Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of President Barack Obama.
CNN and Huffington Post have each published op-eds this past week by regular contributors with headlines that explicitly call for Obama to use violent gangland tactics against his political opponents.
CNN published a column by Roland Martin on February 11 with the headline, Time for Obama to go ‘gangsta’ on GOP.
Martin concluded the article with a plea for Obama to emulate the violent tactics of the Prohibition-era Chicago mob boss Al Capone.
Obama’s critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let ‘em know that if they aren’t with you, they are against you, and will pay the price.
The Huffington Post followed-up with their own call for gangland violence against Republicans with the publication on February 14 of a column by David Bourgeois with the title, Obama Better Start Breaking Kneecaps.
Bourgeois concludes his article with this call for gangland violence.
You’ve given it your best shot, you’ve tried numerous times to talk with the Republicans, to negotiate, to meet them halfway on every single matter before the American people. But they hate you for many reasons. It’s time you break kneecaps (bold in original). It’s time to destroy the Republican Party. They don’t deserve a seat at the table when all they want to do is score political points by being the Party of No.
Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington recently excoriated Fox News chief Roger Ailes for allegedly provocative rhetoric by Fox host Glenn Beck.
HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it’s not a question of picking a fight. And aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree…
…It’s not about the word police. It’s about something deeper. It’s about the fact that there is a tradition as the historian Richard Hofstetter said, in American politics, of the paranoid style. And the paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there.
Ailes defended Beck, saying he was accurately talking about the governments of Hitler and Stalin.
Violent rhetoric such as that espoused by CNN and the Huffington Post is usually found in the bowels of Internet discussion forums, not as sanctioned op-ed headlines on news sites with White House press passes.
CNN and Huffington Post would be well-advised to retract the calls to violence and issue apologies to Republicans before Obama supporters are incited by their violent rhetoric and start going gangsta and break kneecaps of Republicans.
If they won’t do that of their own volition, then White House press secretary Robert Gibbs should shame them into doing so. Surely the Obama administration does not countenance violence against their domestic political opponents.
VIENNA – Russia joined the U.S. and France in urging Iran to stop enriching uranium to higher levels in a statement shared Tuesday with The Associated Press, suggesting the project reinforced suspicions that Tehran is seeking to make nuclear weapons.
Shrugging off international concerns, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the country was moving ahead to expand its enrichment capacities by installing more advanced machinery at its main enrichment facility.
Ahmadinejad told reporters in Tehran the centrifuges are not yet operational but are five times more efficient than the model now in use at its Natanz enrichment plant.
Because enrichment can produce both nuclear weapons as well as reactor fuel, Iran is under three set of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to stop its program. Its determination to expand such activities had been criticized worldwide even before an announcement earlier this month that Tehran would enrich to a higher level.
In a confidential letter to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the three world powers questioned Tehran's assertion that it had started the higher enrichment project to provide fuel to a research reactor providing medical isotopes for cancer patients.
The one-page letter was significant in reflecting unified Russian and Western opposition to Iran's move. Russia in the past has often put the brakes on Western attempts to penalize Tehran for defying U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze its enrichment program, which can produce both nuclear fuel and the fissile core of warheads.
"If Iran goes ahead with this escalation, it would raise fresh concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions, in light of the fact that Iran cannot produced the needed nuclear fuel in time" to refuel the research reactor, said the letter.
Iran's decision to enrich to the 20-percent level is "wholly unjustified, contrary to U.N. Security Council resolutions and represent(s) a further step toward a capability to produce highly enriched uranium," said the letter to IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.
The 20-percent mark represents the threshold between low-enriched and high-enriched uranium.
Although warhead material must be enriched to a level of 90 percent or more, just getting its present stockpile to the 20 percent mark would be a major step for Iran's nuclear program. While enriching to 20 percent would take about one year, using up to 2,000 centrifuges at Tehran's underground Natanz facility, any next step — moving from 20 to 90 percent — would take only half a year and between 500-1,000 centrifuges.
Since its clandestine enrichment program became known eight years ago, Iran has insisted it is meant only to generate nuclear fuel. But its secrecy and refusal to cooperate with an IAEA probe of allegations that it experimented with aspects of a weapons program had increased fears about its nuclear ambitions even before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Feb.7 announcement that Iran will raise the enrichment bar.
Vancouver: Vancouver Olympics schedule, Vancouver Olympic medals & Vancouver Olympics results. Death of a Georgian luge racer during a practice run at Vancouver Winter Olympics, lights out to some concerns over soaring risk factors in the Games. In response to Olympic officials' explanation of Nodar Kumaritashvili's crash on the track that it was a fault from the athlete, voices were raised against high speed tracks, even from the president of Republic of Georgia.
