Web Marketing Strategy Update

Zemanta is an amazing WordPress plugin. An add-on that every blogger needs.

What Zemanta Does

This amazing program/widget/add-on:

• Appears automatically in every WP Dashboard you use
• Finds related images for every post, including license details. 1 Click inserts the image
• Finds related authority pages for you to link to including NY Times, Wikipedia, AP . . .
• Inserts the links as Related Articles at the end of your posts
• Gives you in-text links (if you want them) to authority sites, including Amazon
• Finds tags for your post

That is just ‘out of the box’. If you sign up for an account then you can personalise Zemanta:

• You can find related articles from your own blog

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If you’re a business owner, there’s a good chance you already have a blog for your business. And in the event you don’t have one, it’s probably something you’ve thought about on multiple occasions.

The reason that blogs are becoming a standard component of business websites is because they work. Blogging is a proven way to attract potential customers. However, that doesn’t mean blogging is a magic solution that’s going to double the size of your business overnight.

In fact, many business owners are disappointed by the results they get from blogging. Because they’ve seen so many good things about it, they don’t understand why they’re not getting the same results. And the reason some businesses still don’t have a blog is because their owners are worried about sinking a lot of time into something that turns out to be ineffective.
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Want to display ads in your blog’s RSS feed, but haven’t been accepted by the gods at Google?

Well, you could always edit the feed yourself — I did that. Trouble is, your ads soon get stale when they’re hard-coded in. But who’s got the time to mess about updating them? And that’s assuming you have the technical knowledge required to edit the various PHP files in your blog, that generate the feeds.

A while back, after applying to Adsense for a second time with no luck (God knows why they won’t let me run ads in my RSS feeds), I looked all over for an alternative to Adsense RSS ads.
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Show DealDotCom’s current deal of the day in the sidebar of your blog with this simple free WordPress plugin.

The DealDotCom affiliate program pays 35% commission on your own referred sales, plus 15% commission on the sales by people you refer. If the person you refer promotes the site and refers more people, you get paid on all the sales they generate too.

Best of all, you get paid every time someone makes a purchase, not just the first time.

That’s for the lifetime of the customer, whether they buy today, tomorrow, or 5 in years from now. Multiple orders from the same customer are common, because when someone buys from DealDotCom they get an email ever single day promoting that day’s discounted product.
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