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		<description><![CDATA[Recession Proof Opportunity &#8211; Get Rich in 2010! Make Money in Less Time With or Without a Website Get excited!  Insanely profitable opportunity! You can make serious $$$ selling Electronic Cigarettes. Get started today with these two proven winners!  If you want to make money you have to promote products that pay! Sign up here: [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_842" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 514px"><a href="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/marketing-opportunity.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-842" title="Marketing Opportunity" src="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/marketing-opportunity.jpg" alt="Hot Marketing Opportunity" width="504" height="369" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Easy Online Marketing Opportunity for Huge Commissions!</p></div>
<h2>Make Money in Less Time With or Without a Website</h2>
<p>Get excited!  Insanely profitable opportunity! You can make serious $$$ selling Electronic Cigarettes. Get started today with these two proven winners!  If you want to make money you have to promote products that pay!</p>
<p><strong>Sign up here: <a title="Green Smoke Affiliate Sign Up" href="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/gsu" target="_blank">GreenSmoke Brand Electronic Cigarettes</a></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Sign up here: <a title="Affiliate Marketing Opportunity" href="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/luci" target="_blank">Luci Brand Electronic Cigarettes</a></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>These are the two programs of many that YOU as an affiliate should be selling.<strong> </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Update Nov 2009:</strong> <strong>People who smoke are a constant stream of income for you!  Sell them one time and get paid over and over.</strong> I&#8217;m doing really well with e-cigs in spite of Paypal refusing to take payment from e-cigarette companies.  People who buy seem to have a VISA, AMEX, or MASTERCARD.  So get to work&#8230; this is paying out even better than I expected. <strong>This one is Recession Proof &#8211; when times are tough people still keep smoking!</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <strong>This is what you can expect to make from an Average Order</strong> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Please note that all commissions are initially placed in the Pending Approval page of the Commissions tab in your affiliate back office. 30 days after the products have shipped (i.e. the grace period for the 30-day money back guarantee has passed), the commission is eligible to be approved. It will then be approved on the upcoming 15th of the month.</p>
<p>In rare instances, a sale may be appropriated to the wrong account. We reserve the right to correct any discrepancies regarding misapplied commissions.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Here is a little &#8220;Proof&#8221; so you can see what average commissions look like for this program.</strong> This one is not going to make me a millionaire, but it does add some nice income to my monthly revenue stream.</p>
<p>Commission Amount: $8.25 USD<br />
Order Number: 100511-15XX37-7XX3</p>
<p>Commission Amount: $20.25 USD<br />
Order Number: 100429-14XX28-3XX7</p>
<p>Commission Amount: $16.71 USD<br />
Order Number: 100420-08XX49-8XX2</p>
<p>Commission Amount: $20.01 USD<br />
Order Number: 100425-11XX20-7XX5</p>
<p>The great thing about this program is it&#8217;s an &#8220;Evergreen Niche&#8221; &#8211; you get paid for return purchases!</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- <strong>These add up in a hurry if you can move product!</strong> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>There is no other opportunity for 2010 where even a little guy can get rich!  What matters as an affiliate is not what other people are selling, but what YOU can make money selling. Focus on the money! <strong>In 2008 the USA Market for e-cigarettes was $100 million! In 2009&#8230; it&#8217;s exploding!  How much money will you make?</strong></p>
<p><em>There are other programs, but these have the best product materials to make your job as an affiliate simple.  I can&#8217;t make the money for you&#8230; you still have to do that&#8230; but in the world of affiliate marketing it doesn&#8217;t get easier than this. You&#8217;ll come across BluCigs as they have a good site design and nice graphics, but they are always out of stock. And if people can&#8217;t buy you can&#8217;t make money!</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Exactly Why You Should Be Promoting Electronic Cigarettes&#8230;</span></strong></p>