The athletes turned up for the Games at Vancouver are the best, and well-trained in their respective sporting itmes. Anyway, it is sure that almost all items at the Games, which include luge, skeleton, aerial skiing or snowboarding, the race for faster, higher, more air have a touch of risk.
"The Winter Olympics has always had dangerous sports, but it's getting worse. A lot of it has to do with maybe you want the ratings, and danger is good for ratings. Perhaps not so good for the athletes", said Olympics historian David Wallechinsky.
According to statistics of past Games, there were thousands of accidents happened in the winter Olympics. 139,332 American athletes were injured while skiing in 2007 , and another 164,002, hurt during snowboarding in the same year. Almost all items at the games have recorded a similar kind accident cases.
The 2010 Winter Olympics has finally arrived. It was announced that there will be a total of 15 winter sports events that will be part of the 2010 Winter Olympics which include alpine skiing, Biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge, nordic combined, short track speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and Speed skating. 82 participating countries will compete in these games. Peru, Pakistan, Montenegro, Serbia, Ghana, Colombia, and Cayman Islands, will make their winter Olympic debuts but other countries like Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Thailand, Madagascar, Luxembourg, Kenya, and Costa Rica, which competed at the previous Winter Games in Turin will not participate in Vancouver.
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It is Paczki Day today, Feb. 16, 2010 - also known as Fastnacht Day and Fat Tuesday.
Paczki Day is a Polish tradition in which people use up lard, sugar and eggs in preparation for Lent, which begins the day after.
Paczki (pronounced POONCH-key), or pączek, is described by Dictionary.com as follows: "A round Polish pastry similar to a doughnut, usually filled with fruit and topped with sugar or icing."
Paczki Day is particularly popular in American cities with large Polish populations such as Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit.
The Polish American Journal provides further information including recipes (small, large, old Warsaw, or old Polish) to prepare paczki yourself.
Celebrations are being held across the Midwest to honor the day and local bakeries are making extra paczki to accommodate Paczki Day.
She was cheered by legions of Carnival fans, but 7-year-old Julia Lira, the youngest drum corps queen in memory at Rio's lavish party, broke down crying after being surrounded by cameras early Monday.
Dressed in a sequined halter top and a miniskirt made of purple feathers, the youngster tentatively stepped through the first 50 yards of the parade. Her father -- the president of the parading Viradouro samba group -- then took her by the hand and presented her to the crowd. She smiled big for the photographers and adoring fans.
But 10 minutes into the group's parade and surrounded by dozens of photographers and television cameramen, the youngster broke down in tears and was immediately scooped up into the arms of her unofficial handler, the group's spokeswoman Joice Hurtado, and taken away from the attention.
After a five-minute cool down, Julia returned to her place in front of the group's massive drum line, but was quickly whisked through the parade grounds by her father and out of the media's eye.
"She just got scared after having all those cameras thrust in her face," Hurtado said after the parade. "After we got her into her mother's arms, she quickly calmed down and put on a great show."
While Julia bounced back and began to samba at the helm of the parade, television coverage broadcast to millions in Brazil steered clear of showing any more shots of her.
Before the parade began, Julia's father, Marco Lira, said that "she's happy, she is ready to
dance."
After the parade, however, both father and daughter looked tired and emotionally exhausted, though Julia managed a few furtive smiles but no words when asked how she liked the event.
Some in the audience thought she was not ready for the spotlight
"She is too young to be a drum corps queen," said Marister Deniz, 60, who was watching from the stands. "A girl that size shouldn't be thrust in such a role."
But Jorge Elias Souza, a member of the Viradouro drum corps, said he was proud of the girl regardless.
"She is the embodiment of all the love in our school. Normally a famous person is the drum corps queen, but her father is our president and she is the center of our family," he said. Putting Julia in the Carnival role drew the ire of child welfare advocates who were against a young girl taking on a role normally reserved for sultry models and actresses.
Carlos Nicodemos, director of the Rio de Janeiro state Council for the Defense of Children and Adolescents, two weeks ago asked a judge to keep the girl from dancing, arguing that "what we can't allow is putting a 7-year-old girl in a role that traditionally for Carnival has a very sexual focus."
A judge ruled last week that the girl could join the parade, and the overwhelming response in Brazil was a shrug and acceptance.
Before Julia took to the parade ground, the Rio's reigning Carnival Queen Shayene Cesario Vieira, 24, said she thought "it's cool" that the girl would participate.
"I don't remember hearing of a drum corps queen being so young," she said. "But her dad is the president of the group and if he thinks it's OK, it's OK.
In the two weeks leading up to the Carnival parade, Marco Lira said repeatedly that he and his wife would be with the girl at all times and they would carefully watch to make sure she doesn't get too tired during the parade. Both he and his wife were with the girl through the entire parade.
