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Directory submissions are an important part of the link building process offered by many SEO Outsourcings. Listing in good directories automatically brings in quality backlinks, increasing link popularity, increase your ranking in search engines, traffics and many more which all of are described below:

1. Get Your Website Indexed

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN send out spiders-crawlers (Genarally between 10 to 20 days) to search the web for new sites that come up everyday.For example, If you using the “add URL” page to submit your website to Google then it takes 4-6 weeks to listing site in it. When using directory submissions, you can get your website listed in Google and other major search engines in a matter of days sometimes because major search engines find new websites through incoming links and directory submission is the best way to get incoming links.

If your site is new or just been launched, a web directory link would help the search engines in finding your site and including it in their database. So given the benefit of web directory links, it only makes sense to get your site submitted to as many directories as possible.

Thus,If you have a new site and you want search engines to know of its existence, then there couldn’t be an easier and better way to let a search engine know than having it find your site through links in various directories.

2. Get One Way Links – Improve Search Engine Rankings & Increase Link Popularity

You should use directory submissions as part of your websites optimization and promotion because of the fact that obtaining incoming links for your website is one of the most important ranking factors in the major search engines ranking algorithms, especially in competitive keyword markets. Search engines give importance to the number of inbound links to your site when ranking it for a given position during search and one way links are thought to be valued more than reciprocal links (when links are exchanged with other sites) and also obtaining incoming links from directory submission or others for your website is one of the most important ranking factors in the major search engines ranking algorithms. Most directories provide one way links, which is beneficial from the SEO aspect of your site.

Thus, directory links can help give a boost to your SEO efforts and it’s also helpful in giving a boost to your already existing search engine rankings and increase the link popularity of your site.

3. Target Specific Keywords/Keywords Phrases

Most directories allow you to provide a link with keywords describing your site. It’s not easy getting links to your site with the keywords you want and directories serve as the easiest medium for getting such links. Getting links with targeted keywords / phrases can have search engines favoring your site over others when ranking for the given terms.

Using varied link anchor text can increase the possibility of your website being found under these keywords or phrases when they are typed into a search engine. After all, if you want your website to be successful, it would have to be found by people and the best way for that would be your site coming up on top for the searches that matter. When people search using particular words, you would want your site showing up in the first few results for those words.

Most directories are free to submit to Given the benefits and most directories being free to submit to, it makes business sense to having your site listed in as many SEO friendly directories as possible. After all, you don’t lose anything for doing so.

4. Other Advantages:

* Your website Google Pagerank can increase.
* Your website link popularity can increase (more backlinks)
* Your website can get more thoroughly indexed by search engines (get more pages in)

The bottom line is…the numbers add up to directory submission is a must to increase the numbers of your website.

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How To Protect Your Identity And Your Online Home Business
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Starting a home-based internet business is the dream of many would-be entrpreneurs across the globe. Every single day countless numbers of these people are turning their dream into a reality. The more you put yourself out there on the internet in many aspect, the issue of identity theft is a growing concern.

Operating an online business requires many hours on your computer doing the things necessary to build your business. As a result you can sometimes open yourself up to privacy issues. Here are 11 of the best ways you can lower your risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. At the end of this article, step number 11 is fast becoming THE preferred way for people to secure the themselves.

An identity thief takes your personal information and uses it without your knowledge. The thief may run up debts or even commit crimes in your name. Take these steps to help insure yourself against this crime of our times.

Number One: Protect your Social Security Number

If you do, stop carrying your Social Security Card in your wallet. If a company you do business with wants to use your SS# as your account number or id number, ask them to use another number. Protecting your Social Security number is the key to controlling identity theft.

Number 2: Don’t let your identity get trashed

Own a paper/document shredder as part of your business. Shred or tear up papers with your personal information on them before you throw them away. Shred credit card offers and other mail you receive that might have your personal private information on them.

