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<title>Bill Platt - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill Platt resides with his family in Stillwater, Oklahoma and has operated a number of websites since 1999. Since 2001, he has been providing marketing and advertising services to online business owners.

He worked as a ghost writer from 2001-2009, and operated a SEO business from 2004-2009. He is well-known as an expert in both Article Marketing and SEO.]]></description>
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<title>The Death of Quality Content: Become Part of the Solution, Not the Problem</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:45:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No matter where you go online, you are bound to find someone complaining about the quality of content available online. When we want to find information that answers our questions for us, the last thing we want to do is to land on a MFA site with questionable content. And yet, many of the people who complain about this state of affairs also contribute to the problem. Believe it or not, you have the ability to become part of the solution, rather than to continue being part of the problem. Keep reading to learn how...]]></description>
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<title>Cutting Through The Information Overload: Grab Your Readers' Attention With a Great Title</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:17:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As avid readers, we have trained our brains to scan the headlines looking for something that might suit our desires... This article will give you a solid understanding of how to grab your readers by the eyeballs and get them to open and read your articles...]]></description>
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<title>Five Essential Elements of Successful Article Marketing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:16:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have written and distributed many articles that went on to generate sales in the five figures... But for the sake of the FTC, "Very few people will make this kind of money with Article Marketing..." If you understand the "how and why" of writing great articles, perhaps you can generate more sales from your articles than I have from mine... ]]></description>
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<title>The Road to Online Marketing Success Requires Commitment</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:24:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Unsuccessful online marketers are notorious opportunity seekers - giving an opportunity only a couple of weeks to start showing results, before changing directions to chase the next flavor of the week. It almost seems that the majority of online marketers are chasing get-rich-quick schemes, rather than trying to develop a legitimate business. Those who are successful online, are the kind of people who make a solid commitment to a particular business model and make a long-term commitment to a realistic marketing plan.]]></description>
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<title>Top 10 Reasons Why Online Marketers Fail With Article Marketing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:15:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you've been marketing products online for any length of time, you've likely heard people talk about the power and promise of article marketing for the promotion of your online business. Unfortunately, many online marketers have tried to utilize article marketing to benefit their online business and failed. In this article, I review the top ten reasons most online marketers fail to be successful with article marketing.]]></description>
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<title>Inside of the Profitable Article Marketing Strategy and Structure</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:08:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Regardless of your online business model, there is always going to be a need for content creation. The Internet is a unique marketplace. When consumers have a question about a product, service or process, consumers turn to the Internet to find answers to the questions that they are most interested in discovering the answers. This article will guide you through designing a strategy for article marketing success, while also discussing the structure of the profitable article format...]]></description>
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<title>Stop Wasting Time and Money With Your Article Marketing</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:48:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Online marketers are always arguing for or against the value of article marketing. Many will argue that article marketing could provide real traffic and sales to one's website, and furthermore, article submission has the potential to offer some serious SEO value to the marketers' websites. Many more will tell you that article marketing is an utter waste of time and money... The difference between those who do well with article marketing and those who do not is usually a matter of education, or lack thereof...]]></description>
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<title>Article Directory Managers Take Stand Against Private Label Content</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/177352</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:13:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Article directory managers are almost universally banning the submission of rebrandable articles or private label content. People who submit this content are getting permanently banned from directories on account of it. ]]></description>
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<title>Where Are Your Articles Being Published?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:36:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today's article hungry marketplace, there are literally hundreds of websites where you can submit your articles.]]></description>
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<title>Why Didn't You Publish My Article? Other Major Article Sites Did!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112739</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:58:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A question that many article directory managers receive is, "Do you feel like giving me a reason for rejecting my article, considering all the other major article sites have published my article?" Read this article to learn the answer.]]></description>
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<title>The Blog and the Nature of Natural Linking</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:56:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A lot of people are talking, and few of them know, the soul of 
a search engine was created in the blog. ;-)

