Making money on the internet never has been easier. While many are looking to the route of being the next Bill Gates they are actually making the route too complicated. Making money on the internet is not hard. In fact if you can answer a few questions you could make hundreds of dollars each month.

We are talking about surveys. Companies are using the internet to get the opinion of consumers on new products they are pondering a launch for. And the growth of these companies is phenomenal. One estimate has the amount of research company looking for consumers to poll at over several hundred. It’s to the point that if someone has a connection with each of these research companies they could practically make a modest living reviewing things and giving their mind of opinion.

Here’s how it works. A company contacts one of these research firms and says they are interested in promoting “A” product. There is one problem; they are not sure how the public will receive it. There is also question if it can be improved. So what do they do? Get a large panel of consumers to review. The research company then alerts the panel online that the survey is available. For each survey they will pay in the range of $5-100. The amount of time a consumer has been reviewing also plays a role in how much they are paid.

So far the response from the panel of people signed up to review products from kitchenware to car accessories is a real hit. The research company, company exploring a product and consumers all end up winning.

The future of this opportunity only looks to grow. With more companies than ever with large bank accounts looking to research future products and the system set up this business looks to thrive for the foreseeable future.

Here is a list of paid surveys.

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When it comes to marketing online you need to focus like a lazer. If you try to appeal to a large audience it will be hard to generate a high conversion rate (amount of people buy your product/amount of people that view your site). Maximizing your sites potential to earn income requires the people that view your site to already be interested in the topic of the website/product. This is niche marketing. You basically want to appeal to a small section of the population so that you can target them in your marketing campaigns. Besides, its hard to market a random product to millions of random people, and hope they will buy it. But if you market a specific product to a specific audience and you are on your way to making money.

Some people tap into niches that they are interested in, others the ones that are most profitable. Both ways work well, in fact peoples interests and hobbies may be huge untapped markets waiting to make money. This is how some of the most successful internet marketers have made their fortunes. Regardless if the niches you use interest you or not you need to market to as specific a person as possible to have the most profits. Say I am selling a widgets ebook at widgets.com; I would want to tailor my sales pages and my ads to be as specifically talking to people highly interested in buying information on widgets as possile.

Creating niche community sites is one of the most profitable method of tapping into niches though. You can use these to develop a very large repeat targeted customer base. This is something that works incredibly well since you know that everyone that keeps coming back to that site is interested in the subject of the site. From a community site you can advertise your related products, sell highly targeted traffic to others, send occasional “announcement emails”, and make a lot of money off of Google’s Adsense. If you have 2000 people that use your forums for your widget site regularly your site content will be huge and attract search engines, but also your Adsense ads will be getting clicked like crazy by all those people. This is an example of daily income without selling anything at all.

You would also have 2000 people to sell your widget products/services to from the community site. This is such a large highly targeted customer base that you can easily sell any new products/services to have to offer with ease. Some people choose to invest their time and money in building a community and not really selling anything at all. You would do this of course until the base was big enough to make a lot of money off of.

Now community sites might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But people do create incredible profits off of just sales pages and mini-sites targeting whatever niche audience they are trying to sell to. After you have several niche targeted products and mini-sites set up you can cross market them if you want and have your own network of sites. This is incredibly profitable because you are converting possible not buyers into buyers of something else and also get people to buy something after already buying. Most internet marketers find that 5-7 is the optimal amount of mini niche sites set up. Six was the average amount of mini-sites set up that required little maintenance to run and have huge profit potential.

This is just the first article in a series exploring niche marketing to its most profitable extremes. Make sure to check back for the newest one frequently and to check out the authors internet marketing blog located at: http://www.how-to-market.blogspot.com for the most current internet and niche marketing tactics and tools.

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By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll possess a powerful weapon in your fight against chronic tiredness and other health problems.

This potent weapon is not new. It’s well known by many health experts.

So what is this key resource to help you enjoy better health?

It’s making your own fresh fruit and vegetable juices. When you juice fruits and vegetables, you make delicious drinks that will contribute to increased energy and enhanced health.

Why is juicing so effective?

Here’s how this wonderful health weapon works: juices are absorbed almost immediately into your body, thus supplying needed vitamins and minerals. Cooking vegetables removes a lot of their nutritional value, but juicing saves these vitamins and minerals. So you get mega-doses of vitamins and minerals.