<p>On Monday June 22, 2009 President Obama signed legislation allowing the FDA (The Food and Drug Administration) to regulate the tobacco industry.  And while this may be a good thing for the Health of the Nation it&#8217;s horrible news for people who profit from the Tobacco Industry.  Prices of Cigarettes are going to continue to skyrocket.  Add to this the continuing tax burden State Governments are placing on Cigarettes and you should be able to easily see that Smoking is one very expensive habit.</p>
<p>People should just quit right?  Yes, probably so.  But they CAN NOT quit because they are addicted.  And addiction is a terrible thing, but you can take advantage of it &#8230; by marketing Electronic Cigarettes!</p>
<p>And here is some great news&#8230; not only are you going to make money&#8230; you are going to be helping people get healthier!  Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 chemicals known to cause cancer.  Electronic cigarettes contain water vapor, flavoring, and nicotine (You can actually order electronic cigarette cartridges with ZERO nicotine). So while electronic cigarettes may not be 100% safe the are many times safer than tobacco cigarettes.</p>
<p>Nicotine is not a cancer causing agent&#8230; in fact it occurs naturally in tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Nicotine Content of Common Vegetables:</p>
<p>There is considerable evidence that nicotine is present in certain human foods, especially plants from the family Solanaceae (such as potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplant). Castro and Monji,2 Sheen,3 and Davis et al.4 have reported on the nicotine content of foods and drinks.  New England Journal of Medicine</p>
<p>Source:  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/329/6/437</p></blockquote>
<p>Nicotine is a poison in high concentration and highly addictive when smoked.  But it is not the culprit for causing cancer. Nicotine however may have links to certain changes in brain chemistry over time. Nicotine is not a good thing for the body, but it is not the cause of cancer. Further proof:</p>
<blockquote><p>Women who smoke are more concerned about their habit and their ability to quit than men, yet both genders appear misinformed about smoking and its link to cancer. In a new study presented at CHEST 2005, the 71st annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the majority of smokers mistakenly believed nicotine causes cancer, leading many to smoke &#8220;light&#8221; cigarettes because they believed them to be less harmful. Women also were more likely than men to have feelings of guilt, fear, and worry associated with tobacco use and quitting the habit.</p></blockquote>
<p>So now you can feel good about promoting a product that helps smokers get more healthy.  Lets face it who wants to make a buck promoting something that hurts people?  I don&#8217;t.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size: medium;">The Market for Smoking Materials is GIGANTIC!</span></h2>
<p>It&#8217;s estimated in the United States that about 1 in 4 Adults smoke cigarettes.  That is a huge market that is currently untapped, but it gets even better when you factor in the rates of smoking around the world.</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Gallup first asked Americans about their smoking habits more than 60 years ago, and recent Gallup polling finds Americans reporting among the lowest smoking rates ever measured (24%). The percentage of Americans saying they have smoked cigarettes in the past week did not drop to approximately one-quarter of the population until the mid-1990s. Gallup has asked respondents in more than 90 countries around the globe a similar question regarding their smoking habits, and the data indicate a median percentage of 22%. This result is statistically similar to the U.S. rate, but in some individual countries this figure ranges from a fraction of the U.S. responses to more than 40%.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can read about the rest of the worlds smoking rate here:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/28432/smoking-rates-around-world-how-americans-compare.aspx</p>
<p>So now you can see there is a GIGANTIC market.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you a Person Who has Trouble Finding Profitable Niches?</span></h2>
<p>Then this opportunity is for you!  Why?  Because even if there is tons of competition the market is so huge that there is room for tons of Affiliates.  Think about it.  With all those smokers you are bound to come across people you can promote to.</p>
<p>The Profit Margins on Electronic Cigarettes are Very Good</p>
<p>Why sell a product that costs $25-50 and pays only 4 or 5% like most of the products on Amazon? Or Travel products like Airline Tickets which pay 2%? Start making real money you can promote Electronic Cigarettes that pay $10-20% and <strong>the company I am showing you will pay you OVER AND OVER each time the customer you send them makes a purchase! </strong></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: medium;">Simple Way to Promote Offline for Massive Profits</span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"></p>
<p></span></strong></h2>
