blogging)</li>
<li><strong>3 colums!</strong> - how hard was it to find such templates , and specially such that really work with the funtional elements of the sidebar. Now one can even alternate between<strong> wide and narrow boxes</strong>. This is just perfect.</li>
</ul>For now, I'll go on checking the functions. What I'd like, and what never worked in the past, is different fonts for the body and sidebar. Of course I must first go through the posts and check, why some are normal, others in much too big letters... . <br />
<br />
Another novelty: I just see I'm in IE now - and it works! after for a long time I could not even log in with IE.<br />
<br />
What is different after publishing this test post?<br />
<ul><li>It needs 2 returns after a paragraph. </li>
<li>The headline is grey now - must make it blue again, like the old ones.</li>
<li>I don't find the post too narrow anymore, so no need to change this in the HTML, as I had to do before, cool. </li>
</ul>Oh oh, I must change the formatting of every old post individually, and in different ways. Might do this later, but who reads them anyway.<br />
Arranging widgets... . That's it for now. Re-arranging the sidebar- and new footer-widgets will take some time and consideration ... . Going to do that later. There are two possible wide sectins, and only one with two narrow columns, which unfortunately can't be split. (or can I change the Html, so this works? Forbidden thought for me, would take ages again... .Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-56863976671630862332010-01-05T15:50:00.002+01:002021-05-09T18:23:21.948+02:00Online Business Action Plan<h4>Establishing an Internet Presence </h4>Whatever you want to do to make money online – don’t believe there are any shortcuts. The majority of all those “dead sure five step action plans” that are around only work on the basis of solid Internet Presence.<br />
This is real hard work, and it will take some time until it is done. Some more time until it gets known. But is has to be done only once.<br />
<h5>1. Building a primary homepage and blog <br />
with personal domain and hosting</h5><blockquote>– absolutely NOthing free - for introducing Yourself and your business(es) likewise.</blockquote><h5>2. Set up business- and advertising- sites and pages.</h5> Have them ready before you start advertsing and step 5<br />
<h5>3. Set up a blog for your offer or your niche at the same time.</h5> Network Marketers: Set up two separate blogs. Treat your niche /<br />
offer and your business opportunity as two different things.<br />
<h5>4. Advertise and start building your list.</h5> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Advertise your own sites</span> / pages which carry your offers of <br />
affiliate products, so visitors can return to you and you can build <br />
your own list, not the vendor’s. Keep the traffic you create for <br />
yourself as far as possible.<br />
<h5>5. Unify your appearance on the Web 2.0, </h5> so that people always know it is you. <br />
The “link to your homepage” should really be to one of your <br />
homepages even if affiliate-links are allowed. It gives a better <br />
impression, traffic, maybe back links, even page rank for you.<br />
<h5>You're done - half ways</h5>Now you can relax a bit, but there is still much work to do:<br />
<ul><li>Permanent advertising for traffic.</li>
<li>Email Marketing</li>
<li>Article Marketing</li>
<li>Tracking visitors for referring sites and keywords</li>
<li>Tracking ads for effectiveness</li>
<li>Blogging regularily</li>
<li>Refreshing websites</li>
<li>Optimizing websites</li>
<li>Linkbuilding</li>
<li>… </li>
</ul>This list is actually almost endless, but when getting into the routine, you can do it without getting exhausted. Autopilot traffic, for instance, does exist. <br />
Warning to newbies, who believe “you don’t need a website”: <br />
At least half of the work is in vain, when there is no concentration of traffic and visitors to one or few unique centers which you own and control. Even a “personalized website”, which in most cases differs just in some appended affiliate id from the thousand others is not enough. A simple redirect or sub domain from your own domain can do magic.Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-51282075755657521952009-02-26T03:29:00.004+01:002010-12-06T19:59:29.149+01:00Does Advertising Still Work Today?<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xBIVlM435Zg"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xBIVlM435Zg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br />
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<cite cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIVlM435Zg"></cite></div><div class="citation"><a dir="ltr" href="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.ted.com">http://www.ted.com</a></div><div class="citation">In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.</div><div class="flockcredit" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small; text-align: right;">Blogged with the <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: #999999; font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser">Flock Browser</a></div>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-69634801793111249122009-02-02T18:53:00.014+01:002021-07-12T20:55:27.566+02:00Multiply - Relativly new Community-Platform, recommended by MSN to Replace Groups<div>Or:</div>
<h1 style="text-align: left;">
The Sudden Appearance and Death of Social Networks
</h1>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Do you remember the old "MSN" and Yahoo? The first and largest social
plat-forms of all, which actually were making up the Web2.0 -- well, those
were the times...</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">I have no numbers and user statistics here, but you can find them on
Wikipedia somewhere inside the many pages I'm going to cite.</span>
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
#1 MSN erased their Social Network Step by Step:
</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">1. MSN Chatrooms were closed in October 2003</span>
</h3>
<div>
<p style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">
Hmm... So this was right after I started to use them? There is no clearly
defined date to be found anywhere. Probably because it was handled
differently in every part of the world. At some time in 2002/3, here in
Germany the MSN Groups came, and the Chat was integrated. In other places,
MSN charged fees for the chat until 2006.
</p>
Whatever, one day a message appeared in the English groups which had not
already moved to other places where they didn't have to pay:<br />
<blockquote>
<i>IMPORTANT NOTICE:</i><br /><i>Chat Service will no longer be offered on or after October 16th, 2006. We
appreciate your use of the service and apologize for any inconvenience.