Let’s say you make a carrot-apple drink from one apple and four carrots. Imagine sitting
down and eating all those at one time in their original state! But you get the vitamins and minerals from the fruit and vegetables in their juice and it’s living! That’s because the vitamins and minerals have not been destroyed by the pasteurization process used to make juice sold
in stores.

How do you get the maximum health return from juicing?

Start your day right by drinking freshly-made juice. It’s wise to drink it before you eat and then wait about ten minutes (before eating the rest of your breakfast) to give your body a headstart as it absorbs the life-giving fluid into your bloodstream.

Don’t let the juice sit around, but drink it within minutes of making it to retain those precious vitamins and minerals.

You can also add to your fiber intake by using the pulp in muffins and bread. Just add the pulp of your favorite fruits and vegetables to your recipe and you’ll have a moist taste-bud pleasing treat!

How are fruits and vegetables prepared for juicing?

First wash them. Cut out any bad spots that you wouldn’t want to eat. You usually don’t need to peel fruits and vegetables.

What are some popular juice recipes?

1. Carrot Juice

Carrots are a favorite for juicing purposes. Put them through your juicer one at a time and don’t peel them.

Carrot drinks taste great all by themselves, but you can also use them as a base for other fruits and vegetables too. Carrots and apples taste wonderful together. Children love this combination taste treat!

2. Celery Juice

Celery should be cut into 3-4 inch sections and fed into your machine at a steady pace.

3. Fresh Apple Drink

Just cut the apples into pieces that will fit into the feeding chamber. You don’t need to core them, although you might want to do so.

4. Melon Thirst Quencher

You’ll need to remove the rinds but not the seeds. Most varieties of melons are great for juicing.

5. Combo Drink

Add all different kinds of vegetables together, including tomatoes. It’s fun to experiment!
But don’t put in vegetables or fruit that you don’t like to eat because your beverage won’t taste good to you.

What kinds of juicers are available?

1. Centrifugal-ejection machines

These are good for most uses.

2. Low-speed masticating juicers

These do a better job juicing spinach and wheatgrass.

3. Twin gear juicers

These machines work in two stages. First the fruits and vegetables are crushed and then the juice is pressed out. You get a higher quality drink because of this process, but twin gear machines are slower than the other juicers.

4. Citrus juicers

If you’re just squeezing lemons, oranges and grapefruit, this is the one for you.

The better the machine, the longer the warranty. The inexpensive juicers aren’t made to withstand daily use. A powerful motor extracts juice faster with less strain. Centrifugal juicers should have a motor rating of at least 450-watts. Machines that use a slow, grinding motor speed (masticating and double-auger models) don’t need as much wattage.

If making your own energy-packed juice isn’t in your arsenal of health weapons yet, it should be.

Step up your energy to a much higher level by juicing your way to vibrant health!

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Ok, so over the past month or so I’ve been collecting various search engine optimization questions from all of you. Today, I’m going to answer what was the most frequently asked question over the past month.

You guessed it… What is the Google Sandbox Theory and how do I escape it? When you finish reading this lesson, you’ll be an expert on the good ‘ole Google Sandbox Theory and you’ll know how to combat its effects. So, pay close attention. This is some very important stuff.

Before I start explaining what the Google Sandbox theory is, let me make a few things clear:

The Google Sandbox theory is just that, a theory, and is without official confirmations from Google or the benefit of years of observation.

The Google Sandbox theory has been floating around since summer 2004, and has only really gained steam after February 4, 2005 , after a major Google index update (something known as the old Google dance).

Without being able to verify the existence of a Sandbox, much less its features, it becomes very hard to devise strategies to combat its effects.

Almost everything that you will read on the Internet on the Google Sandbox theory is conjecture, pieced together from individual experiences and not from a widescale objective controlled experiment with hundreds of websites (something that would obviously help in determining the nature of the Sandbox, but is inherently impractical given the demand on resources).

Thus, as I’ll be discussing towards the end, it’s important that you focus on úgood’ search engine optimization techniques and not place too much emphasis on quick úget-out-ofjail’ schemes which are, after all, only going to last until the next big Google update.

What is the Google Sandbox Theory?

