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		<title>Remove Top Space From WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remove Top Space From WordPress. I want to show you how you can get rid of the space up here at the top which basically just a waste of space if you ask me. Just below the top of the browser window and above the body of your WordPress site and in doing so, you’ll [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Remove Top Space</strong> From WordPress. I want to show you how you can get rid of the space up here at the top which basically just a waste of space if you ask me. Just below the top of the browser window and above the body of your WordPress site and in doing so, you’ll be able to regain some of your valuable, virtual real estate down here in the content area.</p>
<p>So let’s go ahead and take a look at the code that we’re going to use to add to our child theme style.css file and this is the code right here.</p>
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<p>This will overwrite the parent theme style.css file because anything that’s in the style.css file in the child theme will take precedence over that same element or that same bit of code that is located in the parent theme.</p>
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		<title>Private Label Rights Articles- Is PLR A Good Business Plan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To anyone outside of the world of Internet marketing, the very idea of private label rights articles seems a little crazy. But however silly it might sound, many people are making money from PLR articles, ebooks and software every single day. The concept is simple: one person writes an ebook, a bunch of articles or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To anyone outside of the world of Internet marketing, the very idea of <strong>private label rights articles</strong> seems a little crazy. But however silly it might sound, many people are making money from PLR articles, ebooks and software every single day.</p>
<p>The concept is simple: one person writes an ebook, a bunch of articles or a software program and then sells on all rights of ownership to anyone who will pay for it. Usually for a very small fee.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So why would someone write, for example, an ebook and then sell all rights to it to someone else? The answer lies in the huge number of people who understand the potential value and are ready and willing to pay for such material.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Private Label Rights Articles</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.kickstartplr.com/?rid=108"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.kickstartplr.com/getimg.php?id=1" alt="" /></a><br />
For sellers, if you can write a short ebook of 20,000 words, or a pack of ten 500-word articles and sell it to 150 different people for $10 each you will have made a tidy $1500. And still retain the right to sell it to 150 more if you can find them.</p>
<p>For buyers, private label rights articles can really be like magic: someone else does all the hard work in writing and then for a tiny outlay you can buy the rights to do almost anything you want with the product.</p>
<p>With private label ebooks, articles and software you are generally sold the rights to treat the materials as if you had created them yourself. You can use them exactly as they are, edit them, rewrite them, change the title or name, claim authorship for yourself, create new products by combining several at a time &#8211; if you can think of a use, the chances are that you can do it.</p>
<p>The only things you generally can&#8217;t do involve posting PLR articles to article directories (because the article directories don&#8217;t like it) or resell the materials with the same private label rights. You normally have resell rights, but not private label resell rights.</p>
<p>But all sources are different and some have fewer rules than others.</p>
<p>Private label rights articles are fantastic for online marketers because they give a quick and easy answer to the age old problem of finding new content for your websites and blogs. Content is the lifeblood of the Internet: your site visitors always want to see new things and the search engines positively reward you for having new content.</p>
<p>Private label rights makes it very cheap and easy to get fresh content, that is targeted to the exact niches you need, fast.</p>
<p>The only drawback to PLR is that there is an awful lot of bad PLR out there. The majority of what you can find is poorly written junk that has been thrown together in such a rush that it barely makes sense.</p>
<p>Or it has been sold and resold to thousands of people for many years.</p>
<p>Although the vendors of this kind of junk argue that quality is unimportant and that quantity is what counts, the reverse is actually true. The search engines are getting better all the time at working out what is good, authoritative writing and what is semi-literate filler &#8211; and you can be sure that your real life visitors can spot the rubbish a mile away.</p>
<p>Would you go back to a website that only offered page after page of nonsense, and would you happily click on links to reward such sites? The answer is almost certainly no.</p>
<p>Luckily there are some vendors of private label rights articles out there who aim to produce the very highest quality &#8211; both in terms of being well researched and interesting to read, and in terms of being written in good English. Those vendors are sometimes a little more expensive than average, but not always. There are a handful of membership sites that provide the very best quality articles, ebooks or software at surprisingly low prices.</p>