</i>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic;">
If you wish to use alternative Windows Live communication services, we
recommend the following Windows Live services:
</p>
<ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">
<li style="font-style: italic;">
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061009052049/http://g.msn.com/1GRENGB/1_3009214_02">Windows Live Spaces</a>
</li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061009052049/http://g.msn.com/1GRENGB/1_3009214_03">Windows Live Messenger</a>
</li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061009052049/http://g.msn.com/1GRENGB/1_3009214_04?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d">Windows Live Mail Beta</a><i> </i>(but the good old Hotmail.com stayed until now)
</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here are some more voices about the Closure of MSN Chat </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://us.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/24/microsoft.chat/" target="_blank"></a>
</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<i><a href="https://us.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/24/microsoft.chat/" target="_blank"><b>https://us.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/24/microsoft.chat/</b></a><br />Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Posted: 2:52 PM EDT (1852 GMT)</i>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<i>LONDON, England (CNN) -- Microsoft says it will drop chat room services
in 28 countries next month, in a move it says will ward off pedophiles and
junk e-mailers.</i>
</p>
<i>But tech analysts said the changes would help the software giant get rid of
users who don't pay and are not contributing to the company's bottom
line.<br /><br />"They're trying to move people to their paid subscription
sites," said Ian Brown, director of the Foundation for Information Policy
Research, a technology think tank. "They are shutting down services for
which people are not paying and getting a good bit of P.R. out of it."<br /><br />In
a statement, the Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said it made the
decision following the growing abuse of the Internet, particularly in
unsupervised, anonymous chat rooms.<br /><br />The company pointed to a rise
in the use of junk mail known as spam and "unsolicited and inappropriate
material, particularly with regards to children."<br /></i>
<div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>Popular but often abused</i></h4>
<i>Online chat rooms are one of the most popular tools on the Internet and
one of the most frequently abused.</i>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<div>
<i>There have been a series of cases where pedophiles have used chat rooms
to "groom" youngsters for sexual abuse.</i>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<div>
<i>But Microsoft's decision to close unsupervised chat rooms has triggered a
heated debate among free speech advocates, children's rights groups and
Microsoft rivals.</i>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, it is clear,<b>
MSN used those pretextual arguments, because the free (unpaid)
services didn't make them money. </b>Seems, at that time Microsoft was not rich enough to provide free services?
To maintain them properly on top of that would have cost them too much. And
who admits this, lol.</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">At my time, which means 2001 or<b>
2002, the MSN chatrooms were supervised and soon imbedded in MSN Groups. The Owner /Admin had to open them. </b>It was up to the admin, if they let strangers enter at all, or if they
had to invite users. And the Admin would kick out unwanted visitors as well.
Any unwanted guest could and would be reported to the admin. Every user
could switch off personal messages or block those who bugged them.</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Apart from mostly everyone could "walk" into any chatroom,<b>
MSN had the safest and cleanest Chatrooms of all. </b>True, it got harder and harder for the admins to keep them clean, when the
spam and worse abuse increased, but what probably bugged MSN most, was that
they could not keep control over the User-Created Content, which meant among
other things at that time already, MSN could exploit their chatrooms for
advertising revenue...</span>
</p>
<div>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030923/1758222.shtml" target="_blank"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<div>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030923/1758222.shtml" target="_blank"><i><b>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030923/1758222.shtml</b></i></a>
</div>
<div>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<i>... how MSN had "parental controls" that would make sure kids were safe
online. Apparently, they weren't safe enough. It's not like people are
going to stop chatting. Now, however, they'll move to other places that
are even less monitored and that aren't as clear in trying to make sure
children don't give out their information online. MSN has every right to
punt on the issue and let others deal with it - but simply closing down
those chat rooms isn't going to solve the real issue, and may make it
even harder to protect children.</i>
</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div><p style="text-align: left;"></p></div>
<div>
<br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A commenter to this named Mike predicted :<b> <i>"Internet for the normal public joe will
be dead!"</i></b></span></p>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;">https://windowslivearchive.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/changes-to-msn-groups/ </span>
</div>
<div>
<p style="border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft recently sent a letter to all <a href="http://groups.msn.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/pub/neutra/images/ico-icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #059bff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MSN Groups</a> users and managers to let them know that MSN Groups will be
closing down soon, and that they can move their groups to </span><a href="http://multiply.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #059bff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multiply</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span>
</p>
<p style="border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you are an MSN Groups user, you’ll need to move your group to the
Multiply service by February 21, 2009.</span></span>
</p>
<p style="border: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #555555; font-size: medium;"><b>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups</b></span></span>
</p>
<p style="border: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's
largest collections of online </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_board" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">discussion boards</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p style="border: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions
and all other features except simple membership management,
essentially turning all groups into mailing lists, and on October
13, 2020 it announced that Yahoo Groups would shut down completely
on December 15, 2020.</span></span></span>
</p>
<p style="border: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
</p>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">MSN Messenger</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> (colloquially known as simply </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">MSN</b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">), later rebranded as </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">Windows Live Messenger</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, was a cross-platform </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging_client" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Instant messaging client">instant messaging client</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> developed by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. It connected to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Messenger_service" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Microsoft Messenger service">Microsoft Messenger service</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> while also having (as of the final version) compatibility
with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Yahoo! Messenger">Yahoo! Messenger</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Messenger" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Facebook Messenger">Facebook Messenger</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. The client was first released as MSN Messenger Service on July 22,
1999, and was marketed under the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="MSN">MSN</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> branding until 2005 when it was rebranded under </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Windows Live">Windows Live</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. It has since been officially known by its second name, although its