The Viradouro samba group has a history of controversial themes. A 2008 float portrayed Hitler amid a sea of naked mannequins representing Holocaust victims. A judge banned that float from being in the parade.
Nicodemos has also suggested that the samba group put Julia into her role to get extra attention -- a charge strongly denied by her father.
As 12 top-tier Rio samba schools compete fiercely in the parades that are broadcast to viewers nationwide, massive street parties continued to erupt across the city.
Tourism officials said almost 730,000 visitors arrived in Rio this year for the big party -- a 5 percent increase over last year.
It's the first Carnival since Rio was named as host to the 2016 Olympics, and officials have been working hard to show that the city, known for the drug-gang violence that pervades its slums, can safely host major events.
There have been few reports of violence during the party so far.
A 37-year-old Dutch tourist was shot by a robber as he tried to defend a Dutch woman he was with, police said. A spokesman for the Silvestre Hospital said Alexander Kors Johannes had been operated on and was in stable condition Sunday.
In the film world, Kevin Smith is larger than life. And in the real world, he's too big to fly on an airplane. The director, actor and comedian was escorted off an airplane Saturday because he could not fit comfortably in his seat.
Smith boarded a flight from Oakland to Burbank, Ca, but was soon escorted off the flight because he was encroaching upon the comfort of his fellow passengers.
"If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement," Southwest said.
Of course, Smith was not happy about it. The Mallrats director took to Twitter soon after with a series of rants.
"I broke no regulation, offered no 'safety risk' (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?)" he wrote. "I saw someone bigger than me on THAT flight! But I wasn't about to throw a fellow Fatty under the plane as I'm being profiled. But he & I made eye contact, & he was like 'Please don't tell...'"
"Don't worry," he added. "[The] wall of the plane was opened & I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised."
Southwest Airlines said they called Smith to offer their "heartfelt apologies," but reiterated that his removal was for the "safety and comfort of all customers."
Smith has now joked he wants to start a boycott of the airlines, and says that he will try to never fly Southwest again.
"The SouthwestAir Diet. How it works: you're publicly shamed into a slimmer figure. Crying the weight right off has never been easier!"
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday Iran is sliding into a military dictatorship, a new assessment suggesting a rockier road ahead for U.S.-led efforts to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
As the first high-level Obama administration official to make such an accusation, Clinton was reflecting an ever-dimming outlook for persuading Iran to negotiate limits on its nuclear program, which it has insisted is intended only for peaceful purposes. The U.S. and others — including the two Gulf countries Clinton visited Sunday and Monday — believe Iran is headed for a nuclear bomb capability.
Clinton also was revealing the logic of the administration's plan to target the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a new round of international sanctions intended to compel Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions before it increases the likelihood of a military clash.
Clinton flew to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, and then was driven in King Abdullah's private bus about 65 miles northeast to Rawdat Khurayim, a secluded royal hunting retreat where the vacationing king hosted her for lunch — and where a large-screen TV was on. Afterward they met privately in his elaborately appointed tent, which includes five crystal chandeliers in the reception room. Clinton also met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal in Riyadh and later was flying to Jeddah on the Red Sea coast.
Earlier in the day, in Doha, Qatar, Clinton spoke bluntly about Iranian behavior and what she called the Obama administration's view of Iran as increasingly dominated by the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was freezing the assets in U.S. jurisdictions of a Revolutionary Guard general and four subsidiaries of a previously penalized construction company he runs because of their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.
The Revolutionary Guard has long been a pillar of Iran's regime as a force separate from the ordinary armed forces. The Guard now has a hand in every critical area, including missile development, oil resources, dam building, road construction, telecommunications and nuclear technology.
It also has absorbed the paramilitary Basij as a full-fledged part of its command structure — giving the militia greater funding and a stronger presence in Iran's internal politics.
"The evidence we've seen of this increasing decision-making (by the Revolutionary Guard) cuts across all areas of Iranian security policy, and certainly nuclear policy is at the core of it," Clinton told reporters flying with her from Doha to Saudi Arabia.
Asked if the U.S. was planning a military attack on Iran, Clinton said "no."
The United States is focused on gaining international support for sanctions "that will be particularly aimed at those enterprises controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, which we believe is in effect supplanting the government of Iran," she said.
Meanwhile, a semi-official news agency quoted the head of Iran's nuclear program as saying the country received a new proposal last week from the United States, Russia and France, three of the countries trying to rein in Tehran's uranium enrichment program.
Iran said that it was studying the joint proposal purportedly made after the country announced last week it had begun enriching uranium to a higher level than previously acknowledged. The ILNA news agency quoted Ali Akbar Salehi as saying various countries have also offered Iran proposals on a nuclear fuel swap, adding that Iran is reviewing all the proposals. He did not provide any more details.
