Jammed: Full into Capacity

As the Christmas days are coming, people are flocking to stores, choosing for perfect gifts for their loved ones. Of course, searching for the best and cheap deals are always part of Christmas shopping. That’s the reason why bazaars always click on Christmas seasons. Online bargains and shopping are also hot during these days. They say that online shopping is way convenient and cheaper than “offline” shopping. This should be expected because people tend to get more practical nowadays.

One of the best deals that could be given to your loved one is the HP G50 104NR Laptop with a Canon 3-in-1 printer at Bestbuy.com.

The deal consists of the following:

- Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core mobile processor T3200, 2GB DDR2 memory, 120GB hard drive and high-speed wireless networking (802.11b/g); stylish HP Imprint finish
- Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with LightScribe, 15.4″ BrightView widescreen, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M, 5-in-1 media reader and Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1
- Canon PIXMA all-in-one photo printer, copier and scanner with built-in card slots and PictBridge support for PC-free printing; support for 3 frame.
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I have not written any personal entry for this blog for long time now as I have been busy with my internship and maintaining my other personal blog on my spare time.

Jammed: Full into Capacity has been online for over three years now, have gone through changes similar to what happens to a usual blog – topic and layout changes, no-post-for-weeks stages, traffic drops (as reflected on my dropping Alexa rank) and the worst thing is disappearing from the top spots of Google SERPs.  I am still figuring out until now which of the Google’s guidelines have I violated.

Since the drop in traffic, my Adsense earnings have dropped to over 50%.  This was expected because most of my traffic comes from Google searches, with about 40% or more from Yahoo! searches.

During these past days, these visits from Yahoo! searches are still giving me Adsense income.  So after over a month of blog vacation (the previous posts have been powered by Syndicate Kahuna, an auto-syndicator), I have decided to increase pageviews through Yahoo! searches.  To do it, I have to regularly post interesting topics or potentially searched topics that could drive traffic to this blog.

So I am on a mission now:

- increase my visitors coming from Yahoo!

- target potential visitors from other search engines like MSN, AskJeeves, and Altavista.

- increase my Alexa rank.

- keep my loyal visitors and subscribers.

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Google is starting out to roll the new feature that lets Gmail users choose the look and layout of there Gmail dashboard.  Personally, I think the new feature is very timely because the default theme of Gmail looks plain and boring to me.

Users can choose from different layouts, whatever suits their personality, taste and mood.  The Gmail themes come in two sets: the plain ones and the artistic ones with creative backgrounds, images, and icons.

Ashish Mohta at TechnoSpot is lucky enough to experience this new feature first ahead of others and is already seeing the new themes.

To view if you already have this new feature, you can access Settings, then next to the Labs tab is the Themes tab which can let you choose the different themes.  With this new feature, I am sure lots of customized themes will be coming out later.

Choose from different types of Gmail themes.

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How to start making money in affiliate marketing

Make fast money with affiliate marketing.

This might be the advertisement you see over and over again about affiliate marketing. Being only human enough, you get lured into these promises and anticipate wide-eyed for the money to come in instantly.

This is the most common mistake that people make once they get into affiliate marketing. Many newbies have fallen victim by those who are promoting the business successfully enough.

But then, they get to realize later on that they are not really making the kind of money being promised. And they thought that affiliate marketing was indeed a simple business.

Many of you may have heard so many wonderful things about affiliate programs. You may have also heard of testimonials of people who are earning more money by endorsing the products or services of other people.

And why not? The commissions you will be getting is more than great. All you have to do is get the word out to the right people and soon they will be making their way to your affiliate sites.

It all seems very easy. Not really.

Getting into many and various affiliate programs.

Many newbies think that affiliate marketing is a numbers game. So to be successful, they would need big numbers. These marketers would try and get into every affiliate marketing program in the hope that the more program, the more the profits.

Getting into more affiliate marketing program do not work. Instead of concentrating on one and giving it your best shot, you are torn between which ones to put into first place and which ones should be last.

In the end, your affiliate marketing will not work the way you expect it to.

One thing that beginner affiliate marketers forget is to focus on one product or service first before they could go on getting more than they could handle.

As with other types of business, affiliate marketing is a continuous learning process that have to be researched on and learned to be able to have an initial idea what it is you are marketing about.

First, you have to know more about the product or service being offered. It would be best if you can buy or use that same product so you can really tell something about it to your potential customers.

Second is to know how best to market them. Is your strategy working or is does it seem to end with you getting nothing and trying all over again?

You may begin to wonder how the super affiliates make seem too easy. Like you, they did not start out successfully. They have also undergone the same things but eventually have learned the strategies that would make their affiliate marketing best.

If you have just ventured into the affiliate marketing business, it is best to try and focus on a program at a time. By doing this, you will get to learn a lot about the business and how to run it smoothly.

You will also have the opportunity to learn about sales writing techniques so get the attention of more people. Presenting your ad is one of the most important things that make affiliate marketing work.