first name was still used colloquially by most of its users.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mms_3-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger#cite_note-mms-3" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Release_dates_for_each_Messenger_version_4-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger#cite_note-Release_dates_for_each_Messenger_version-4" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> In June 2009, Microsoft reported the service attracted over 330
million active users each month, placing Messenger among the most widely
used instant messaging clients in the world.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger#cite_note-5" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[</a></sup></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Following the acquisition of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Technologies" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Skype Technologies">Skype Technologies</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> in May 2011, Microsoft added interoperability between </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Skype">Skype</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Microsoft account">Microsoft accounts</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, allowing Skype (which had features unique to its platform and a wider
user base) to communicate with Messenger contacts. In 2013, Windows Live
Messenger was discontinued and Microsoft began ceasing service to
existing clients. </span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: medium;"><b>https://pandorafms.com/blog/what-happened-with-msn-messenger/</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Msn Messenger was</b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"> not able to survive so many changes and lost users quickly, until
Microsoft decided to replace it with Skype, announcing its final closure
on October 31, 2014</span></span>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sildeline</span></span>
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<p style="background-color: white;">
<span face="trebuchet ms, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/msn-messenger-logged-back-in-3393323</span>
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<span face=""Signika Negative Bold", sans-serif" style="color: #141414; letter-spacing: -1px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I logged back into MSN Messenger and learnt a lot about my teenage
self</span></span>
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<p style="background-color: white;">
<span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #626262;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MSN Messenger predated modern social media and was used by millions
of young people</span></span>
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<p style="background-color: white;">
<span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #141414;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For those of you who are too young or old to remember it, you will
have missed a piece of innovating technology which was the central
nervous system of your life.</span></span>
</p>
<p style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/authors/tom-kershaw/" style="background: rgb(241, 241, 241); color: #9d0d15; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tom Kershaw</a><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #141414;"> is a senior reporter for Hull Live and the Hull Daily Mail. He
is currently covering breaking news in Hull and East Yorkshire.</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #141414;">(he was 14) </span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #141414;">After re-downloading the archaic manuscripts of my past
conversations, it's quite easy to see how so simple, yet addictive MSN
Messenger was.</span></span>
</p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">It was your entire life set out before you and punched into just two
lines of around 500 characters.</span>
</p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">What music you were listening to, the song lyrics, tiny emojis and
multi-coloured names. Oh, and don't forget your crush's name followed by
a love heart.</span>
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<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Sadly, the reign of MSN Messenger - later rebranded as Windows Live
Messenger - was short lived and pre-dated many modern forms of social
media, like Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. </span>
</p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">In 2008 when Facebook took over social media, I used Facebook chat
instead of conversing over MSN, which became redundant from my life. It
was shut down in 2014 and was technically replaced by Skype.</span>
</p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">I reloaded up chats from 11 years ago to find out just exactly what
kind of a person I was - and what I miss from the days of low broadband
connection speeds.</span>
</p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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<h1><span style="font-size: medium;">and Feed Aggregators</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This is actually just a Test for
<span style="font-weight: bold;">cross-posting</span> between Multiply und
Blogger.<br />
Here on Multiply they have an interesting Blog-Function: You can import all
your Blogs into the Blog here. (testing Blogger now.) Lately I imported all
my feeds into swurl.com/spacelady, and into friendfeed of course like
everyone does.<br />
But from Multiply one can also cross-post back to the imported blog. Of
course it would be nonsense to post the same content to every blog one has.
One can select which posts to import and edit them also, and the export is
selective too. I think it is ideal for a blogger with several blogs to be
able to manage them all in one place. A kind of "Metablog" (I tried on
Bloglines, but it did not work.)<br />
I wished, I could find such a system for WordPress - or is there a plugin I
just cannot find?<br />
One of these appliances one can post to everywhere is ping.fm - but this
only for microblogs and profile messages.</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">https://lifestreamblog.com/choose-your-lifestreaming-service-carefully-swurlcom-is-no-more/</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="posted-on" face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #fd5e29; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="published" itemprop="datePublished" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 4, 2009</span></span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #fd5e29;"> / By </span><span class="posted-by vcard author" face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #fd5e29; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://lifestreamblog.com/author/admin/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #fd5e29; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="View all posts by Mark Krynsky">Mark Krynsky</a> </span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">I found out yesterday that </span><a href="http://swurl.com/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #fd5e29; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Swurl.com</a><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> has shut down. Swurl isn’t the first Lifestreaming service to go
the way of go dark. They join several others which I update on
my </span><a href="https://lifestreamblog.com/create/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #fd5e29; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Lifestreaming services listing page</a><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. But in this case it was a little surprising considering that the
service received quite a bit of fanfare when they launched just 8 months
ago. </span><span face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span>https://lifestreamblog.com/create/</span></span></span>
</div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;">http://blog.friendfeed.com/</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Posterous shut down in April 2013, after being acquired by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Twitter">Twitter</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> the previous year.</span></span><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Test 3: Now I must look, if it is an RSS feed and this here post is
automatically re-imported.<br />
Test 2 was: does the draft save to the recipient-blog? - No, it does not,
must be published first.<br />
Test 3: No, it is not an automatic feed, and it must be imported manually,
and it is kind of tedious to uncheck all the posts you already have
imported or did not want to in the first place.<br />
Still it is cool to be able to post to two blogs at the same time - for
me, when I post bilingual, and for everyone who talks about the same thing
under slightly different aspects in more than one blog.<br />
Hmm - for those who might think now it would be a good idea to quickly set
up multiple blogs and blast out 25 times the same... NO!!<br />
This would be exactly the useless spam that brought about the Google-slap
against Squidoo 2 years ago. A blog post should always be unique. This
convenient posting to more than one blog in one go should be considered as