There has been a lot of talk about Natural Linking. From Oakland 
(Ask Jeeves), Sunnyvale (Yahoo!) and Mountain View (Google), 
California, all of the search engine companies are talking more 
publicly about "Natural Linking":
http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter174.htm#facts]]></description>
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<title>14 Tips For Getting Your Articles Published More Often</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112729</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:38:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The writers who have learned the value of using free reprint articles as a promotional tool, go back to the well time and time again because it generates real results. Some writers have ended using all other methods of promotion because reprint articles work so very well. It is a beautiful thing when one of my clients tell me that they need to stop article distributions for a spell because they are swamped with new business and need to have time to catch up. Of course, that is less money for now, but they will be back.]]></description>
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<title>We Are Off to See the SEM Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112735</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:26:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the process of Search Engine Marketing, far too many people get lost while they are searching for the Wizard of Oz. TWISTED LOGIC When creating web content for others, I am often blind-sided by the twisted logic of client webmasters. The point of writing original content for these people was to help them establish a legitimate presence in the search engines for their targeted niche.]]></description>
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<title>Shopping In The 21st Century - Introducing the Educated Consumer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:23:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before I came online, I had a dream of a great wide world were I could learn about all of the things that ever struck my fancy. When I came online, I found just such a world, and then so much more.]]></description>
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<title>Discover How Hollywood Met the American Old West in Real Life</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:22:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HOW THE OLD WEST HAS BEEN DEFINED People refer to the 'Old West' as the 'Wild West' or simply the 'West'. No matter how what they might call it, many look upon the American Old West as a wild and dangerous place that existed in the last half of the 1800's in the American Frontier, west of the Mississippi River in the United States.]]></description>
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<title>Starting an Ebay Business --- An Online Business Model that Works</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:13:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE REALITIES OF AN INTERNET BUSINESS 

Millions of people are still coming online each year, and many of 
those people come to the Internet with dreams of making their 
financial dreams come true. 


The truth is that building a website to sell products and 
services is not the easiest way to make a living online. A lot of 
specific knowledge or money will be required to be successful 
with a standard website.
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<title>Distributing Reprint Articles For the Best Results</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112734</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:06:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are many writers who are utilizing article distribution services to get articles published in ezines and newsletters and on websites. These articles always have a link back to the website of the writer in the article's Resource Box --- the About the Author information which typically follows an article. This has always been one of the best methods a webmaster could use to generate web traffic to his or her site.]]></description>
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<title>Using Free-Reprint Articles As a One-Way Link Back Strategy</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112728</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:05:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the advent of Google's Link Popularity algorythms, people began to aggressively hunt for the almighty inbound links. It is hard to get links back to one's site using freebie strategies unless you want to spend your days posting comments on guestbooks and setting up your own doorway pages on alternate sites.]]></description>
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<title>When to Use Free Stuff to Market Your Products and Services</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112725</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:25:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SIT AND CONTEMPLATE THIS STORY In 1999, I was contacted by a furniture company asking for advice about how to turn around their internet business. It seems that they were very successful in the non-digital, real-world, business environment. They were a small enterprise generating a few million dollars a year in sales for their furniture products.]]></description>
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<title>The Day the Internet Search Engines Stopped Growing!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112724</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:13:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A fascinating thing happened today on the way to this article. 
The story here was not planned, rather it was discovered. 

An amazing and bizarre event seems to have happened in January 
and February of 2003. In those early months of 2003, the major 
search engines stopped growing, and few people seem to even care. ]]></description>
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<title>Become a Recognized Name - You're in Control of Your Own Destiny</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/112723</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:03:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you are reading this article today, you are likely among those who are working an online business. Unfortunately, you have already learned that finding customers is not as easy as you once thought it would be. Many people have broken the bank and their dreams searching for that first customer or second customer.]]></description>
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<title>Add Value to Your User's Experiences - Add Profits to Your Bottom Line</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111859</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:58:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a webmaster, you are likely searching for ways to make more money from your website. The truth is that if you have been online for any amount of time, you have learned that you always need to be on the prowl for new information to help you to be more successful, and you always need to keep one eye open looking for new ways to add more dollars to your bottom line. That is likely why you are reading this article today. You are hoping that I might be able to share some small tidbit or jewel of information that might help take you and your business to the next level. I hope that I will be able to meet your expectations.]]></description>
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<title>Writing Tips for Email Distribution of Your Article or Message</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111848</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:50:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It has long been understood that writing for the web is 
different than writing for a print publisher. There have 
been volumes written on this subject. 