Private U.S. experts on the Iranian regime said they agreed with Clinton's assessment of Iran's drift toward military dominance.
"When you rely on the power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to remain in power it is only a matter of time before the regime becomes a paramilitary dictatorship — and it is about time we realize this," Iranian-born Fariborz Ghadar, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an e-mail to The AP. He said the current regime is "beholden to the Revolutionary Guard for its survival."
Ray Takeyh, a former administration adviser on Iran who now follows Iranian developments from the private Council on Foreign Relations, said by e-mail, "The Revolutionary Guards are increasingly represented in all aspects of governance."
Clinton told reporters it appears the Revolutionary Guard is in charge of Iran's controversial nuclear program and the country changing course "depends on whether the clerical and political leadership begin to reassert themselves."
She added: "I'm not predicting what will happen but I think the trend with this greater and greater military lock on leadership decisions should be disturbing to Iranians as well as those of us on the outside."
Clinton said the Iran that could emerge is "a far cry from the Islamic Republic that had elections and different points of view within the leadership circle. That is part of the reason that we are so concerned with what we are seeing going on there."
In her Doha appearance, Clinton also said she foresees a possible breakthrough soon in stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
"I'm hopeful that this year will see the commencement of serious negotiations that will cover every issue that is outstanding," she said, adding that "everyone is anticipating" progress after more than a year of impasse between the negotiating parties.
The peace talks broke down in late 2008 with Israel's incursion into Gaza, which had launched rocket attacks on Israeli targets.
Clinton spoke in an interview with the Al-Jazeera TV network before a live audience of mostly Arab students at the Carnegie Mellon campus.
Is there a step-by-step guide on how to make money with AdWords? Perhaps, somewhere on the internet. Though you'd be better off just
reading about other people's experiences and then learning from their mistakes. The simple truth is that there are as many ways to make money from AdWords as there are people on the internet. So what's the catch?
The key to success with AdWords, is of course the words used to describe a website or product. Not only do they have to appear interesting but they have to supply potential customers with the knowledge that what they need is available on your website. And to distill the information even further, research has shown that, in most cases, it is better to advertise a product located on your website, rather than the website itself. The logic here is apparent: sell people what they want.
But let's take it a little further to the practical side of things: you have a product/service that you believe people would buy but up until now you haven't had any results. The solution here is to either change the wording on your AdWords ad or to use another product instead. A rule of thumb here is to set both a time and a budget limit - if it doesn't sell within the first X days or weeks with a predetermined budget, then it probably won't sell any time soon. Doing things this way will not only ensure that you know what people want, but also that you make money with AdWords.
Fabian Tan is a well-known Internet Marketing expert and the author of the popular 59-page Report:
"Murder Your Job: How To Build Cash Sucking Autopilot Businesses In 30 Days Or Less!"
Creating the effective AdWords campaign takes some careful planning in terms of strategy and cost. Below you will find three AdWords tips to help you in your quest for more traffic and ultimately, more sales.
1. Avoid Broad Matching
What is it? Well, simply put it is the use of general keywords. Take for instance the phrase "tennis racket" - your ad will appear when people either search for "tennis" or "racket" and in no particular order. Although this might appear to be an effective strategy to gain some exposure, you need to remember that people may be searching for "Tennis shoes" or "a racket" (as in noise). Not only will this not gain you very little traffic but if your ad is clicked on by someone with no interest in your product, then you've just wasted your money.
2. Make Use of Dynamic Titles
Quite a clever one this and free too! It simply means that instead of using your own titles for your AdWords ads, Google uses the search phrase entered by the web user as the title of your ad. Not bad in terms of exposure and sometimes even better than the search results. One thing you will have to do, however, is to ensure that the content of your website is entirely focused around your keyword to ensure that your visitors get what they come for.
3. Enhance Your Landing Page
Last but not least of the three AdWords tips simply requires you to optimize your landing page according to your AdWords ad. This means that if your AdWords ad is titled "Bio fuel Components", then your landing page has to be filled with info or products that deal with Bio fuel Components. Once again, doing this wrong will ensure that people only take one look at your website, and never return.
Fabian Tan is a well-known Internet Marketing expert and the author of the popular 59-page Report:
"Murder Your Job: How To Build Cash Sucking Autopilot Businesses In 30 Days Or Less!"
If you're going to make the right decisions about bringing in an external Company to manage your Pay per Click (PPC),you must
spend some time orienting yourself with the subject of paid search.
1. Instant Traffic
PPC offers an instant way to increase the flow of traffic to your website. If you have trouble attracting traffic to your website, PPC can help. By selecting specific keywords, words that strongly relate to what you offer but are also popular search terms; you'll massively increase the number of visitors to your site.