<p>Think about this simple method. How often do you see smokers in your everyday life?  What is to stop you from taking your marketing efforts offline?  Have a 1,000 business cards printed up with your special affiliate code. The company I&#8217;m showing you gives you a special coupon code you can print on your business cards that allows each of YOUR customers to get either 5% OR 10% OFF!  You decide.</p>
<p>Now you carry these cards with you whenever you are out&#8230; the grocery store, the clubs, the gym (Yes the Gym&#8230; what a great place, people who smoke work out too!), church, everywhere.  And hand them out.  Tell them about the benefits of switching to Electronic Cigarettes.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size: medium;">Your Promotion Possibilities are Nearly Limitless.</span></h2>
<p><strong>Summary of Why You Should Be Promoting Electronic Cigarettes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Huge Market Worldwide that is just in it&#8217;s infancy</li>
<li>Health Benefits to Existing Smokers</li>
<li>High Commissions</li>
<li>Repeating Commissions over and over</li>
<li>Compatible with almost every kind of website</li>
<li>Electronic Cigarettes are an Easy Sale &#8211; they are 60% Cheaper</li>
<li>Easy to promote offline in the &#8220;Real World&#8221;.</li>
</ul>
<p>What are you waiting for? I can&#8217;t make the money for you&#8230; don&#8217;t you owe it to yourself to at least check out this opportunity?</p>
<h2>Here is what REAL People (Smokers) are saying about Electronic Cigarettes</h2>
<p>Source:  St. Petersburg Times Tampa Florida</p>
<p><strong>Bobbie from TN</strong></p>
<p>Jun 11th, 2009 11:55 pm</p>
<p>I am impressed with the many smokers who say these work. I worry about them being made in China. I don&#8217;t trust China. They&#8217;ve poisoned enough people/babies/animals already. Wish they were made in the good old USA. &#8220;lifestyle tax&#8221; is coming next!</p>
<p><strong>Pam from Cheshire, CT</strong></p>
<p>Jun 10th, 2009 10:26 pm</p>
<p>Within a week I went from a pack a day for 30 yrs to 0. Aside from the obvious &#8211; no smoke, no smell, no carcinogens etc, I noticed if I get any vapor in my eyes, it doesn&#8217;t sting like smoke. My animals don&#8217;t even blink if it blows in their faces <img src='http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Karen from Spring Hill, FL</strong></p>
<p>Jun 10th, 2009 9:47 pm</p>
<p>I smoked a pack a day for 35 years, and quit because of ecigs. It&#8217;s saving my life! And the FDA and anti smoking groups are concerned for my health? They want to remove ecigs from the market, but KEEP cigarettes for sale? Talk about contradiction.</p>
<p><strong>Mark from Wadsworth, OH</strong></p>
<p>Jun 10th, 2009 8:24 pm</p>
<p>After 22 years of smoking over a pack per day, e-cigarettes got me off of cigarettes in 2 days. After 8 weeks I&#8217;m using 0 nicotine in my e-cig. I can see why Philip Morris and the government are about to ban this. They&#8217;re losing victims too fast.</p>
<p><strong>James from Warwick, RI</strong></p>
<p>Jun 10th, 2009 12:08 pm</p>
<p>The fact that the FDA is considering a ban on this safer e-cig alternative is appalling. Aren&#8217;t they SUPPOSED to be the watchdog for public health and not Philip Morris&#8217;s puppet? I was a 2 pack a day smoker for 20 years. The -ecig is saving my life!</p>
<p><strong>Anna from TN</strong></p>
<p>Jun 10th, 2009 10:24 am</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not one of those people who flaunt the ecig in public. I&#8217;m just happy my lungs feel better, my husband can&#8217;t smell the ecig, I have energy, I could go on and on. Whatever the FDA finds, I KNOW ecigs are healthier than the reg cigs. I FEEL better!</p>
<p><strong>Michelle from Montana</strong></p>
<p>Jun 10th, 2009 8:25 am</p>
<p>Amazing,the Bull our govt will come up with when their tax income is being threatened. The FDA already APPROVED a Nicotine inhaling device! I tried one MANY times hoping to quit a 25 year, pack/day habit!With my e-cigg, 46 days smoke free!</p>
<p><strong>Julie from ATL, GA</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 4:48 pm</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a non-smoker but ever since I learned about e-cigs I&#8217;ve been trying to convert my friends. I rarely get involved in politics, but I believe in e-cigs will help to keep them from getting banned in any way I can. Smokers should have a choice!</p>
<p><strong>Matt from Cheyenne, WY</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 3:07 pm</p>
<p>Excellent article. On 3/10 I switched from a pack a day smoker for 15 years to e-cigs. I don&#8217;t smell like an ashtray, my smell/taste have returned, and I&#8217;ve stepped down to a lower dosage. Starter pack M401 $50. Fill my own carts @ ~$20/mo.</p>
<p><strong>Chris from Portland Oregon</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 1:09 pm</p>
<p>Thanks for an excellent article. E-cigarettes have caused me to give up smoking traditional cigarettes. They&#8217;re effective and represent greatly reduced risk. People need to know the truth about them.</p>