Try to input some enthusiasm into your business. Your readers will sense that feeling in you and they will they be able to catch the enthusiasm you are radiating. For example, when you are reading a book, the emotions being conveyed are getting through you. You get to feel what is being written.

This is the same way with affiliate marketing. If you are confident enough about what you are offering, you will feel so strongly about it that you can encourage other people to feel the same way.

Try to find an affiliate marketing program that you believe in and follow it through. It will not only give you the proper credibility but it will also give you the enjoyment of promoting something that you like.

For the newbies out there, get into one affiliate and see how well you can make it work.

For those who want to make extra bucks, please make sure to read free adsense template tips.

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Anyone can become a successful affiliate marketer when armed with the right knowledge. The problem is finding an affiliate marketing course with solid techniques and a proven plan that is aligned with your personal goals and dreams. What works for someone else may not be particularly right for you – there is no universal success path that can be blindly copied from top online shopping sites.

Learning about affiliate marketing is really no different than going to school for the first time. The biggest difference that I’ve seen is that so many people fail simply because they don’t get the proper education. There may be several different reasons for that, but it all comes down to not having someone there to ask questions or point you in the right direction of what to do until you’re able to stand on your own two feet. One of the main reasons that people fail at affiliate marketing is because they simply don’t know who to trust. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scams and con artists on the Internet that will rip you off in a heartbeat. Learning about internet marketing isn’t as easy as going to your local community college and taking a few classes. You have to meet people that are really actually making money the “right” way and get to know them. You can do this by attending Internet marketing seminars.

These are not cheap by any means and you may have to go to a few of them before you actually begin to build any relationships and buying any affiliate store software.

Why is the affiliate marketing method so effective for online businesses? Well, simply because users are attracted to the same things! Net surfers do not see the harm of clicking on to links found in their legitimate and favorite sites (and besides, they are not paying yet). Because of that established trust on a main website, people unconsciously assume the safety when it comes to visiting another page that is endorsed and related to its favorite one. This is the explanation why more exposure is generated when a related web address is linked to another, and why communities are easily formed online. This also is the reason why the most popular sites which gain a lot of attention have a lot of ads popping out (AdSense packages including) and why a lot of investors are willing to shell out cash.

Affiliate marketing success will only go to the people who are willing to work smarter and harder. The most important point here why the 1% is so successful is because they take massive action. Although the cold hard truth is that 99% of the affiliates will fail, this will not be true for you if you are willing to take massive action and you are persistent enough to reach your affiliate marketing success.

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Google Hijack Or How to Choose Your Niche Market

There’s a lot of advice floating around about how to choose a niche to market to. Typically this advice polarises into two camps; the “choose something you know about” camp, and the “choose something – anything – and get going…. it doesn’t matter what, just do it” camp.

Both these options are valid, and in order to make the decision there are other factors to take into account. Basically it’s a quality versus quantity issue, and your choice will likely be based on two things; the practicalities involved, i.e. whether you have the knowledge and skills required for the former, and your personality.

If your desire is to build a business around your chosen niche, developing your own product or building up a membership site for example, the former is probably the best way to go. You’ll benefit from the in depth knowledge you have of the subject, and if it’s a hobby or passion of yours you will probably enjoy the time spent on it, or at the very least will be far less likely to tire of it, and whether it’s hobby or profession you’ll have plenty of knowledge to impart and resources to call on.

This, though, is where personality kicks in. Can you impart that knowledge to your patrons? Can you write well? Sales copy, articles, blog posts, newsletters, books etc. all have to be written by someone, and if that’s not you it will have to be outsourced. Whilst that is an option that can work very well, it tends to be better suited to quantity than quality….

If, on the other hand, your goal is to build a business based on having lots of sites, built quickly to what is commonly called the “rinse and repeat” model, then the latter approach is probably more appropriate. You are unlikely to have sufficient different hobbies or professions to build the number of sites required, and although you may be able to launch two or three on that basis you will be extremely unlikely to reach the double and even treble figures that marketers with this business model typically build.

Another danger is that it is all too easy to get “involved” in sites about subjects that you are passionate about, or which you have a great deal of knowledge of. No “off the shelf” articles for you – other peoples material will likely not be up to the standard you will set, and you will find yourself writing or re-writing everything before publishing. Again this makes it hard to churn out the volume required by the “rinse and repeat” model.

In summary – play to your strengths and do what appeals to you. If you have the hobby or profession on which you can base a site, especially if it’s coupled with a talent for communication, (not necessarily writing – audio and video are big now) then go for that. If not, stick a pin in a list, churn it out, and move on!

? John Edgley

http://ebizking.com

2008

For more than thirty years John Edgley has worked in IT, mostly in freelance contract work for small to medium sized businesses. He has considerable experience in consultancy, system design and implementation, and his communication skills have been honed throughout many training sessions – both giving and receiving!. He has also authored articles and technical manuals, and the odd short story…

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