Review: Micro Niche Finder

April 13, 2008 by Jon  
Filed under Software and Tools

At first glance Micro Niche Finder is your classic internet marketing keyword software. However unlike some of the more expensive tools on the market, Micro Niche Finder has it’s own… well… niche. :) Let me explain.

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How to Succeed with AdWords

April 13, 2008 by Jon  
Filed under Build a Niche Store, Software and Tools

A lot of people lose their shirts with AdWords. Well here is a method that can give you a much higher chance of converting into profits (although you can still lose your shirt if you spend more on advertising than you can afford):

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Getting Inbound Links to your Site

Mark from the Build a Niche Store Empire series recently posted about getting inbound links to your site, otherwise known as backlinks. In the post, Mark lists some excellent, high quality ways to get inbound links (which the search engines love). Here are a few more ideas that I’d like to add to the list:

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Free Directory Submission with digiXMAS

I was browsing the Digital Point Forums earlier today and discovered a post about digiXMAS. This is a free software tool that allows you to submit your web sites to 150 directories. It uses an auto-submission process, so for each site you pick a category and enter in the CAPTCHA, and that’s it. After a few entries it starts to remember which categories apply to your site, so it will begin to automatically select them for you. So for most of the directories, all you have to do is type in the CAPTCHA if one exists, and click okay.

Pretty easy, and boom, your site is now listed with 150 directories. Those are free one-way backlinks to your site. Very nice!

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BookmarkingDemon

January 31, 2008 by Jon  
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I recently purchased BookmarkingDemon because I wanted a tool to help me social bookmark my sites. This is a process I could certainly do by hand, but anytime a software tool can speed things up, it’s sometimes worth the investment. Especially when you consider I’m only working part-time on my affiliate marketing business.

However it didn’t work for me. I was able to install it on my computer, but I can’t run the software. I’m running Windows Vista, and as it turns out, they don’t have good Vista support yet. Apparently some people have gotten it to work under Vista, but others including myself, have not been able to get it to work.

For the record, BookmarkingDemon’s technical support has been very fair and helpful in trying to resolve the issue. They’ve even offered to give me a refund.

I haven’t accepted the refund yet because I’m not sure if I want to keep the software. I was able to get it running on a Windows 2003 virtual machine I have under Microsoft’s VirtualPC software. I just really don’t find it very practical to have to launch a virtual machine just to run one piece of software. So I have to decide if I want to keep it and run it under a virtual machine, or if I should ask for the refund.

I’ll let you know what I decide in a future post.

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