<p><strong>Matt from Orlando</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 12:54 pm</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been tobacco-free with my e-cigs for the last 55 days. I feel better, can breathe easier, and have more energy than I ever had while smoking 2 packs a day for 19 years.</p>
<p><strong>Debbie from St. Petersburg</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 12:31 pm</p>
<p>Was a pack &amp; 1/2 smoker for 30+ yrs. am now down to 2 cigs. per day, hopefully 0 soon, after 9 days using my e-cig.</p>
<p><strong>Debra from Tarpon Springs, FL</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 11:05 am</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t smoked a cigarette in two months thanks to the e-cig. After 40 years of smoking 1 1/2 packs a day, that&#8217;s a huge thing for me! Nicotine gum didn&#8217;t work. This works. You can get different strengths of nicotine or none at all.</p>
<p><strong>SB from Tampa</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 8:04 am</p>
<p>Karen: You can fill them with nicotine-free e-liquid. I stopped smoking over a month ago using an e-cig with NO problem, after 1 pack/day for 15 years. It&#8217;s great. Sadly, if Big Pharma NOR Big Tobacco can profit, they&#8217;ll probably be banned.</p>
<p><strong>Karen from Dunellon, Florida</strong></p>
<p>Jun 9th, 2009 7:21 am</p>
<p>I bought the Njoy e-Cigarette &amp; am disappointed. I love the concept, but you aren&#8217;t saving any money with Njoy. One pack of 10 cartridges is 19.99 plus tax&#8230; 1 cartridge is equal to about a 1/2 pack of cigarettes. Be careful which brand you buy.<br />
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		<title>I Want to Be the CEO But I Have No Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Internet Marketing IQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Retarded how Many People Pick &#8220;Make Money Online&#8221; as a Start Niche People that have never made any money, telling other people how to make money.  Oxymoronic! Moronic.  Retarded. If there are 10 fish in the pond, and 100 fisherman is that a good ratio for you? And what if the other 99 are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>It&#8217;s Retarded how Many People Pick &#8220;Make Money Online&#8221; as a Start Niche</h2>
<p>People that have never made any money, telling other people how to make money.  Oxymoronic! Moronic.  Retarded.</p>
<p>If there are 10 fish in the pond, and 100 fisherman is that a good ratio for you? And what if the other 99 are experienced fishermen? And even if you are lucky enough to catch one of those fish, it leaves very little opportunity.</p>
<p>The point is to find a market where there is more opportunity. Find a market you know something about.  The world is full of products and services.  You need to find something you know something about so you can write convincing, compelling, ad copy.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>How can you tell people how to make money, if you have never made money? How can you tell people what to do, if you have never done it? How do you know what works, until you have tried it?<br />
</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Over and over and over&#8230;. the biggest mistake first timers make is picking the Wrong Niche.</p>
<p>Picking the wrong niche is like you playing 1-on-1 with Kobe Bryant for money! The first thing you have to do is practice, practice, practice. Then if you have a natural talent and you gain experience you can work your way into more competitive niches successful. And if you don&#8217;t have natural talent, then all the practice won&#8217;t help that much, but at least you&#8217;ll know it! Otherwise you are just wasting your time.</p>
<p><strong>CEO&#8217;s don&#8217;t start at the top.</strong></p>
<p>Pick something you know about, that has a sustainable market, and get some experience.</p>
<p>If you are smart then you&#8217;ll understand why you don&#8217;t pick Make Money Online as a Niche to get your feet wet.  If you are not, then &#8230; well then you&#8217;re an idiot that can&#8217;t be helped.  So go prove me wrong&#8230; you&#8217;ll sure show me.  And in the meantime I&#8217;ll be working on projects that actually make money because I &#8220;get it&#8221;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dominating Google’s 1st Page – Ranking Your Long Tail Keywords Let me clarify that what I am about to present to you is not about ranking your site, or your Home Page. It’s about Ranking Your Specific Long Tail Keyword Phrases… these are your money phrases, the phrases that people use once they have narrowed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Dominating Google’s 1st Page – Ranking Your Long Tail Keywords</h2>
<p>Let me clarify that what I am about to present to you is not about ranking your site, or your Home Page.  It’s about Ranking Your Specific Long Tail Keyword Phrases… these are your money phrases, the phrases that people use once they have narrowed down their search &#8211; <strong>the Keyword Phrases that MAKE MONEY!</strong></p>
