<![CDATA[ AN Mark&Publ - Blogs]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive en-us N/A admin@articlenorth.com Thu, 17 May 2012 09:22:47 CDT 20 false false false clean <![CDATA[Living with IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/83/Living-with-IBS--Irritable-Bowel-Syndrome.html false no@spam.com (Kerstin Nilsson) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/83/Living-with-IBS--Irritable-Bowel-Syndrome.html <![CDATA[Twitter Twenius Special Program]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/57/Twitter-Twenius-Special-Program.html In the blink of an eye Twitter has come from out of nowhere, establishing itself as a major means of interactive communication in the mobile and online world. Celebrities, politicians and famous names from @SnoopDogg to @ChrisCornell to @JamieKennedy to @LisaLoeb and others, are all on Twitter.

But Twitter is much more incredible than that. What a lot of people do not realize is that Twitter is a local based social tool as well. More likely than not, your town municipal government is on Twitter, your local TV news, your local Fire Fighters, your local library, your community college, even the guy that cleaned your carpets last week. If they aren't on Twitter now, it's just a matter of time.

But there's another force making its claims on Twitter. It's an amazing transition of a more serious nature whereby businesses and entrepreneurs are starting to tap the enormous potential of Twitter. When we see well-known companies like: @JetBlue, @UrbanOutfitters or @tastidlite begin lining up on the Twitter bandwagon, it's definitely time to take notice.

It is likely that this "craze" boils down to the time tested fact that a lot of business actually occurs in social gatherings, at cocktail parties, on the golf course, or at other social events. Now, through Twitter it's become possible, if not down right easy, to benefit from an online version of a non-stop cocktail party of incredible proportions.

The statistics and stories are incredible:

  1. Twitter is virtually 100% consumer content. "Consumer content is ranked as the #1 aid to a buying decision, cited by 91% of respondents." ~JC Williams Group

  2. "88% of marketers surveyed are interested in using social media to market their businesses, BUT 72% have only been doing so for a few months or less. A significant 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week and 39% for 10 or more hours weekly."

  3. "By a long shot, Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook were the top four social media tools used by marketers, with Twitter leading the pack."

What does this mean to me? It means that if you are an entrepreneur or own a business, you must go directly to Twitter, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and set up a free Twitter account.

Easy enough?

Well, not exactly. Once you have your account opened, that's when the simplicity goes out the window. It's a very very simple concept, but like playing poker, unless you know WHAT to do, you're going to soon be scratching your head.

Fortunately, there is help. Internet strategist and social media marketing expert, Dan Hollings has spent the past year researching and testing Twitter strategies for business. Along the way, Dan wrote 100 of the most popular Twitter tips found anywhere online. Next he created a toolbar for Mac or PC that puts over 230 Twitter tools, tips and apps within one-click of your Twitter activities. Recently, he released his powerful Twitter training program called, "Twitter Twenius" (that's Twitter-talk for genius).

Here is a sample Twitter tip, to get your juices flowing:

It is very important to really do a bang-up wallpaper job on your Twitter page. So many Twitter pages look like the work of a one-armed paperhanger. Others look like Dolly, the famous cloned sheep. Be unique, be interesting, be appropriate... even if you have to spend a nickel.

Of course there's so much more to learn, however if you're looking for viable strategies for making money using Twitter or a way to accelerate the Twitter afterburners within all your marketing campaigns from local to international, I enthusiastically recommend Twitter Twenius. Go here


]]> no@spam.com (Casey Hill) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/57/Twitter-Twenius-Special-Program.html twitter, twitter twenius, social media, social networking Casey Hill <![CDATA[Find out how to actually rank for any keyword with a legitimate search engine "loophole"...]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/55/Find-out-how-to-actually-rank-for-any-keyword-with-a-legitimate-search-engine-loophole.html

Everyone wants to have their site rank well in Google.

And why not? Not only can Google send you a boatload of free traffic - it's also highly targeted, and it's one of the best ways to drive business.

The problem is, that exact same ideal is shared with thousands of your direct competitors. This creates an environment where you'll always be fighting, kicking and scratching to maintain your traffic - along with the ever present fear that your livelihood is only one "algorithm update" away from vanishing.

And that's if you can even get ranked for any decent keyword, to begin with...

In fact, only the largest, most-established authority sites can reliably see consistent traffic from Google. And even then, their rankings fluctuate constantly - several times a day, in some cases.

The fact is - it's getting harder and harder for the "little guy" to get any kind of meaningful web presence on the web these days.

Getting ranked in Google is almost impossible unless you've got a major promotional budget and some time on your hands to "wait" for your domain to become trusted (Google favors older domains). And advertising with pay-per-click ads isn't affordable like it once was.