Number 3: Use caution when clicking around the Internet

Before entering credit card or other personal information on any web site(especially if you are new to it), read their privacy policy. See what your options are to opt out of sharing your information. IF there is no privacy policy posted, BEWARE!. Do business somewhere else. When you do enter personal information, enter it on secure web pages with “https” in the address bar and a padlock symbol at the bottom of your browser. These signs indicate protection from hackers.

Number 4: Beware of “Phishing”!

Scam artists disguise themselves as legitimate businesses that you do business with everyday like your bank, stores, eBay, Paypal, government agencies and such. Tactics include phone calls, emails, regular mail, and others asking you to verify personal information like account numbers and passwords. Don’t respond unless you initiated the contact with that company by calling them. If they called you, ask them if you can call them back. Additionally, legitimate companies do not ask for this sort of information in these ways.

Number 5: Keep control of your personal financial information

Limit wheenver you can, the sharing of your information between companies and/or their affiliates.

Number 6: Opt-out of pre-approved credit card offers

Many pre-approved credit card offers are simply ploys to make your information an easy target to gather.

Number 7: Check your bills and statements

Open your bills and statements. Reconcile right away and look carefully for any unauthorized charges or withdrawals. If you miss receiving these in the mail one month, call to find out why in case anyone stole them from your mailbox or have changed your contact information.

Number 8: Protect your computer

Computer viruses and spyware can compromise your privacy. Use the appropriate security software. Make your passwords difficult for others to guess. DO NOT click on links in spam email.

Number 9: Make a regular check of your credit report

This is one of the best ways to protect yourself. Monitor your credit history. You can get a FREE credit report every year from each of the three national credit bureaus.

Number 10: Ask Questions

Whenever information is requested from you that seems inappropriate for the transaction you are making, ask why. Ask how the information is going to be used and if it will be shared. Move on if you feel the answers are unsatisfactory.

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America. It’s makes sense to take steps to protect yourself when you are an online business owner spending so much time on the internet.

Number 11: Use Lifelock

A great way to protect your good name and your identity from being stolen is with a company called Lifelock. As part of their service to protect your identity from being stolen, they offer a One Million Dollar Service Guarantee. Quite simply, using Lifelock is absolutely the best way to protect yourself from identity theft BEFORE it happens.

Get all the details at http://www.lifelock.com .

If you decide to take this important step toward protecting your identity and good name, here’s how you can save a little money on Lifelock’s already low service pricing. At the appropriate point when prompted for a “PROMO CODE”, enter the promo code LOCKSAFE. By entering “locksafe”, you’ll receive a 10% service discount from Lifelock that I have negotiated for all my readers.

Identity theft can happen to anyone, anytime and anywhere. It can happen online or offline. Simple logical steps like those listed above can protect your good name. It’s simply important to properly protect your reputation and the reputation of your business online and off.

To Your Success,

Todd

Todd Thomas is the Founder of ChooseHomeWork.com http://www.ChooseHomeWork.com
and WorkAtHomeForDummies.com http://www.WorkAtHomeForDummies.com.
Todd writes business related articles ranging from internet business to network marketing and everything in between. Todd is also a baseball coach and hitting instructor. He owns http://www.HitItHere.net.
Contact at support@workathomefordummies.com for info on articles for your website!

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Discovering Your Work From Home Niche
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By a show of hands, who wants to go to work day in and day out for an unappreciative boss, be stuck in traffic about two hours per day, and miss many of your children’s milestones? Nobody?!? There is hardly anyone currently employed who does not daydream of working from home, being their own boss, forgetting about the commute, and being available to family and friends whenever possible. For quite a few, this dream has become a reality when they started their own home business. Some, however, have a hard time getting started or NEVER DO because they have a tough time deciding just what to do for a work from home business. If you’re in this boat, you’re not alone. Many others are there and have been there.

While finding your work from home niche doesn’t have to be that hard, it is also not as simple as many try to make it sound. To help you along in this process and to help you wade through much of the hype, here are some things to consider when getting ready to earnestly find something to do as a home business.