By bidding high for your keywords, you can command great search engine exposure and still save money compared to the kind of costs involved in television, radio and print advertising.
2. Target Specificity
Pay per Click advertising allows you to target your potential customers by location, language and keyword searches. This strongly aids you in making sure that anyone searching for your type of product, service or brand sees your ad. It also means you aren't advertising to the uninterested. Of course, it depends upon your budget as to how high the ad places on the Search Engine's paid search listing, but clearly, the higher the better.
3. Ad Copy
The copy in you ads needs to be as captivating and compelling, as if it were any other kind of advert. It must be designed to make the reader click the ad. However, it must also integrate the best possible keywords for your product/service. Keywords are an essential decision and your PPC Company will be able to offer you advice on the best words to choose. However, they should also be able to tell you which words aren't working well after your campaign has been running for a while. Keywords can be trial and error in the beginning; so refining the best keywords is part of the process of building a strong online presence with your ads.
Sharp, compelling ad copy that gets the desired clicks is essential. Having said that, remember the page the visitor reaches after clicking the ad must be equally as impressive.
4. Feedback
When you employ a PPC company, you need them to give you clear feedback through analytical tools of what is working and what isn't. Google offers you superb analysis of which of your ads are doing best, how much you're spending and by comparison with your sales or conversions help you to work out the real return on investment. Analysing your ad campaign feedback helps you plan your ongoing online marketing strategy more effectively.
5. Blend in the PPC
Your PPC campaigns should be blended in with all of your SEO and Internet Marketing efforts. It becomes a part of your overall marketing plan for the quarter. It needs to be factored into your budget, because it can be costly, although it's much cheaper than traditional methods of advertising. Only with a blended approach can you make a big impact on your market.
Now you're armed to discuss Pay per Click with your prospective PPC Company, you'll be able to negotiate the right package for your business.
The term "landing page" is a fairly new concept to Internet marketing. If you are unfamiliar with the term, a landing page is a web page that your prospects arrive at after clicking on the link in your
pay per click advertisement. Affiliate marketing using PPC with landing pages can be an effective and profitable way to make money on your affiliate product.
Tips on Affiliate Marketing using a PPC Landing Page
Find Keywords: After you have selected an affiliate product that you wish to offer, select a list of keywords that relate to the product. You can do this by using the Google AdWords keyword tool to discover the types of keywords people are typing in as well as the statistics.
Test Keywords: After you have selected a group of keywords, test them by developing a pay per click ad that will include these keywords and use a direct link to the affiliate website. Track the conversion rates to determine how well the keywords are performing. Generally you should check conversion rates at every 100 clicks. It is a good idea to run more than one ad to see which one has the better conversion rate.
Design the Landing Page: Once you know what keywords are performing as well as the conversion rates, you will have the necessary knowledge you need to construct a successful landing page. You will have knowledge of how much pre-selling you will have to do on the landing page and the conversion rate that you can expect from your campaign.
The landing page should also include a keyword tracker which you can obtain from Google AdWords. This is a code that you insert into your landing page to track what keywords are working as well as exactly where your traffic is coming from if you are advertising in more than one location.
Well Crafted Sales Copy: The sales copy on your landing page needs to produce a high sales conversion ratio. If you have no knowledge of writing sales copy then you should consider contracting out the work to someone who knows how to write effective copy. A well crafted sales copy should lead your visitor directly to the sale and make the sale appear to be a "no-brainer."
The web copy that is written on your landing page should clearly explain the benefits of your affiliate product and provide the necessary information that helps your prospect make an informed decision. Using a lot of sales hype is not going to retain your prospect and entice them to click through to the affiliate website.
Match the Ad to the Landing Page: Make sure your landing page delivers what your pay per click ad promises. Do not lead the prospect astray by promising something in the ad and then sending them to the home page of your site where they have to search for the product. The link on the PPC ad should take the prospect directly to the landing page.
Affiliate marketing using PPC landing pages is a viable way to make long-term profits. While the pay per click ad drives traffic to your landing page, it is really the quality of the landing page that produces the results.
Basically Google Pay Per Click or PPC advertising is where you have an advert that appears in the Google search results for your chosen keywords. When those keywords are searched on Google your ad appears
but you do not pay for that advert until someone actually clicks on it. The PPC adverts usually appear on the right of the page, and also at the very top. They are labelled 'sponsored links'.
You can bid for the amount you want to pay (CPC - cost per click). This is partly determined by the amount of competition there is for your chosen keywords.
Usually, the more you are prepared to pay per click, the higher in the list of adverts your ad will appear, but not always, there are other factors to consider.