Search marketing has finally become what everyone feared it would - a game reserved for big business.

But what if there was still a way to legtiimately rank for keywords with tons of traffic?

And what if you could do this without having to spend months and even years building up an authority site to do so?

In fact - what if you could systematically create one-page minisites that could rapidly rank in the top 3 spots (consistently) for basically any keyword you target within a matter of a week or so?

Is this for real?

YES.

But not with Google.

It's happening right now, as we speak, on MSN.com

Now - before you think it - yes, I know, MSN doesn't have nearly the reach that Google does. But, it still does receive millions and millions of search users daily. After all - MSN is the default home-page for anyone who first uses Internet Explorer.

And, to put it in perspective, which would drive more traffic?

Occupying the #1 ranking for your most desirable keyword target on MSN?

Or occupying the #47 spot on page 5 of Google's results?

Sadly, it's actually more effort to make it to the 47th spot in Google than it is to literally dominate in MSN.

How does this work?

Watch this video to find out:







- That is fine, but it was 1 year ago, how about today?

See for your self in the below video:

 

Click here to find out details and watch more videos

Like I said - forget about Google.

Focus on something that you can actually WIN with, and win big!

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]]> no@spam.com (Thomas Galloway) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/55/Find-out-how-to-actually-rank-for-any-keyword-with-a-legitimate-search-engine-loophole.html <![CDATA[A Formula for PPC? 89 Page Report Reveals Everything]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/52/A-Formula-for-PPC-89-Page-Report-Reveals-Everything.html

The question still remains - is there a formula for Pay Per Click? Yes! I think there is a systematic approach to PPC marketing and money can be made very simply. However, there are tons of courses and "gurus" teaching how to do it. In my opinion, only a handful know what they are really talking about.

One of those rare few is Gauher Chaudhry. Gauher Chaudhry of Pay Per Click Formula has just released a free 85 page report on CPA Marketing. In this enlightening report, Gauher goes into:

1) Introduction to CPA Marketing
2) Landing Pages
3) Dark Side of CPA Marketing
4) Free Traffic
5) Paid Traffic
6) Recycled Traffic
7) Ad Copy Strategies

...and a lot more!

The first time I heard about Gauher was about 2 years ago when he released Pay Per Click Formula 1.0. He had screen shots on his sales page and in his course that showed over $200K a month in revenue from CPA marketing. I was blown away that someone could make that much with CPA offers. At that time I was doing CPS (cost per sale) marketing and did not really want to get involved in CPA. Why? I thought it was just a trend... Boy was I wrong! Gauher and I chatted briefly on the phone after I saw his numbers and he found out about me. We both had something in common. We were both doing very well with PPC.

He revealed to me a little of what he was doing and then he sent me his course. After going through the course, I had to admit that his course was great. I learned a lot from Pay Per Click Formula and after briefly reviewing it, I started doing CPA marketing myself. Using the knowledge I had before and combining it with Gauher's methods for CPA marketing, proved to be extremely powerful and have changed the way I do business forever.

I even give Pay Per Click Formula to my employees to learn how to manage campaigns and learn PPC to CPA marketing from the ground up. My employees love his stuff and swear that it is the holy grail of PPC to CPA marketing products.

Unfortunately, Pay Per Click Formula is now closed but Gauher has released a free report for you called "The Insider's Guide to CPA Marketing Profits." It's basically Pay Per Click Formula 1.0 jam packed into an
89 page report! Grab your copy today. Learn the formula!

P.S. - I just realized that after you download the report, Guaher has tons of goodies, courses, and training inside his members section. All for free. Check it out here

(Source: HexaTrack)

]]> no@spam.com (Editorial ArticleNorth) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/52/A-Formula-for-PPC-89-Page-Report-Reveals-Everything.html <![CDATA[Green Tea Diet Plan]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/51/Green-Tea-Diet-Plan.html

Eating and dieting these days do not usually involve your favorite beverages like green tea and coffee. But this is not always necessarily the case. With some bit of planning and a lot of discipline, your diet plan and weight regime can include your morning cups of coffee or green tea.

 

South Beach Diet Plan

 

                      An idea formulated by Dr. Agatston, the South Beach Diet plan is not low-carb, nor low-fat. According to its originator, the South Beach Diet plan “teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the right fats.”

 

                      This diet plan is comprised of three phases – Banishing your Cravings, Reintroducing Carbs, and A Diet for Life. Using artificial sweetener and low-fat milk in your coffee or green tea during all three phases is one way to go on losing weight without having to give up your brewed cup. Going decaf with your coffee might also be a good idea since the objective of this diet is maintaining even insulin levels. If you’re a green tea drinker, then there is less worries for you. Green tea contains only very few amounts of caffeine.