a kind of social bookmarking of an idea in advance, like you would
normally do bookmark an excerpt in various places after a post is
finished.</span>
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Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-28865064715893590772008-06-24T03:24:00.003+02:002010-12-06T20:08:18.231+01:00AP battles BlogsBy Helen A.S. Popkin | MSNBCAP tries to control blogs, fails. ... AP requested that the Drudge Retort remove seven posts featuring quotes from AP stories. It blew up into yet another full-on Internet conflict between Big Business and the Little Guys. ...AP is bowing to the will of the angry Internet masses and backing off. Sort of. ..<br />
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/142277"><span style="font-size: x-small;">read more</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> | </span><a href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/AP_battles_Blogs_2"><span style="font-size: x-small;">digg story</span></a>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-87833733450148791782008-06-08T06:13:00.007+02:002010-12-06T20:15:32.615+01:00Seth Godin on What Every Good Marketer Should KnowMarketing without Annoying Advertising - as I mentioned in the post below.<br />
There is still this issue with new marketers being over-eager to learn and practise the newest advertising techniques and -widgets. - And before they have learned to stop all this black hat Social Network/Media Optimization I am currently having an issue with, it will probably be too late...<br />
Social Marketing is just starting - when will the death of social marketing be proclaimed? - because the Spammers, as always, were quicker, and the social media are already over-alert, on the way to condemn and ban by short every blogger or writer for daring to submit her/his own his own article anywhere? Sometimes I almost feel incriminated as an online marketer, and specially in Germany this is very strong.<br />
What would the final result be? Web 2.0 filled with superficial soap opera - and stuffed with hollow commercials. Shouting BUY!! will be everywhere, and information about what exactly and why strictly forbidden.<br />
But as Seth Godin's footnote says...<br />
Ok, readers are given permission to reprint, so here goes:<br />
<a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/05/what-do-you-kno.html"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">What do you know?</span></a><br />
What Every Good Marketer Knows: <br />
<ul><li>Anticipated, personal and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk. </li>
<li>Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand. <a name='more'></a></li>
<li>Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers. </li>
<li>Share of wallet is easier, more profitable and ultimately more effective a measure than share of market. </li>
<li>Marketing begins before the product is created. </li>
<li>Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that. </li>
<li>Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That’s not marketing, though, that’s efficiency. </li>
<li>Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations. </li>
<li>Products that are remarkable get talked about. </li>
<li>Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your returns policy. </li>
<li>You can’t fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience. </li>
<li>If you are marketing from a fairly static annual budget, you’re viewing marketing as an expense. Good marketers realize that it is an investment. </li>
<li>People don’t buy what they need. They buy what they want. </li>
<li>You’re not in charge. And your prospects don’t care about you. </li>
<li>What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love. </li>
<li>Business to business marketing is just marketing to consumers who happen to have a corporation to pay for what they buy. </li>
<li>Traditional ways of interrupting consumers (TV ads, trade show booths, junk mail) are losing their cost-effectiveness. At the same time, new ways of spreading ideas (blogs, permission-based RSS information, consumer fan clubs) are quickly proving how well they work. </li>
<li>People all over the world, and of every income level, respond to marketing that promises and delivers basic human wants. </li>
<li>Good marketers tell a story. </li>
<li>People are selfish, lazy, uninformed and impatient. Start with that and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by what you find. </li>
<li>Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice. </li>
<li>Effective stories match the worldview of the people you are telling the story to. </li>
<li>Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others. </li>
<li>A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone. </li>
<li>Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in an conversation-rich world. </li>
<li>Marketers are responsible for the side effects their products cause. </li>
<li>Reminding the consumer of a story they know and trust is a powerful shortcut. </li>
<li>Good marketers measure. </li>
<li>Marketing is not an emergency. It’s a planned, thoughtful exercise that started a long time ago and doesn’t end until you’re done. </li>
<li>One disappointed customer is worth ten delighted ones.</li>
<li>In the googleworld, the best in the world wins more often, and wins more.</li>
<li>Most marketers create good enough and then quit. Greatest beats good enough every time.</li>
<li>There are more rich people than ever before, and they demand to be treated differently.</li>
<li>Organizations that manage to deal directly with their end users have an asset for the future.</li>
<li>You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.</li>
<li>You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support and you market every time you send a memo.</li>
<li>Blogging makes you a better marketer because it teaches you humility in your writing.</li>
</ul>Obviously, knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-25003580772243872642008-06-03T23:51:00.002+02:002008-06-05T05:34:57.967+02:00The Gary Halbert Letter and the 30 Day Challenge<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/"><strong>The Gary Halbert Letter</strong></a><br />( <a href="http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/">http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/</a> )<br /><br />The amazing Newsletters by the late Gary Halbert....<br />It's worth more than most of the costly eBooks together.<br /><br /><br />I'm just looking at the Thirty Day Challenge TV, Ed Dale talking about the Golden Nugget Theory. ...<br /><br />Now this video is 2 months old already. But there are still two more Months to go before the hot phase begins.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/challenge/1474"><strong>The Thirty Day Challenge is open now ! </strong></a> Pre -Season. High time to find out what it is now - and this superb online boot camp really costs nothing.<br /><br />(High time for me to get my business settled so I can take part in it at least a bit... .)</span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-69368401554437534252008-03-08T22:54:00.003+01:002008-03-09T00:28:46.381+01:00Useful Hints for SEO and WP<span style="font-size:130%;">I am still struggeling with my own WP Blog. Just found and Digg-ed this here. Collecting all the info I can get.<br /><br />(I can still hardly believe Webmasters in Germany don't see the importance of blogging. The Blog is the centre ob Web 2.0 - is it not? For next time I start my blogging course new - I must teach about the community of Internet "Creatures" first, before I can explain "Social Marketing"... )<br /><br /></span><blockquote><h3>Optimize your Blog: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guide for WordPress</h3><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />This guide will help you to easily setup and start using some easy to use SEO techniques on your WordPress blog, using plugins, the correct techniques and by being aware of whats required.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://raven.za.net/search-and-seo/guide-search-engine-optimization-seo-for-wordpress">read more</a> | <a href="http://www.blogger.com/software/Optimize_your_Blog_Search_Engine_Optimization_SEO_Guide_for_WordPress">digg story</a></blockquote>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-80871048493950273842007-09-15T21:57:00.002+02:002021-03-14T22:20:01.374+01:00from: Conquer that ChAoS - Anger Is No Negative Emotion<span style="font-size:130%;">Anger is a strong emotion. It can't be suppressed. It is there, on your mind, all the time until it is let out. It lames your action, but shorter than other negative emotions that depress only. Anger forces Action. If sadness is turned into anger, the adrenalin helps you to let it out all in a positive way. Shout and solve the problem, don't cry