The more precise and targeted your keywords, Google ads and website pages, the less you will pay per click and the better quality of visitor you will get to your website.
If someone is search Google for the particular keywords you are bidding for, they have already got a genuine interest in the merchandise or services that you are providing. Using PPC you can target different areas or terms and test and measure your results.
If someone arrives at your site via a click through from your Google ad, they are already really primed for what you are offering and are much more likely to become one of your customers.
Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising is a model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content sites like blogs, in order to allow advertisers to pay a host only when their ad is actually clicked.
With search engines, the competition usually bids on keyword phrases relevant to the niche area that they are attempting to exploit. More times than not, content sites charge a fixed price rather than using the bidding system.
Websites that use PPC ads will display an advertisement when a keyword matches the advertisers keyword list or when a content site displays similar content. These sponsored ads appear above or next to the general results on a search engine results page, or where the web developer decides to place it.
There are many PPC providers in today's day and age, especially with new markets emerging every hour of the day. Three of the largest network operators are Google AdWords, yahoo search marketing, and Microsoft ad center. The Cost Per Click can vary depending on search engine and the level of competition for a particular keyword or phrase.
Before investing into a PPC system, you must be careful and select the right keywords or else you might end up losing money. PPC does offer immediate traffic, but it does not guarantee that the customer will purchase anything. So if you choose a great keyword phrase that gets a lot of clicks but have poor content on your website that doesn't generate any sales, then you are going to lose money in the long run. If used effectively and proper, PPC advertising can generate huge profits for your site and sources of traffic that you never knew existed.
Pay-per-click, or PPC advertising is one of the most common means of driving traffic to your website and therefore of making money. Pay per click works by first placing your ads on other web sites, then placing
other people's ads on your web site. You pay a certain amount for each ad that is placed for you, sometimes as a CPC, or cost-per-click. However, you also receive a certain amount for every ad on your website that is clicked and takes someone to the advertised site. It's quite a simple concept, though there are complex techniques that can improve the effectiveness of Pay per click advertising.
Here are some important words and ideas you need to know to get started with PPC advertising
Keywords. This vital idea refers to certain words that will lead searchers to your web site. It is simply a list of 10 or more words that will connect to something that you've written, and can guide the searcher toward your site.
PPC providers. These are companies that can place these ads for you. You allot a certain amount of money to them each month, and they use it to place your ads elsewhere, and to place others' ads on your site. The most well known of these Pay per click providers is Google AdWords, but there's also Yahoo! Search Marketing, AdBrite, ValueMarketing, and Microsoft adCenter that can do this for you.
Click-through rate. This is the rate at which your ads cause someone to click on them and be connected to your site. A good ad has a comparatively high click-through rate, which your PPC provider can tell you about. If your click-through rate is low, you might want to change the content of your ad to attract more clicks.
Are you really interested in driving massive traffic to your website?
One way to earn money on the Internet is to sell products that solve people's problems. An easy way to do that is to become an affiliate marketer for products that are already created.
One way that has proven to be successful is to sell information products to earn money on the Internet. This makes sense for several reasons.
1. People are already using the Internet to search for information so there certainly is a market already available to you. You just need to find the questions that people are searching for answers for, and then provide the answers in the form of a product you sell.
2. Digital products provide instant access which is a great thing for both you and your customer. They do not have to wait to receive a shipment in the mail, and you do not have to spend any money shipping to them.
3. There are numerous digital information products available already for you to sell at Clickbank.com. As a matter of fact you can join their affiliate program for free and have thousands of ebooks to sell right now.
You will find these available by category and they even rank the most popular ones at the front. You can also see exactly how much money you will make on each sale, and many of the publishers provide marketing materials such as banners and graphics to help you close more sales.
As you can see if you want to earn money on the Internet digital information products are a fantastic way to do it.
Bill Bettler has been in sales and marketing for over 13 years. He currently makes a full time living online. Born and raised in New York, Bill was previously co-owner of DMP Mortgage, a Florida Lending company.
Online Affiliate Marketing Secrets - 3 Highly Guarded Secrets to Boost Your Affiliate Business
Have you ever wonder why some people can be so successful in their online affiliate marketing business while others will not be even making a dime online? The main reason is they are doing the correct thing that the majority of the new marketers are not doing. Here are the 3 online affiliate marketing secrets which you can use to boost your affiliate business.
1) Branding Your Own Name And Business
Even though you might be promoting another person's product, you will need to be aware that you must brand yourself as the reliable person who is the one who recommending the products to your customers. When you brand yourself, your customers will know you better and you will be their source of getting constant relevant content. You will want to brand your own name and business so that your customers will be aware of you. When your customers trust you, you will be getting more responsive customer list.
