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Let’s face it, the search engines are looking for creativity in a website.  That means they don’t want the same old “hum drum” that everyone else has.  They are looking for unique, content driven sites.

But what does that really mean? 

It means that you have to offer unique information, keep it up to date and make it interesting.  Copying articles to your site that everyone else has is ok but to get a leg up on your competition, your articles must be unique to your site; they should really be your own. Topics can be the same, but the content need to be unique.

Keep your site interesting.  Interject your personality.  Talk to your readers, be humorous, let them know you are a real person that can relate to them.  Give them a reason to come back to your site.

Keeping all those things in mind, here are 10 of my favorite content rich ideas that have all worked extremely well for my sites:      

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If you've got a blog, perfect, it's a great way to get started online.  A blog can be your main website or it can be a nice complement to a website that you already have, either way, blogging technology has made it super easy to get a blog set up and the best part is blogging software is free.

But blogs, just as with any website, need lots of traffic.  Yes, blogs get a lot of search engines recognition because they are structured so well, but you're still going to have to do your part to get as much traffic as you can to your blog so promotion is still important.

Here are a few steps for you to follow so that you can quickly begin to increase traffic to your blog …   More… »

I got an email today from Willie Crawford that caught my eye because it was about a response Willie gave to a customer who had requested a refund for an informational product he had purchased from Willie. 

I don't know exactly what the product was, but it appears that it was an informational product of some kind for a plan on how to make money.

Here's exactly what the customer wrote to Willie:     More… »

Need some help with creating your own headlines?

I stumble with how to write headliens all the time, so it's nice to have a guide to help me craft headlines that grab attention.

Alice Seba of Internet Marketing Sweetie has come to the rescue again. She has created a no non-sense; get to the point headline tips guide that will help you craft snappy headlines quickly. 

It is designed to cover the important basics of headline writing. It also includes 11 practical headline starters to make crafting headlines easy.

I actually used a few of the “headline starters” to create a few of my Google Adwords ads and they worked like a charm, so there are several practical uses you can apply them to.

The headline tips guide is free, no email sign-up required, just use it and enjoy.

One of the things most people don't understand when starting an online business is that they don't truly know how to effectively start a business.  They consistently fall prey to unscrupulous marketers, they often lack focus and many lose large sums of money simply because they don't know how to market online.

An internet business, just as with any business, requires a realistic approach, trusted training, networking and understanding what actually works and what might lead to failure.

That's the topic of my guest article written by a colleague of mine, Megan Vaillancourt of Myinternetbusiness.com. 

Megan has created a successful internet mentoring site built on a few solid strategies that everyone should take a long hard look at.  They are what have brought Megan and her business from failure to success.   More… »

I've just installed the latest and greatest version 3 of BANS (Build a Niche Store).  If you're not familiar with BANS, I did a Bans Review earlier in the year.  Since then the BANS folks have made substantial updates to the product.

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I happened to be making some updates to my Homenotion.com site the other day and while adjusting a few things I noticed I had made an error for which I had a number of pages with duplicate content.  Yikes!  I jumped on that and made sure I fixed those problems immediately. 

But then I thought about what Google says.  Their guidelines state that my site could have potentially been removed from the Google index or my ranking could have suffered.  In which case neither happened.  My site still ranks on the first page of the natural results for all my best keywords.

So what does all this 'duplicate content' thing really mean?      More… »