<p><strong>The first thing you MUST understand if you want to Rank Well for a Long Tail Keyword Search Phrase</strong></p>
<p><strong>PageRank is not SiteRank</strong> &#8211; Pages rank on their own for specific search phrases. You can not rank a single page for every phrase you want to rank. While you want a diverse incoming link base, you want those incoming links to be tied to specific anchor text phrases and to specific pages.</p>
<p>Too often people who do not understand this principal go out and just get as many links as they can and actually do themselves irreversible harm!  They create untargeted incoming links that just confuse Google.</p>
<p>The result is non targeted keywords hurt Your Rankings.  People waste way too much time trying to rank their Home Page for a ridiculously large set of keyword phrases. They lose site of the highly profitable Long Tail Keyword Phrases.</p>
<p>A well crafted page that is optimized for a Long Tail Keyword Phrase can outrank even high authority sites! Why? Because Google rewards information that is targeted to the search phrase over authority… they want to provide the “Best Match” for the search.  This is great news for the Internet Marketer – it’s the loophole smart Internet Marketers leverage to make big profits.</p>
<h2>Let Me Give You an Example:</h2>
<p>Today I am researching a specific niche in Google in the Automotive Industry&#8230; a 3 word phrase &#8220;Keyword 1 Keyword 2 Keyword 3&#8243;</p>
<p><strong>Here are the particulars:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Google Local Volume:  22,000</li>
<li>Anchor Text with Phrase: 770</li>
<li>Competition:  137,000 *</li>
</ul>
<p>* This is not really competition; rather the number of times this phrase appears on other pages in Google&#8217;s Index.</p>
<p><strong>Google Page 1 results for this Targeted Keyword Phrase:</strong></p>
<p>#1 PR 0 &#8211; that&#8217;s right ZERO!<br />
#2 Site has a PR of 4<br />
#3 is also Zero!<br />
#4 is PR 3.</p>
<p>What does that tell you about the PR as a ranking indicator?  Answer: It is not!  You rank for the phrase and the page content NOT the site!</p>
<h2>Why does this PR ZERO Page using this Targeted Keyword Phrase Rank so High?</h2>
<ul>
<li>The #1 Site contains the EXACT keyword Phrase in both the Title and the URL and has a nice distribution in their body text.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The URL does NOT point to the Home Page, rather a highly targeted content page directly related to the search.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>More Analysis:</strong></p>
<p>I placed the High Ranking URL in SEO Elite so I could examine the linking structure and anchor text.  The results are as follows:</p>
<p><em><strong>Incoming text links:</strong></em></p>
<p>•	PR 4 – 1<br />
•	PR 3 – 1<br />
•	PR 2 – 4<br />
•	PR 1 – 4<br />
•	All other incoming links show no PR!</p>
<p>Only 19 incoming links total!  All .com&#8217;s no edu, no .gov, no .net – Okay we all know that Google doesn’t like to show us the full results so one could infer there are additional incoming links… but the trend for low PR sites in this case is evident.</p>
<p><em><strong>Age of the Sites Linking in:</strong></em></p>
<p>The majority of incoming links are from sites created between 2004-2008</p>
<p><em><strong>Authority Directories</strong></em></p>
<p>Not listed in Yahoo, Wikipedia, or DMOZ</p>
<p><em><strong>Anchor Text Analysis</strong></em></p>
<p>Anchor Text from incoming links is split almost equally between the 3 keywords.</p>
<p><em><strong>Cross Linking</strong></em></p>
<p>This site cross links extensively between other company owned sites using specific targeted keyword phrases.  Because the links are relevant it appears to be helping not hurting. So much for cross linking penalties!  You should infer that it’s okay as long as the links are relevant.  This is a sticky issue, but all you can do is test it for yourself.</p>
<p><em><strong>Domain Age</strong></em></p>
<p>This site was registered in 1998</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion:</strong></p>
<p>While you can not draw specific conclusions from a single Case Study with a single keyword phrase you can infer the following (I see these trends over and over as I do keyword research).</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>PR does NOT matter for Long Tail keywords</strong>&#8230; get over it, forget about it, and move on. I do not believe it matters for any ranking.  It’s just an indicator like a thermometer that says… yes we know about you and think your site is just nifty. Google is not publishing information to the general public in their PR indicator that really makes any difference to you.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Keyword Anchor Text is CRITICAL</strong>.  