I am here to share with you some important lessons that I have
discovered about Writing for Email.]]></description>
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<title>Deciding Whether to Offer Your New Gadget as a Product or Service</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111849</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:39:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have ever made and designed your own software, you will
have likely already learned the lessons in this article. The 
same lessons can be applied to the businesses of most Internet 
marketers. 

The main lesson I learned was that it does not matter how good 
your software product is, the quality of the product does not 
ensure its financial success.]]></description>
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<title>Learn How to Build an Internet Niche by Studying the Methodology of Land Developers</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111850</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111850</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:37:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX

My mind is a strange little land where thoughts go off on 
tangents and venture into realms unknown even to me. If I could 
predict the wanderings of my own mind, I seriously doubt that 
it would deliver to me such jewels as this one today.]]></description>
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<title>Peak Cycles are Driven by Timely Content</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111844</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111844</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:35:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The very first time I had ever experienced this phenomena online 
was in December of 1996. In those way-back days, I ran a site 
focused on selling Christian t-shirts. Back then, I had posted 
Christian based poetry on my website to draw traffic to the 
domain. Over the two days leading up to Christmas and the two 
days following Christmas, I had served as much traffic as I 
had in the previous nine months of existence!]]></description>
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<title>The Five Most Powerful Forms of Internet Advertising</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111855</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111855</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:34:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Webmasters and Entrepreneurs around the world are beginning to learn first-hand the long-term value of using Promotional ezine articles to promote their businesses in the online environment. When you are promoting your website, there are five methods that clearly occupy the top five positions in the ratings for effectiveness. ]]></description>
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<title>A Short-Sighted View of Internet Promotion</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111862</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111862</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:22:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was visiting a bulletin board earlier this evening when I came across a posting from a very short-sighted webmaster: "With 360+ members, I don't think I'll 'get more views' to my site 'than ever before'. All I'm going to get is more time wasted..."]]></description>
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<title>Ten Tips to Help Select Affiliate Programs &amp; Make Money from Them</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111835</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111835</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:19:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SUPPLEMENTAL INTERNET INCOME

Many publishers and webmasters undertake the process of picking
and adding affiliate programs to add a few extra bucks to their
bottom lines.

When you have managed to pick a winner, the selected affiliate
program can develop enough additional income to make it worth
while to continue to offer the program to your visitors.]]></description>
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<title>The Basics of a Mailing List Structure</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111843</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111843</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:16:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The short and sweet of it is that a mailing list is nothing
more than a plain text file that contains email addresses. 
Sometimes these *flat files* also contain first and last 
names, as well as other additional and optional information.]]></description>
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<title>Six Keys to Creating a Successful and Profitable Ezine</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111847</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111847</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:07:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fortunes are made on the Internet by people who have built
solid mailing lists for the promotion of their online 
businesses. But the question many publishers face is how to 
turn their ezine subscribers into buyers? 

Let me be honest with you. Your mailing list is only as valuable 
as your subscriber's willingness to purchase your products and 
services, or the products and services of your advertisers.]]></description>
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<title>The Power of Free Reprint Articles and the Terms of Reprint</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111802</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111802</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:45:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WRITERS ARE THE PUBLISHER'S AND WEBMASTER'S BEST FRIEND

As a writer of free-reprint articles, I know full well the 
intentions of the writer's who make their articles available 
to publishers and webmasters as *free* content.]]></description>
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<title>Keyword Rich Content + Well Written Press Release = Wow Results</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111832</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:42:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is not everyday that you launch a new website. It is even less everyday that you launch a new domain and experience significant website traffic within just a few weeks. I launched a new website in the middle of December, 2003. But as this article explains, using press releases may enable you to direct large amounts of traffic to your websites quickly and with some longevity... The traffic stream started in 2003 continues to hum along today at a very brisk pace.]]></description>
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<title>Snowballs Rolling Down a Mountain! (Updated)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111812</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111812</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:41:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN LAST A LIFETIME

