Eric Schmidt is an opinion that applications like twitter could be potentially great channel for product information, marketing real time and it will be logical strategy that we would like to pursue. Eric though did not mention specifically twitter in the Google’s earning call, still was of positive opinion towards application like twitter.

Many of you might not know, but Google is on twitter with 433K followers, ofcourse 600K less than Ashton Kutcher.

It would not come as a surprise to me if Google-Twitter deal strikes very soon. But for that, Google needs to come out of thinking twitter as poor man’s email system, they commented about just a month back.

I am sure if Google pursues this deal, it would be no beneficial than acquiring one more social networking application, making all our lives Google centric. I am afraid, I would be boarding a Google flight or train tomorrow, which I as social networking way at times . What you think about benefits of Google acquiring twitter?

Anyways, I think I was far behind in twitting though I had joined them a year back (I think on 4th May 2008). May be we can meet up each other on twitter, follow me at http://twitter.com/lifeiscolourful and will follow you.

Recently I have been coming across some cool tools that are very useful for my research on SEO. I have been reading some cool blogs too (which you would find in my link love soon) and that are giving me more indepth knowledge of analysis and research required to become better in SEO.

In the search engine marketing, while I realize that it’s important for businesses to keep a watch on their competition, it’s also useful for SEOs to analyse the search engine results pages (SERPs). You would call me Gennie if I would say that there is a website that does all this SERP analysis for you.

I am sure you would not expect all this just by searching your desired keywords in Google or searching your KEY words. I decided to give this website SERPAnalytics.com a try and registered with them. It was so good to be true, and it was still free. So it’s not always true that good things don’t come free.

I tried the SERP analysis and I searched for word “travel”. It’s interesting to share what I came across. SEO parameters for each website in the SERPs that includes Pagerank, Yahoo Backlinks, Yahoo Linkdomain, Quantcast Rank, Web Archive date, whether the website is DMOZ listed, Google/Yahoo/MSN index and even number of clicks which site gets on specified position per month, just WOW! I was impressed in first shot itself.

To my dismay, it also shows you where the site was in SERPs in past – this concept of archives SERPs cannot allow anyone to bluff about. Specially advertisers, you would get benefited by it a lot. For limited users (US IPs), the SERP analysis also show position changes in SERP then and there itself.

Unlike normal Google search results page (and by the way you can check all this for Yahoo and MSN as well), you would see a special box at the right side of the result page. This SERP stats page would show you the stats for the results on that specific page. I was impressed how handy the information of highest PR website and lowest PR website on that specific page would help. They are still in beta, and they are bringing me a lot for free. I am sure I would like to see all this implemented for Google SERPs for blogsearch as well. To see the SERP analysis in action, you would need to click on the snapshot above.

Looking at how it would help, I added few websites I wanted to analyse through domain search in “my account”. It allows me to see the domain summary and analyse any website for it’s top keywords. Damn, this is too much of information avaialble for free. I can almost search 200 websites everyday without paying a penny. To get benefit of all these tools, one has to register with them as all these features are available through user account only. One more good feature is Reverse IP search. It kind of gives you idea what all websites are located at what IPs. Simple but useful tool.

Now something more interesting, SERPanalytics.com also gives registered users access to their SEO tools including pagerank tool, bulk pagerank tool and top 10000 keywords tool. Yes, Top 10000 keywords that comprises of data from top paid keywords, top searched keywords and top expensive keywords as per the CPCs. Believe me all this will help you at every step of setting up your online venture. For example, just take the first step of selecting the domain name and you can finalize on the domain that contains important keywords in your niche. Or while you target the keywords for search engine marketing, you know the CPC, number of searches and all this data.

I won’t suggest you a crap atall, I am amazed with the information flow coming to me in such simple way. I am sure there is lot of hardwork behind this and before they make it a paid website, I would suggest to grab your seat and sign up for the beta version for free.

They say it would take only 1 minute to register but I will tell you, they lie! It takes almost 10 seconds only to register through the easiest registration process.

Well simply let me tell you that the title might suggest you that it’s a paid post or review, but it’s not! It’s good to clarify sometimes, so you know what you are reading is absolutely true.

I never have thought to write this blog professionaly, but my motive here always been to write about the content that is closely knit with my life. One of the important factors was, my online money making ventures that made my life colourful.

I have gone through a series of steps where I learned everything on my own spending last 5 years in internet marketing and money making. I feel from bottom of my heart that everyone possible around shall get into this and get pie of it. I am not encouraging people to saturate the market, simply because the market is so huge – it would take years to saturate it.

