eBay's Listing Policies

While you can sell most things on eBay, quite a few things are banned. If you try to sell any of these things then eBay will remove your auction and all bids will be void.

Here is eBay's full list of prohibited or questionable items:

A Beginner's Guide to the Different eBay Auction Types

Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types, in an effort to give people more options when they buy and sell their things on eBay. 

For every seller who doesn't like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend, there's another who wants to shift hundreds of the same item quickly. eBay tries to cater to all tastes. This email gives you an overview of the different kinds of auctions and their advantages for you.

Normal Auctions.

These are the bread-and-butter of eBay, the auctions everyone knows: buyers bid, others outbid them, they bid again, and the winner gets the item. Simple.

Making Serious Money With AdSense

If you're looking at Google's AdSense program you're surely asking yourself how much you could make from such a program, and you probably think you can't make as much as you can from traditional advertising schemes.

Google, of course, keeps a great deal of secrecy regarding how much AdWords advertisers pay per each click directed to their site and the same applies for how much AdSense banner holders make from their websites.

List of Profitable Niches

You can use these niches in many ways such as: AdSense, Amazon, ClickBank, etc. What you need to do next with these niches is to do keywords research before starting a website/blog with it. Here they are:

Black Hat or White Hat?

Some call it a question of ethics; others just call it business. The discussion is raging online and in marketing conferences around the world, but what exactly are black hat SEO and white hat SEO, anyway?

White hat SEO is the angelic version of optimization, that is, it employs only techniques as recommended – or at least, not barred – by search engines and their ever-changing guidelines. Typically, results in the form of more traffic and higher profits take anywhere from three months to a year. With this type of SEO, there is no fear of your site being banned by search engines.

Quick Guide To Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an excellent solution for all the website related needs, starting from the source which brought the visitors to your site to how they interacted with your website.

It was in May 2005 that Google acquired a company named Urchin Software Corporation which provided a web service called ‘Urchin on Demand’. Henceforth, the service was renamed to Google Analytics. 

Google Analytics is an excellent solution for all the website related needs, starting from the source which brought the visitors to your site to how they interacted with your website. Hence, it provides good results as to how the site should be designed/ modified so as to attract more visitors or how to do better marketing for your product online. Some of the features of Google Analytics are given below.

How to Boost Your Rankings

So, after hard and time consuming process you got your web site on the internet, optimized it for certain keywords and can’t wait to see it at No.1 position on Google, Yahoo and MSN? Not so fast. First of all, you’ll need 3 things to be taken care of: on-site optimization, search engine submission and some major work on link popularity building. There’s plenty of information about internal web page optimization on the internet, and it’s not a secret how to submit all your web pages to Google or Yahoo through their new feed systems. If it is – you should educate yourself about the first two elements first, and then worry about link popularity.

Guide To Get Links For New Websites

If you are the webmaster of a newly launched website, or if your website lacks the popularity it deserves, you should have a look at the following guide, which will show you how to get valuable links and improve your traffic levels and overall site popularity:

1. Use the full power of automated link management websites and directories. This is the easiest and most effective way of getting links to your website. 

2. Place a link or invitation for potential link partners. There are many webmasters who visit related websites and some of them might want to link to you. Make sure to offer them an easy and quick solution to initiate the link exchange.

A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer

Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along. 

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on. 

Easy Profits Using PPC In Your Affiliate Marketing Business

PPC is one of the four basic types of Search Engines. PPC is also one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted internet advertising. According to Forbes magazine, PPC or Pay Per Click, accounts to 2 billion dollars a year and is expected to increase to around 8 billion dollars by the year 2008. 

Let us take a quick look at how PPC Search Engines work. 

These engines create listings and rate them based on a bid amount the website owner is willing to pay for each click from that search engine. Advertisers bid against each other to receive higher ranking for a specific keyword or phrase. 

So Many Affiliate Programs! Which One Do I Choose?

Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join into. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on. 

Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.

Growing Your Affiliate Marketing Business

Affiliate marketing is a very popular business on the internet that involves a partnership between a merchant and one or more affiliates.  The affiliate will advertise or promote the merchant's products and services free until a customer makes a purchase.

Once a purchase has been made, a portion of the profit received by the merchant from the customer will be given to the affiliate.  For this very reason, the relationship between the affiliate and the merchant is also known as revenue sharing partnership.

5 SEO Tasks You Should Do Every Day

There are five simple tasks that you need to do daily to keep your site on top. Here they are: 

1. You need to start off by managing your links. This involves making sure that none of your current links are dead, and you should also check if there are any sites linking to you that you don’t know about. If your site consists of a large number of links you should make sure that they aren’t getting out of control and get rid of anything that is no longer relevant. Also make sure that your links are sufficiently labelled to reflect the page that they link to.

7 Steps for Improving Your Email Marketing

Email marketing can be highly effective if you follow these simple guidelines.  Learn what you should look for, before hitting the send button!

The success of your email marketing campaign is often based on a set of complex factors.  However, a number of these issues can be proactively managed to ensure an optimized response.  When developing your next email campaign, consider the following guidelines. 

All About Email Marketing

Email marketing is, as the name suggests, the use of email in marketing communications. Email marketing is so popular because:sending email is much cheaper than most other forms of communication email lets you deliver your message to the people (unlike a website, where the people have to come to your message) email marketing has proven very successful for those who do it right.