Do NOT mix up you keyword anchor text when commenting, posting to forums, etc. You want aneven distribution of your keywords&#8230; there are plenty of scrape sites and other sites you can not control who will mess this up for you. If you are targeting &#8220;Safe Baby Toys&#8221; the most variation you create for your own links would be to rearrange the words like this:  &#8220;Baby Toys that are Safe&#8221;, &#8220;Safe Baby Toys&#8221;, &#8220;Safe for Baby Toys&#8221;&#8230; filler words like the, and or etc. don&#8217;t matter.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>The Age of your site absolutely matters</strong>. The older the better. Not much you can do about this. This is the reward for being an established business. If you have a great idea, buy the domain now, put up a little content and let it settle in. You’ll need it later.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Use your keyword phrase in your Title in Exact Form</strong>. Put it in your URL and include it in your body text.  I see this over and over in top ranking results.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>You should target your incoming links for each specific phrase to the  page with the content, not your Home Page</strong> (Unless your Home Page is the target destination for the Long Tail Keyword Phrase).</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>FYI:</strong> The PR 4 site that ranks #2 has 50 “Dot Com’s” linking back to it from  PR 1-6 sites and it&#8217;s getting beat! It does not contain the same high quality targeted anchor text link structure.  It just has a lot more authority.</p>
<p>So if you are focusing on long tail you now know what to do!  You still want  high quality authority links&#8230; but you want to focus on your keyword  phrase and anchor text. A high authority site will always outrank you all things being equal, but if you do your homework you can move to the top with Long Tail Keyword Phrases!</p>
<p><strong>Good luck.</strong></p>
<p><strong>PS:  If you have high authority and targeted Long Trail you can really cash in.  You’ll get there, but focus on these principals, and make money now while you grow!</strong></p>
<p>Software used: SEO Elite, Keyword Research Pro, Aaron Walls Free FireFox SEO Plugin</p>
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		<title>BANS &#8211; Build a Niche Store Review &#8211; eBay Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build a Niche Store BANS Review &#8211; eBay Power Selling 2010: I am no longer recommending BANS. The BANS models is not effective moving forward. With eBay changing it&#8217;s compensation model and the BANS owners trying to dump their product it&#8217;s just not effective any more. Yes I still have my BANS sites but they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Build a Niche Store BANS Review &#8211; eBay Power Selling</h2>
<blockquote><p><strong>2010: I am no longer recommending BANS.  The BANS models is not effective moving forward.  With eBay changing it&#8217;s compensation model and the BANS owners trying to dump their product it&#8217;s just not effective any more.  Yes I still have my BANS sites but they no longer produce like they used to</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><em><strong>Update December 2009: </strong> I am still using BANS and earning about $.15 cents per click under the new QPC model.  I do have days where I only make $.02-.04 cents per click.  I do not like the new QPC model, but what can you do?  So yes you can still make money with BANS.  There is a lot of rumor about Google not liking BANS and not indexing sites.  I find this to be untrue.  The way I use Bans is to incorporate it directly into other sites not as the site itself.  I have had no problems with ranking BANS stores this way.</em></p>
<h2>Need an Idea for a Successful BANS Store to Sell Your eBay Favorites?</h2>
<p>First off I think eBay is a great opportunity for new Internet Marketers to &#8220;Get their Feet Wet&#8221;. It&#8217;s easy to make a quality site and the affiliate opportunity is tremendous. I am running a couple of BANS stores.  And while I&#8217;m not swimming in cash just because of BANS I do make a nice continual income stream month after month from what I&#8217;ve set up.</p>
<blockquote><p>I set up my first BANS Store in about an afternoon.  The additional stores &#8211; after I had done the first one &#8211; I set up in about an hour!  That is some screaming fast automated site design don&#8217;t you think? A fully automated Targeted eBay e-Commerce niche site in an hour!</p></blockquote>
<p>I have a great interest in a specific type of Automobile. And the automotive niche is huge, here&#8217;s why:</p>
<ul>
<li>There are 1,020 cars for every 1,000 people in the USA (More than 300 million!)</li>
<li>Cars are &#8220;Consumables&#8221; they break down and need repair and replacement</li>
<li>Cars are &#8220;Big Ticket&#8221; items, and so are the parts/accessories (Commision Opportunity)</li>
<li>People always want new cars, it&#8217;s called &#8220;Buyers Itch&#8221;</li>
<li>Cars can be customized to suit an individuals personality</li>