<p>As an internet marketer, content for your web pages, blog posts, newsletters, ezines and autoresponder sequences is what drives your profits. Material to be given away as subscription incentives boosts your mailing list subscription rates and source material to be turned into videos can explode your backlinks count. And that&#8217;s just scratching the surface of what you can do with private label rights articles that someone else has created for you to profit from.</p>
<h3>Private Label Rights Articles</h3>
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		<title>Membership Sites – How To Build Your Own Membership Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Membership sites are not a new thing. Way back in 1996, Bill Gates said that he estimated membership sites to be a $20-$30 million dollar per year industry. Mr Gates has got more things right than wrong in his career, but that wasn&#8217;t one of them. Just 14 years later and the figure is more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Membership sites are not a new thing. Way back in 1996, Bill Gates said that he estimated <a href="http://www.impossibleniches.com/recommends/MembershipGoldRush/index.html" target="_blank">membership sites</a> to be a $20-$30 million dollar per year industry.</p>
<p>Mr Gates has got more things right than wrong in his career, but that wasn&#8217;t one of them. Just 14 years later and the figure is more like $2 Billion Dollars annually. Membership sites are big business and despite the worldwide recession, continue to grow in importance.</p>
<p>A membership site is, by and large, one that charges subscribers a monthly fee to access its website. But charging a monthly fee isn&#8217;t the only game in town &#8211; another perfectly viable business model is to allow members to join for free, but to monetize the site through special subscriber offers made each time the member logs in.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.impossibleniches.com/recommends/MembershipGoldRush/index.html" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45" title="Membership Sites Software" src="http://www.impossibleniches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/MarketingGoldRush.jpg" alt="Membership Sites Software" width="515" height="315" /></a></p>
<p>Whichever membership model you choose, you will need a few things in place:</p>
<p>* A domain and hosting<br />
* An autoresponder<br />
* Membership site software<br />
* Content to regularly post to the site</p>
<p>Domains and hosting, and autoresponders, are beyond the scope of this article. We will consider the membership site software you can use and the content you need to post.</p>
<p><strong>Membership site software</strong></p>
<p>There are dozens of options &#8211; from the plugins that you can add to a WordPress blog, through newbie-friendly programs like Easy Member Pro, right up to powerful scripts such as Login Frequency Marketing. There is software available to suit every pocket &#8211; even one or two free options.<br />
<strong><br />
Why are membership sites so popular?</strong></p>
<p>The Internet has become synonymous with &#8216;free&#8217;. People expect information to be available for free and sites like Wikipedia are happy to provide that service. However, people have also come to realise that with free information there is relatively little quality control. If they want good, premium content then they know that they will sometimes have to pay for it.</p>
<p>In addition, people like the idea of belonging to an exclusive club, and online membership sites can offer that kind of exclusivity that they crave.</p>
<p>Of course, no membership site can survive for long if it doesn&#8217;t provide those things: great, fresh content and a sense of belonging.</p>
<p><strong>The advantages to building membership websites</strong></p>
<p>One of the problems with Internet marketing as it is generally practiced is that you constantly need to find new customers and make new sales. You can have a great month and sell a lot of the latest big launch product, but what do you do next month? Or the month after? The wheel has to be reinvented over and over again.</p>
<p>With a membership site, you remove most of that ongoing stress. You do your job of selling the memberships and then they pay you month in, month out, automatically. You don&#8217;t have to ask for the money &#8211; your payment processor just takes it &#8211; and you never need to remind anyone to pay up.</p>
<p>Although three will be a number of people who will unsubscribe and cancel their subscriptions each month, on the whole most will stay.</p>
<p>The industry average is reckoned to be that members stay for about 4 months, but many of the quality membership sites expect their members to stick around a lot longer than that!</p>
<p>The result is that you work once to set up the site to begin with and then again to attract members in, but after that the financials of your business will be based on residual earnings &#8211; in other words, once they&#8217;ve started paying, they&#8217;ll keep on.</p>
<p>Residual income is the sweetest money of all and can quite literally last for years with no extra effort on your part.</p>
<p>Of course, with a membership site you do have to add new content, or provide some kind of service to keep your members interested.</p>
