But, first…

Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. So you need to make sure the keywords you’re targeting are worth targeting.

While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:

• Will you be able to rank for these keywords? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
• Will the keywords you’re targeting bring buyers? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
• What about affiliates? If you want to build a huge business, you’re going to need affiliates to help you. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.

Although this is an essential step, doing it all by hand can take a very long time. Experts are expensive and don’t guarantee results. And that’s why most people skip this step! The smartest marketers use website traffic software to automate this and other aspects of their business. This way you get this critical step done fast and done well.

OK, now we can talk about traffic…

Now that you’ve completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.

Here are a couple of clever ways to do this…

• Something you may not have ever considered is Surveys
• “Answer” Sites
• Video

Surveys

Here’s the thing – people love surveys. It’s human nature. You can use this fact to provide “sticky” content for other website owners. And when they put your survey on their site, they will include a link back to your website. The beauty of this is that it generates website visitors for you with no work on your part. Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! So, get creative and make up a survey that’s wacky to get other people interested in putting it on their sites.

“Answer” Sites

These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. Once again, the main reason for this site is not the reason you’re interested. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! Now, you can do this all by hand – visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. The good news is that it’s easy to find website traffic software that can do this automatically. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.

Video Sharing Sites

Another great resource is video sharing sites like YouTube. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If used properly, video sites can get you more website traffic than you know what to do with.

And don’t worry if you don’t have any idea of how to make a video. You can even take a webpage or article that you’ve written. Then simply record yourself reading the text and you video the screen with a simple screen capture program. And like anything else, there is software available that will turn articles into videos for you automatically.

Summary

It’s not that hard to get traffic to your websites. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. You can even use software to automate most of what we’ve talked about.

So, start right now and:

• Step 1 is researching your keywords
• Set up some viral surveys
• Take advantage of the “help” sites
• Capitalize on video!

One of the easiest and fastest way to make money online is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing means that all you do is sendtraffic to someone else’s website, they do everything else! (make the product, design the sale page, handle the billing and support, etc.), and you keep 50% or more of the sales

These are a some of the benefits

1. You can get started really quickly because you don’t have to develop a product, craft a sales letter, design the website, develop marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
2. There’s zero time investment on your part because they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc.
3. Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So if you send visitors you will get paid.

There’s no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!

The downside is…

You work hard to send the traffic to the product owner’s website, but once you do that you will never see those visitors again. Less than 10% of the visitors your send will actually buy the product. That’s fine for the product owner because she can sell to them again and again, but you can’t.

How can you avoid this pitfall?

Simply put, you need to capture the name and email of your visitors *before* sending them to the product sales page. By getting their contact info, you can follow up increase your odds of making the sale by sending them back to the product owner’s website multiple times. And if you want to do it like a pro, you’ll give them some great content before sending them to the sales page.

Here’s what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

1. By building your own list, you’re creating a renewable resource that you can tap again and again for instant profits.
2. You’re generating good will by giving them high-quality content. This way, they are much more likely to make a purchase when you send them to the sales page.

If you want to create an affiliate marketing system like this, you’ll need the following:

1. A squeeze page, and even better a Video squeeze page.
2. At least a few pages of great content
3. At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series

Instead of sending visitors directly to the product sales page, you’ll send them to your lead capture page first. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. Once your visitors have been subscribed to your email series, they are sent to your content pages.

You content mini-site builds the good will, so that when you send them to the product sales page, they are in a buying mood. While they’re reading the content you’ve provided, your email system is already following up with them to send them back to the product website again and again.

Putting all of these pieces together will increase your sales by 500% or more, so it’s obviously worth the time and energy to do it. And after you get it all set up, it runs on total auto-pilot. You just refer people to your lead capture page, instead of the product sales page.

If you don’t have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like Affiliate Silver Bullet. These kinds of services will build the whole system for you and then just give you a video squeeze page (with video), pre-written emails, content pages, etc. The major benefit of using a service like this is that you can get started right away, and for a whole lot less than it would cost to do it all yourself. The downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn’t much of a concern.

Another way to accomplish this is to hire “outsourcers” through a website like Elance to build and put your system together for you. The important thing is that you start using affiliate tools like the ones described here right now! Otherwise, you’re wasting your time and money.

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If you want to go online with your iPod (and of cause you do that) you might very well need to know the MAC address of your iPod.

After doing a lot of searching, it seems like not even Apple have this rather vital information available, but I manage to figure it out anyway… and here is how you do it:

Just Tap Settings > General > About and then scroll down to Wi-Fi Address

The MAC address will have the following format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

If you find that the mac address for iPod Touch is not complete, it might be because your iPod has a different language than English.

To solve it, just temporarily change the language to English, and the MAC address show completely.

Tap Settings > International > Language > English

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I have just emptied my spam mail filter, and luckily I didn’t just click delete.

I found 4 emails between all (the other) garbage of incredible high value.

They all told me I got a lot – and I mean really a lot – of money waiting for me to collect.

They were totaling more than $58.8 mil American dollars and I believe that kind of money would mean a overwhelming difference to almost anybody. Even a fraction of the amount would really make my day.

All I had to do in oder to collect the money, was to pay a ridiculous small fee ($2500) to one of the mailers, and just return with all my personal information, including my bank account (and to one even my password (?) ). Then the – to me totally unknown – mailer would send me the money right away.

Of cause I did as asked immediately! Who wouldn’t?!?

There is only one thing I wonder about: Why is the emails I received all sent to ‘undisclosed-recipients:’ and why the sender needs my data, if they know me already?

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What I really wonder about, is how in the world, anyone fall into those kind of traps.

Some have to, or those scams wouldn’t be all over – or???