Social bookmarking and social networking – Aren’t they the same?

This is what most people tell me – Especially people who are new to social media. Other than the fact that both of them start with the word “social”, they are two completely different things.

What I am going to talk about in this post is to give you a better understanding of what both of them are about (in layman terms) so that it is easier for you to understand (especially if you are a new to social media).

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Email marketing is one of the most effective online marketing strategies and it is also one of the most commonly discussed marketing strategies.

Although you may need to put in some effort to create an attractive “bait” (to offer to your visitors as an incentive for parting their first name and email address), put up that highly convertible landing page, and also putting in the time and effort to build up a rapport with your subscribers – The benefits that you will be able to get once you have built up a highly responsive list is numerous.

In this article, I am going to share with you 3 biggest advantages to email marketing.

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One of the ways you can do to make your blog lively is to be interactive.

What I mean by this is that you should do everything possible to encourage your visitors to leave comments in your blog (and not just reading your posts and then leave).

There are many different ways you can use to encourage blog comments, and in this post, I am going to share with you 4 of the most popular methods you can use to encourage interactivity on your blog.

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I see a need for me to write this article today to talk about the differences in terms of how commissions are being paid to associates (more commonly known as affiliates) of both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

The reason why this article was written was because, from my observations, it seems to me that many affiliates have the impression that the commission levels that is being paid out by both of these networks are the same.

However, in actual fact, they are not, and what I am going to do in this article is to point out to you the differences in commissions between the both Amazon.com as well as Amazon.co.uk.

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If you would like your website to be ranked well in the search engine for the various key phrases that you would like to target (and receive massive volumes of targeted traffic for free), you need to optimize your site for the search engines – Doing what is known by Search Engine Optimization (SEO for short).

There are 2 broad categories as far as Search Engine Optimizing a site is concerned – And they are Onsite, as well as Offsite SEO.

In this article, I am going to share with you the differences between these 2, as well as what you need to do for each of them.

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One of the best ways for you to be able to keep in touch with your website visitors is to capture their contact details (in particular, their first name and email address) when they first visit your website. Thereafter, you can follow-up with them through emails.

However, your visitors will be reluctant to give you their contact information (for fear that their inbox will get spammed) unless you give them a very strong reason why they should – And one way to do so is to offer something free (such as a free report) in exchange for this information.

Now that you have gotten their information, the next thing you need to do is to follow up with them via emails (sent using your autoresponder). So, the question that is being faced by many is “What should I write about in my initial autoresponder series?”

In this post, I am going to share with you how you can write a 12-part initial email series (that will be sent to your subscribers when they first opt-in).

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Two things that you will definitely need if you want to be recognized as “the expert” in the niche that you are in over time are – Domain name and web hosting.

A domain name is one where people enter into their web browsers to visit your website (it can either be .com, .net, .biz, .org, etc.) and web hosting is one where you store your website’s files in (so that whenever your visitors enter your website’s domain name, your entire website can be displayed on their computer).

Choosing the right domain name can, at times, be a very difficult task – Especially when most of the time the domain names you wish to purchase are already taken.

What I am going to share with you in this post are 4 tips that you can consider to help you brainstorm suitable domain names for your website.

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Everyone has been talking about making use of Twitter to reach out to more targeted audiences, and getting more customers using this extremely easy to use social networking platform, you need to use it the correct way in order to reap maximum benefits from it.

As with all marketing mediums, there are certain things you need to look out for (and make sure you do not make the same mistakes) to make sure that you get maximum results from your marketing efforts (and not seeing hard work going down the drain).

In this post, you will discover 3 Twitter don’ts that you must avoid at all costs if you want to have an effective marketing campaign using Twitter.

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One of the first questions, especially if you are new to blogging, would be “Should I get a free blog or should I get a paid blog?”

First and foremost, what is a free blog, and what is a paid blog?

A free blog, as the name suggests, is a blog that you can set up for free – Website such as Blogger allow you to setup a blog for free (all you need is to fill up a simple form which takes less than 5 minutes to complete, and after which you can start blogging away).

However, for a paid blog, in order to set one up, you need to get 2 things – Domain name (this is your .com, .net, .me, etc.) and hosting (to contain the files related to your blog). After which, you will install your blog platform (most people use Wordpress) from under your hosting server (I shall not go into the complexities of how to set up a paid blog here in this post).

If you are new to blogging, which one should you opt for? In this post, I am going to show you the pros and cons of each (free blog vs paid blog) so as to help you decide which one is better for you.

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Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing (in particular Google Adwords) is one of the best traffic generation strategies that you can use to drive highly targeted traffic to your websites fast.

I know that many people have tried advertising in Google Adwords and lost a lot of money in it (myself included in the past, before I discovered the exact techniques on how to generate profitable campaigns). The reason is because you did not do it correctly – Its as simple as that.

While many marketers have failed in the Google Adwords game, there are many other who have succeeded in it, and generated lots of money from their campaigns. The reason is because they have used the right strategies and followed the right techniques when they create (and thereafter tweak) their campaigns.

What I am going to do in this post is to share with you 4 Google Adwords tips you need to know if you want to create successful campaigns.

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