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/conquerthatchaos/">read more</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/health/from_Conquer_that_ChAoS_Anger_Is_No_Negative_Emotion">digg story</a></span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-87870516101199148982007-08-29T05:40:00.000+02:002008-02-05T03:55:17.517+01:00Get Fit and Stay In Shape at Home and at Your PC<span style="font-weight: bold;">My Squidoo Lens shows<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/getfit-stayinshape/">Physical Fitness Exercises for Computer-Workers, -Nerds, and -Geeks</a></span><br /><br />As an internet affiliate marketer, I spend </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">most time of the day (and night)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> working at the computer, and I guess, Im not the only one. Specially when we do homebusiness, many of us tend to neglect our figure. And we do not realize that we get big and bigger round the waist, hips, and upper legs, until one day we want to wear something we did not wear for some time, and then the zip does not close...<br /><br />But we can stay in shape without much ado, right here at the computer, no matter how (un)fit we are, wether we are female or male, over 40, perhaps over 60 or under. We only must start - right now is the best time.<br /><br />Some Slight Movements and Isometric Exercises, Dynamic Sitting to Relieve the Back, Build Muscles to Burn the Fat around them, Stretching, some words about Eating and Drinking....<br /><br />... Whatever can be done without going to a gym, without taking too much time, and whatever can be done to improve our wellness.<br /></span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-70514472131537505692007-08-20T22:14:00.000+02:002021-05-09T18:22:34.605+02:00The Thirty Day Challenge - Week 4 to start soon<p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kjo5to0YITw/Rsn21qD_0GI/AAAAAAAAABs/g_lTkFmFV0I/s1600-h/SwissBall-Impander.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kjo5to0YITw/Rsn21qD_0GI/AAAAAAAAABs/g_lTkFmFV0I/s320/SwissBall-Impander.jpg" alt="Physical Fitness Exercises at the PC, Swiss Ball, Impander" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100879454658351202" align="left" border="0" height="240" /></a> What did I do all the time?<br /></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Most important: My Project is started: on Squidoo:<br /><h4><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/getfit-stayinshape/" target="_blank">Get Fit and Stay In Shape at Your Computer</a></h4><br /></strong><strong><br />In planning still: a website with articles on this subject.<br /><br /></strong><strong>More about the intense training and my Web 2.O. experience in another Lens:<br /><h4><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/neilas30DC/" target="_blank"><strong><span><span>My Thirty Day Challenge</span></span></strong></a></h4><strong>Now I also know that and how Community Sites can work - not only in this stupid way most of them do:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=599070542" target="_blank"><span>FaceBook</span></a><span> is for networking, </span><a href="http://twitter.com/Spacelady" target="_blank"><span>Twitter</span></a><span> is also cool.</span><span> </span><strong>A lot more about physical Fitness exercises at home and at the computer when my site is up. (Tomorrow, hopefully)<br /><br />Oh, and about Self Improvement...<br />I must not forget to claim the Gifts from the</strong><br /><h4><a href="http://www.117selfimprovementgifts.com/index.php?id=669" target="_blank"><span>117 Self Improvement Gifts</span></a></h4><strong>If you read this, and want some too, hurry they close in 3 days, I think.</strong></strong></span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-41982345489458738082007-05-30T18:56:00.000+02:002021-05-09T18:20:37.772+02:00Finally: First Things - Brainstorming<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">After more than a year of looking around, yes, it is about time to get focussed. Question is, on what - so I better make a list now, and why not blog it, as blogging was the start of it all for me anyways, and I really must post more often.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So... What do I want to do online? </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hmm - what I really want is of secondary importance unfortunately. Therefore let's say here:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I want to earn a living from what I do online. - Why else did I become an Internet Marketer....</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now I learned so far, that the basis is advertising, in any possible way. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But there are just too many ways to actually work in them all. That does not mean to drop all the others and use just one way, but I must pick one after the other and intensify it.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I know by now, what I must do and have about one million guides by about one million gurus which contain about five million diffent advises. - Impossible to sort out this information overload.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">So what I am doing now is, scaning my harddrives with closed eyes and picking up long forgotten useful programs, like the one mentioned below. But I must not forget to keep my eyes open and see what is going on at this moment as well.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">First, there is a new </span><a href="http://giveaway4.theplrvault.com/go/336"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">PLR-Giveaway</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> opening ... Again without me, again no chance for me to build my own list, but I know too, the next JV is coming soon and it is better to be really prepared - not to find something to give away; that is easy - no, one must be prepared to have and maintain the list.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>(mental note: discuss this in my </em></span><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/list-building/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><em>Squidoo Lens</em></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>, as well as the fact, that I am indeed astonished, how few of the many many newcomers to jvs have indeed not been prepared for that, as I see from just too many newsletters I get the content of which shows me this.) </em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>(mental note 2 absolutely unsubscribe from everything for the time being - how can I read these 36+thousand unread mails? I cannot even delete them sorted in time before my bottomless yahoo box is filled!)</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>(mental note 3 do make some special notes about what content could be fed into your autoresponder, and ask the support what happens, when the last prewritten message is sent to everyone - But really do that later!)</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">My next steps now - unordered yet:</span> </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Try to make a business plan </span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Blog all about this stuff, and sort WHERE<br />when ordered, I should officially open the Internet Marketing Blog at sabinering.de.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Make a Site, on everything concened with advertising first, like the one about the List Builders. Why concerned with advertising? - I need downlines everywhere of course.<br />These sites (accompanied by my lenses will be on:</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">- Traffic Exchanges</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">- Blogging and marketing with content (perhaps a second lense on that)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">- Communities </span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">- Safelists (will come first, directly after reading </span><a href="http://www.ultimate-safelist-survival-guide.com/?e=sabine.ring@lordofrings.org"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">the Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide by my fellow-safelister Soren Jordanson</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">, who knows how to do this more effectively then I so far)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Set up and maintain all my Adsense Sites - that is, for heaven's sake not all of them!<br />Only those to be combined with I what I have up already, Internet Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing (must urgently be updated), and my niches in waiting: Anything concerned with --> Health, Wellness, Beauty, Weight Control, --> Love and Relationships, Dating etc. Online mainly.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Everything with matching affiliate products</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Write some eBooks - why else do I collect PLR like mad? - almost evry item can be improved, updated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Most important and hardest to accomplish: Apply everything to German circumstances and start through selling Herbalife here - with the help of internet marketing...<br />I just hope, I do not have to become a 'Guru' here first, cause upto now I can see no practicable schemes here :((<br />So for I saw, we 'imported' Empowerism and Yorgoo - and I what think about such programs that are nothing but expensive downline builders, I will state more explicitely in a planned lense on newbie traps ...<br />Otherwise we have about two traffic exchanges and some paidmailers - but perhaps I can make my son get a good traffic site going on one of the cool domains he recently registered...