Google Battle - Great Keyword Comparison Tool

Posted 29 February, 2008 in Articles, Tools

A fun (and informative) tool to use to check the popularity of one keyword, or set of keywords against another is the little search engine that could - Google Battle.

The keyword that has the most search results in Google wins.

Along with the declared ‘winner’ of the battling keywords competition, you get an actual keyword count with a clickable link to view the results for each search term.

If you just want to know the number of search terms used, click the little ‘Google Mega Battle’ link for keyword count.

Once you are finished battling, scroll down to see the list of most recent keyword comparisons.

If you want to see the latest, up-to-the-minute ‘hot trends’ keyword searches on Google, go to Google Hot Trends.

Have Fun!

Geo Targeting

Posted 28 February, 2008 in Articles

Geo targeting is basically used for two purposes in Internet Marketing.

1. Targeting your advertising campaign and
2. Targeting your site content to match your customers geographic location.

One of the main reasons for using Geotargeting Techniques on your website is to drastically increase your sales, and/or, improve customer loyalty.

Here is a link to an excellent article on Geo Targeting by Richard Killian of Imnica.com.

Using Geotargeting. … read more

Advanced Marketing Institute’s Headline Analyzer

Posted 18 February, 2008 in Tools

The Advanced Marketing Institute’s Headline Analyzer is both a fun and an informative tool to use when choosing a headline for your marketing or promotional material.

Most professional copywriters’ headlines will have 30%-40% EMV Words (Emotional Marketing Value) in their headlines, while the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in headlines.

To use this tool, simply type your intended headline and click ‘Submit’ for an instant, free analysis.

Keep in mind that it is important to use headlines with emotional marketing value when created articles or marketing related information or products.

Headlines with little or no emotional words rarely do as well as headlines with stronger emotional content. If your headline receives a low score, try another. You can attempt to shorten your headlines, or use different words and analyze the new headline.

Broadband Users - Speed up Firefox

Posted 10 February, 2008 in Articles

This is not necessarily an affiliate marketing related topic. However, browser speed can make your life a lot easier when working online, especially for those of us specializing in affiliate sales and marketing and other online ventures.

Having tested and used several different browsers I can honestly say that my preference is Mozilla Firefox. Being a recent convert to Broadband, I must confess that I was somewhat disappointed in my new ‘high speed’ service. Being faster than dial-up, it was still quite slow, which was quite a disappointment.

However, I discovered that the slowness wasn’t altogether the fault of the broadband connection. Some of the problem was related to Firefox. Once I made the changes detailed below to my Firefox Browers, I was amazed at how much faster pages load.

Making Firefox faster is a relatively easy procedure. Just follow the instructions below and be prepared to be amazed!

HOW TO CONFIGURE AND SPEED UP YOUR FIREFOX BROWSER

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Then scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”
to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.

Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

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