<p>If you have a site based on the use of a piece of software you&#8217;ve written or had created for you, your ongoing input may be negligible after the initial set up, but if you are providing information, you will need to develop a routine for creating new stuff for your members on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Many people ignore the power of membership sites to build themselves a very useful income, but to do so is a folly. After all, 100 members paying just $9.99 per month amounts to $1000 a month and may only require you to write a new article each week.</p>
<p>Some membership sites are even set up so that the members themselves create the ongoing content. Recipe sites, for example, encourage members to post new recipes for all to see, and to participate in discussion forums that only members can access. The site owners can charge a nice monthly fee, but in actuality don&#8217;t have to create any content at all!</p>
<p>Whatever your current online marketing business model, consider adding a membership site or two to your stable of Internet properties. Your residual income will skyrocket and your workload may well be lower than you ever imagined possible.</p>
<p>Your Internet lifestyle could be just a membership site away!</p>
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		<title>How To Promote A Self Published Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many ways to <strong>Promote A Self Published Book</strong>. I have 2 books in print that I published on createspace.com.<br />
They are available for sale with amazon.com. Because Amazon are so good at marketing, almost anything you put up for sale will sell.<br />
But to really see your sales increase you need to promote it yourself. I have four methods that I use to get people to my Amazon page.</p>
<div id="attachment_76" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.impossibleniches.com/wp-content/uploads/Promote-A-Self-Published-Book.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-76" title="Promote A Self Published Book" src="http://www.impossibleniches.com/wp-content/uploads/Promote-A-Self-Published-Book.jpg" alt="Promote A Self Published Book" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">One Of My Own Books</p></div>
<p>These methods really works well for &#8220;How To&#8221; books where you can really work at getting your book known. I do not write fiction so I don&#8217;t know whether these promotion methods would help them or not.If your book is plain rubbish then you should not be promoting it anyway so these methods won&#8217;t work for them. Write a good book and self publish it and you will have a passive income for life.</p>
<h2>Promote A Self Published Book<br />
<strong><br />
A Dedicated Website</strong></h2>
<p>You need to showcase your book on a dedicated website. The only thing that a visitor should be able to do in this website is click to buy your book.<br />
The sales page can be long or short as long as it works. You should inform your visitor about the benefits of your book. Testimonials from happy customers will re-enforce your pitch.<br />
This website will be very in your face and forward in trying to get the click to your book page.</p>
<p><strong>A Separate Blog<br />
</strong><br />
This website will be more general but strongly related to your book. For example, If your book is about Fly Fishing in Scotland your Blog could be about Fly Fishing in general.<br />
Each post will have information about your niche. Some people even put the whole content of their book on the blog in small posts. People still buy the book because it is easier to read and refer to.<br />
On every page your book&#8217;s cover should be there available for people to click through to your book page. Each post can be keyword focused to get free search engine traffic. After 6 months you should aim to have around 100 posts giving useful information about your subject.<br />
I get people asking to republish my articles and they offer me free links to my book. This is because I am a known expert in my niches.</p>
<p><strong>Book Reviews</strong></p>
<p>Your book will sell better if you have at least 2 or 3 positive reviews of your book. Getting these reviews is a matter of asking other authors for review swaps. You must agree however to be able to veto your review if think the book is poor. If I think a book is not worth 4 or 5 stars I will not post a review. I simply apologise to the other author and explain why.<br />
What usually happens is that the author goes back and revises their book to improve it. Another way to get reviews is to ask other experts to review a free pdf version of your book. Most people can&#8217;t refuse a free book, even if it is a pdf version.</p>
<p><strong>Post Articles</strong></p>
<p>I write articles and post them on article directories. This gives my website and my book page links to improve their ranking in the search engine results.<br />
The 2 article directories I use mainly are Ezinearticles and Goarticles. There are many more you can use if you want to do a great deal of article marketing. The point of getting traffic is to get your pages noticed by search engines. The higher your book pages rank the more you book sales you will make.</p>
<p>There are other ways to promote your book but these will get you some good early sales. The beauty of the Amazon process is that you do nothing once it is on sale and amazon do the selling and the dispaching for you. All you have to do is receive your monthly author&#8217;s royalties. There is little point in writing a book if you don&#8217;t also Promote A Self Published Book.</p>
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<h3>Promote A Self Published Book</h3>
