Review of Dragon Naturally Speaking 10
Highly Recommended- A few years ago I bought some voice recognition software and to be perfectly frank it was absolutely rubbish. I ended up selling it on eBay if memory serves correctly! Just recently however I’ve had quite a lot of writing projects on the go so decided to try some of the more up-to-date software. I did a bit of research and found that Read more
No Direct & Deep Linking To Amazon From Adwords Reminder
Just a brief post before bed time!
This is just a reminder that from today 1/5/09 Amazon will not be paying out any commission on sales generated from Adwords campaigns that use direct linking to the Amazon site. Any Adwords campaigns that first go to your own landing pages and then link to Amazon are fine.
It should be noted that at this time this is only for Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. As far as I can tell Amazon.co.uk and the other Amazon sites are spared! But that could change.
So don’t forget to pause those Adwords if they link direct or it will be money down the drain! Not sure how they will know but I’m sure they will have figured someway to monitor it all.
I have copied the email below that I originally received for my Amazon.com affiliate.
Dear Amazon Associate:
We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you’re not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs.
As of May 1, 2009, Associates will not be paid referral fees for paid search traffic. Also, in connection with this change, as of May 1, 2009, Amazon will no longer make data feeds available to Associates for the purpose of sending users to the Amazon websites in the US or Canada via paid search.
This change applies only to the Associates programs in North America. If you are conducting paid search activities in connection with one of Amazon’s Associates Programs outside of the US and Canada, please refer to the applicable country’s Associates Program Operating Agreement for relevant terms and conditions.
We appreciate your continued support and participation in this advertising Program. If you have questions or concerns, please write to us by using the Contact Us form available on Associates Central.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Associates Program
Hootsuite Free Twitter Tool Review
Recommended Now here is a product that gets the green light from me and it’s free too! Hootsuite covers a lot of the bases that the basic Twitter account doesn’t accommodate. There are many benefits that will save you no end of time and tell you what Tweets are working! Read more
Nicheprofit Blueprint Review an Honest One!
One thing I hate when you check out reviews for products is the blatant way that many are not balanced views. It isn’t often that you find a negative review is it? After all who would take the time to write at length about a product if they are not in someway going to make money from it? Me I would and without an affiliate link in sight! Read more
Should a Domain Name Contain Your Keywords Part 2
Well it took me longer than I thought to get my second part up on this so apologies! The kids are on hols! Need I say more.
I recently talked about how my blog articles or some of them were ranking in high positions on Google with a deadbeat domain name like www.lynneivatt.com. The reason for my surprise was that it is generally accepted that your keywords should be in the domain name. I certainly don’t disagree with that but all is not lost if your domain isn’t exactly keyword rich.
My findings were this, quite simply backlinks did the trick! But not just any backlinks, anchor text links. No great revelation but it did only take TWO!
Let me demonstrate, again another screen shot from Market Samurai (I wish they would get the affiliate program up for this tool!)
For the term ‘microsoft oci tool’ in broad match I am at number 4. Market Samurai lets you analyze your backlinks . The group of three arrows starting from the left depict Doman Age (DA) mine is a new site yet I rank 1 above a 12 year old site! Next arrow is Page Rank (PR) I have none and PR 3’s are behind me. Then Backlinks To A Page (BLP) I have two with a four just behind!
Now it is those two that I believe have made the difference in getting my article high up amongst some pretty heavy sites. The key thing is the two links are ‘anchor text’ backlinks so they linked to me using ‘microsoft oci tool’ as the clickable link, the other site below mine with 4 links to the page is not linked to by anchor text. So there I believe is the answer.
In summary I have a site that is newish has no keywords in the domain, has no PR, only 66 domain name backlinks (look at the thousands the others have!) yet I can get an index position of 4 just two behind the Warrior Forum and three behind Microsoft itself. The only difference is anchor text!
My lesson from this and maybe something for you to try is not about getting hundreds of links and burning yourself out doing it but concentrating on getting a small handful of anchor text links from relevant sites. Certainly build all the links you can but maybe just see if those first few can be from some blogs or forums as do follow anchor text links.
It didn’t matter about my domain having the keywords as the screen shot shows the only difference was the 2 little anchor text links! Thanks to someone for linking to me in that way, quite an eye opener as to how potent they can be!
If anybody has any thoughts on this I would love to hear them good luck linking.
Sorry it wasn’t that short in the end.
Should a Domain Name Contain Your Keywords
I’m playing devils advocate today. I haven’t had a lot of time to dedicate to my blog lately having had numerous other projects taking up my time. So I was concerned that all of the work I did with it would have seen slippage on Google for some of the posts. Not so! On checking out a few… Read more
Convert a file for FREE Multiple Format Conversion Tool
Heres a great FREE tool that I use to convert files from one format to another. I mainly use it for converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF file format which it does brilliantly. Take a look at the simple dashboard that’s it you don’t have to register even.
There are many different conversions that you can do, for instance jpg, gif or png to name just one or two.
I will add this resource to a new category that I will be adding all the great free tools I use and come across that I think will be of use to you. IMHO where there is a product to buy there is also an equally good FREE option somewhere lurking on the Internet.
Solving A Windows Vista & AVG Conflict!
I’ve been having a problem recently where when extracting files from a zipped file, Windows Explorer got to a certain point with the extraction and then stopped responding! Boy was I happy about that! Read more
Yahoo & MSN Search Have More Relevant Results Than Google!
Soapbox time again! I launched a new site again last week www.best-hand-cream.com its a Domain that I have had for just less than a year. It did have an “out of the box” store attached to it but it was very limited. Anyway I have built my own site this time. Now what is annoying is Read more
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CommentLuv Get More Exposure
Posted by admin on April 23, 2009 · 2 Comments
This site has CommentLuv now installed on it. This is what CommentLuv does ” CommentLuv enables you to reward your blog readers by leaving a titled link to their last post automatically whenever they comment thus encouraging more comments by more people on more posts!” So there you go leave a comment and get yourself some free exposure on us and CommentLuv!
You can find out more about CommentLuv at their site. Petra Weiss also wrote a great post on it which you can check out at her site.
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