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Today I would like to cover keywords and keyword spamming. Keywords are used all over the internet to increase search results, but today I would like to concentrate on eBay.

As you know the use of keywords plays a large part in being a successful seller on eBay. By placing the relevant keywords in your titles and descriptions your items have a much better chance of being discovered in the search results.

More views = more sales.

Because keywords play such an important part of our listings and their success some people are keyword spamming to try and increase their sales. This is a major No No on eBay and, when caught out, will get your listings removed.

So what is keyword spamming?

Basically keyword spamming is when people enter keywords into their titles and descriptions that have nothing to do with their product but could influence the search results.

For example:

Some people selling non branded goods try adding a few brand names to their listings so as to get the item found in more search results, remember More views = more sales.

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

In the last video we dealt with uploading your website and testing that everything worked as it should do. If you suffered any problems or are stuck in any way please let me know and I’ll help you through it.

If on the other hand you have completed the uploading process then Congratulations you are now online and ready to go, pat yourself on the back: You’ve got your website online for the world to see….

…..Now that your website is online and ready to make sales we need to start generating traffic to it.

Now, I’m not an expert in traffic generation but I know a man that is. As I said in the last video, I have had to get special permission to create this video as I’m showing you the members only area of Total Web Traffic.

Before we get to the video I would like to thank Dave Nicholson for allowing me to create the video and for making a special offer available to my readers, more on that below the video.

The Importance Of Comments and Replies: + Plugins To Help With Each

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I was hoping to have the next video of the Newbies Guide created and online by now but last week I had so many things go wrong that I just didn’t have the time to create it.

I had optimized the sales page for Ease The Squeeze With Auctions and when I uploaded it the whole page turned Chinese. There had been an error in the loading code and no matter how many times I uploaded it I couldn’t correct it. So I deleted the page and started all over again, that was 3 days taken out of my schedule, but it’s done now.

Onto the blog post:

Regular visitors, that leave a comment, would have noticed that things have changed slightly.

I’ve added a few plugins to enhance my blog for the search engines. You see every time a comment is left the search engines view it as fresh content and the search engine spiders are all over it. The more comments, and replies, the better results you’ll get from the search engines.

Hi, thanks for stopping by, here’s something to get your teeth into…….and it’s FREE

Yes, it really is true. Because two of the internet’s most successful affiliate marketers, who make hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions every year and regularly feature in the top ten lists of super affiliates are spilling the beans on how they do it.

And – once their secrets are YOUR secrets – it’s no exaggeration to say this could empower you to step up to a whole new life where the old limits of money and time don’t apply.

Because one of the major techniques they are going to reveal is how to keep getting paid for sales you made ages ago. So can you see what that means?

You can position yourself to receive an increasing and reliable monthly income, whilst you get to work setting up ever increasing amounts of affiliate commissions – or simply relax and enjoy your new found wealth.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, because if you’ve tried affiliate marketing and couldn’t quite get it off the ground or are making a reasonable income, but want to take it to the next level then this program will definitely help you. What’s more … it won’t cost you a single red cent. Now or in the future.

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I had hoped to get this blog post written the day before Christmas eve but my mum’s health took a turn for the worse.
My regulars readers will know that my mum has been very unwell for the last few months. The hospital had discharged her to a residential home for an interim placement for a few weeks to see if her condition improved, which it did. Then on December 23rd she started having a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA, Mini-Stroke). The doctor was called and treated her for the condition, but the following day (Christmas eve) she had another TIA so the Paramedics were called in. My mum was readmitted to hospital, where she had a further 7 TIA’s over the Christmas period. She has now been discharged again and has returned to the residential home, for the time being, I hope.

On to the Blog post:

Did you achieve all that you set out to in 2009?
If you did then “Congratulations” are in order and you should give yourself a huge pat on the back.

If you didn’t achieve your goals, what stopped you from doing so?

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A personal update first:
As my regular readers will know I’ve been fairly quiet lately because my mum suffered a bleed to her brain and has been in hospital for the last 10 weeks. Her life is no longer in danger but her mental state is now very concerning. I’m spending as much time with her as possible to try and bring her back to current affairs.

As she is now in our local hospital I’ve got a couple of hours spare each day and am trying to catch up with everything, it’s slow going but the beauty of internet marketing is that if you do what you can when you can you will   progress.

Onto the blog post:
I’ve created a couple of brandable ebooks and have made them available to my subscribers, free of charge of course.

A brandable ebook is an ebook that allows people to brand it with their own details. Some allow websites to be inserted and some allow people to add their ClickBank ID’s. The reason for this is that the ebooks, (once branded) allow you to earn a commission forever more. The two that I’ve recently created allow you to enter your ClickBank ID and earn 50% commission from all sales, generated from your link, of my main product:
Ease The Squeeze With Auctions.

Google News Flash

 I was visiting Randy Smith’s blog the other day and he brought my attention to a new slap by Google regarding affiliate links. Apparently Google are taking a dislike to uncloaked affiliate links. Randy included a link to Andrew Hansen’s blog where you can get the full story.

 An uncloaked link would look like; www.someonesproduct.com/aff_id=123

Where as a cloaked affiliate link looks something like;
www.yoursite.com/recommends/someonesproduct

 If you haven’t cloaked your affiliate links then you don’t need to be alarmed, simply sign up to my newsletter, using the opt-in box below and you will be able to download some cloaking software free of charge.

 If you scroll down this page there’s a video to show you exactly how to use the software and how to upload the links to your website. If you need any help with it drop me an email and I’ll do what I can to help.

 Twitter News Flash

 If you use Twitter you may have noticed that the amount of people you’re following and the amount of followers you have dropped last week. I noticed that I lost about 200 followers and quiet a few that I was following.

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No matter what work we do online we need to be able to type. How we type is irrelevant, be it one finger or all fingers and thumbs it really doesn’t matter. What does matter is that we spell our content correctly, whether it’s an advert, article, blog post, ebook or email.

 I always write my content in word as it provides a spell check and saves me making silly errors, or so I thought…..

 I have recently finished my latest ebook and I asked a few people to read through it and let me know of any errors that they come across. Having used a spell checker I wasn’t to concerned about my spelling, but punctuation and grammar was something else.

One of my friends, Mandy Allen of  http://mandyallen.com, pointed something out that had been missed by everybody that had read my ebook, including me.

 Before I tell you of my stupid mistake I think it’s important to emphasize that when people read they tend to form a picture in their mind.

My mistake was that I had entered a wrong word and my spell check didn’t pick it up as it was spelt correctly.

A friend of mine is starting a new membership site and I thought you may like to have a look at it. http://www.lkldigitalmedia.com

It is set to launch within the next two weeks and he has guaranteed everybody who requests advance notification a massive discount if they decide to join.

He is also letting you have a whole bunch of brand new downloads for free as a thankyou for requesting info. He guarantees to upload brand new ebooks and software packages every week (at least 2 but probably more for the first few months).

The big news is that it’s going to be the cheapest membership site on the internet but still providing all the top products that the big boys offer.

Anyway, take a look and decide for yourself and get the free downloads while you can as the page and the special opening deal will be getting pulled next week.

Once again it’s at http://www.lkldigitalmedia.com

Get over there quickly to secure your place.

Until next time…..

Hi all, Today I thought I’d put a short video together to show you how to cloak your affiliate links the easy way. I do use a piece of software, which will be available to you if you sign up to my newsletter. Please watch the video and feel free to leave your comments.

If you would like the software used in the video then all you need to do is fill in your name and email address then click submit.

Until next time, take care