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Are Long Tailed Keywords Going to Hinder Article Marketing?

I find it extremely interesting doing keyword research from the point of noticing how well or how little some people can verbalise or enunciate their request. Some people appear almost dyslexic while others are so verbose that I'm reminded of reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace" epic.

The other thing that surprises me frequently is that many people seem to have trouble putting a simple sentence together. Not being mathematically inclined, I can't begin to imagine how anyone could programme a mathematical algorithm into a machine to decipher some of these questions. But they have, they do and mostly the search engines do a reasonably good job.

These long tailed keywords....READ

Develop a Web Site

Building a web site doesn't end once it's published on the internet and available for all the world to see. Now any good web master worth their salt will develop it to a point that people world wide can find it.

When you first start out and publish your first web site, you feel such a sense of accomplishment that one tends to sit, stare, admire, tweak, test all the links and then email it off to all their friends in their contact list hoping everyone else will admire it and send it on to people in their address book. Well, that was how I felt and behaved and months later, I could hardly find my own web site on the internet.

So I built more and more web sites and still had the same problem of no visitors. It would seem that I was doing more than a few things wrong . I soon stopped sending any web sites off to family and friends because I never heard back from most of them and according to my Statcount tracker, precious few had visited. So, one aspect of my internet business had been accomplished in that I had learnt how to build a web site but I had to start looking for the missing links to fix the traffic situation. What had been happening was that I was building "all singing and all dancing" web sites that didn't please the search engines or anyone looking for what I had to offer.

I soon learnt that designing and making a web site is only part of the web site developing process.

I would consider web site design and building a most basic skill because even if you can get traffic to a web site, unless you can build, alter, add, subtract from one you can never really "own" one. But unless you learn to develop one it doesn't matter how many web sites you "own" because none of them will be successful.

To develop a web site needs a lot of time, love of tweaking and testing, writing or out sourcing articles to build, enlarge or market the web site. If your web site is to be an authoritative source of information then it has to be added and increased incrementally. The search engines are quite specific about what they consider an authoritative site and seeing a whole bunch of 'stuff' dumped into it from time to time doesn't equate with their algorithm at all.

So to develop a web site is first started by designing and publishing it to the world wide web and then developed by adding more information and visitors steadily over time.

How to Write Better Web Copy

I have recently read an article on how people read on the web. It is interesting to note that in the last five years people's web reading method hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is how the researchers can better view the intensity with which they now read certain areas of a web page. This is very interesting information for anyone who is a web publisher and writes copy for web pages.

I knew a lot of this from previous studies but I'm going to need to change my style of writing again to accommodate this new intensity and I'm going to have to better optimise my web pages to accommodate some new areas that previously I didn't pay enough attention to and have been missing out 'big time' by leaving spaces where people actually spend more time than I was aware of in their scanning habits.

My writing style for web pages is now going to have to be much more succinct. I have not previously made much use of bulleted lists but it seems that viewers of web pages prefer this style of writing in which to gain information quickly. Previously I have sought to pass information to my readers via a more narrative and entertaining style but it seems this is not what many readers are wanting. It explains a lot to me and answers some questions that I wasn't able to find answers for previously.

So now I know I have two different types of readers to accommodate. I do have readers who really do read the whole page (they are never long and I really do try not to be boring) so I will be making a special section for them under the label of articles and taking them through another door from my main page. This way those who want to scan can and those who want to read will still be able to find a more personalized version of my experiences.

So what do your web pages say about your web site and are you optimized for both types of readers?

Be Aware When you Buy Software

Over the years I have purchased quite a bit of software. Each piece has performed assistance in whatever it was designed to do at the time. What I am finding slowly so slowly is that not many of them continue to work in the way they were originally designed to do.

Some of them no longer work at all because the providers/sellers have gone out of business, others because the software worked so well that it has been 'blackballed' by the search engines as spammy and others because there have been no updates made available for the programs. The products were designed, used, abused by too many people, and the manufacturers simply walked away. Some of them even took their websites down so they couldn't be contacted again.

So whenever you purchase software or 'wonder' programs be very careful who you are buying from and that they are not 'fly-by-nighters' (that is, here today and gone tomorrow) and will end up leaving you high and dry without any support services, back ups or updates.

If you are a software seller, then I think it only fair that you advise buyers that the software does have the potential to have websites deindexed because the software uses could be considered spammy eventually or that there could be too many people who buy the system and with so many people doing the same thing for more traffic or higher rankings or whatever the software is designed to do, it could cause a red-flag with the search engines.

This may inhibit a few buyers short-term from buying but it is more likely to cause those who buy it knowingly to buy your next product again. You will have earned the reputation of an honest operator.

