I used to use tinyurl.com’s service to make long hyperlinks shorter. And I also need tinyurl to protect my affiliate links.

But there are limitations and drawbacks to tinurl. Firstly, it does not provide click-through tracking. Secondly, it does not actually cloak the original link.

Here comes a brand new service you can try. (This is the last time I used tinyurl in the hyperlink )

Happy affiliate selling!

Damen

Topics: Link Cloaking, URL hiding

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If you have been promoting online your business using email, you must have heard of using RSS to communicate to your subscribers instead. It is because of the rapidly expanding number of spam emails received by Internet users every day and this greatly diminishes the chance your emails reaching the targeted customers’ email boxes.

I have beeing trying to put RSS on my sites for two years and I think it is great and it does increase the page rank of many of my sites. However, I cannot conclude RSS can replace emails because I have noticed People do read emails every day but they do not use RSS every day. Though there are lot of free RSS Desktop Softwares available online and people can download and install those softwares easily.

But the habit of consistently reading RSS cannot be found among most of the Internet users. Disappointing !

Now there is a work-around solution. It is using the readers’ email system to read your RSS feed’s content.

The steps are:

1) Your put up your site with RSS feed to your site’s content. Many softwares and Content Management Softwares (CMS) can help building this for you

2) Instead of asking your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter, ask them to subscribe to your RSS feed using RSS to email service like this one. This service is free.

Your visitors are now coverted to your subscribers. They’ll receive emails whenever there is change of your site contents. They can even set up reading the update at their own pace – the options are- instantly, every day, every week, etc.

And more importantly, there is no need to worry about any specific words or headlines in your messages that can trigger the spam filters of your subscribers because you are now NOT relying on your own email setup to spread messages. Instead, you use the RSS to email service to spread the messages for you.

See if this works for you and let me know.

Best eMail Marketing,

Damen

Webmasters are trying their best to put up Google’s Adsense advertisements on their website and make people click on any one of them to earn Adsense dollars. Here is a very good demonstration

You can see how clever they setup the format of their content to totally blend into the Google’s Adsense content. People could click on those advertisments accidentally.

I’m neutral to this strategy. Indeed, I have reservation to overdoing this like this website.

If I’m a smart visitor, I think I don’t like to be tricked in clicking those Google’s Adsense advertisement. However, once you realize that you have clicked on any one of those advertising links, you’re too late. The webmaster has already earned the Adsense dollars by your very action. So this strategy actually works.

This is actually created by a website builder software from here.

I have not used this software myself. But if you have tried it, let me know your experience!

Best Adsense Selling,

Damen

Online sellers can now try Google Checkout now here:

Someone call it Google payment or Google wallet

Best Selling Online!

Damen

Finally, Google starts the war in the online-payment market. Its head-on competitor is definitely —– eBay’s Paypal

We should keep an eye on it…. the Google Payment or someone call it Google Wallet

Look at the news here

Best Selling Online,

Damen

There is a new trick to earn money by Google is to join Google’s Adwords program and put up advertising with keywords with low bid. If People click on those advertisements, they are brought to the landing page full of Google’s Adsense advertisement with keywords with higher bid. In this way, the advertiser can earn the advertising dollars by the difference in the bidding price of keywords.

This is called Click Arbitrage.

When I first learnt this strategy, the immediate thought is this is theoretically workable but in the long run, it is going to end in dismay. Google eventually would deal with it.

Search Engine is not stupid and its strategy changes every day. And Google is rich and very profitable. It has a pool of good people working for it. It will exhaust all of its resources to combat people tricking the system. And Click Arbitrage is definitely one of them.

When I read the news here in the Inside Adwords Blog by Google, I think it is already dealing with it. Google is now trying to measure the quality of Google’s advertisers’ landing page to determine the bidding value of the keywords they choose to advertise. If the landing page’s quality is considered to be poor, the advertiser has to pay a higher bidding value for the keywords.

This is not surprising. What surprises me is why not Google simply bans the advertisers who put up a landing page full of Adsense’s advertisements? I guess one of the main reasons is Google does care about their customers – they are their revenue sources. Therefore unless the problem deteriorates, they do not take this final measure.

But God knows, it might happen in future.

My number one principle in doing Search Engine Optimization  is: Don’t do something to trick the search engines because even those strategies work for a while, they won’t work for long. You are going to pay for the price sooner or later.

This blog is setup to share my thoughts and findings in Internet Marketing. I do Internet Marketng everyday and I’m sure many of you do. Let’s share the experience here.

Best Marketing,

Damen