<br /></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Ok, now I'll look this over, find the links I might put here - grin, no post without advertisment - and the next post will follow very soon. After the Real Life Work of accounting -</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">My daily work organization is now: -->Accounting, Taxes, 5 hours; -->doing the house, 2 hours; -->working up neglected household, 2 hours; --> special housework and other things to prepare a short trip in two weeks, 2 hours; -->writing and mailing out adcopy, 2 or 3 hours; -->cleaning mailboxes, downloading, sorting stuff, 6 hours, +-> chat interruptions, 3 hours more, +->random TE-surfing, 1 hour</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Oops, I forgot some breaks for eating and preparing food - well, sometimes my son does that, but we cannot live of pizzas and baguettes, lol. Howmany hours of sleep did I plan in?... Let's sum the above up...</span><br /></span></p>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1162952054568928822006-11-08T03:12:00.000+01:002007-11-30T06:05:50.561+01:00Niche Marketing - Creating Your Own Product - with Private Label Rights<span><span style="font-size:130%;">All the big hitters and power players will tell you that you need to be creating your own products and marketing them to make the really big money.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">And you know what?</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">That’s absolutely correct. </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">If you want to explode your business and create cash out of thin air then you need to be marketing your own stuff</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> not only affiliate products.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">But</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">...and this is a huge “</span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">but</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">”.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Creating products is not at all easy.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> I mean, think about everything that goes into just a digital ebook...</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">You have to </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">research</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> and </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">write</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> the ebook. That could be anywhere between 40 and 100+ pages.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Then you have to write the </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">sales copy</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">...and not just any old sales copy...no, you need to write copy that bends wills and makes people buy.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Next, you need to create a </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Thank You/Download page</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">, upload your products to your server, and link them to those pages...</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">And, then you need to handle the </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">graphics</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">. I’m leaving out some other minor details but I’m sure you get the gist...</span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">there’s a lot to do just to create and sell one ebook.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div><span><span style="font-size:130%;">There is a way out of the largest part of all this work:</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Private Label Rights</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">. Buy the PLR products, put your name on the ebook and the Sales Letter and bam...in just minutes you’ll have “created” your own brand new product.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">You find Private Label Rights all over the Net at the moment - but this would be too easy money of course. </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">You need quality products you can really be proud to put your name on.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> You must find a site you can trust to deliver those; so that you indeed need to </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">make minor changes</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> only.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">And the PLR would be quite useless still, if everyone can get them. </span></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Further: </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">To really stand out from the crowd you need to find cutting edge products like audio and video.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">Paul Kleinmeulman is launching </span><span><a href="http://www.espired.com/cgi-bin/lyre.cgi/action/JVM/PerClick/thru?pack_id=26604&aff_id=5174" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">Automatic Niche Profits</span></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> today.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> You NEED to get over there to register right now because </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">he’s limiting the number of members</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> and his sites usually sell out in a couple of days.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">He offers Private Label Rights to High Quality Products, including Audio and Video.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">If you’re ready to profit at will, take your life and your business to a whole new level, and create money out of thin air, then you owe it to yourself to at least have a look.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">I consider myself lucky a friend of Paul was allowed to share these details </span><span><span style="font-size:130%;">before the general public finds out</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">. Now I may pass the advdvantage on to You... take it while you can.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><a href="http://www.espired.com/cgi-bin/lyre.cgi/action/JVM/PerClick/thru?pack_id=26604&aff_id=5174" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">Automatic Niche Profits</span></a></b></span></p>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1161535554460221782006-10-22T18:00:00.000+02:002006-10-25T01:58:20.223+02:00An Interesting Research on Bloggers and Bloggig<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >I found this Pdf in the the traffic exchange for blogs </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" href="http://http://www.blogmad.net/?ref=f01570c7d069639" target="_blank">"BlogMad" </a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >. The report answers one of my following Questions: Who are those Bloggers, Why and What do they Blog? - in general, not for business. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">(Quote)</span> : <span style="font-size:130%;">Bloggers: Summary of Findings at a Glance</span></span><br /><ul style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><li>Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world.</li><li>Telephone surveys capture the most accurate snapshot possible of a small and moving target.</li><li>Contrary to the impression created by the press attention on political blogging, just 11% of bloggers say they focus mainly on government or politics.</li><li>The blogging population is young, evenly split between women and men, and racially diverse.</li><li>Relatively small groups of bloggers view blogging as a public endeavor.</li><li>The main reasons for keeping a blog are creative expression and sharing personal experiences.</li><li>Only one-third of bloggers see blogging as a form of journalism. Yet many check facts and cite original sources.</li><li>Bloggers are avid consumers and creators of online content. They are also heavy users of the internet in general.</li><li>Bloggers are major consumers of political news and about half prefer sources without a particular political viewpoint.</li><li>Bloggers often utilize community and readership-enhancing features available on their blogs.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Source: Lenhart, Amanda and Susannah Fox. Bloggers. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 19, 2006. <span style="font-size:85%;"><br />(end Quote)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >The report shows also that, at least until the beginning of the year, few Bloggers look after earning money with it, and the Blog as Business tool is not yet too overrun.</span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1161441655941006812006-10-21T16:40:00.000+02:002006-10-22T18:55:33.823+02:00Spacelady's Archive<a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" href="http://spacelady-archive.blogspot.com/">Spacelady's Archive</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">"I think I should really enable the archive again - but I miss CATEGORIES - so from now on I will sort all the links to my more important posts and other own publications by category here in the Spacelady's Archive."