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Statistics confirm the above. In January 2003, the total global daily cash game turnover for online poker was just $10 million (ВЈ5.3m) and in 2004 it rose to $60m (ВЈ32m). Now, $180m (ВЈ95m) is wagered in cash game pots in online poker every day! Not surprisingly, this number is expected to grow steadily every year.

How different is online poker compared to playing it on-site?

There are hundreds of portals offering online poker; most of them are, more or less, similar. The difference, if any, is usually in the gaming environment and the quality of interaction with other players. This could depend a lot on the popularity of the site, as popular gaming sites try to have certain in- built checks and attract serious gamblers who can in turn, enhance your ov ... Read more »

You've done your market research, found a profitable niche, planned your website's theme and layout.

Now all you need to do is build the site, buy a domain name and - voila - the cash starts rolling in.

Hold on there cowboy. While making lots of money with your website is very possible, it's not as easy as it used to be.

Increasing competition, fickle web searchers and crazy search engine algorithms make earning money from your website a little harder than it used to be.

Don't get me wrong though: If you're serious about making a living online and you work hard, you can make more money than you ever dreamed possible. The key is that you have to realize that every little decision you make in your web business helps propel you to the top and give you that edge.

One way to get an edge over your competitors and and keep your customers coming back is to choose the right domain name. (Your domain name is the unique name that identifies your Internet website.)

Here are the top 3 ways the right d ... Read more »

Step 2.
Buy - yes buy - a good website builder package that will teach you how to build and upload your website. You can try to find, and get free website builders, some are available with your hosting provider, but with most of them you get few useful features, very little control, very few choices about how your website is being built and you have no idea how to make changes yourself if and when you need to quickly and easily - and you never really know what's going on!!
I currently use Microsoft Frontpage as my website builder - HTML editor - you may have it in your microsoft suite on your PC now - if not - then get it.
Frontpage also uploads your website to your host and therefore to the internet (most host providers have frontpage extensions as standard now days) . YOU have control of what you do, when you do i ... Read more »

Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily. And if your website is rich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well?

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and probably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessman's products on your site. But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as it works for the affiliates.

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Today, both the merchants and the affiliates can see clearly that affiliate marketing can work for both of them. The merchant sees affiliate marketing today as the chance to advertise their products at a lower cost. The affiliates, on the other hand, sees affiliate marketing as an easy way of earning profits online by doing what they like most, and that is by creating websites.

Just as the popularity of affiliate marketing has shifted into greater heights, so has the people's outlook about it changed. No longer is affiliate marketing considered today as an alternative method for the merchant to advertise his products, or as a source of additional income for the affiliates. For merchants and affiliates alike, affiliate marketing is now considered as a main source of profits and revenues.

So the question now is what type of affiliate marketing will work bes ... Read more »

Commission percentages very from site to site. Sometimes they pay an online affiliate up to as much as 75 to 95% per sale. Why so high? They are trying to generate traffic and get repeat customers.

There are so many different techniques people use that it is always wise to get online affiliate marketing help. There are many programs and books that offer affiliate marketing help. I will post some links that will give you some choices in choosing the right online marking help for you.

The big attraction to many people to become an online affiliate is that you don't have to come up with your own product. This means that you don't have any overhead and very little expense to sell their products. You can do online affiliate marketing right from your home. Many people have made a full time job being an online affiliate.

There are m ... Read more »

Online dating web site has been unheard off in the past years. But as the popularity of internet use grew, online dating web sites also cropped up. Majority of people met their boyfriends and girlfriends through traditional means. The most popular ways to meet someone included blind dates, setups, meeting through friends and colleagues, and of course bar and club hopping. By 2000, online dating entered the scene. Still, many people lacked internet access and therefore were unable to take advantage of the technology. Today, online dating web sites are worth $300 million industry in the US alone and rapidly expanding worldwide.

There are more than 700 dating services online in the United States alone and new sites are cropping up weekly. The huge array of dating services online can be overwhelming even for the most proactive dater. An average dating services online might demand $200 fee or less annually. Carefully weigh each option before committing to an online dating web site.

There are a number of online dating web sites over the net to choose from. Online dating web site is derived from traditional dating companies that have evolved into an online service of provid ... Read more »

Search engine optimization - What is it?

SEO is a term used to describe the optimization of a website for maximum search engine "compatibility, attention, and exposure" Those terms are in quotes because they are words that I have chosen to explain SEO in more lamens terms.

Why do people do seo for their websites?