The very first step in the promotion process is making contact
with your potential customer. Once contact is made, it is 
suggested that you have 30 seconds to get their attention. ]]></description>
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<title>Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Laptop Battery</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111798</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111798</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:40:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The actual life of a laptop battery will vary with computer usage habits. For most users, it is not uncommon to experience differences in battery life, of anywhere from just under one hour to over two hours in each sitting. If you are experiencing shorter battery life cycles, say 10 to 15 minutes, it may not yet be time to order that new battery.]]></description>
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<title>'Loosing' Customers and Losing Sales</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111811</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111811</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:21:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I review each article for distribution to the groups, I see one misspelling time after time that really leaps from the page. Hey, it is not my reputation on the line, so why should it matter?]]></description>
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<title>Pull Technology Takes Your Ezine Off of the Spam Wars Battlefield</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111814</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111814</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:18:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN LAST A LIFETIME

The very first step in the promotion process is making contact
with your potential customer. Once contact is made, it is 
suggested that you have 30 seconds to get their attention. ]]></description>
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<title>What Is the Real Future of Email?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111795</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111795</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:18:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Weekly, I keep an eye to the horizon to assess new developments
in the Internet environment. In noting the changes, I sometimes 
begin to feel overwhelmed by feelings of doom.

The S~P~A~M problem is one such item that leaves me at times
in much distress. I fear the trends of the ISP's in their 
efforts to get control of the S~P~A~M situation.]]></description>
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<title>Astounding! Why Not Astonished?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111827</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111827</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:14:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The use of certain words in the English language annoy me. 
Perhaps it is just a personal pet peeve and perhaps I am 
just overreacting.

*Astounded* and *astounding* are two versions of a word that
peeves me to no end. In my little mind, these two words are
used far too often. ]]></description>
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<title>Google Algorithm Changes and the Internet Scarecrows</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111822</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111822</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:10:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It seems lots of people are upset about the recent algorithm changes at Google. Lots of tongues are wagging and many of them refer to Scroogle.org as their point of reference.]]></description>
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<title>Essential Elements of Developing Copy that Generates Real Traffic</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111834</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111834</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:06:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you finally decided to start your own business, and you 
built your website for the purpose of developing your business,
your goal was clear. You wanted to make lots of money and to be
in business for a very long time.

Who can blame you? The thought of going to a job everyday for
the rest of my life kills me too. ]]></description>
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<title>Mix Up Your Content to Drive More Traffic</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111823</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111823</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:05:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Utilizing the kind of content that can be obtained on 
free-reprint article directories is a good method of adding a
wider range of search keywords to your website. By increasing
the range of keywords on your website, you will find more of
your own links in the search results of the major spider
search engines. 
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<title>Understanding the Value of Inbound Links on Your Website</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111833</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111833</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:04:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Besides search engines, the next most common way people move 
from one website to another is through links on other sites. 

The reason that the Internet is often refered to a the "Web"
is because it exists so much as a web of links running from
one site to another in a maze more complex than the spider
web from which it is named.]]></description>
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<title>The 2 Minute Paradigm, Convert 400% More of Your Traffic to Sales</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111800</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111800</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:00:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WHAT DOES PUMPKIN CENTER HAVE TO DO WITH ONLINE MARKETING?

Good question indeed. It is the euphamisms of driving through 
small-town America that has driven my thoughts in the 
development of this article. 

"Don't blink, or you will miss it."]]></description>
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<title>Do You Publish? Do You Fear Spam Accusations?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111818</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111818</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Let's face it. If you are publishing an ezine online, your
business is always at risk. The anti-spam community does not 
concern themselves with how much care and work you put into 
building your list and how much effort you put into assuring 
that your subscribers really want to be on your list. ]]></description>
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<title>How the War Against Spam is Killing the Internet</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111589</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111589</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:56:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hands down, email is the most widely used and loved computer 
application brought to life by the Internet. 

According to the publication 'Messaging Today' (2000 Electronic 
Mailbox Report - Feb. 21, 2001), "Email is the most successful 
communications technology since the television, and in a few 
years will even surpass that. There are currently more than 891 
million email accounts in use Worldwide and 440 million in the 
U.S. alone - with an average of more than 4 email accounts per 
person."]]></description>
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<title>How Safe Is Your Money Online?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111594</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111594</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:51:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Buying products and services on the Internet has never been as easy and safe as it is today. 

