I can’t think of a more common concern or question among both new and veteran bloggers alike: what blog platform should I use? Aside from learning how to blog, it’s an almost universal concern.

And there is no stock answer. All bloggers NEED to own their URLs, but platform choice is mainly dependent on the individual blogger’s requirements. With that stated, I’ve compiled a list of pros and cons of the two primary platform choices below.

Hosted Platforms

Hosted platforms refer to services whereby a service provider grants you access to their software, network connection, and hardware, and you setup a blogging account for use on that service. With a hosted blog, you have access to a control panel for your blog, and that’s it.

Typical hosted platforms include solutions like Blogger, TypePad, and LiveJournal.

Advantages of Hosted Platforms

1. Cheap: many are free; some (like TypePad) are offered with multiple price points

2. Simple to get started: just signup for an account and then quickly learn how to create blog posts

3. Automatic updates: you don’t have to worry about keeping hosted software updated and patched.

Disadvantages of Hosted Platforms

1. Rigid: there are fewer configuration choices with hosted platforms.

2. Fewer design options: you usually only get to select from a limited number of average designs, and you often can’t make improvements to them

3. Generic URL: some hosted platforms don’t offer the option to use your own URL

4. Less control: you are at the mercy of the platform

5. Migration issues: moving from some free hosted platforms results in a lot of effort and often the temporary loss of search engine rankings

Self-hosted Platforms

Self-hosted platforms consist of a web hosting account you establish with a host, and the blogging software you install on the host’s server. With a self-hosted blog, you have access to an administrative panel for your blog, but you also have access to a server account and the blog software where you can do nigh anything.

Commonly-used self-hosted software includes Movable Type, Joomla, and WordPress.

Advantages of Self-hosted Platforms

1. Design flexibility: you have full control over layout and design

2. Great software: killer software exists on self-hosted platforms

3. Custom URL: custom URL’s are common on self-hosted platforms

4. Adaptability: you can change your blog as your needs change

5. Easy migration: should you ever need to migrate to a different platform or another server, migrating is a snap

Disadvantages of Self-hosted Platforms

1. Difficult setup: setup can sometimes be difficult, but this can be overcome with a good blogs how to

2. Cost: while the blogging software is free, the hosting platform will cost you money

3. Hosting issues: unless you choose a good host, you might have to suffer from down-time or poor support

4. Upgrades: you will need to keep your software patched

The majority of my blogs are self-hosted, and it’s what I usually advise anyone looking to create a professional blog. There are just too many benefits to turn down, and you usually have the choice to host many domains and blogs on just one account, driving the cost per blog down to a negligible amount.

So just who is Brian Johnson. Brian J has worked the past six or seven years to become a fairly successful affiliate marketer. It began back in 2007 when his online business began to tank and he almost lost everything. Not a person that easily throws in the towel Brian began to test out various methods of affiliate marketing and traffic generation.

Month after month creeped by. Nothing he tried seemed to work. Maybe you have been there yourself. The sad reality that he might need to begin looking for a day job began to sink in. Then like a ray of sunshine during a storm, it happened, Brian had figured out a new method for making money online It was right in front of him all the time, and once again the money began to flow. So you might be asking just what this method is. Well let me explain why you should care about it.

Brian decided to name this powerful system the “SEO Press Formula” Now if you have ever wanted to tap into the absolute torrent of free visitors from Google, Yahoo and Msn you are going to want to read on.

It is really possible to tap into this free traffic. This is massive free traffic. It is this technique that is allowing Brian to currently enjoy $700, $800 and even $900 plus days. Would you like to learn how he is doing this with out spending any money on ppc, advertising or other expensive start up costs?

So this is where the rubber meets the road. You might be thinking this is another web 2.0 system or an “affiliate secret”. You might even be skeptical like I was think it is just another hyped up offer for “free” Google clicks. Well nothing could be further from the truth, read on and let me tell you what I have learned.

Let me tell you first what SEOPressFormula is not * Based On Hub Pages, Squidoo Or Other Free sites * Is Not The Same Rehashed “SEO” Ebook You Have Already Read * Is Not A YouTube.com Video Traffic System * Complex, Complicated & Beyond The Reach Of Most Folks * An Adwords Or PPC System

With SEOPressFormula you will be able to quickly and easily launch a search engine friendly website within minutes (not hours). Even if you have never launched your own site before, Brian’s system will allow you to do just that!

But more than just a site management system SEOPressFormula will allow you to: * Identify Niche Markets With Large Profit Potential (And little competition) * Structure Your Site Based On Brian’s *Money Word Report * (Learn to target and structure your site based on the SEOPressFormula money word report) * Easily Launch An Advanced Web 2.0 Traffic Magnet (As easy as pushing a couple of buttons) * Create A Site Based On Recommendations From Google * Multiply Your Efforts By Leveraging Others

I want you to know that SEOPressFormula is a huge course. It is packed with worth while information that also offers five solid hours of wordpress video tutorials, a 76 page ebook, two SEO optimized wordpress themes and comes highly recommended. Get this now before your competition does.

