My Adsense business is important to me, but there are other causes that I cherish as well  The good news is that I have found a way to help my most important charitable organisations while I spend money from day to day.  The new alliance of more than 700 major world charitable organisations at www.agoodcause.co.ukallows us all to do this. Just by downloading a software package you can get all your online shopping purchases calculated and the online shops will donate a proportion to be shared among the charities.

aGoodCause.com is a global partnership between 700 of the worlds most important NGOs - charities like Save the Children, Red Cross, Amnesty International, OXFAM and many others. Together we want to make the world better, when it comes to animal welfare, human rights, fighting poverty and climate changes etc. And we do this by enabling online shoppers all over the world to support their favourite charity, when they shop online. In more than 5000 online stores in fact! What makes us unique, too, is that users just have to download a small piece of software called AidMaker.
Afterwards, everything works automatically, and your computer is turned into a charitable tool. After having downloaded AidMaker, you can support your favourite charity for free while you are shopping. You pay the normal store price for your product but the retailer donates part of the purchase to the cause you have decided to support. 75 percent of the total purchase price will then go to charity.
This is a brand new way of giving power to the people, because you get to decide where the money should go which enables you to turn power shopping into shopping power!
One of the biggest reasons for the success of aGoodCause is that once you have installed the AidMaker software, you do not have to remember to enable the program or re-choose your favorite cause every time you shop online. The software does it for you. You just go online and AidMaker does the rest – but you are always in charge.
aGoodCause has just launched globally- in 8 countries. To become an AidMaker and support charity, please click on the link for your specific country and download the software onto your computer:

aGoodCause.com is a global partnership between 700 of the worlds most important NGOs - charities like Save the Children, Red Cross, Amnesty International, OXFAM and many others. Together we want to make the world better, when it comes to animal welfare, human rights, fighting poverty and climate changes etc. And we do this by enabling online shoppers all over the world to support their favourite charity, when they shop online. In more than 5000 online stores in fact! What makes us unique, too, is that users just have to download a small piece of software called AidMaker.
Afterwards, everything works automatically, and your computer is turned into a charitable tool. After having downloaded AidMaker, you can support your favourite charity for free while you are shopping. You pay the normal store price for your product but the retailer donates part of the purchase to the cause you have decided to support. 75 percent of the total purchase price will then go to charity.
This is a brand new way of giving power to the people, because you get to decide where the money should go which enables you to turn power shopping into shopping power!
One of the biggest reasons for the success of aGoodCause is that once you have installed the AidMaker software, you do not have to remember to enable the program or re-choose your favorite cause every time you shop online. The software does it for you. You just go online and AidMaker does the rest – but you are always in charge.
aGoodCause has just launched globally- in 8 countries. To become an AidMaker and support charity, please click on the link for your specific country and download the software onto your computer:

A Quick Guide To Help You Social Bookmark Your Blog Posts

Those that are currently using social bookmarking certainly understand the great benefits that it can bring if done correctly. Social bookmarking though is quite an enigma to beginners. Many new bloggers have heard the term social bookmarking but are not quite sure what it is or what it involves.

Let me first start by explaining what social bookmarking is and why it is important to social bookmark all of your blog posts. Quite simply stated, social bookmarking will bring your blog more traffic. As internet marketers, that it exactly what we are all after. Social bookmark sites allow us to share our favorite sites with others who might be interested as well as increasing our back links at the same time.

Every time you bookmark a post, that link has the potential to bring a good amount of traffic to your blog. As you begin to regularly submit your link to authority social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Twitter, and Stumbleupon, your blog will benefit greatly by moving up rank rapidly in the search engines for your selected keywords.

Now just a quick tutorial on how to easily social bookmark your blog posts.

First, what you need to do is find a list of some social bookmark sites. There are plenty around, just do a Google search or go to SocialMarker.com. Read more »

Improve Your Adsense Earnings In 5 Steps

If you want to monetize your website(s), the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are a lot of webmasters struggling hard to earn any kind of a decent income through their sites these days. But then some of the “geniuses” ones are enjoying hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from you is that they are essentially “thinking outside the square.” Read more »

Got to think of a good title, but damned if I can think of one.
Copyright © 2008 Christine Jones

Don’t think of one, especially before writing the book. I let the story reveal it to me. Somewhere a character will say something or the atmosphere created will reveal it. I see titles as the last thing on the to do list when writing. Many book titles are changed with film adaptations. Agents and publishers have even been known to ask for a title change before publication.