If it isn’t already obvious, that’s ok, but the main reason is because the more sites/pages you have listed in the search engines, and the higher they rank - the more traffic (visitors) you will get to your sites. If your website is designed to make money, then the more traffic you get the more money your site will make. Now it must be obvious that SEO is used to make websites succeed online. Now lets learn the basics of SEO.

I believe that there is no such thing has perfect SEO. In other words, there is no absolute definite answer to SEO. Why? Because SEO is basically reverse engineering the search engines - and that’s said to be impossible. I believe there are many different forms of successful SEO. There are also common, widely known, successful SEO techniques as well. For me or anyone else to try to teach ... Read more »

Search engine optimization (SEO) helps a website easily appear in the radar of a search engine. Webmasters are fully aware of the needs of SEO for the best performance of their websites in search engines. SEO is important as millions of internet users use search engines to find out what they want. So Redscowl Bluesingsky SEO Contest has started at Dec-25-2005.

There are both ethical and unethical SEO practices. In the Redscowl Bluesingsky SEO Contest http://redscowlbluesingsky.name everything is allowed. They are broadly called White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO. The black hat SEO artificially improves the ranking by trading links with a lot of websites. A White Hat SEO works within the guidelines of search engines, and while not looking for the loopholes in the rules. Professional SEO consultants offer both.

It is good on your part to select the SEO company that offer SEO service, with permitted SEO techniques. James Saunders is a SEO Expert The SEO company that offers affordable SEO services can help in the optimization or SEO-ing your site. Make sure you choose professional SEO consultant James Saunders ... Read more »

SEO is the art to feed the SE spiders what they like;
SEO software is running after the spiders trying to catch their attention.

Before buying SEO software, look at their example SEO websites and check if you can say YES on 3 items:

1. Is the keyword's popularity high?
2. Is the keyword's competition high?
3. Is the keywords' ranking in the SE number 1?

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SEO Elite does what exactly?

SEO Elite starts from the following assumption:

- look at the page that ranks number 1 in Google,
- do exactly the same + a bit better,
- and you will be number 1

SEO Elite will examine "all" the SEO parameters that it finds out about the number 1 site in Google. Then this SE software will automate the process in mimicking this for your site.

SEO is more than a software-approach!

SEO is the art of ranking number 1 in any search engine for any keyword.

Spiders rank a website number one because spiders "think" that this site deserves to be number one. Of course the spider cannot think: there needs to be a programmer who programs the spider ... Read more »

Getting top search engine listing is perhaps one of the hottest subjects in the internet marketing world. The problem is that many discussions on this subject are based on speculation. Almost no one knows the exact algorithms of the search engines. And what make it worse is that the search engines have a habit of changing their algorithms.

However, some people are so obsessed with top search engine listing that they tend to undermine the importance of other web traffic generation techniques. These "trances" are partly caused by some misleading myths that surround the search engine marketing subject. Below are two of those myths with some empirical facts that contradict and refute them.

Myth #1: "You can't get loads of targeted traffic without the top search engine listing."

This is completely wrong. Jack Humphrey, the power linking guy, has given us a picture that it is possible to get huge amount of targeted traffic without the top search engine listing. In his Special Report, "What if Google Didn't Exist?," he shared one of his sites' stat in April 2004 and guess what? From 71,444 unique visitors that he got at that month, "google search" referred only a smal ... Read more »

Why should you pay to get web site traffic, isn't SEO enough?

It's a fair question - after all most businesses on and offline have tight budgets to play with and need to make each and every penny count.
So why should you as a business pay good money to drive targeted traffic to your site?

Perhaps there's a clue in the last question.

What other options are there?

You have 3 basic choices to get traffic to your website:

1. You pay - using PPC, ezine ads, banners etc...
2. You borrow - constructing Joint Ventures and endorsed offers with partners
3. You grow your own - with natural search engine optimisation

So which is the best?
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Well they all do a different job and have different characteristics, perhaps the best information source you could hope to find on the subject is found here:
http://www.trackingandtesting.com/dystatic/TrafficGeneration.php

But why PPC?

You need PPC because you can:

* Control the flow of traffic to your website
* Target buying customers and those most likely to buy through correct keyword targeting
* Test different offers

The last benefit abo ... Read more »

For us to experience this sense of fulfilment we don't need to make major life changes on a daily basis. Similarly, you don't need books of self improvement ideas to make a difference in your life. You need self improvement ideas that you can use and apply and make part of your life. These ideas needn't be complicated. It is often the simplest ideas that create the greatest changes in our lives.

By making small incremental changes towards our ultimate vision of our lives on a daily basis, we start to build unstoppable momentum in our lives. People often rush in and create massive changes in their lives and try to change everything in their lives overnight. This kind of change and self improvement rarely lasts.