In the early days of the Internet, the fear of electronic crime nearly strangled the growth of e-commerce. ]]></description>
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<title>What Is the Cost of War? And Is That Cost Really Too High?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111597</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111597</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:46:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WISDOM SAYS

Wisdom says that you do not discuss politics or religion in 
public places. Wisdom says those conversations should only 
take place behind closed doors. Why does wisdom speak this 
way? ]]></description>
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<title>The Value of Software in Our Daily Lives</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111582</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111582</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:43:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Long, long ago when I was in high school during the early 
1980's, personal computers were just coming into existence. 
Back then, I had taken on Basic programming as a high school 
student. In those days, the PC of choice was the Radio Shack 
TRS-80 --- this was just a couple of years before the 
introduction of the first Apple computer.]]></description>
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<title>Close Your Eyes, Point, And Click</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111586</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111586</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:41:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You don't have to think hard to know where you want to go. Just 
let your mouse do the "clicking."

Sometimes we find ourselves so overwhelmed by the amount of 
great things to do on the Web that we reach a point where we 
do not know what we want to do next. Like tonight, I didn't 
know how to start working on a writing assignment I had to do.]]></description>
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<title>New and Improved... Or Is It?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111580</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111580</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:35:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twice in the last two weeks, I have come across articles where
he author is celebrating "A New, More Effective Way to Promote
Your Business on the Web."]]></description>
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<title>The Free-Reprint Articles Powerhouse and Copyright Law</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111584</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111584</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:32:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing articles is definitely a very solid method of building 
a client base for your online business. There is no doubt about 
that. The writers I speak with who use free-reprint articles 
for the promotion of their businesses all proudly talk about 
the success articles have brought to them.]]></description>
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<title>Offer More Payment Options than Your Competition</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111593</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111593</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:29:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In order to be successful online, you must provide your
customers many quick and easy ways to pay for your goods
and services. It is not enough to ask folks to send a money
order or check to your house or place of business. You must
go further.]]></description>
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<title>Overcoming the Five Obstacles to Affiliate Success</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111585</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111585</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:27:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly every mass marketable product or service available online 
sports an Affiliate Program or MLM matrix to encourage small 
business people to sell those products or services to others.]]></description>
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<title>Where Do Your Visitors Come From?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111579</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111579</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:27:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some people might think it is silly for me to ask you where your visitors are coming from. Folks suppose it is silly because they do not think too much about where there current visitors are coming from. Instead they are more concerned with where the next visitor is coming from.]]></description>
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<title>Define Yourself to Find Market Share</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111588</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111588</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:15:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, finding the right product or service to make your own is to find someone else's version of the same product or service and discovering ways to deliver it in a different way. Someone once told me that I could not make it in a business because there were already people in that particular business!]]></description>
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<title>E-Commerce Patent Blackmail --- You May Be Next!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111592</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111592</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:13:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over the last eight years, the promise of the Internet has been to level the playing field between small businesses and major corporations.]]></description>
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<title>Back Up Your Email Box Before It is Too Late</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111578</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111578</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:13:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When so many of us rely so much on our email to operate our businesses or our personal lives, it is important to take preventative measures to avoid the ultimate disaster of unrecoverable email...]]></description>
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<title>Life is Not Always So Simple</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111596</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111596</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:07:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Perfection eludes each of us. I know. I deal with the challenge to live a perfect life on a daily basis. In all that I do, I try my very best to perform with honesty and integrity.]]></description>
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<title>LURKERS and BABBLERS and the Make-Up of Your Subscriber Base</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111590</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111590</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:06:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I see comments from frustrated list owners all of the time. They
get frustrated because they have started discussion lists where
no discussions take place... sure, they have subscribers, but
discussions are scarce. Out of frustration, these list owners
invariably throw their hands up and walk away from their lists.