There are several theories that attempt explain the Google Sandbox effect. Essentially, the problem is simple. Webmasters around the world began to notice that their new websites, optimized and chock full of inbound links, were not ranking well for their selected keywords.

In fact, the most common scenario to be reported was that after being listed in the SERPS (search engine results pages) for a couple of weeks, pages were either dropped from the index or ranked extremely low for their most important keywords.

This pattern was tracked down to websites that were created (by created I mean that their domain name was purchased and the website was registered) around March 2004. All websites created around or after March 2004 were said to be suffering from the Sandbox effect.

Some outliers escaped it completely, but webmasters on a broad scale had to deal with their websites ranking poorly even for terms for which they had optimized their websites to death.

Conspiracy theories grew exponentially after the February 2005 update, codenamed úAllegra’ (how these updates are named I have no clue), when webmasters began seeing vastly fluctuating results and fortunes. Well-ranked websites were loosing their high SERPS positions, while previously low-ranking websites had gained ground to rank near the top for their keywords.

This was a major update to Google’s search engine algorithm, but what was interesting was the apparent úexodus’ of websites from the Google Sandbox. This event gave the strongest evidence yet of the existence of a Google Sandbox, and allowed SEO experts to better understand what the Sandbox effect was about.

Possible explanations for the Google Sandbox Effect

A common explanation offered for the Google Sandbox effect is the úTime Delay’ factor. Essentially, this theory suggests that Google releases websites from the Sandbox after a set period of time. Since many webmasters started feeling the effects of the Sandbox around March-April 2004 and a lot of those websites were úreleased’ in the úAllegra’ update, this úwebsite aging’ theory has gained a lot of ground.

However, I don’t find much truth in the úTime Delay’ factor because by itself, it’s just an artificially imposed penalty on websites and does not improve relevancy (the Holy Grail for search engines). Since Google is the de facto leader of the search engine industry and is continuously making strides to improve relevancy in search results, tactics such as this do not fit in with what we know about Google.

Contrasting evidence from many websites has shown that some websites created before March 2004 were still not released from the Google Sandbox, whereas some websites created as late as July 2004 managed to escape the Google Sandbox effect during the úAllegra’ update. Along with shattering the úTime Delay’ theory, this also raises some interesting questions. This evidence has led some webmasters to suggest a úlink threshold’ theory; once a website has accumulated a certain amount of quantity/quality inbound links, it is released from the Sandbox.

While this might be closer to the truth, this cannot be all there is to it. There has been evidence of websites who have escaped the Google Sandbox effect without massive linkbuilding campaigns. In my opinion, link-popularity is definitely a factor in determining when a website is released from the Sandbox but there is one more caveat attached to it.

This concept is known as úlink-aging’. Basically, this theory states that websites are released from the Sandbox based on the úage’ of their inbound links. While we only have limited data to analyze, this seems to be the most likely explanation for the Google Sandbox effect.

The link-ageing concept is something that confuses people, who usually consider that it is the website that has to age. While conceptually, a link to a website can only be as old as the website itself, yet if you have don’t have enough inbound links after one year, common experience has it that you will not be able to escape from the Google Sandbox. A quick hop around popular SEO forums (you do visit SEO forums, don’t you?) will lead you to hundreds of threads discussing various results ú some websites were launched in July 2004 and escaped by December 2004. Others were stuck in the Sandbox even after the úAllegra’ update.

How to find out if your website is sandboxed

Finding out if your website is úSandboxed’ is quite simple. If your website does not appear in any SERPS for your target list of keywords, or if your results are highly depressing (ranked somewhere on the 40 th page) even if you have lots of inbound links and almostperfect on-page optimization, then your website has been Sandboxed.

Issues such as the Google Sandbox theory tend to distract webmasters from the core úgood’ SEO practices and inadvertently push them towards black-hat or quick-fix techniques to exploit the search engine’s weaknesses. The problem with this approach is its short-sightedness. To explain what I’m talking about, let’s take a small detour and discuss search engine theory.

Understanding search engines

If you’re looking to do some SEO, it would help if you tried to understand what search engines are trying to do. Search engines want to present the most relevant information to their users. There are two problems in this ú the inaccurate search terms that people use and the information glut that is the Internet. To counteract, search engines have developed increasingly complex algorithms to deduce relevancy of content for different search terms.