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		<title>Honestly? Why Am I Writing Articles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing Articles is one of the big things that you do as an internet marketer. If you have no written content you have no readers. You also have nothing for the search engines to use to categorise and understand your content. Videos, pictures and RSS feeds are all very well but if you have no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Writing Articles</strong> is one of the big things that you do as an internet marketer. If you have no written content you have no readers. You also have nothing for the search engines to use to categorise and understand your content.<br />
Videos, pictures and RSS feeds are all very well but if you have no content you have nothing. That is the &#8220;short and curlies&#8221; answer to the question &#8220;Why am I writing  articles&#8221; But there is a good way to write articles and a bad way.</p>
<h2><strong>Writing Articles &#8211; The Bad Way</strong></h2>
<p>The bad way is where you take a mere shred of information and waffle on for 300 words. You go round and round with virtually no information in the article and offering no value to the human reader. Article directories are becoming far more selective in what constitutes a good article and what does not.<br />
Even I have had some rejected and I take great pride and care with what I write.</p>
<h3><strong>Writing Articles &#8211; The Good Way</strong></h3>
<p>The good way to write an article is to have something to say and write about it. Offer real information and your reader will want to know more. Offer no information and your visitor will think. &#8220;Nothing for me here&#8221; and move on.<br />
Your content must have that quality and knowledge to be successful. If you are working in niches that you know something about, this should not be difficult. If however you are trying to make money in a niche you know nothing about, then how can you bring value to your website.<br />
This is why I much prefer working in niches where I am an expert. I recommend you do the same. Writing articles is a lot more difficult if you are ignorant of the facts.</p>
<p><strong>To answer the question &#8211; Why Am I Writing Articles?<br />
</strong></p>
<p>There are 3 main reasons why you are writing articles. One is to have good keywords rich content on your website pages that gets found by the search engines.<br />
Secondly you are writing to satisfy peoples thirst for information. If you have the answer to their problem then they will read and follow you.<br />
Thirdly you can use your articles on other websites to get links back to your website. The most popular type of site to use is an article directory. These are usually high ranking website that will give you good quality links using the keyword phrase you are targeting.<br />
There are other ways to use you articles by using them to answer peoples questions in forums and at Yahoo Answers.</p>
<p><strong>Writing Articles</strong></p>
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		<title>A Definition Of Keywords &amp; How to Use Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secret World Of Keywords, Titles And Anchor Text Download This Post As A Free pdf file HERE What Are Keywords? &#8211; Six Months Of Wasted Time! &#160; When I started out in internet marketing I had no idea about keywords and the information held in this report. I therefore wasted 6 months of frantic [...]]]></description>
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<h2><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>What Are Keywords? &#8211; Six Months Of Wasted Time!</strong></span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I started out in internet marketing I had no idea about <strong>keywords</strong> and the information held in this report. I therefore wasted 6 months of frantic activity that was going nowhere fast. I wrote articles, I submitted responses to blogs, went to forums and everything else you are supposed to do when you are trying to promote a website and build a business.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What I didn&#8217;t know and appreciate was how important the detail is in putting content on my website. It took me another few months to understand that links are the lifeblood of any web page. It also really matters how you set these links up.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I now work smarter and better. I also get results that are finally putting money in my pocket. I am not a well known “Expert”, but I have learnt the importance of keywords, titles and anchor text.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Some Terms Explained.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Web page</strong> – I talk in terms of web page rather than website because that is how the search engines view your pages. They see pages not sites. That is why you need to have good internal linking within your group of web pages. You are in complete control of how these internal links are set up so you might as well do a decent job.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Keywords</strong> – A Keyword is usually not just one word. It is a phrase of 2 -5 words that are being searched for in the search engines. I have not covered keyword research here as I really want to focus hard on the main topic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Titles</strong> – This is the title of the web page. I see this as the most critical thing to get right when you put up a web page. One of the first things a search engine will look at is the title of the page. It is also what is presented in the search engine results pages when someone gets their results for a search</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Anchor Text</strong> – This is what is visible on the page to the reader. It is the highlighted words that can be clicked to move the web page visitor to the new page.