</span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1156120794958301852006-08-21T01:43:00.000+02:002006-08-21T12:09:35.213+02:00Link Popularity<span style="font-weight: bold;">One of the important things for the ranking of a website is its link popularity. that means, it should be linked to many, preferrably high-ranking sites.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Search machines would then follow those links and find the site.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A good way to get links is a link exchange. I recently joined one called </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.linkmetro.com/" target="_blank">LinkMetro</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A slight disadvantage might be to land on a sites "linkfarm", because search engines are overtaxed, when there are more then 150 links on one page, but having no </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >inbound links</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> at all is a worse one.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Links should always be reciprocal</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. Putting up a link on ones own site without a backlink on the other one (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >outbound links</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">) does not increase one's link popularity much, on the contrary, it might overflood the site.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Therefore one should be careful when one allows or even aks for comments . There are many 'nice' creatures around who write their ads, or leave their backtracks instead of a comment.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here on blogspot it got better since better precautions against </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >link spam</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> can be taken, luckily the word verification alone deters those people.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(Please don't mind that I do not let comments be visible at once, but only after approval, which I forget sometimes for some days.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did I get linking requests?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh yes, more then I exspected. But nobody puts his links on the main page. So I finally got my new link directory up and all the links off my blog again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Everyone controls now and then, if his own link is still on the link partner's site - at least he should. Link exchange services do that automatically when the request is approved. - I do not know yet, if they check back later and I will have to verify the new location of my linkpartners' links.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To those who check back themselves - and everyone else who is interested to see it:</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sabinering.de/links.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">Neila's Link Directory</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sabinering.de/link-exchange.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">Link Exchange Links</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> are now on my new Domain.</span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1154903779634523082006-08-06T20:43:00.000+02:002006-10-21T02:18:09.353+02:00Lists and List Building<strong>This is not another article on listbuilding or why it is important to have a list.<br />And not on "how to" either - for this I recommend the free ebook and great audio interview package of MLM Expert James Grandstaff "</strong><a href="http://downlinesecrets.com/thankyou-page/7760" target="_blank"><strong>Downline Secrets</strong></a><strong>" .<br />My articles are about the pros and cons to various forms of lists.<br /><br />1.) Your very own opt-in-list. This is the best option for several reasons:<br />People would subscribe to you personally.<br />They would read your newsletter or ezine<br />and pay special attention to your offers.<br /><br />This could be the most responsive list you can mail to, because from the beginning there is a personal relationship between you and your readers who would sooner or later become returning customers.<br /><br />Con:<br />Your own list needs permanent care to keep the readers happy, even if you run out of new ideas, suffer from a writers block, or get ill.<br /><br />Even worse are other dangers: Bulk mailing and sudden raise of traffic to your domain might cause problems with your provider.<br /><br />You could overlook a small legal issue or someone else could send unsolicited email in your name - and once you get accused of spamming this could be the end to a mayor part of your business. In this accusation, the prove is reversed: you must proof your innocence, and even if you can; - nobody can force your mail- or internet provider accept you again.<br /><br />These risks are less, when you use an auto responder service. There are even some good free ones around, but I do not know, if you can build multiple lists or huge lists for free with those.<br /><br />2.) A better option for beginners are List Builders.<br /><br />But take care that you do not join just any list from an anonymous advertisement. Unfortunately I have to start with some serious cons here.<br /><br />My favorate annoying issue: Hidden costs in "free" services.<br /><br />In almost all the traditional List Builders you are tempted, even indirectly forced to upgrade and pay hefty fees for that.<br />(More then for renting a Safelist Provider, where you could occasionally even adopt a big existing safelist, or in special offers build 3 to 5 own safelists; and more then you would pay for an autoresponder.)<br /><br />You are tempted by the promise of residual income after you pay first.<br /><br />Now, if you wanted a job - would you pay your boss so you may work for him and get payed later? - This is ridiculous, but exactly what most list builders expect you to do. With the difference, that it is most uncertain if so many of your referrals upgrade that you even earn the fees back.<br /><br />I personally do not understand, why anybody would wish to upgrade in an old huge List Builder, but people do still.<br /><br />"Pay to mail the whole list" sounds good, sure. And it sometimes makes sense to upgrade and start mailing right away. (Only when the list is NEW, so that you do not have to compete with hundreds of other pros.)<br /><br />But there is still is this temptation - and there is this sententence in your members area: "commisions: If you were a pro member, you could have earned commissions now, because your referral upgraded."<br /><br />(But as it is ((*grin, nana nana nana)) your commission, including the monthly commissions through this member, are forfeited, they go to the nearest pro in your upline and most to the admin!) - indirect force to upgrade, just in case....<br /><br />For me that would be a reason not to join this list in the first place.<br /><br />Referring to build your list is work. In a list builder work not only for yourself, but for the your upline and the admin as well, because your downline will automatically be their downline as well.<br /><br />It is normal, that a free member must work more, while others pay to work less - But how do you judge this common procedure that, when occasionally someone You referred upgrades, and the admin does not pay You commissions it would pay to a pro member? - while the next pro, who did nothing exept catching you for this list, or even only your sponsor, gets his smaller part of the commission. - This is nothing but deceitful in my opinion.<br /><br />You might shrug your shoulders, and think it just is like that (look at the exception I just found and joined in </strong><a href="http://neilascrazygiveaways.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Neila's Crazy Giveaways</strong></a><strong>)<br /><br />You might also think at least this listbuilder is large and renowned, so your chance to find refs is bigger, and if need be you would even consider to pay the high upgrade fee.<br /><br />Even some of the top marketers use these lists, which is good for keeping in touch with the latest news.<br /><br />But what happens, when the list builder is large and well-known? No, that is not an indicator for quality, not at all for the quality of the emails you might get.<br /><br />It will be a lot of emails, more then you can or want to read. It can be a nuisance also, specially when most is trash - so you would probably delete them unread, cause actually you did not want to receive much anyways, but send.<br /><br />Now imagine, you refer this list, because you can be quite sure that new members will sign up under you in this well known, much referred list builder:<br /><br />You might get a reasonably big downline, but would they know you?<br />Would they read your advertisements regularly?<br /><br />Probably not, because they would not know your mail between all the others, and do the same. At least I did before I left that special list - delete all mails unread.<br /><br />And if you upgraded to mail thousands of free members every day... you would safely reach thousands of mailboxes instead of hundred - not readers!<br /><br />So forget about the old big lists with the (in my eyes undeserved) good names and totally anonymous members. - Unless perhaps you sign up under your favourite guru - but even then.... You'd better read his newsletter and look for other list builders.