Will You Chase The Ambulance To The Bank?

What the… ?  I blinked.  That’s all I did.  Ker-blink.  And I find Christmas was a month ago, we are three quarters of the way through January, and Easter Eggs already adorn store windows!

To quote Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention), “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?”.  Sometimes, I’m buggered if I do.

Talking of time, it’s 5.37am and if I start philosophising now, you’ll never shut me up, so I’ll just re-engage my laser-targeted grey matter and get back to business… internet marketing business.

Today’s gloomy economic climate has many people anxious about future financial security for themselves and their families.  The depressing daily news about increasing job losses, unemployment and repossessed homes offers no crumbs of hope regarding the immediate future.

The inescapable bottom line is that things will get worse before they get better, and no-one can afford to hide his or her head in the sand, because we each need to consider alternative methods to generate income.

Are you taking advantage of the new business opportunities spawned by the economic downturn?

There is an increasing number of aspiring internet entrepreneurs scouring the search engines for the holy grail of online money making opportunities.

Have you positioned your online business to profit from this additional web traffic?

Do I sound ruthless?  Are you uncomfortable with the concept of chasing the ambulance to the bank?

In the present recession, there will be plenty of unscrupulous online marketers attempting to profit from the exploitation of people’s misfortunes.  If ethical marketers shy away from chasing the ambulance to the bank, poor quality knock-off information products will dominate the market.

In fact, by providing a quality product that’s fairly priced, the ethical internet marketer is helping to protect the unwary prospect from succumbing to the impossible promises of the online charlatan.

Will you chase the ambulance to the bank? What will you do to ensure your family is recession-proof?

Layne | Reward Rebel

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Entrecard Good Buddies

November has been a difficult month for me personally, and one consequence has been a lack of fresh content being posted to my blogs. Reward Rebel wishes to thank the generous-spirited members of the Entrecard Community for their loyal support during this period.

By introducing an Entrecard page, Reward Rebel plans to thank its Entrecard droppers and advertisers by spreading the link love as widely and generously as time and professionalism allow!

November’s Entrecard Hotties are:

• Technically Easy
• Computer Aid
• Earn Blogger
• Authority Directory
• My Gypsy Goods
• Altered Events
• Worldwide Travel Blog
• BMW F1 Blog
• Avoid Money Scams
• Turnip of Power is no longer a member of Entrecard

Ode to the Turnip
Oh, Turnip,
the caress of your cursor
will be sorely missed
by my widget.

I’ve created the new Entrecard page, although it’s in its infancy, and will take a little while to list all the sites to be included.

Layne | Reward Rebel

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How To Identify A DoFollow Blog

Reward Rebel’s last post Link Building With Comments On DoFollow Blogs raised some points that I’d like to address now.  After all, you need to know how to identify DoFollow blogs before you can begin to comment on them!

Recently, one of my commenters introduced me to the Firefox Addon, SEO Quake, and now I’m a massive fan of this phenomenal web tool!

The above screenshot shows SEO Quake’s settings options’ drop-down menu, from which you can clearly see the data you can access for at-a-glance viewing.  The simplest thing to do is select all the options that are ticked in the screenshot.

To make it super easy to identify a DoFollow blog, you just need to select ‘Line through nofollow and noindex’ then every link that displays on your browser that is NOT DoFollow will have a line through it.  Not very visually appealing, but you can always toggle it on and off as and when you are selecting sites for commenting or not.

SEO Quake also allows you to see the following data about any blog or website that you open in Firefox:

• Internal and external links
• nofollow or DoFollow
• Google Page Rank
• Alexa Traffic Rank
• Keyword density
• Yahoo links and rank
• Publisher ID of Adsense et al
• Age of website
• IP address

Even more valuable is that the keyword density tool allows you to load Google keyword data for Adwords Pay Per Click advertising.

This is one of the most valuable free web tools I’ve encountered and it has to be a ‘must have’ for all webmasters or bloggers. So, go and download SEO Quake and be amongst those who benefit from the vital data by utilising the docked toolbar and/or what’s called SEObar and floats at the head of each web page. I use the toolbar because I find the floating SEObar obstructs the presentation of the website being viewed.

SEO Quake will definitely help your Internet Marketing ambitions!

Layne | Reward Rebel

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