I came across a very good site this week called Bad Neighbors, which offers a tool called a Bad Neighborhood Link Checker. We all realise now that the quality of the links to your site make a big difference to the search engines. This tool will help you check all the URLs linked from your site and tells you if they are linked to undesirable sites. The tool is free to use, check it out.

Here are some vital tips for any online home business marketer to take note of, in a well researched article on internet marketing by Allen Thomason.

As an internet marketer, you really cannot afford to spend your time on strategies or advertisements that do not deliver the targeted output or the desired results. It is a waste of time and energy and huge loss of potential income.

It is important to discover risk free marketing venues and innovative internet marketing areas. Your site or blog could be perfect with good software, regular updates, strong content, and relevant advertising. Internet marketing thrives on a winning strategy. Have you been able to locate yours? Read more »

Duplicate Content is one of the biggest threats to your search engine rankings and there are hidden places where duplicate contents can lurk unseen - except by the search engine spiders. I have been putting into practice some of the lessons from an article in Site Pro News by T J O’ Donnell, ‘Search Engine Positioning for the Weary‘.

“Do you want to get your site from page five to page one in Google? Here are a few tips to boost you on your way.”

I did not realise that common terms used by content management systems on thousands of unrelated websites could be flagged as duplicate content when your site is crawled. Even blank spaces can attract a duplicate content penalty. As he explains it, the programs are written by techies whose objective is to write great code: they are not considering the impact of their programming language on your SEO efforts.

There are some good tips on building inbound links to your site or blog, as well as a warning not to spend out money on worthless paid directory submissions. Very few online directories are particlularly valuable, and many are created simply to boost the directory owner’s link popularity.

Finally there is some straight talk on creating your site and products to meet demand: the big danger in an online business is to market a product that you rave about, rather than one that people desire. Read what he has to say on basic human needs - it’s quite direct …

1. Don’t waste your money and time on Free-For-All (FFA) pages in your pursuit of marketing your product. Firstly, nobody reads FFA pages now. Secondly, your link stays on the page for only a few minutes at most. Furthermore, FFAs are set up to benefit only its operators.

Stay away from buying guaranteed traffic, no matter how tempting the offers are. Quite simply, guaranteed traffic providers get you your traffic by popping up your web page in another window on other web sites. These windows containing your web site will sit below the current window of an Internet surfer who is looking at another web site in his window above yours thus the window containing your web site is in a Pop-Under window. Read more »

Now you can use your time on a social networking website and earn money at the same time. Here is a site that pays you cash for your activity on this site, which also helps you
build your own social network. I joined this site and I was sceptical but wit very little activity on my part, I have built up some nice earnings. Check out Apsense today - you have nothing to lose and all to gain.

have you been looking for an easy way to get an information product e-commerce shop of your own, where you keep all the takings from every book, script and product sold? Now you can do it in a few seconds with ScriptDojo. This formula has been brought together by Joel Comm - it is incredibly simple, designed to make money for you. There is NO installation or coding, NO set up required, in fact you do NO work of any kind to get your store. This is a plug in and go product, it starts making a Passive Income for you as soon as you display it! When your readers visit ScriptDojo.com they see the latest reviews of great software scripts and ebooks. You get your OWN ScriptDojo.com page, with your personal clickbank, Paypal and paydotcom ID’s already included. You simply tell others about your ScriptDojo page and they do the rest of the work for you!

If you want to see how it works, you can try the site for a month for ONE PENNY - try ScriptDojo and get your own page set up in a matter of minutes.

I have been giving some more time recently to the vision regarding my internet businesses: it is too easy to be distracted and you can end up using too much effort to work in your business, which means too little attention to working on your business.  Making money online is the goal we all seek, but if that means sitting at the laptop twelve hours a day and making an unpredictable living, then a 9 to 5 job could start to look more attractive.

The area of internet income that I personally give too little attention is the sale of information products.  When you think about it, this is the business source that can give you a true passive residual income.  Once you set up the sales page, payment page and Thank you page, you can more or less leave your site on autopilot, leaving you to laze on the beach as shown in the pic.  And it gets better: by selling other people’s products you do not even have to set up the pages.  Just make sure that your affiliate URLs appear in the places where your potential customers are looking.  Find out how you can achieve a steady affiliate income from home -

We were talking last night about adding yet another wordpress blog to our hosting panel at Hostgator and I started to realise how much we get for our money - $9.95 a month for all our hosting requirements. We can host unlimited subdomains, 999 add-on domains, plus unlimited MySQL databases. I seem to have nine MySQL databases installed, and I hope one day I will work out the reason for them. We also have an unlimited disk space allowance and 50,000 mB of bandwidth (of which we used two per cent this month). The real beauty for me is the ease with which I can create new Wordpress Blogs. The process takes literally seconds and uploading different themes via File Transfer Protocol is simple. I have tried three other hosting companies before I found Hostgator a year ago. The transfer process was hassle free and whenever I have needed help I have used their online chat facility. You can sign up with Hostgator now, and give yourself an easy time.

Affiliate Marketing Programs have been sorely neglected as part of the arsenal of a home entrepreneur. This is unfortunate since affiliate marketing can be the best programs for producing passive residual income in the long term. Please leave a comments on your best performing affilaite marketing programs.

I read an interesting story on how social networking is influencing our buying decisions - as it always has done. The new aspect to social networking as a marketing tool is that the power of the internet increases its impact almost without limit. While the social bookmarking sites are a new idea to people like me, the article says that they will be an everyday part of life in the same way as search engines have blended into everyday life over the past ten years. So in future consumers will expect to get recommendations through their online networks for their purchases. In the UK, the market share of blog traffic is driven evenly by social networks and search, according to Hitwise. Blogs receive one quarter of visitors from social networks or chat rooms and 22 per cent from search engines. The challenge for bloggers appears to be how to convert visitors into revenue by ensuring they take the most desired action when they move on - at present . Usually that will mean sending them to a shopping or classified page, but at present only six per cent are doing so. Read the full article:

How would you like to be the Next Internet Millionaire? Now is your chance! Joel Comm has just announced one of the most exciting projects of the year, and I just couldn’t wait to share it with you. Starting today, Joel is on the lookout for the right joint venture business partner for an upcoming project, and he is doing it via a reality web show called The Next Internet Millionaire.

Yes, starting today, thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs will be competing for a $25,000 cash prize and an opportunity to become Joel’s next joint venture partner, potentially earning a huge chunk of money! If you don’t know Joel, you should. He is the co-creator of Yahoo! Games, which he sold to Yahoo! for over $1,000,000. He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, The AdSense Code. And he is one of the most highly respected marketers andsought-after speakers in internet marketing. Joel is now bridging the gap between reality television and video on the web with this innovative and exciting project. And you are invited to audition to be a contestant!

I think this is an incredible opportunity and I would encourage you to submit your own audition video. Joel provides complete instructions on how you can enter here.

Even if you have no desire to audition for the show, you shouldsign up to be able to vote for other contestants and receive insider privilages to view the show online.The Next Internet Millionaire… could it be you?

Once you have registered your domain name, found a web hosting company and written your first web pages, you will want to find visitors for your site - better known as Traffic. One way to start is by displaying your site at Linkreferral, a totally free service where other members visit your site and review it, and you do the same. This is a source of quality visitors, PLUS Linkreferral provides a quality link back to your site and can help speed up the indexing of your pages for the search engines.