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>A brief look at the internet and why it is a “Net”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of the most important aspects of making sense of the internet is how it is all linked up together. The Billions of web pages are useless on their own. They are like unrelated stars in the sky. They look interesting but that&#8217;s all. You can&#8217;t make sense of it all unless all the web pages are linked together in a way that is logical. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The web pages can be linked in a coherent way that makes sense to the visitor. They can also be linked in an ad hoc way that makes no sense at all. A human visitor to a web page will quickly lose interest if the pages are linked to irrelevant content elsewhere on the internet. Not only can human visitors see that the links are off topic. The search engines have learnt to see when the internet links are relevant and when they are not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So I want to talk about how you link your pages to each other and how you use back linking to make the most sense of your web pages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>The Importance Of Links</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It matters enormously how you gain links and how those links are shown on the page. As a precursor to this, it also matters that your page is well written and contains the right sort of content in relation to your keywords and subject.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If your page has no links then it is a lone “star” that no one will ever find. It could have the greatest keyword researched article on it with highly valuable content. This will not matter if you have no way of making it part of the “net” So you need to obtain links as a first priority. I give some easy ways to get links at the end of this report.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You do not need thousands of links if you have done your keyword research correctly. Good <a title="Keywords – Do you really have a clue what you are doing?" href="http://www.impossibleniches.com/keywords-do-you-really-have-a-clue-what-you-are-doing/">long tail keywords</a> will be found and ranked well by search engines if you can get about 20 links to your page. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some examples of links&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Link Style 1. Full web page address</strong> (url)</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.quinoatips.com/how-to-sprout-quinoa-new-method/">http://www.quinoatips.com/how-to-sprout-quinoa-new-method/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This lengthy and messy link takes you too a page about how to sprout quinoa but you would never guess it because the link looks ugly. (The Website is a niche blog I run)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Link Style 2. Click Here</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.quinoatips.com/how-to-sprout-quinoa-new-method/">Click Here</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This looks a whole lot better but still does not give the reader the whole picture. More importantly, it doesn&#8217;t indicate to search engines what the content on the new page is about.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Link Style 3. Using A Keyword As Anchor Text</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.quinoatips.com/how-to-sprout-quinoa-new-method/">How To Sprout Quinoa</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This looks much better. It also <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>IS</strong></span> better for a number of reasons. Firstly the person reading the page has a good idea of what the new page will contain. So you stand a better chance of getting the click through to the other page. Secondly, it will be clear to a search engine that you have provided a good link.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>How to Make Your Page Look Relevant To The Search Engines</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The process of how search engines decide if a web page is important and relevant. To help me rank well for the keyword “How to sprout quinoa” I prepared this page ensuring the following was included when I submitted the page.</span></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The title of the page contained the keyword.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The meta description of the page contained the keyword </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The meta keywords included the phrase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The content included the phrase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One paragraph has the phrase in bold as a heading</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now the search engines are just machines, they cannot think for themselves so they have to be taught what to look for. Imagine that I have a link somewhere out on the internet on a web page someone is reading. They see a link to my web page saying “How to sprout quinoa”. They click through to and find that there is a page of “on topic” content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What search engines are doing is worming their way through these links to check if they are good links. So our search engine worm will check first the page that has the link on it. What&#8217;s that page about? Then it will check the anchor text and compare it to the 5 page features mentioned above. If there is a synergy and relevancy then the worm will report back that the web page has some value. I am simplifying something that is much more complex to help you see the importance of the anchor text in the link.