2) Focus On Driving Traffic To Your Website
Once you have decided on the market, selected the product that you want to promote and created your website, the next thing that you will have to do is to send constant traffic to your website. You will want to make sure that you are driving all the traffic to your own squeeze page so that you will be able to build your own list of subscribers and follow up with them. You must put in the commitment and action to drive consistent traffic to your website.
3) Writing Your Own Ad Copy And Email Copy
There are some good affiliate programs that will provide their affiliates with the tools to help them promote the product. The majority of the marketers will just make use of the tools and do the promotion. You can take one step further by editing the ad copy and the email copy so that it will be unique and it will shows your style of communication with your subscribers. You will get good response from the visitors as your copy will stands out from the rest.
Here are the 3 online affiliate marketing secrets which you can use in your business to greatly boost your affiliate income. Reading the tips alone will not be enough as you will have to apply it to see the effectiveness of the strategies.
Make Money Online Through Blogging
Are you feeling the pinch of the economy yet? You're not alone. Millions of people are losing their jobs due to lay offs. Others are taking jobs that are low for their skill set, just to be working. Wouldn't it be great to make some extra money from home? You can do this through affiliate marketing.
You may read the word "marketing" and think, "Ah, I don't want to sell something." That's a valid point. Many people don't like selling as a way to get money. But affiliate marketing isn't just about selling.
See, have you ever seen a good movie and told several of your friends about it? Then they go see the movie? Or have you ever bought a product or food that you really liked and the next thing you knew, all your friends had one too because you kept talking it up? I know I have and I always joked that the company should be paying me to bring them all those sales.
Well this is what affiliate marketing is. You create a website or blog (you can even do this for free) and recommend products that you like. If someone buys it, then you get a commission for it.
It works for the company too, since they don't have to pay you if they don't make a sale. There's no expense for them for this type of advertising.
While many people are making a full-time income through affiliate marketing, the great thing about it is that it's something that you can start up in your spare time. Getting started in affiliate marketing doesn't have to take a lot of time. Just a few hours here and there and you'll be making money in no time at all.
How many times have you sat in a traffic jam at seven o'clock in the morning and wished you worked from home? How many times have you stood in the pouring rain waiting on a bus forever and not getting home until all hours wishing you had an online income from home? How many times have you sat in work and you wished you could tell your useless boss to stick his job so you could be your own leader?
Well, the truth is that there is nothing stopping you. The internet opens up the whole world to you as a potential employment centre, everyone with a computer is a potential customer. People automatically think that to earn money online and work from home involves a lot of money and a lot of know how but this is not true. Absolutely anyone can earn an income from home and it is cheap to do so.
Types of work from home ideas are:
Affiliate Marketing
Freelance Article Writing
Online Paid Surveys
Email Filtering
This is only a tiny amount of the options available to you, but these are example of cheap and easy to set up work from home ideas. If you take the Freelance Article Writing for example. Webmasters will want unique and original articles for their website and will contract out people to write these articles and pay them for it. There are websites about every subject imaginable. So you will always find a website with a subject you have an expert opinion on and therefore an opportunity to use this knowledge for your own gain.
One of the other examples involves online surveys. Let us start with a word of warning. For people starting out working from home there are a lot of sites that promise you all sorts of riches and deliver very little, but there are some legitimate ones still out there that you can get involved with. If you are an open person and are willing to give your opinion to wherever asked this is a scheme that involves no capital and little knowledge. Be aware that some of these can be tedious and mind numbing, but as far as an extra income from home is concerned, it is easy to get into.
Forex Trading — Opportunities for Individuals
Forex Trading-How Can Individual Investors Benefit?
Indeed large multinational and individual banks and other major financial institutions have dominated FX trading (also known as Forex trading), but there is a paradigm change in the nature and type of investing. According to one estimate, in the new millennium, there are over 6 million online investment accounts, up from 1.5 million in 1997. As a result, start-up firms now compete directly with financial institutions to serve investors in the new technologically driven economy, and the clear winner is the customer. The competition between the brick and mortar institutions and the Internet-based companies has dramatically lowered the costs of investing, and empowered the individual investor to take control of their own investment strategy in Forex trading.
We know Forex trading is direct access trading of currencies. In the past, foreign exchange trading was limited to large banks and institutional traders but recent advancements in technology have allowed small traders to take advantage of the many benefits of Forex trading using online trading platforms to trade. Virtually Forex trading is done 24 hours day and almost 5 ? days of a week. In the recent times, online trading has revolutionized the currency markets by making it accessible to the small and medium sized investor.
The Forex trading is perhaps the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average turnover of approximately $1.5 trillion. Foreign Exchange is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. The world's currencies are on a floating exchange rate and are always traded in pairs, for example EUR/USD or USD/JPY or USD/INR etc.