<li>eBay Motors gets over 1.2 million Searches each month just from Google!</li>
</ul>
<p>As you can see the market is huge and wide and there is plenty of money being spent on Automobiles. So I set up my BANS store and added it to my existing automotive site, and viola!  I now am a reseller of automobile parts and accessories. The site is AUTOMATICALLY (This is extremely important) updated with the newest items. I don&#8217;t have to do anything to the BANS site, but track the stats and tweek the layout accordingly.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re looking for a good niche, a good place to start, think BANS and something in the Automotive Industry.</p>
<h2>How You Make Money With Build a Niche Store</h2>
<p>For those of you who know me and have worked with me, I only review software I actually use. I purchased BANS in early June 2008.  BANS is a script that allow you to set up a CMS system based on eBay. eBay offers the affiliate marketer nearly unlimited Niche opportunities. Unfortunately you would need to be a programmer or hire a programmer to set up an effective method if not for this software (Or a similar product like PHPBAY for WordPress).</p>
<p>The Build a Niche Store script is very easy to set up and is 100% compatible with <a title="Web Hosting" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.hostgator.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/it118p-85-7NQPPPVVUNPOSPOWPO" target="_blank">Host Gator</a><img src="http://www.awltovhc.com/q465qmqeki36555BBA354854C54" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> <a href="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/rochen" style="font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='reseller hosting';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">reseller hosting</a>. Remember this is a &#8220;Niche&#8221; store builder. This is why <a href="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/rochen" style="font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='reseller hosting';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">reseller hosting</a> is important.  It would cost way too much to buy individual accounts for each store you set up.  And to be effective with BANS you&#8217;ll want to set up at least half a dozen targeted niche sites. It&#8217;s not uncommon to make $200-$400 a month from this type of website marketing. I personally stack as many as 40 domains on a reseller account with no problems.</p>
<blockquote><p>The BANS script uses a MYSQL database (Which is simple to set up using the &#8220;wizard&#8221; feature on any CPANEL host like Host Gator). Here is a trick that will save you a ton of time when installing the script. Don&#8217;t unzip the script on your computer and FTP.  Instead open CPANEL, create a folder Called &#8220;BAN SCRIPT&#8221;, then upload the Zipped (Yes I said ZIPPED script to that folder).  After it&#8217;s uploaded you simply use Cpanel, select the ZIPPED Script and select EXTRACT. Once extracted you open the US Folder (Or one of the other 11 countries supported) and simply drag the files to your root level.  This is so much FASTER than FTP.</p></blockquote>
<p>Installation is a breeze, you change permissions on one file, go to your domain and follow the onscreen instructions. It took me a bout 15 minutes start to finish (Including uploading and creating the MYSQL Database) to install this script.</p>
<p>I spent about 2 hours going through the manual feature by feature.  About 2 hours later I had created a Header Banner, inserted my eBay Code and adjusted all the settings.  So start to finish having never used this software before in 5-6 hours (Basically a long afternoon) I had a completely functional eBay Powered Website installed.  A site that will require almost ZERO MAINTENANCE.  Now all I have to do is promote it &#8211; which I did by plugging it into an existing site with an IFRAME.</p>
<p>The next day I created another BANS site in about an hour!  Powerful! Most people will want to create a half dozen sites and then go out and promote them.  This is so powerful because you don&#8217;t waste any of your time &#8220;Designing&#8221; or worrying about SEO (Beyond selecting and placing your targeted keywords).  This frees you to focus on marketing.  And if you want to there are additional Content Creation tools so you can write your own articles.  Or (cringe) even copy and paste related articles.</p>
<p>Simple, Easy, and Effective if you can drive traffic and market your new niche sites you can make money with BANS. This is a great way for a beginner to get their feet wet with a proven affiliate opportunity.</p>
<p>Build as many sites as you want with as many products as you want.  Your license is not limited for your own use.  If you build for clients or sell one of your sites then the buyer will need to aquire their own license.</p>