I have been giving lessons and training offline to my acquaintances & friends without any charge with the motivation of changing their life. Being a human being, the tasks is an uphill task for me. (Believe me recently I tought this two friends, and it took me hours to explain them each and everything what I do and how they can follow my foot steps and make money online). I want to teach everything, I would certainly do it – it’s just that it will take some time through this blog. The another option is, I could start online training programs but considering I am a full time middle management person – I can’t really do that. Fortunately, there are experienced people around who can do it for you and I can recommend some of them blindly.

Just to make the life simpler, I can recommend you one of them right away. I came across this great guy, Daniel Socco, through his blog dailyblogtips.com and little closer after I won his first blogging idol contest making me rich by $3000. Whenever I get chance, I bother him in online chat. All time I bother him, but when one day he bothered (:-P) me, I was curious what he was looking for.

I came to know that he wanted to do some online testing with his new venture onlineprofits.com and pay for it’s subscirption through Paypal. He is the one of those guys online, I can blindly believe and do as much as I can for him. So taking time out in office (yeah, I was working and was going through meetings) and testing it for him – was smallest thing I could do for him. I did not have a clear idea of what onlineprofits could be but realized that it’s a program he is building for paid subscribers and teach them every bit of internet marketing.

When today I looked at the program details and chapters, I confirm that it’s one of the best program for new and experienced webmasters. Even I want to know many things mentioned in those 66 chapters spread across 21 modules. Honestly, I want to know more about what could be done in those areas and I can’t wait to see someone experienced writing a post about it, rather I would prefer to join such program and learn it right away.

If you have spare money set aside for some learning, I would suggest you to do the best use of it and join this program. I can guarantee you that you would never repent on your decision. And incase you do, Daniel will give your money back within 30 days with no questions asked. What more you are looking for?

What is affiliate marketing to you as a webmaster? Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online today. And you would agree to that! Affiliate programs give everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now willing in this business.

However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end. Here are the major mistakes that can happen

Choosing the wrong affiliate

Many webmasters and bloggers want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.

Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.

Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.

Joining too many affiliate programs

Since affiliate programs are very easy to join – just by creating a presentable website and luring the affiliate programs to approve your website, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs. I used to think similar too in past.

True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.

The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.

The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and not dark and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.

That was the reason, I removed the Market Leverage ads from my blog as I had other that are paying me way too high. I am currently focusing on the Yahoo Search marketing affiliate program that’s beneficial to both, me as well as the advertiser. That program is offering £50 credit in YSM account [that is $100] for anyone registering now and depositing some cash.

Not buying the product or using the service

As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.

Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.

Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.

Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits. If you don’t learn from your mistakes now, you would soon see this picture for your affiliate marketing career.

Did you every try to give it a thought, what exactly is “affiliate landing page” that so many internet marketers talk about? I had this question as well in mind, when I entered in internet marketing field. It’s important to know what it is before you read the article

What is Affiliate landing page?

In general terms, it’s door of your shopping mall. You see a big hoarding board at the corner of the road that directs you to the shopping mall and you land up at the door.

Now from here, you are taken inside to shop or in internet marketers’ terms – “provoked to take some action that will lead to a sale”.

In marketing terms, it’s a specialized page that visitors are directed to once they’ve clicked on a link, usually from an outside source such as a Pay Per Click ad. The page is usually tightly focused on a particular product or service with the aim of getting the visitor to buy or take some form of action rapidly that will ultimately lead to a sale.

Want to see landing pages that convert? Let’s start off with our own study. You can start with your research for popular keyword phrases in your niche and the affiliate pages that are most popular. Take out top three pages and find out the commonality, text usage, placement and graphic usage. You would find that these pages are not popular for no reason.

Snapshot Credit: Direct Response Templates

That would anyways give you some idea on how to go about it but that’s not enough. Just get a feel of what you would need to do to improve the conversion rate of your affiliate landing page.

How to improve conversion on your affiliate landing pages:

• Make sure your offer is clear
• Include credibility logos – trust and security are foremost in many visitor’s minds
• Place a persuasive message above the call to action
• Avoid multiple different calls-to-action
• Place your call-to-action in a prominent location on the page
• Create a sense of urgency with terms such as “Start now” and “Apply now”.
• Tell your visitor exactly what you want them to do
• The use of an arrow to your call-to-action has increased conversion rates in many cases
• And don’t forget about the critical importance of testing and metrics – at a minimum, measure conversion rates, average order values, and bounce rates on your landing pages.

Although it’s a lot of work to restrict the amount of copy on your page, remember that when there is less on a page, visitors will tend to read more. Finally, limit your font styles, text formatting and adhere to dark text on light backgrounds.

And remember, landing page conversion improvement affects those visitors you’ve already pay for anyway. In many ways, by testing new pages you really have nothing to lose that you’re not already losing!

Don’t assume your visitors are already trained to convert on your landing page. Keep them from running away by taking control of their visit experience. Walk them through your page, and increase conversion by appropriately using headlines, images, captions, benefit-driven bulleted copy, colors and arrows.