What catches a reader’s eye when in a bookstore or looking for books on the Internet, title or cover? My research showed cover, then the blurb on the back. Some readers become a fan of an author, so if you love, say Steven King’s works, would you really care if the next book he brought out was titled, ‘Sam on heat’? If you loved the book, you won’t think twice about the title. Much emphasis is placed on titles for marketing purposes. I take marketing out of the equation. Personally, I let the book give me the title, which I won’t change because I am the creator, it’s my baby. Would you let others rename your child because they didn’t like the name you called them? So why let others change the title you come up with.

I have heard it said that your title should give inkling into what your book is about. I somewhat disagree. If you have not heard of ‘Mariard Volume 1′, you try working out what the book is about from the title and what genre it is in. ‘Signature for sunshine’, ‘Aus Com’, ‘Who would believe me’. Think about them, what do these titles tell you about the book or genre. As I wrote them, I will tell you and see if you guessed right. ‘Mariard Volume 1′ is fantasy, sci/fi. Mariard is the name of a god like player, yet further into the volumes, one will learn it means something entirely different. ‘Signature for sunshine’ A romantic comedy about an illiterate woman. Sunshine is a cocky nickname another character uses when addressing her. ‘Aus Com’, science fiction and the name of a building. “Who would believe me’, spiritual fiction. A modern day woman is taken on a journey with Jesus; she comes back to tell her story. Did you guess right? I have tested this myself, by asking another to read off titles from online bookshops. Without seeking the cover, I have many times had no idea from the title what the book is about. If I didn’t know better, ‘Star Wars’ could very well be about rivalry in Hollywood.

Let your creation divulge your title, whether one word or several. The more you think about it, the more you will get flustered. You can end up with something you don’t like, but go with it out of desperation to regret it later. Don’t ask others either, they are not the creator, you are. You own it; you name it.

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Australian author Christine Jones, multi genre from science fiction to humour.
http://www.cjbooks.net

Google - I Thought I Knew You?

You don’t REALLY know someone until you get back to their apartment, pop the cork on a bottle of wine, dim the lights, stare into their eyes and listen to them gush about every detail of their lives…and then you still don’t them.

It’s only after a few years of soul-stretching challenges do you really become intimately acquainted — married or not.

Well, as silly as the metaphor seems, that’s how I felt about Google Search recently. I thought I knew her as that clean but clever, elegant but athletic, beautiful eyed search muse behind a set of fancy bifocals. Turns out, I was only partially correct.

The vision of Google Search I had was a bit weird, I’ll admit… as I’ve come to find out, it was also a bit too dainty.

Google Search is much more powerful and complicated that I ever imagined! A social media marketer with the right “touch” can find much, much more than I ever knew.

The thing about Google Search is, she does a great job of hiding her search weapons and sleuthisms. Now, this is not a bad thing, not at all… there is something that is devastatingly attractive about a beautiful thing that is deep with intrigue and prowess.

So, now, I would like to introduce you to the REAL Google Search, but be careful… she is quick and sometimes a bit messy..I hope that’s OK. These tips will help you bend the web to your will using things only a few soothsayers can find using the “new” Google Search…

Easily Find Your Competitions Back-Links
TYPE: link:www.the-name-of-the-competitors-website.com –This returns a list of pages that link to your competition.

Don’t Know Your Competition?
TYPE: related:your-website.com
–This returns a list of sites Google thinks are related to you.

Practical Keyword Research
TYPE: allinanchor:your-keyword
–This returns a list of all pages with “your-keyword” as anchor text

Don’t Know What “anchor text” Means
TYPE: define:anchor text
–This gives you some definitions Google has plucked from the web.

More Practical Keyword Research
TYPE: allintitle or allinurl or allintext:your-keyword –Like the allinanchor example above, this returns a list of pages with your keyword on the title, url or text, respectively.

Do a Quick Market Survey
TYPE: insubject: your-keywords
–This will return a list of Google Groups with your keyword in the subject line. Listen in to the conversation.

Get Some .edu Back-Links (this is a powerful SUPER-TIP)
TYPE: site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”you must be logged in” -”comment posting closed” -”comment closed” “your-keyword”
–This returns a list of relevant .edu sites where you can post comments and garner a powerful back-link.