<p><strong>FYI:</strong> BANS has an extremely simple ADVERTISEMENT layout.  All you have to do is copy and paste in your affiliate code to any product you would like to sell in addition to your eBay Niche Products. Yes you can promote Google&#8217;s Adense program, YPN, Adbrite, Bitvertiser, CJ, or anything else.  Your ads can appear above your listings, on either side, or below or all of the above.  And you can easily display one set of ads on your Homepage, and entirely different ads on all your content pages. Simple!</p>
<h2>A Good Place for New Marketers to Start</h2>
<p>As mentioned in the review above BANS is a great way to jump-start your affiliate marketing career. Starting out in Affiliate Marketing can be Tough!  Where do you start?  What do you sell? How do you set up a great looking website? How to you find Affiliate Programs willing to work with you and your new site?</p>
<p>Might I suggest a new angle.  Don&#8217;t try to sell &#8220;Make Money From Home&#8221;.  Don&#8217;t try to do what everyone else is doing. There are a whole lot of marketers that are very experienced ready to crush your dreams. Pick a niche product and get to work.</p>
<h2>Sell What you Know!!!</h2>
<p>Do you have a hobby?  What do you collect?  What do you know about? Photography? Tennis? Golf? Electric Trains? Sports Cards? Baby Stuff? The list is quite extensive!  Sell what you know!  But how do you do that?  You won&#8217;t always find an affiliate opportunity in your niche, but you know that people are buying products and services related to it don&#8217;t you?  BANS And eBay to the rescue!  If your niche idea is not being marketed on eBay it&#8217;s probably too small.</p>
<p>BANS is a great way to get into the Affiliate Marketing Business.</p>
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		<title>How to Market a Niche Product in Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Internet Marketing IQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Market a Niche Product in Google This Video is very well done and shows you exactly how one person takes a very low traffic (But Highly Targeted) product and pushes it to #1 in Google. FYI: This is done using Google&#8217;s Free Tools and WordPress.]]></description>
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<p>This Video is very well done and shows you exactly how one person takes a very low traffic (But Highly Targeted) product and pushes it to #1 in Google.  FYI:  This is done using Google&#8217;s Free Tools and WordPress.</p>
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		<title>Tough Niche Market But Big Time Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Internet Marketing IQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opportunities Paying You from $20-$175 per sale! These Niche Market Opportunities  can be tough to promote, but with the right methods some really big profits are attainable.  Seriously if you can make $175 from a single sale you don&#8217;t need to sale a lot to make a very comfortable living.  We are talking about Niche [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Opportunities Paying You from $20-$175 per sale!</h2>
<p>These Niche Market Opportunities  can be tough to promote, but with the right methods some really big profits are attainable.  Seriously if you can make $175 from a single sale you don&#8217;t need to sale a lot to make a very comfortable living.  We are talking about Niche Markets that are already saturated (But not impossible to break into).</p>
<p><strong>Niche Markets like:</strong> Weight Loss, Health and Beauty, Male Enhancement, and Online Casinos (Online Gambling is not legal in USA).</p>
<p>So if you think you are up to the challenge then you should give these a look.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Website: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/moreniche" target="_blank">More Niche Affiliate Programs</a></span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>If you want to make money online, you have to choose an affiliate program opportunity that is high paying. I don&#8217;t waste time promoting programs that only pay a few dollars a sale.</strong></p>
<p>For example, you could promote a car rental company that paid $1 per lead, or you could promte a travel company that paid 8% commission on car rentals with the average rental period of 3 days and $40 per day.</p>
<p>1. Example Opportunity one pays $1 per customer</p>
<p>2. Example Opportunity pays $120 x 8% = $9.60 for the same customer!!!</p>
<h2>If you think you have got what it takes then Quit Promoting &#8220;Little Stuff&#8221;- Start making REAL MONEY Join Today&#8230;</h2>
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<p><strong>Why you should join:</strong></p>
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<li>They write the Articles for you!</li>
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<p>Stop worrying about what to sell, what articles to promote, or how to make a great looking website. All you have to do is get out there and start promoting&#8230;. easier said than done I know. But some people are cashing in big time on these products, will you be the next?</p>
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