<br /><br />What should you look for?<br />NEW Lists, where you are among the first to join at the top.<br />Lists you can join free and use free until you see if it was the correct decision.<br /><br />Take special care about two things:<br />Do you get too many emails from your upline and from upgraded members?<br />Or is the list so well structured that this not possible?<br /><br />(Example: A matrix structure, where you 'only' are allowed to mail 7 or 9 levels deep. Result: you cannot get much more then twenty emails a week, perhaps 50, when pros are allowed to mail more often and more persons, and that is not too much to read them at least occasionally.)<br /><br />The second is: What commissions do you get for your referral work?<br /><br />When there is nothing at all, you probably even lose upgraded members from your downline, it is just not worth while. Viral listbuilding can only work, when everyone diligently looks for new members - and it will get harder and harder to find really active members, when there is no incentment for referring.<br /><br />It is not even helpful when the admin offers gifts for joining - many might join just to grab those, and then just forget the list.<br /><br />Conclusion:<br />When you join a free list builder, or join a list builder as free member, you must work hard to refer and build your list in this service. When you do, it will be similar to and almost as good as building your own list, just much safer acoording to spam accusations, you do not use your own email account either, and do not really need your own website.<br /><br />It will take much time and effort. So it should not be spoiled by too much upline mail - because your downline will be theirs as well and receive the same amount.<br /><br />And your affords (because that refers to those of your downline as well) must be fairly rewarded. Never pay too much attention to the promise of building residual income through listbuilding - there is a slight possibility, like a gambler's lucky streak. You can hope for it, when the list is good, but not count on it and by no means pay for it.<br /><br />It is said the money is in the list - and that is true, it comes from the opportunity to offer your projects, affiliate sales and such, to many readers - not from the list building itself .<br /><br /><br />The third possibility are Safelists<br /><br />Sign up, confirm your email adresses (usually the ask for two different ones)<br />and start mailing. - Safe, quick, easy, cheap or free.<br /><br />con:<br />Everyone mails to each other, so you get enourmous masses of emails. But mostly you get credits for reading, so the other members must at least open your mails - then it is up to you to make them want to read also.<br /><br />You can reduce the amount of mails you get by upgrading. In safelists that is usually quite cheap and gives you real advantages like personalisation, html and so on. (But very often Urls automatically appear as clickable links, if not you can leave and find where they do.)<br /><br />If you are on the lookout you can find small lists or new ones who offer free pros at least. - I will as soon as possible put up all the lists that offer free platinums even.<br /><br />The size of a safelist does not really matter. When it is too large you must take care that there are crditlinks to be clicked, so you get at least hits to your site.<br />The smaller it is, the higher the probability that the other members will really read your emails.<br /><br />A great feature in a series of new safelists is that you can send under your own name. - and I am very astonished, how few people take advantage of this. (article to this subject soon to come - I will mail it to my safelists first - just to make my article sites seen - and to find referrals for these lists in the others).</strong>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1150258979174202862006-06-14T06:00:00.000+02:002006-08-21T05:10:15.706+02:00Where can You find a whole Land of fr33 Internet Marketing?<p style="font-weight: bold;">Hello Biz Friend,<br /><br />Let me tell You about a ‘Land’ in Cyberspace where all is free to use.<br />I am always watchful about hidden costs in free services;<br />You know Yourself that You are forced to upgrade sometimes to get the<br />real service or to earn money. – Not found any there!<br />(You can always buy more at reasonable prices, but what You get free is<br />really more than enough for a start.)</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">Now, where is this Land? - Right Here:<br /><a href="http://lordofrings.org/adlandpro.html">http://lordofrings.org/adlandpro.html</a></p><p style="font-weight: bold;">It is called <span style="font-size:130%;">Adland Pro</span><br />What You saw when You clicked the link above is my custom Homepage<br />for free Affiliates – customised with many of my own links.<br /><br />The search directory is where Your Advertisment could be found.<br />It would also rotate in the Affiliate’s ‘own’ mobile Traffic Exchange<br /><a href="http://www.lordofrings.org/adland-traffex.html">http://www.lordofrings.org/adland-traffex.html</a></p><p style="font-weight: bold;">I used my own domain for these sites. But if you don’t have one – no problem.<br />You sign up with an associated host for Your Own Website<br />(you are the admin of this site and can do what you want, shop included).<br />(I had no time to finish mine yet, so I cannot show it here. I will make it<br />according to the tutorial that comes with it.)</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">Let's summarize the features of Adland Pro: There is not only<br />- Classified Advertising<br />- Your own Homepage<br />- Email-Account<br />- Rewarding Affiliate Program</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">It is a ‘land’ as I said: You would join a Friendly Community of Marketers<br />where You can also<br />- find Contacts (I got many Invitations already)<br />- join Forums or open Your own<br />- send Private Messages<br />- Chat<br />- Tutorials<br />- EZines</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">And yes, all is free.<br />Let me invite You to Adland Pro!<br /><a href="http://lordofrings.org/adlandpro.html">http://lordofrings.org/adlandpro.html</a></p>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24416708.post-1147395161718121332006-05-12T00:35:00.000+02:002006-05-12T02:52:41.790+02:00Basics - How do I get Started?<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>A close internet-friend of mine once upon a time came across a newsletter from well known Internet Marketing Guru. He learned a lot about strategies and so on - but nothing about the very simple basics, the every day (hard) work of the online maketing newbie. Somehow I fear, there are more like him around here in 'Cyberia'.</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>That is, why I want to write some small articles about the very basics now. I do not claim to, or want to be a new guru, lol, I can only write my own experiences. (And I am not one of those who got rich in the net :( - but I think, I am on the right way.)</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>First I looked for Instruction - and my first mistake was: So much information overload that I still don't know whom to follow, what to read and work through first. So I now keep up getting my hands on whatever goodies I can and sort out what to start or use, or promote, one thing after the other. It would have been better to stick to one sceme from one person and work it through - but then, how can a newbie judge on the quality of what he is learning?</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>My Situation now: I have an internet presence - since some time before I started marketing.</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>Sure, it is possible to do it without any own website, taking up an affiliate program where they give you a site, do the actual selling themselves and give you a provision.</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>You get paid for promoting the site/product - so what you first need is a media to show it. I always read, that a blog is a good one - then you must get people to read it, and for that you need the same media - well, I found, that showing my blog to get traffic and readers is not enough to make them buy or even take your things.</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>Blogs and RSS publishing are increasing now, (I hope quickly, because I have no time to read my emails anymore, it takes too much time to even sort them, lol.)</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>What one needs to make a site seen is: ==>Traffic ==>Written Media (up to now maily newsletter, ezine, but always email.</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>On all these things you can find articles, tutorials, en masse - I will soon recommend some, but for now I stick to the basics, right at the bottom, </em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>following: Traffic Exchange</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em> List - Most important for Emails ('cause you may not spam)</em></strong></span>Neila ~ Sabine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15911347172026323632noreply@blogger.com0