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So it is critical that your web page has incoming links with the right anchor text contained within it. This will ensure that your page is well ranked. But that&#8217;s not all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Using Different Keywords As Anchor Text</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You should obtain links that have a variety of related terms within them. If all your inbound links have the same anchor text then this will appear unnatural to the search engines. Eventually they may see the page as spam. So to continue with our example I could use the following terms as link anchor text.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sprout Quinoa</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sprouting quinoa</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can you sprout quinoa</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Quinoa Sprouts</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Quinoa sprout</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Quinoa Sprouting</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You get the idea. It is crucial that these terms are researched keywords that you have decided will help you get traffic to your website. If your web page has some of these terms within the content of the written word then this will also show the search engines that the link and the content are good.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Keeping your anchor text and page titles natural.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One mistake I made was to find what I thought were good keywords that didn&#8217;t make grammatical sense and use them exactly as my research told me I should. So if I determined that “Sprout Quinoa Easy” was a killer keyword then I would put it in the title and content and use it as anchor text.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bad Decision. Search engines are cleverer than you think. Constructing weird sentences to accommodate these phrases will just attract their attention and they will pick up that you are trying to manipulate them. Its like you are broadcasting to the internet that you are playing games with your link and content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>4 easy ways to get good anchor text links now</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your target is to create 20 links to a post using these 3 methods. So you will have 1 internal link and 19 from article directories, Squidoo and Blogger. All these links must use the anchor text or a variation as the link.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>1. Internal linking within a WordPress blog</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One way you can immediately get good links to your post pages in WordPress is by linking to another post using anchor text. When you post to your blog make sure you link to the previous post with good anchor text.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>2. Submit Articles To Online Directories</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How to prepare your content for an article directory</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Submitting articles to article directories allows you to get relevant links. Before I submit the article I have it completely prepared in a text editor – I use notepad. So I have the following set out on the page before I go online to post my article.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Article Title (Including Keyword phrase)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Keywords (Including Keyword phrase)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The content of the article (Including Keyword phrase)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Description of the article – Not a paragraph from the article. I write a teaser couple of sentences. (Including Keyword phrase)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The resource box ready with the <strong>correct anchor text</strong> and pointing to the web page you are targeting. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you prepare your article in this way you will get the linking part right first time. If the directory has a WYSIWYG editor then you can highlight your anchor text and click on the “Add Hyperlink” Icon to enter you web page address. If the directory doesn&#8217;t have a WYSIWYG then you can put your links in using a line html code. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The HTML you need to set up a link with your keyword rich anchor text in your article is set out below.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anchor text is highlighted words on a page that link to another web page or resource. Clicking on the text, called hypertext, loads the linked resource in the user&#8217;s browser. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>&lt;a href=&#8221;http://www.yourdomain.com/pagetitle.html&#8221;&gt;The Anchor Text&lt;/a&gt;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The anchor text (Also Called Hypertext)is the text that occurs between the angle brackets. Place your page address in between the Quotes and the Anchor text where I have put the phrase “The Anchor Text”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>3. Create A Squidoo Lens</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A squidoo lens lets you gain links from the content you place there. There are plenty of reasons to have a related lens but I use them for the links. Recently I have put my quinoa blog on my lens as an RSS feed. It means my lens have new content when I post to my blog. I actually do not know for sure if this helps me in the search engines but my hunch is that it does.