How does this help us?

Well, as long as you keep producing highly-targeted, quality content that is relevant to the subject of your website (and acquire natural inbound links from related websites), you will stand a good chance for ranking high in SERPS. It sounds ridiculously simple, and in this case, it is. As search engine algorithms evolve, they will continue to do their jobs better, thus becoming better at filtering out trash and presenting the most relevant content to their users.

While each search engine will have different methods of determining search engine placement (Google values inbound links quite a lot, while Yahoo has recently placed additional value on Title tags and domain names), in the end all search engines aim to achieve the same goal, and by aiming to fulfill that goal you will always be able to ensure that your website can achieve a good ranking.

Escaping the sandbox…

Now, from our discussion about the Sandbox theory above, you know that at best, the Google Sandbox is a filter on the search engine’s algorithm that has a dampening influence on websites. While most SEO experts will tell you that this effect decreases after a certain period of time, they mistakenly accord it to website aging, or basically, when the website is first spidered by Googlebot. Actually, the Sandbox does úholds back’ new websites but more importantly, the effects reduce over time not on the basis of website aging, but on link aging.

This means that the time that you spend in the Google Sandbox is directly linked to when you start acquiring quality links for your website. Thus, if you do nothing, your website may not be released from the Google Sandbox.

However, if you keep your head down and keep up with a low-intensity, long-term link building plan and keep adding inbound links to your website, you will be released from the Google Sandbox after an indeterminate period of time (but within a year, probably six months). In other words, the filter will stop having such a massive effect on your website. As the úAllegra’ update showed, websites that were constantly being optimized during the time that they were in the Sandbox began to rank quite high for targeted keywords after
the Sandbox effect ended.

This and other observations of the Sandbox phenomenon ú combined with an understanding of search engine philosophy ú have lead me to pinpoint the following strategies for minimizing your website’s úSandboxed’ time.

SEO strategies to minimize your website’s “sandboxed” time

Despite what some SEO experts might tell you, you don’t need do anything different to escape from the Google Sandbox. In fact, if you follow the úwhite hat’ rules of search engine optimization and work on the principles I’ve mentioned many times in this course, you’ll not only minimize your website’s Sandboxed time but you will also ensure that your website ranks in the top 10 for your target keywords. Here’s a list of SEO strategies you should make sure you use when starting out a new website:

Start promoting your website the moment you create your website, not when your
website is úready’. Don’t make the mistake of waiting for your website to be úperfect’.
The motto is to get your product out on the market, as quickly as possible, and then
worry about improving it. Otherwise, how will you ever start to make money?

Establish a low-intensity, long-term link building plan and follow it religiously. For
example, you can set yourself a target of acquiring 20 links per week, or maybe
even a target of contacting 10 link partners a day (of course, with SEO Elite, link
building is a snap). This will ensure that as you build your website, you also start
acquiring inbound links and those links will age properly ú so that by the time your
website exits the Sandbox you would have both a high quantity of inbound links
and a thriving website.

Avoid black-hat techniques such as keyword stuffing or úcloaking’. Google’s search
algorithm evolves almost daily, and penalties for breaking the rules may keep you
stuck in the Sandbox longer than usual.

Save your time by remembering the 20/80 rule: 80 percent of your optimization can
be accomplished by just 20 percent of effort. After that, any tweaking left to be done
is specific to current search engine tendencies and liable to become ineffective
once a search engine updates its algorithm. Therefore don’t waste your time in
optimizing for each and every search engine ú just get the basics right and move on
to the next page.

Remember, you should always optimize with the end-user in mind, not the search engines.

Like I mentioned earlier, search engines are continuously optimizing their algorithms in order to improve on the key criteria: relevancy. By ensuring that your website content is targeted on a particular keyword, and is judged as úgood’ content based on both on-page optimization (keyword density) and off-page factors (lots of quality inbound links), you will also guarantee that your website will keep ranking highly for your search terms no matter what changes are brought into a search engine’s algorithm, whether it’s a dampening factor a la Sandbox or any other quirk the search engine industry throws up in the future.

Have you taken a look at SEO Elite yet? If not…
What’s stopping you?

Now, get out there and start smoking the search engines!
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