There you have it..I hope you are as enamored with the “new”, sexier Google as I am. Enjoy!

PS: Thanks to the crew at the Authority Site Center for introducing me to the “new” Google Search!

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Peter Lenkefi publishes social media marketing and blog promotion tips at http://Web2Center.com . He is also the co-founder of the Authority Site Center, a membership site dedicated to serious business bloggers.

Essential Niche Marketing Tips You Can Use

As an internet marketer, you need several things to happen for you to be successful. If you minimize your risk, you stand a better chance of succeeding. Marketing to a niche instead of the mass market is one way to achieve this. Let’s look at a few niche marketing tips that will help you maximize your profit.

Two niche marketing tips in particular will help you beyond measure. Choosing very specific keyword phrases and going deep into your niche will improve your results. Each of these tactics can provide better results than you would receive otherwise.

First of all let’s look at the benefits of specific keyword phrases. When someone types in a longer phrase, they are looking for very specific information. General phrases are much more hotly contested on the internet. The more specific you get, the less competition you will have for traffic. While there may be less visitors overall, you may get more visitors than if you went after a broad term. Read more »

Setting A Budget Contributes To The Success Of Internet Marketing Companies

The success of Internet marketing companies depends partly on setting a budget. This is true whether the company is a big established organization, or a one person work from home business.

Setting a budget is of special concern for people with limited means who want to work at home on the Internet but have some doubts about how much much capital investment they require to get started, and how much will be needed each month to maintain their business.

Firstly, you will need to consider the costs of purchasing a computer and access to the Internet. If you do not have Internet access you can still do business on the Internet via a library portal or an Internet cafe, but of course you will need to calculate the costs of getting to and from those places and using their facilities. Read more »

Treasure Trove of Website Tips

Recently people have been asking for tips and “Do’s and Don’ts” for website design and content.

Whether you are building a new site or redesigning a current site, here is a collection of tips that you’d be wise to follow:

- Create your site with a clear hierarchy and interconnection of pages.

- Your most important pages should never be more than one click away from your homepage. Read more »

If you are at all comfortable with using a computer, you are bound to have searched for the best price for things you want to buy, for example when you want to buy power drills which you can see and compare before you order. Once you have started to use these searches you will never shop the old way again. But did you realise that most of the shop bots - sites that offer a price metasearch - only feature the merchants who have paid to be promoted on the site? The retailer offering the lowest prices may not appear, and you could be missing out on extra savings.

This is a subject dear to my heart as we have been looking for all the home improvement shopping bits and pieces that  we need to remodel our kitchen.  If you are not careful, the costs can really mount up so you need to shop around for every item that you are going to buy.  My drill was bought for me as a present but I have noew seen that a more powerful version was available to buy online for twenty per cent less than the price of mine.  For the difference they could have bought me a nice bunch of flowers as well.  Before you click on the buy button, make sure you have checked the prices at shopwiki - you will kick yourself if you miss out …

5 Ways to Keep Your Customers Coming Back for More

At times it seems as though quality customer service is a thing of the past. Some companies just don’t appear to care about keeping their clientele happy. If only they knew how damaging this is to their business. Consider the following statistics from the White House Office of Consumer Affairs: Read more »

Making Web Traffic Come to You

If you want online business to be successful you need to have traffic to your website. Your can spend hundreds on website design and have the best products on the market, but the only way to sell your products and services is to have consistent and targeted traffic. It’s not always easy to get the kind of website traffic that you’re looking for. In order to get the correct type of website traffic you will need to expend your time, energy, and possibly money. Read more »

You Don’t Need to be Perfect, But Your Writing Does

How to Proofread, Edit and Fact-Check Your Own Work

Having written since I was a kid, I’ve met many authors, writers and journalists along the way. While we don’t all fit the stereotype of the robed, sleepless, alcoholic writer hunched over a typewriter in the attic, we do have much in common. In addition to being the winners of spelling bees and hoarders of dictionaries and other books, we love words. We love to read them, hear them, speak them and write them. We love them to a fault.

We must have the right words in the right place at the right time. And, perhaps more importantly, they must be written flawlessly. We won’t accept typos, spelling errors or grammatical snafus, because mistakes interrupt the flow and the meaning of our words. As a result, we expect perfection and we don’t tolerate errors from ourselves or others. This philosophy makes it difficult to be a writer at times, but we can’t help ourselves. We are obsessed with perfection. Read more »