Those pieces of software that I have bought and that have now been closed down have brought me to this conclusion. I have bought other software years ago that is working as well today as it did originally and it has had timely updates over the years.

My suggestion to anyone thinking of buying a piece of software to solve whatever problem you are trying to overcome is to do a good bit of due diligence and make sure the product either has support and updates or how many are going to be sold. In the long run this will save you time, money and a heck-of-a-lot of frustration.

What is GeoEnglish?

Geoenglish is English written by someone whose first language is not English. Today on the Internet there are many article directories with more and more hopping on the band-wagon every week. Because the majority of these article directories are based on English language submissions and because there are more and more PLR articles being written by people whose first language is not English, I have come to think of this as Geoenglish.

So what makes Geoenglish different to the Queens English? I believe it's in the way sentences get phrased. I can now pretty well pick those articles written by someone from India or from China, Asia or Eastern Russia. Everyone says things in a very particular phrasing that makes them unique and quite different to the way someone who speaks English as a first language says them. And good writing skills today are similar to writing a conversation. These accents come through in an authors writing to me as clearly as if I was hearing the person speak.

US English is different to Australian or UK English and even here some of the nuances either get lost in the translation or have a subtle and quite different meaning.

It's more though than the phrasing of words; it's also in the singular and plural, past, present and future tense of words and the nuances attached to the words. The English language was once cited to me 'as the language of the Geese' and yes, he came from Germany.

I tried to learn German once but never got past putting the hours past the minutes because everything is 'back to front' for someone whose first language is English so I have tremendous respect for these writers who are, by and large, making a pretty good foray into dealing with the English language. I couldn't deal with learning German because it was too hard so the fact these writers have mastered enough skills to get paid for writing English articles is a credit to them as far as I am concerned.

But it still begs the outcome for Geoenglish. I no longer bother with accepting or using any Geoenglish PLR articles because I'm one of these people who won't put my name to something that 'simply isn't me'. I found the time it takes to rewrite these articles was too time consuming and it was far easier to just write them myself.

So as the Internet evolves are we going to get to the stage where we will be able to go to article directories that are country specific? I suspect so and I personally think this will be a good thing. Language, any language, is communication so if we want to target a specific country for a product, it makes sense to me to be able to access articles written by someone from that country and in their own script.

Google's translator is available now but I suspect these GeoEnglish article directories will be a very popular addition to the Internet community generally.

XsitePro Reviews

I am an XsitePro user for both version 1 and the updated version XsitePro2. My reviews will compare both products and the innovative thinking that Paul Smithson has added into the second version.

Both XsitePro1 and XsitePro2 have been created with affiliate marketers in mind. The XsitePro2 (XSP2) version evolved from the ongoing technological changes occurring on the internet and as affiliate marketers became more savvy and proficient. Both XSP1 and XSP2 are WYSIWYG programmes designed for people who don't know or have never learnt any HTML coding language. Now they don't have to as both products are so user friendly and intuitive and once you have done something 'new' once, you realise how easy things really are once you have actually done it once.

The 'doing' is what makes using both XSP1 & XSP2 so easy to learn. When I first got XSP1 I read the first manual before I watched the videos and I think in retrospect that was the wrong way about. What put me off was the thought of 'placeholders' because I had no idea what they meant. And as I was scared of doing something wrong and damaging the programme, I did nothing with it for months. This was a very bad mistake on my part. A huge mistake! Believe me, don't go there.

So one day after paying another AUD$600.00 to a webmaster I had no respect for I decided I was being absolutely dumb. A right royal idjit!

So I bit the bullet, set the lap top beside me and followed the videos, step by step. It wasn't long before I had my first website published and I was as proud as a rat with a gold tooth. It was so easy once I made up my mind I was going to do and actually sat down and started the 'doing'. That's all it needed was to actually do something with it instead of 'playing' and being too scared of breaking something I didn't understand. I soon learnt the value of those placeholders and what they did.

In the end, both XSP1 and XSP2 are so flaming easy to use that these days all I do now is load her up and whip a website out any time I think I have an hour to spare. It's unbelievably easy.

The extra features built into XSP2 make it easier for affiliate marketers who either want to add a new page to their website or who want to link directly to a vendors website. You can do redirects without having to go to a server to do so. You can do straight linking so that if you are submitting articles to directories and you can't link to an affiliate site you can do so through XSP2. It makes life so much easier.

I can't believe just how comfortable I am now with using XSP2. If someone had said to me 18 months ago that I would be good at making my own websites, I would have asked them if I could have had whatever it was they were on! Now I'm offering you the chance to get on what I'm on and loving every minute on my XSitePro2