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If you are serious about getting exposure and making some extra adsense cash this is a contest for you.

- Out of My Mouth – http://www.outofmymouth.com -

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When you are first deciding on online marketing in order to promote your business online, the main online marketing methods that you will encounter are Organic search engine optimisation and Pay per click advertising such as Google Adwords.

Organic search engine optimisation and Pay pr click advertising are the two main methods of online marketing.  Both these forms of online marketing are aimed at getting highly targeted visitors to your website by making your website rank on search engine results for the keywords that you are targeting.

Ideally a business needs to utilise both, organic Search engine optimisation as well as Pay per click advertising on order to get the maximum exposure for their business online. However cost and budget considerations often result in a business having to make a choice between using organic search engine optimisation or Pay per click advertising for their business. Read more »

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8 Blogging Tips to Grip Your Readers

Author: Alfonso Muñoz

Every blogger knows that we are nothing without our readers so it is very important to get new readers everyday but it is equal or more important to grip the ones who come to our blog once in a while. What can we do? Here are some tips that will help you to achieve it:

1. Shorter = better. This is almost a rule and I break it sometimes in spite of knowing that it is quite important to write short and concise posts. It happens to me that when I find and interesting but excessively long post usually I get bored of reading and I give up without reading the whole text. I talked about it with my friend Cheeky Chubby (you must have a blog, you missed a link ) he reminded me that sometimes I write too long posts and I know it my friend, but sometimes I write and write and write…
2. You must use lists, like I’m doing now. Readers like list, they love to have the information organized and easy to read. Read more »

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Practicing these tips will help make your blog popular on Digg

Know Your Digg Goals
If your goal is to make the front page, good luck. More than 50% of the front page is controlled by less 100 people. You need to think smaller from the start and work towards the homepage. Start by thinking about how to get X number of Diggs. Set realistic goals and analyze the results.

Write Digg Descriptions.
Everyone says content is king and that is mostly true. Writing Digg worthy descriptions is very different from just writing good content. People other than your Digg friends have to want to vote for your entry. Make those 350 character work for you.

Make Digg Friends
Without some popular friends on Digg, you simply won’t make it very far. It isn’t simply good enough to shout out a Digg entry because a lot of those get ignored, especially during the busy part of the day. If you have popular Digg friends you can IM asking them to digg you goes a lot further. People look at what other popular people are digging and often times Digg just to be part of the crowd.

Comment on other People’s Diggs
You want to be recognized and people want to to be noticed for their own efforts. The best way to do both is comment on Diggs. The more you comment without being an asshole the more friends you will gain and the more people who will reciprocate your efforts.

Be Patient
Keep working Diggs for several days if you are getting traction. Some Diggs will simply take time to get going. Other Diggs will go nowhere and you should move on, but even then check back occasionally for new comments.