Hey there. Today I am going to talk about a new product that is set to be released on the 25th of November by Alex Goad called Google Conquest.

I am typing this article today because I am excited about google conquest. I have personally seen what it is all about and it fits in with what I do perfectly.

Come November the 25th there will be a lot of talk about google conquest because…

The first is that only 2000 places are going to be sold and believe me they will go quick.

If you know anything about Alex Goad then you will know that all of his previous products haev been at a lower price and they all over deliver, well google conquest is priced at around 997 dollars and it will over deliver.

As Alex is a “guru” many people think he is a scammer however since he arrived on the scene in 2007 with huge cb hits he has over delivered on every product he has come out with.

Google conquest is all about building niche websites that will rank highly in the search engines for keywords that will convert highly. But you wont have to spend ages creating the sites because Alex has spent over a hundred grand creating push button software to do it for you.

Google conquest is also a membership program where you will get updates and personal one on one help every month to help you succeed.

To get testimonials for google conquest Alex has been teaching his program to people for a while now and I found out that a lot of them have been able to quit their day jobs.

Google conquest is unlike any other program out there.

A lot of high ticket items get released every year and I dont buy any of them because dont need them buy google conquest is the one program I am seriously looking forward too.

When you consider the millions of people who are looking to make some money online, you will realize that it is a very competitive market. The technology of the Internet has provided many people with the ability to live a very comfortable life and make the kind of money that they have always dreamed of. However, for those who are entering into that market today, the opportunities are becoming more and more scarce.

The problem with the typical program that is found online today is that the product that is sold is information. The programs will help the new marketing person learn how to develop their informational product and sell it online to a market that is looking for this information. It is also necessary for these programs to help people learn how to drive traffic to a website so that their products can be sold.

What started out as a great idea, has quickly become overrun with a huge number of people who are all doing the same thing. If you are looking for a new niche that has not been done online over and over, you will have a great deal of trouble finding it. This has opened the door for a new and fresh way of doing business online.

The program that has attempted to answer these problems is the Internet Software Riches program. This program is a new opportunity for Internet business people to offer a product that those who are currently working in the market need to keep their business afloat. Software development is one of the ways that a new business person can get in on the money that there is still to be made online.

The person who uses this program will not have to know how to program the software. All you need is the knowledge to find the programmers who are able to create the programs and not charge you a fortune to do it. You will also learn how to get the products on to the market where you will be able to sell them to others.

The program comes with a great deal of information and materials. The investment is pretty low when you consider all of the materials that you will get. You will have the chance to get some of these programs that have already been developed, change them in the way that you want, rename them and sell them to a market that is in great need of them.

It is also a brand new approach to working online that has not been done to death. The market is ripe for a program like this and it is still early enough in the game for a new investor to make some real money. It is important to get in on the market early enough to make a name for yourself as a source of great software programs and make the money before there are too many others trying to get in on the market.

It is not easy to market information anymore. There has been some real growth in the area and there are literally millions of people who are selling the same products. When you use a new approach to your Internet business, you will find that your product sells much better than the informational products that are currently available everywhere.

This program understands the concept of fulfilling a need in the market. When there is a need for a product there should be smart business people who seek to fill the need. This program has tapped into a market for their products that are hungry for these and many more.

For those who have been looking for something new to bring to the online market, this is a good solid product that you can develop and sell for profit. If you have tried the informational product approach and were disappointed with the results, this program is worth looking into. As a business person you know that it is sometimes necessary to try new things out before you find the right method to making money for your business.

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own membership site? Some say it’s the best way to make money on the Internet, so why not? Well, let’s make sure you have the right tools for the job! Starting a membership web site is possible but you will need a hosting company that offers you the right tools to conduct the day to day operations of your site. At minimum the prospective hosting company should allow you the ability to create forms, set up an ecommerce site, community development tools, recurring billing modules and access level controls. But that’s not all you will need to build and run a membership web site.

MySQL, PERL, CGI, SSI, CRON, Curl, FrontPage, PHP scripting tools, Python, GD and ImageMagik, which allows you to create streaming videos and music are a few basic programs that come with most webhosting packages. If these are not listed on the hosting company’s sales page, either move on to another company or send an email asking for clarification.

Don’t overlook your email needs. Your hosting package should come with auto responders, mailing lists, mail forwarding, web mail, Spam control, POP3, IMAP, and SMTP. Again, if in doubt, ask. It is a lot better to know upfront what you’re getting than to discover it when you need it – but don’t have it!

