Articles on Business, Marketing, Self-Development
by Priya Shah

Scary Subliminal Advertising And Why It Works
As we learn more about the way our mind works, it will become clearer how subliminal messages really affect our decisions and whether they should or should not be allowed in advertising.

Three Good Reasons Why PLR Articles Are A Bad Idea
Marketers have come up with private label rights (PLR) articles and software tools catering to Adsense publishers who want to beat Google's duplicate content filters. Here’s why these are a very bad idea.

Optimized Press Releases: When Public Relations Equals PageRank
Among the most effective techniques that can help build quality links to your website is the use of press releases. In fact, using an optimized press release is a very powerful method of building links.

Article Marketing Tips: How To Beat Google’s Duplicate Content Filter
You've probably been sold the idea that writing and publishing your own articles will do it for you. Here's why that's not entirely true.

Blog Wars: Attack Of The Splogs
The engines, namely Google, are striking back at sploggers and their malevolent creations, the splogs. According to media reports Google has taken measures to impede those attempting to use its Blogger service to create and maintain fake blogs.

How Blogs And RSS Boost Your Search Engine Visibility
Search engine marketers especially favour blogs because they have a number of features that make them the darling of search engines.

8 Sources To Research Awesome Article Topics
Article marketers and new article writers are often stumped for topics to write about. Here are no less than eight awesome ways to research your market and find newsy topics that attract loads of traffic and the interest of your target audience.

6 Article Marketing Smarts: How To Get More Reprints And Exposure
Article marketing is the latest buzzword for marketers looking to promote their sites and products online. But how do you define article performance? One way to measure article performance is by checking how many times your article has been picked up and reproduced on various sites.

Neuromarketing: Smart Marketing Or Jedi Mind Control Trick?
New research into the science called neuromarketing is beginning to shine a light on the mysterious workings of the neural processes behind snap decisions that consumers make.

Marketing With Blogs - Part 4
Marketers have found that blogs are excellent tools for communicating with their audience. Here are some tips on using your blog help you boost your marketing ROI and visibility online.

Marketing With Blogs - Part 3
Marketers have found that blogs are excellent tools for communicating with their audience. Here are some tips on using your blog to brand yourself and boost your reputation online.

Marketing With Blogs - Part 2
Marketers have found that blogs are excellent tools for communicating with their audience. Here are some tips on using your blog as a good vehicle for your marketing communications.

Marketing With Blogs - Part 1
Marketers have found that blogs are excellent tools for communicating with their audience. Anyone who has something to sell or an idea to promote can benefit from using blogs.

RSS vs Email: Its Not An Either-Or Question
RSS hasn't reached the tipping point yet. Many more people read email than RSS feeds. Smart publishers and marketers must use both - Email and RSS. Its not an either/or question

How To Avoid Blog Burnout
Blogging is a time consuming process. Bloggers are also extremely passionate about what they do. But there's only so much time in the day and only so much abuse a body can take. So how do you avoid becoming a burned-out business blogger?

Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogging?
Fact: The more you abuse a technology, the less effective it becomes. Spam blogging will force search engines like Google to change their ranking algorithms and eventually assign less value to links from blogs.

7 Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Starting A Business Blog
Blogging is the latest buzzword in online marketing and PR. But with so many marketers jumping on the blogging bandwagon, few people are giving a thought to whether blogs are really up their alley, or taking the time to consider the best ways of going about it. If you are planning to start a business blog, ask yourself these questions before you take the final plunge.

How To Build Traffic To Your Blog
A blog is like a website. If you need to promote your website in order to build traffic to it, you need to promote your blog as well. Here are some ways you can become a well-read and influential blogger.

Search Engine Optimization For Blogs
TBlogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML. If you follow some simple rules for search engine optimization, your blog can rank much higher than static website pages in the search engine results pages.

It's A Blog, Not A Sales Letter
The recent spurt of interest in blogging has begun to ignite the hope that people can make a full-time income from blogging. But blogs are better used as a medium to support and brand your business than to sell.

How to Write A Blog... And Survive
How can you write a Blog and survive? Start by answering your why, and then follow the tips here if you want to get people to read your blog.

6 Ways To Attract Search Engines To Your Website More Often
Adding fresh, updated content to your website is the surest way to get search engines engines to spider your site more often. Here are six ways to automate the process of adding fresh, updated content and creating more spider-food on your website.

Why Articles Are Not The Route To High Search Engine Rankings
If you have any interest in getting high search engine rankings for your website (and who doesn't) you've probably been sold the idea that writing and publishing your own articles will do it for you. Here's why that's not entirely true.

How To Get To The Top Of The Marketing Food Chain
Are you tired of living off handouts from big-name marketers? If you truly want to live and breathe the rarefied air of the super-marketers what you need is not a change in methods, but a change in attitude and mindset.

To Be A Champion, Become A Child
Are your pre-conceived notions, fears and hesitations preventing you from reaching your goals? Try looking at the world through a child's eyes.

If It Feels Good, It Must Be Right
How do you stay motivated when building up your business online? Simple. Find something you love doing.

5 Compelling Reasons to Choose a Wellness Opportunity
What are the combination of factors that make Wellness such an attractive business opportunity?

Is Duplication a Myth?
No person can be exactly like another. So is the concept of duplication being applied the way it should?

Network Marketing - Its All About Customers
Network marketing is really about customers. So if you want to serve your customers better through your network marketing business, here are a few things to ask yourself.

Marketing "Gurus": Do You Need One?
Its become fashionable for people to bash marketing "gurus" nowadays. So just what IS a guru? And why do you need one?

Believe In Yourself And Become a Winner: Lessons from Hollywood
Inspiring stories from Hollywood that show you how believing in yourself can help you become a winner in life

Write an Ezine? But I Don't Know HOW!
Too nervous about publishing an ezine? Do you lack confidence? Don't know where to start? Here are tips to help you get out that first issue and more.

What the "Blazes" - and other Traffic B.S.
Think carefully before you join the newest traffic craze. Here are the problems I have with some of these so-called traffic programs.

Building Targeted Traffic (Part 1)
There are two ways of getting targeted traffic from search engines or directories: FREE Search Engine Traffic and PAY-PER-CLICK Search Engine Traffic. This article shows you how to attract free targeted traffic from search engines

Building Targeted Traffic (Part 2)
Don't want to go through all the trouble of "optimizing" your site for search engines? Well, there IS a quicker and easier way to get targeted search engine traffic - "Pay-Per-Click Search Engines"

5 Simple Steps to Protect your Digital Downloads
Are you using these very basic and essential strategies to give your digital downloads a moderate degree of protection?

20 Ways To Profit With Free eBooks
My habit of collecting every free eBook I could lay my hands proved very profitable to me while building my business. Here are 20 ways that you can use free eBooks to boost your profits.

MARKET-ESE: What They Say, What They Really Mean
A tongue-in-cheek look at the hype and half-truths used online in marketing to unsuspecting customers.