Whenever you learn a new self improvemen ... Read more »

Live every moment of your life as a love-live affair and create a win-win situation for yourself. The love-live relationship leads to a world of great joy, excitement, success and happiness. Love your life and let it flourish in a loving environment. Think who else need your love more than YOU.

In order to love yourself, you need to know yourself. When you know yourself then you also know your positive and negative points. You also know what can be done and what cannot. What can and what cannot work for you. Self-knowledge is your greatest power and strength.

Keep the book of your life remain open in front of you. Every chapter of this book reveals the true story of your life. Don't keep yourself in the dark by hiding the truth. Don't betray yourself. Be honest! Take full responsibility of your actions. Admit your mistakes, forgive yourself for the past mistakes and avoid repeating them. Treat yourself nicely, and start living a stress-free and depression-free life.

You need not write down your autobiography and get it published. However, it is important to keep t ... Read more »

Change has a very negative connotation for most people. On a deep emotional level we are creatures of comfort and we automatically seek out that which feels good in the moment. We long for comfort and this usually comes from that which we know; that which is familiar to us. Once we can comfortably deal with and "know" all the "unknowns" we can "relax" - because your nervous system and your mind is designed to find and attach a meaning(s) to everything and therefore something new is always a confrontation between that which is and that which will be in your mind.

The unknown is always something that your mind and your nervous system has to "unravel" afresh and this very process feels uncomfortable on many levels. When something becomes comfortable you get used to it as you remove all the "unknowns" and your automatic behaviour can take over again. Our nervous system works primarily by conditioning and by repetition we notice and assume patterns that are consistent. This system is really there to serve u ... Read more »

Working at home has been a dream of many that goes back many years. Staying at home and enjoying watching the kids grow up is a goal worth fighting for.

Let's take a look into making a living or part time living from the comfort of your home. You owe it to yourself to gain the freedom a home business can offer.

In the past, there have been multi-level marketing plans to sell everything from vitamins to soap. There have been mail order catalog opportunities. Many tried buying and selling real estate. Each of these opportunities made many people a lot of money, but each of them also cost many people a lot of money.

More people have spent money than have made money in every business venture. The problem is many inexperienced people get into moneymaking schemes after attending a meeting somewhere. The offer may be legitimate, but most people fail in business.

According to the US Small Business Administration, over 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95% fail with the first five years. That is a scary statistic.

This means that the average business is doomed to fail from the beginning. It also means that you will lose a lot of money if you ... Read more »

Dedicated Web-Hosting is where your site is the only site on the server which gives you more control but is considerably a more expensive option.

Shared-Hosting is the most common type of web-hosting . With this type of web-hosting you are allocated a pre-set amount of space and bandwidth. Of course you have less control and fewer resources available to you, but costs are a lot less than dedicated web-hosting.

Reseller Web-Hosting is a type of web-hosting that is derived from the web-host who buys in bulk from another company who may own as well as maintain their own server. The reseller then divides the bulk plan into smaller plans and then resells these smaller plans to other individuals. Reseller web-hosting packages offers an individual an opportunity to have an internet-based business without having the expense of managing their own equipment.

Customers are beginning to demand more from their web-hosts. They w ... Read more »

A national advertising campaign aimed at promoting Burlington Island to potential developers is expected to cost about $12,000, Mayor Darlene Scocca said this week.

How the campaign will be funded and whether interested developers should be charged $150 to show initial interest in the island, however, has created another rift in the historically strained relationship between the City Council and the Board of Island Managers. The two elected bodies share control of the 400-acre island in the Delaware River off the city waterfront.

Scocca said city officials want to charge each interested developer $150 for a copy of the bid specifications to recoup some of the costs of advertising.

Those specifications cost the city about $3,000 to produce. They will be available in CD-ROM format, Scocca said.

Island board President Joe Abate said board members are opposed to charging potential developers for copies of the specifications because it could turn them away from the project.

"You can't charge for public information and the island managers do not want to support a pay-for-play process," Abate said. "We fee ... Read more »

The first stipulation is that the two properties involved in the swap be in use for 'trade or productive purposes', that is that they are moneymaking concerns of some kind, such as a rental property or holiday home. The property intended for swapping must also reside in the US, though it can be located at any point within.

1031 exchanges necessitate the involvement of what are known as Qualified Intermediaries, who deal with the paperwork involved in the switch, and assume a role akin to a property purchaser. The property to be exchanged is handed over to this intermediary, until the property owner locates a new property, at which point the switch can be made.