Does the hosting company provide you with a control panel? Cpanels usually offer you Hotlink protection, Fantastico, management of Search Engine submittals, and error pages. Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates installation of about 50 scripts including instant blogging software, portals, PHP, Nuke, Instant Chat, Forums, counters, FTP, and so on.

Membership sites are private, so you simply must have password protection for your folders. Check to see if the hosting company’s cpanel package has password protection; additionally, you will want .htaccess privileges.

Want to know what pages your customers are viewing, how many requests are returning an error code or where your visitors are coming from? Make sure you have tracking statistics available. Tracking statistics often include raw log or other access such as Awstats. Error logs and analogs are provided as well.

If you plan to start running a membership web site, you really should consider purchasing the plan that offers ecommerce features, as well as Shared SSL or Private SSL, Agora Shopping Carts, Instant OS Commerce, and Cube Carts. Joomla, Mambo and other membership scripts are usually also available.

In addition to the basic tools listed above, you will also need to consider some marketing tools for your site when you get it set up. These will vary depending on they type of site you are building. In fact, there will be things you will need, but you won’t even know what they are until you run into a problem or two. Just head on over to the search engine and start searching.

Whatever you do, don’t give up your dream of owning a membership site. With the tips in this article you know how to find a good webhosting company. The time for hesitation is over. Just build it.

In this article we will describe common differencies between MyElectronicBanners.com and Google AdWords technologies:

1. Google Adwords is Pay Per Click advertisement technology where you pay when users click on your ad link. In some cases it’s good, but when you choose right keyword for you, you suddenly discover that you are only one of buyers of keyword and in order to get click to your link you should pay up to 70$ per click (for some keywords). With MyElectronicBanners.com technology you only pay for owing keyword for full year and you, and only you will be shown as a result of search for your keyword.

2. In Google Adwords campaign you have to constantly compete with other companies and set higher price for your keywords than your competitors. Sometimes your ROI can be negative and you should be high professional to get positive results. With MyElectronicBanners.com you just need to set url for keyword and get ready for getting traffic to your website.

3. Your advertisement budget can vary in Google Adwords, depending on keywords and number of impressions that you choose. MyElectronicBanners.com has fixed flat price for any keywords that you choose. Only traffic will vary, so only thing that you have to worry is to choose right keywords for your business.

4. When someone searches phrase that you own, MyElectronicBanners.com already displays your website in IFRAME so it means that people already can see your website, without clicking on ad link (not many people like clicking on ad links).

5. Finally, Google Adwords works only with Google Search Engine, when MyElectronicBanners.com works on All Major Search Engines, plus hundreeds of other partner websites with search features!

So, after all comparisions you can decide which model is best for you.

Many people think that SEO is a bad and slow strategy to deliver traffic and result for your website, however, I found an easy way to do SEO that deliver massive result and sales in the shortest time! Many SEO Experts tend to ignore or doesn’t know such tactics actually exists, and they always left a lot of money on the table…

The long tail keyword SEO tactics!

Many SEO experts optimize the website start from targeting seed keyword, but this kind of keywords are highly competitive and does not convert well. After they put a lot of efforts and time trying to compete and rank well for those keywords, they might not even have sustainable result due to the highly competitive nature of those keywords!

What you should be doing is try to outline and find the long tail keywords for your website, you can easily tap into the long tail keywords for less competition and better converting your visitors to customers. Here is the reasons:

Reason #1 – Search engine will show the long tail keyword search with the general (major keywords) result if the Search Engine failed to find the web page that optimized for the long tail keyword result, however, if your web page optimize for those long tail keywords, search engine will prefer them as they are more targeted for the searchers!

Reason #2 – Long tail keyword is easier to rank because less competition. You can easily use web 2.0 power to rank high for any long tail keywords, and with minimum back links effort, you can easily out rank any competition!

Reason #3 – Result almost instantly! You need to research and test all the long tail keywords, but you have a great chance to find some high traffic long tail keywords in the shortest time, and you will see result very fast.

The best way to research long tail keywords is forum and community site like Yahoo Answer, you can find many related long tail keywords for your niche, and many searchers will actually search Google for them, and they are ignored by many SEO experts!

The competition among online businesses is fierce. Depending on the industry you are in you might be competing with hundreds, thousands or even more other websites. One way to help your business succeed is with a competition analysis. Texas Web Designers can provide your website with a complete website analysis that can help you determine how your site measures with the competition. This can help you find a way to make your website unique and claim your share of the marketplace.

In your local community your business may only be competing with a small handful of other businesses. When you have an online company you are competing with thousands of other businesses who most likely offer the same products and services you offer. You cannot just build a website and assume that people will trust that you are the right place to shop. Texas web designers can help with competing in this global market and ensure customers you have what they are looking for and provide many reasons why they should buy from you.