What are you capable of doing that perhaps someone else does not wish to do or is not able to do? This could be a great starting point for you to find a niche that you could fill in the marketplace and can turn into a profitable venture for you. Lots of things that take a special ability are good ideas even when others have the ability to do it, many times don’t want to do it and therefore will gladly pay someone else to take difficult or messy tasks off their hands. Skills take a special knack can many times be turned into a home business.

If a special skill does not come to mind readily, why not capitalize on a special talent you may have? Are you a fine artist and can paint portraits of people, places, animals and things that are so lifelike that friends and family are always asking you to do one for them? Are you a great cook? Does your garden look like an oasis in a sea of gardens with dried grass and wilting flowers? Can you explain even the most complex algebraic equations to your children in such a way that they actually understand them? Perhaps you play an instrument and would not mind teaching others to do so as well. If any of these things describe you or you are thinking of something we haven’t discussed here, then you quite possibly could have a talent that is quite marketable whether it’s online, off line or BOTH!

Most of the time, just some solid brainstorming about what you can offer in terms of your talents, abilities, special knowledge, etc, can yield one terrific idea for a home based business.

Maybe you are more inclined to take something that someone else has already established, like a franchise, and make that your vehicle to your dream of working from home. Don’t let the word “franchise” scare you in terms of what it might cost. Many franchises or franchise “type” businesses have minimal to only moderate start up costs and are many times not out of your league financially. There are many franchise “type” businesses in the online business world that have very low start up costs and offer amazing systems that anyone with just a little ambition can plug into. They are out there. They are legitimate work from home business opportunities that many real people are using to make real money from the computers at home. If you are looking into one, feel free to write me and ask me about it. I’ll tell you what I know and I’ll give you my honest unbiased opinion.

Last but not least, if you have neither a special skill nor confirmed talent, you do not need to give up! The odds are good that you will be able to brainstorm an idea for a home business based on doing those things everyone knows how to do but in many cases simply does not wish to deal with. From party planning to lawn work, lots of ideas exist of those things people would rather pay someone else to do. Why not you?

The simple fact is… the perfect idea for your home based business is out there. You just have to have the desire along with the will power to put the thought process into discovering what your niche could be. As long as your dream to start and run your own home business is alive in you, don’t give up on it and you will discover your home business niche like many other people just like you have done and are living that dream.

To Your Success,

Todd

Todd Thomas is the Founder of ChooseHomeWork.com http://www.ChooseHomeWork.com
and WorkAtHomeForDummies.com http://www.WorkAtHomeForDummies.com.
Todd writes business related articles ranging from internet business to network marketing and everything in between. Todd is also a baseball coach and hitting instructor. He owns http://www.HitItHere.net.
Contact at support@workathomefordummies.com for info on articles for your website!

Work At Home For Dummies – Here To Help You In Your Online Business
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It is the goal and purpose of the Work At Home For Dummies business blog to help any and all comers to higher success in their online business ventures. I am always looking to share my experiences and what has succeeded for me as well as for others in order to help those who read here to reach their goals for their home based business.

Actually making money in your home based online business, I know, is everyone’s ultimate goal. That is one of the reasons why I have started to share some different examples of proof from those making money online from their home business. Keep watching for more evidence of those making money online to come.

So in the continuing effort of the Work At Home For Dummies business blog to find ways to help you make more money in your home business, I am featuring an article today from David Pineda. He wrote a review of a business book that many online network marketers or multi-level marketing business owners have used successfully to grow their online MLM business.

Today’s feature article:

In his book, “Magnetic Sponsoring,” Mike Dillard teaches you, the network marketer, how to apply the proper marketing strategies that will turn you into a magnetic sponsor.

Though the “Magnetic Sponsoring” book only prints out 49 pages of content, it does not teach network marketers how to promote their business step by step. It is a guide, not an exact step by step road map. I can compare the Magnetic Sponsoring book to a conversation Neo and Morpheus had concerning a woman known as “The Oracle” in “The Matrix” the movie 1999.