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>4. Create A Blogger Blog</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can post articles to a blogger blog and get backlinks in the same way as squidoo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Final Tips</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If your keyword is hard to work into a sentence you can make it an anchor by writing what I call a “more info” line. What you can do is put the following at the very end of an article</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">more info &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="http://www.quinoatips.com/how-to-sprout-quinoa-new-method/">How to sprout Quinoa</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some keywords can work well together to make one anchor text. So you can combine them. e.g. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you had these keywords</span></p>
<p>“<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Learn Piano” and “Piano lessons online”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You could make them into one anchor text and page title of …</span></p>
<p>“<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Learn Piano Lessons Online”</span></p>
<h3>Keywords</h3>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the arena of internet marketing most of the top players will tell you that using the <strong>right keywords</strong> is important. Well I don&#8217;t think its important &#8211; Its critical.<br />
If you are attempting to get traffic from the search engines and do not look at your keywords then you are wasting your time. People searching online are busy typing in all sorts of terms and the search engines are trying to return relevant results. If you are not using the right keywords then you are missing out on traffic. I always get the picture of a learner swimmer who is thrashing around in water trying to make progress. There is a lot going on but they are not getting anywhere. Article writing without the right keywords is just like this.</p>
<h2>The Right Keywords</h2>
<p><strong>Where To Find The Right Keywords</strong></p>
<p>The most well known free tool is the <a href="https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">google keyword tool</a>. You can go there and type in your terms and find hundreds of keywords. You can then find out the competition by going to the google search engine and seeing how many other websites are using these term. You are basically looking for high search numbers and low competition.<br />
There are also paid for tools like Market Samurai that do all the work for you. You can get 1,000 keywords complete with competition information. In 5 minutes you can have a set of good keywords to target.<br />
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What To Do With These Right Keywords</strong></p>
<p>To write a piece of content based on your keyword I recommend you use only one or two keywords per article. For a piece of writing 400 words long you should include the keyword in the Title, The Description, and 3 or 4 times in the main copy.<br />
If you are submitting the article to an article directory then you must also use your keyword as the anchor text to send the reader to your link.</p>
<h3>The Right Keywords</h3>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- 		@page { margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->If you are a regular blog writer you know that you need to have a constant supply of new content in the form of <strong>niche articles</strong>. In the early days this is very easy as you have lots to say and the enthusiasm of starting a new blog. After a while you need to dig deeper to find content articles for your blog.</p>
<p>Free niche articles are a good way to find more content but you must use them correctly to get the best from them.</p>
<h2><strong>Where to find free niche articles</strong></h2>
<p>You will do this by joining in with the online community in the internet marketing field. Join the many forums and start posting and helping. There will be many people with articles and free ebooks that they are quite happy to give away. If they are not giving them away they will be very cheap indeed.</p>
<p><strong>What to do with PLR niche articles.</strong></p>
<p>Once you have a plr article you must rewrite it so that it becomes unique content. The search engines will not rank duplicate content very highly and you will waste your time. To rewrite a plr article you must change the first and last paragraphs and change one words per sentence in the rest of the article. This will make it different enough in most cases to get ranked as a unique page.</p>
<p>A second use for these articles is to combine 2 or 3 of them into one really strong article. These can be posted to your blog or even to an article directory. I find articles that are quite similar in topic to use this way. This isn&#8217;t a waste because you didn&#8217;t pay for them in the first place.</p>
<p><strong>Using keywords in free niche articles</strong></p>
<p>One further step I do is to ensure that I put in a good keyword in the title. I also place this a couple of times in the content and as a keyword tag for the blog post.</p>
<h3>Niche Articles</h3>
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