In the new millennium, the Forex trading has become accessible for an individual investor or small group of investors. In the current scenario, investors reap many benefits from Forex trading than stock market, e-mini futures and such other trading. Today mostly traders are choosing Forex trading than stock trading because there are approximately 4,500 stocks listed on the New York Stock exchange. Another 3,500 are listed on the NASDAQ. In spot Forex trading, you have 4 major markets, 24 hours a day 5.5 days a week. If you are so inclined, you have approximately 34 second-tier currencies to look at in your spare time. You can concentrate on the major forex and can find your trade. When you are investing in forex you can spend your afternoon on the golf course or with your spouse watching movie or celebrating holidays-in short it is easy and hassle free than stock/future market.
Not only is it an accessible, easy and less capital-intensive business opportunity, but it is much more cost efficient too to invest in the Forex market, in terms of both commissions and transaction fees. Generally, commissions for stock trades range from a low of $7.95-$29.95 per trade with on-line brokers to over $100 per trade with traditional brokers. Opposite to that, typically stock commissions are directly related to the level of service offered by the broker. At the high end, traditional brokers offer full access to research, analyst stock recommendations, etc. In contrast, on-line Forex brokers charge significantly lower commission and transaction fees.
Forex: Benefits of Trading the Forex Market
Trading the Forex market has become very popular in the last years. Why is it that traders around the world see the Forex market as an investment opportunity? We will try to answer this question in this article. Also we will discuss come differences between the Forex market, the stocks market and the futures market.
Some of the benefits of trading the Forex market are:
Superior liquidity.
Liquidity is what really makes the Forex market different from other markets. The Forex market is by far the most liquid financial market in the world with nearly 2 trillion dollars traded everyday. This ensures price stability and better trade execution. Allowing traders to open and close transactions with ease. Also such a tremendous volume makes it hard to manipulate the market in an extended manner.
24hr Market.
This one is also one of the greatest advantages of trading Forex. It is an around the click market, the market opens on Sunday at 3:00 pm EST when New Zealand begins operations, and closes on Friday at 5:00 pm EST when San Francisco terminates operations. There are transactions in practically every time zone, allowing active traders to choose at what time to trade.
Leverage trading.
Trading the Forex Market offers a greater buying power than many other markets. Some Forex brokers offer leverage up to 400:1, allowing traders to have only 0.25% in margin of the total investment. For instance, a trader using 100:1 means that to have a US$100,000 position, only US$1,000 are needed on margin to be able to open that position.
Low Transaction costs.
Almost all brokers offer commission free trading. The only cost traders incur in any transaction is the spread (difference between the buy and sell price of each currency pair). This spread could be as low as 1 pip (the minimum increment in any currency pair) in some pairs.
Low minimum investment.
The Forex market requires less capital to start trading than any other markets. The initial investment could go as low as $300 USD, depending on leverage offered by the broker. This is a great advantage since Forex traders are able to keep their risk investment to the lowest level.
Specialized trading.
The liquidity of the market allows us to focus on just a few instruments (or currency pairs) as our main investments (85% of all trading transactions are made on the seven major currencies). Allowing us to monitor, and at the end get to know each instrument better.
Trading from anywhere.
If you do a lot of traveling, you can trade from anywhere in the world just having an internet connection.
Some of the most important differences between the Forex market and other markets are explained below.
Forex market vs. Equity markets
Liquidity
FX market: Near two trillion dollars of daily volume.
Equity market: Around 200 billion on a daily basis.
Trading hours
FX market: 24hr market, 5.5 days a week.
Equity market: Monday through Friday from 8:30 EST to 5:00 EST.
Profit potential
FX market: In both, rising and falling markets.
Equity market: Most traders/investor profit only from rising markets.
Transaction costs
FX market: Commission free and tight spreads.
Equity market: High Commissions and transaction fees.
Buying power
FX market: Leverage up to 400:1.
Equity market: Leverage from 2:1 to 4:1.
Specialization
FX market: most volume (85%) is made on major currencies (USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD and AUD.)
Equity market: More than 40,000 stocks to choose from.
Forex market vs. Futures market
Liquidity
FX Market: Near two trillion dollars of daily volume.
Futures market: Around 400 billion dollars on a daily basis.
Transaction costs
FX market: Commission free and tight spreads.
Futures market: High commissions fees.
Margin
FX market: Fixed rate of margin on every position.
Futures market: Different levels of margin on overnight positions than day time positions.
Trade execution
FX market: Instantaneous execution.
Futures market: Inconsistent execution.
All this makes the Forex market very attractive to investors and traders. But I need to make something clear, although the benefits of trading the Forex market are notorious; it is still difficult to make a successful career trading the Forex market. It requires a lot of education, discipline, commitment and patience, as any other market.