When Texas Web Designers give you a complete website competition analysis they will be able to see exactly how your site measures up in the global marketplace. They can identify and inspect the competition and let you know exactly where your site fits in. Your analysis will help to identify your website’s strengths and weakness and will help you understand where you can improve. It will also give you ideas about the kind of opportunities that exist for you on the internet and how to capitalize on them.

When you use a good Texas web designers company you will find when they do a competition analysis they will draw out the good things about your business. They will help you with a complete branding of your business that will work very well for you. They will figure out what it is about your online company that sets you apart from the rest of the businesses and focus on that one specific thing. They will prove to the online communities that you are the right place to go for the products and services you offer. This will convince the users you are the best.

Good Texas web designers provide more than just a competition analysis. The analysis creates a baseline for you to build your business off of. It allows for you to know who your target audience is and what is the best solution for targeting them.

If you have an online business it is a good idea to hire Texas web designers to do a competition analysis. Even if you think your website is successful they can help you to build your business so that is receives even more customers. They will allow you to set your website apart from your competition by focusing on how you can develop your strengths, correct your weaknesses, and find opportunities throughout the marketplace. They will help you build your brand so that shoppers can remember the name of your business and shop there again.

If you’re looking into SEO tools to help your website get noticed, you probably already know that there are basically two options available to you – paid tools and free ones. There are free tools out there which you may find useful from time to time and certainly a lot of people do use them; these tools can be used to monitor back links, provide you with statistics for your website and even keyword research. A lot of the time though, you are better off with the paid tools than with the free tools. Why is this, you ask? Keep reading to learn a little more about the advantages of paid tools as compared to free tools.

Paid Tools are Usually More Reliable – First of all, you’ll typically find that once you try them out, the paid tools offer more reliability than do the free options out there. The reason for this is pretty obvious; there is a profit motive involved in the paid tools, so the developers have incentive to make sure that the software is maintained and updated.

Accuracy is Better with Paid Tools – You’ll also find that accuracy is often much better with paid tools. Those who come up with free tools usually don’t have the motivation to come up with improved sources that make the tools better. People who have paid tools are more motivated to keep on top of accuracy of their tools, since they’ll hear about any accuracy problems from their customers.

Paid SEO Tools Are More Convenient – In general, users report that paid SEO tools are easier to use – there are all in one SEO tool suites available (but not for free). The convenience of having all of the tools you need in one place can more than make up for the small investment made in SEO tools.

Integration is Much Easier with Most Paid Tools – When you deal with free SEO tools, you’ll find that you have different ones across the web, and this can be frustrating to deal with. Also, you can’t take all these free tools and then integrate them all together. With paid tools, you’ll usually find that they are much easier to integrate together so you don’t have to spend time jumping from tool to tool on the internet.

There is More Support Available for Paid Tools – Last of all, one of the top reasons that paid tools are often the better choice for SEO tools is because there is more support available for paid tools. Usually there is little or no support available for the free tools out there today. However, the tools that you have to pay for usually have great support that will provide you with the help that you need within about 24 hours or less.

So, as you can see, the case for paid SEO tools is a strong one. This is not to say that you can’t find some great free tools out there. However, most people find that there are many great advantages to going the route of paid tools.

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While we don’t often think about – or even care – how the Google search engine works, it is very important for web publisher who is using search engine optimization, or natural search marketing for their online business to understand the basic principles that drive Google.

There are three main parts to Google: Googlebot, The Indexer, and the Query Processor. Believe it or not, understanding how each of the parts works is crucial to your online businesses. Let’s take a look at each of the elements to see how they work.

Googlebot is the search engine spider that visits your website and spiders your pages. It isn’t an actual spider, of course.

It actually works more like a web browser by calling a server, requesting pages, and downloading them – just as you do when you open your web browser, type in an URL, and the page loads.

Googlebot, however, is run by big number of computers and performs this task much faster than one user could on their home or work personal computer. And Googlebot doesn’t know if a website exists until a URL is put into their Add URL form, or until they find a link point to that site on another web page.

When Googlebot visits a page, they take all the links from that page, and put them in a queue for crawling, and just repeat this process over and over again. Once Googlebot has found a link, and downloaded the page, it hands that page off to the Indexer.

The Indexer stores the pages in Google’s Index Database. The Index then sorts all of the pages in its database, alphabetically, by looking at all of the keywords on the pages. The Indexer does not pay any attention to what Google calls stop words, such as is, on, or, why, how, etc. It just pays attention to more important keyword type words.

The Indexer, after Indexing pages, waits for the Google Query Processor to ask it for a list of documents. A keyword is given to the Query Processor, which in turn asks the Indexer for a list of sites that contain that keyword.

The Indexer then supplies the Query processor with a list of the documents, and the Query processor presents that to the user that requested the keyword.

You see, each element is important to the others. It all starts with the Googlebot finding your web page link on another site, or by you going to Google and using the Add form to submit your site.