The dialog went like this:

“Neo: So is this the same Oracle that made the prophecy?

Morpheus: Yes. She’s very old. She’s been with us since the beginning.

Neo: The beginning?

Morpheus: Of the resistance.

Neo: And she knows what, everything?

Morpheus: She would say she knows enough.

Neo: And she’s never wrong.

Morpheus: Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She can help you to find the path.

Neo: She helped you?

Morpheus: Yes.

Neo: What did she tell you?

Morpheus: That I would find the One. I told you I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.”

In a book like this, the information has to be generic and serve as a guide designed to help the network marketer to become a magnetic sponsor, but he/she has to “walk through the door” and apply the information contained therein.

Mike Dillard, once a surgeon recruiter for many hospitals quit his job and became a table waiter in order to pursue his career in network marketing. After discovering the proper use of positioning, and “sellucation” his term for the art of self-selling through education, sponsored 35 personal reps. and grew his organization to over 500 within just months and averaged over $500,000 dollars per year in volume sales.

Today he spends his time and efforts teaching network marketers the proper strategies of marketing and magnetic sponsoring, as well as serving as a marketing consultant to industry leaders.

In “Magnetic Sponsoring,” I found out that the strategy of the ABC business model is the most valuable a networker can learn. Mike doesn’t just tell you what Part A, Part B, or Part C is. He teaches you how to apply that principle in your MLM business,network marketing business, internet marketing business, or what ever you want to call it in order to keep your business running, and to make sure there is constant cash flow, and growth.

This book truly brings a fresh, high energy, revolutionary, and an effective approach to network marketing. “Sellucation” is intertwined through out the entire course. Educating prospects and applying the franchise business model is essential for network marketers to become magnetic sponsors.

Though it took me some time to fully understand how to apply magnetic sponsoring marketing techniques into my business, I feel that even people with little or no experience in MLM business, network marketing business, or internet marketing business,should have no problems applying the proper marketing strategies found within the book after reading it a few times.

In his newsletter, Mike guarantees that in just ten days, he can turn you into a MLM lead & cash generating wiz! I have to confess that at first, I did not really believe that; I thought he was just another guy creating a lot of hype to make a quick buck. After reading his “Magnetic Sponsoring” book however, I really see that he can actually back up his claim.

One thing I felt Mike could have done to make his book even better, was maybe expanding on the section about franchising a network marketing business with more specific, detailed explanations and/or illustrations as to how exactly this strategy should be applied so that the reader learns to apply this technique a lot faster, and effectively to his/her MLM business, network marketing business, or internet marketing business. But then again, the information is very generic and it applies to any business. As long as is read carefully a few times, there souldn’t be any problem applying those strategies.

Based on the claims that Mike makes in his free 10-day boot camp training, and in his “Magnetic Sponsoring” book, I could not think of any questions left unanswered, or any unfulfilled promises.

If you are in MLM business, network marketing business, or internet marketing business, you know that the life blood of any business are leads to generate prospects. In order to accomplish that you have to advertise and/or buy leads. If you are running your business on a shoe string budget, and want to generate prospects, generate cash to fund your advertising, and do NOT want to spend yourself out of business buying expensive leads, then my highest recommendation is this:

On a five star rating, one being the worst and five being the best, I give the “Magnetic Sponsoring” book a four star rating.

Though Mike Dillard has already produced a follow up ebook with 13 special reports on magnetic sponsoring that he gives as a bonus for acquiring the book, I hope he produces yet another more thorough breakdown of proper network marketing techniques book that teaches how to become extremely magnetic in network marketing.