If you are one of these discussion list owners, then this article
is for you.]]></description>
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<title>A Checklist Leading to a Successful E-Commerce Website</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111598</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111598</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:04:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To succeed in e-commerce, the following eleven steps are those 
that every business owner should tackle when developing their 
new online business:]]></description>
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<title>Passively Acquiring New Subscribers by the Boatload</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111587</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111587</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:02:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[First off, don't be lulled in by the title of this article 
into believing that anything can be acquired by doing nothing. 
People are always sending us emails telling us that we can make 
millions online without any work.]]></description>
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<title>Caught In the Cross-Fire of the Spam War</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111566</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111566</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:58:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LET THERE BE LIGHT: To understand this story, we must return 
to the beginning --- September 5th, 2001. One of my associates 
had placed a free ad in a newsletter that she had just 
subscribed to. For that effort, she was accused of spam! Mind 
you the person filing the complaint was not the editor of the 
newsletter, but rather a subscriber of the newsletter.]]></description>
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<title>Increase Your Sales By 25% By Implementing One Small Change</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111571</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111571</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:57:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How much would you be willing to pay to learn how to implement 
a guaranteed 25% increase in your online sales? Given the 
current sales situation on your website, how much would that 
25% increase in sales add to your bottom line? $250 per month? 
$500? $25,000?]]></description>
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<title>You've Got Mail</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111562</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111562</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:49:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For the last 30 years, the most popular computer application 
on the Internet has been email. 30 Years? Yes. The first email 
application was built in 1971 and upgraded in 1972. With the 
upgrade, email became a widely used and really popular computer 
application. But, 30 years? Yes indeed. Don't take my word for 
it, check out "Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the Definitive 
ARPAnet and Internet History" at: ]]></description>
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<title>Learning the Lessons of the Dot-Bomb Era</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111568</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111568</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:44:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[During the late 1990's, banks and investors were falling all 
over themselves to invest in the new dot com companies wanting 
to go public.]]></description>
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<title>Are Announcement Lists Effective?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111567</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111567</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:43:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you start an ezine, you realize after a few short weeks 
that you will actually have to promote it in order for it to be 
successful. But how do we do that? We have all asked ourselves 
that question. When you begin to seek out solutions, most of us 
quickly discover Announcement Lists. But, how effective are they?]]></description>
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<title>Understanding the Technology of Email</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111563</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111563</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:41:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the course of my work with people online, I often run into a 
wall of confusion when I speak of the different types of email 
available. People will ask help with their email accounts. I 
always ask, "do you have a web mail account or a POP3 email 
account?"]]></description>
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<title>Add 500 Targeted Keywords to Your Site in Three Minutes</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111576</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111576</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:36:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How often do you visit the search engines looking for the information that you seek? Twice a week? Every day? ]]></description>
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<title>Sell Yourself, Not Your Products Or Services</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111574</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111574</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:34:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The point we need to make is that your products and services will change over time as your business adapts to the realities of the marketplace. If you spend your time promoting Product A and then you discontinue the sale of Product A, you will suddenly find yourself starting over from scratch with nothing to show for all of your previous work!]]></description>
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<title>Temptations, White Lies, Sales, and Seeing Eye Dogs</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111575</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111575</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:26:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A man went into the local Big and Tall Man's store several 
times looking for a job. Finally, on his seventh visit, the 
store's owner told him, "I will tell you what. I have this 
suit here on the shelf that has been here for years. I cannot 
find anyone to buy it. I have some errands to run, so if you 
will watch the store while I am out, you will get your chance. 
If you can sell this suit while I am gone, you will have 
yourself a job."]]></description>
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<title>How to Build Spam-Free Email Campaigns</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111569</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111569</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:18:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the current Internet market, many people are confused as to 
how they can use email to build their online businesses, while
consumers are fighting off the evils of spam email. As a result, 
we are tackling this most important issue today.]]></description>
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<title>Providing Excellent Customer Support on a Small Budget</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/111572</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/111572</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:04:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An integral part of any successful e-commerce website is an 
effective customer support solution. Your online business must 
be able to quickly respond to inquiries from potential clients 
and from existing clients, and then be able to address those 
inquiries accurately and efficiently. ]]></description>
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<title>Adult Continuing Education and Life After 40</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/84351</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/84351</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:00:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people in life: those who continue learning well past the last ringing of the school bell, and those who are trudging through life praying for retirement. Which one are you? If I were to contribute only one thing to my youthful feelings that would be the fact that even at 40, I find time in my day to learn new things.]]></description>
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<title>Should You Hire a Famous Writer or Write Your Own Articles?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/29949</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/29949</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:36:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Proven and Exceptional Click-Through Results  Testing has proven again and again that promotional articles generate more click-through traffic than standard ezine advertising. And it is much cheaper ...]]></description>
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