Copyright 2006 David Pineda is an Internet Marketing Coach and ezine article writer for more free info visit: http://www.davidhpineda.ws/page4.html

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Pineda

To Your Success,

Todd

Todd Thomas is the Founder of ChooseHomeWork.com http://www.ChooseHomeWork.com
and WorkAtHomeForDummies.com http://www.WorkAtHomeForDummies.com.
Todd writes business related articles ranging from internet business to network marketing and everything in between. Todd is also a baseball coach and hitting instructor. He owns http://www.HitItHere.net.
Contact at support@workathomefordummies.com for info on articles for your website!

Today’s Network Marketing MLM Business Tip:
Know Your Numbers
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Identify what works and what doesn’t work for you
by maintaining a record of all prospecting calls made, leads
generated, appointments agreed upon, presentations
given, and sales attained. Calculate how many prospecting calls
it requires to get one deal or attain a new business partner.

Top producers all know their numbers. You should too.

To Your Success,

Todd

Todd Thomas is the Founder of ChooseHomeWork.com http://www.ChooseHomeWork.com
and WorkAtHomeForDummies.com http://www.WorkAtHomeForDummies.com.
Todd writes business related articles ranging from internet business to network marketing and everything in between. Todd is also a baseball coach and hitting instructor. He owns http://www.HitItHere.net.
Contact at support@workathomefordummies.com for info on articles for your website!

Today’s feature article is:
A Home Based Online Business – The Cost Of Doing Business
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It amazes me sometimes when I consider the number of people who desire to start a home based online business and are yet so resistant to the fact that there may be some upfront costs to doing business.

Consider this…Anytime a person buys a franchise for instance. Let’s say it’s a McDonald’s. One has to know that in this case there is a lot of upfront costs. There are the franchise fees, equipment costs, employee expenses and a lot more of an ongoing nature. Of course, there is the cost of marketing and advertising that must be done to draw in business and to grow the business. It’s the same for companies that are expanding by opening new locations and such. It’s no different for a small mom & pop type business and certainly a home based online business as well. These upfront expenses are inherent to every new business whether it is offline or online.

Like any other type of business, a home based online business shouldn’t jump on any and every advertising or marketing idea that comes along. No matter how great a marketing company might say there advertising solution may be. They may say it’s the best option out there and if you’ll just do this you can sit back and watch the money roll in. Don’t fall prey to such claims. Surely, there are solutions out there, but a home based online business owner must use the same discretion as his offline colleagues. Seek out and go for the most exposure at the most economical cost. Knowing also, that marketing or advertising can often take some time to reap a return.

Free advertising is the desire of every business whether the business is offline or online. And Businesses should seek out and take advantage of as many good free advertising opportunities as they can get their hands on. A good number of which I will direct you to in this article.

As a home based online business owner, you must know and understand that in order to grow your business, it will take some cash outlay in some form. Expect it. Know it. Believe it will. Then use your business acumen or draw on that of others to market effectively. Especially from those who have a vested interest in seeing you succeed like your upline in a Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing business. Business success groups, colleagues, partners, and other business people in general can be a source for you as well.

As for the free marketing and advertising avenue, click here to go to a special report written by a friend of mine Doug Gorman. Doug’s report on 150 free tools for your online business is a great resource to research and implement a number of free marketing ideas for your home based online home business. In fact, they are most specifically geared toward you the internet home business owner. Research and choose a method or two or three.

Just stop with the “I’m not going to spend a penny and this thing better work” attitude. If you do, you are immediately setting yourself up for frustration and failure when you decide it’s taking to long to get profitable. It’s going to cost something. Just be smart with your marketing dollars and let your business grow to the point where you reach break even and into that wonderful area of PROFIT!

To Your Success,

Todd

Todd Thomas is the Founder of ChooseHomeWork.com http://www.ChooseHomeWork.com
and WorkAtHomeForDummies.com http://www.WorkAtHomeForDummies.com.
Todd writes business related articles ranging from internet business to network marketing and everything in between. Todd is also a baseball coach and hitting instructor. He owns http://www.HitItHere.net.
Contact at support@workathomefordummies.com for info on articles for your website!

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