 

The Zone Diet Plan

 

                      The Zone Diet plan was developed by Barry Sears, a former biotechnology researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This diet plan is based on the maintenance and consistency of insulin levels. Because this diet plan also concerns itself with insulin control, the issues that arise are handled similarly as that with the South Beach Diet plan. Taking decaffeinated coffee and green tea is all right as long as these beverages don’t spike up your insulin. The eating program of the Zone Diet plan requires you to use artificial sweetener and low-fat milk in your coffee or green tea.

 

Atkins Diet Plan

 

                      Another low-carb diet plan variety, the Atkins Diet plan works best with caffeine-free coffee and green tea. For best results, artificial sweeteners in your green tea and coffee are advised to keep your carbs down.

 

Blood Type Diet Plan

 

                      The Blood Type Diet plan is a weight loss regimen where the foods you eat are based on your blood type. The eating program of the Blood Type Diet plan is more restricted compared to the South Beach Diet plan, the Zone Diet plan, and the Atkins Diet plan. For instance, for people with blood types A and AB, coffee is highly advised. But for those with blood types O, adding coffee to the Blood Type Diet plan should be avoided. Green teas on the other hand are acceptable for any blood types. However, adding natural sweeteners like sugar, honey, stevia, or maple syrup in green tea should be avoided in this diet plan.

 

Sugar Busters Diet Plan

 

                      The name of the diet plan says it all. Subscribers to this diet plan are highly cautioned against sugars. Coffee and green teas are perfectly fine but only use artificial sweeteners.

 

Paleolithic Diet Plan

 

                      Also called the Stone Age Diet plan, this diet plan is based on the consumption of simple, unprocessed foods that our Neanderthal ancestors would have eaten. This diet plan is perfect for green tea drinkers. Green tea is simple and 100% natural steamed dried leaves from the Camellia sinensis plant. If you’re a coffee drinker, you might be in for a tougher choice since you might have to give up coffee all together with this diet plan. Sugars in green teas are still a big no-no, especially the refined kind.

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]]> no@spam.com (Catherine Fairchild) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/51/Green-Tea-Diet-Plan.html Catherine Fairchild <![CDATA[Colon Cleansing - Why Do It?]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/50/Colon-Cleansing---Why-Do-It.html Colon Cleansing has made a comeback in the last several years.  Your grandparents may have routinely performed a colon cleansing as part of their preventive health regimen.  

But is it really necessary?  

The body is an efficient machine that runs smooth and quiet, like clockwork 24/7...IF you maintain it.  Just like any other hard-working machine, a proper maintenance routine is essential to peak performance.

Your body was designed to function properly whether awake, asleep, hot, cold, young or old.  When your body performs as designed, it maintains a perfect weight and appearance.

But your body was not designed for the processed foods, chemicals and pollutants that it’s bombarded with on a daily basis.

When the only fuel you give this efficient machine is laced with preservatives and chemicals, you’re in effect self-poisoning yourself – called autointoxication.

Autointoxication is the process of being poisoned by your own body as a result of inadequate digestion and/or elimination.  Every single cell in your body is affected by this - blood cells, nerve cells and cells in your lungs, skin and every other organ in your body.  

How do you know if you’re toxic?  If you’re irritable, depressed and hard to live with, your nervous system may be affected.  If you feel weak, toxins may be pooling in your heart tissue.  Nasty breath can come from toxins residing in your lungs.

Rashes and blotchy, blemished skin or wrinkly skin and pale complexion can result if toxins accumulate in your skin. A bloated feeling can come from toxins congregating in your stomach. Or you can experience tiredness, lethargy, lack of sex drive and have an old-looking appearance if they accumulate in your glands.

But what does all that have to do with colon cleansing?

Anyone who has been on a Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) for more than a couple of years would benefit from a periodic cleansing (once or twice a year).

The S.A.D. diet is seriously lacking in fiber and healthy liquids while it is abundant with sugar, caffeine, excessive amounts of salt, fried greasy foods, fatty foods, processed foods, alcohol, preservatives, additives, chemicals and parasites.

All of these work to clog the mucous linings of your intestines, building up and preventing them from removing water and receiving B-vitamins produced by healthy intestinal bacteria.  As well as adding pounds onto the scale when you weigh yourself.

The first place where autointoxication exhibits itself is the colon.  If the colon doesn’t function properly, the rest of the body will be affected eventually.

Think of your body as a small community, and the colon as the sewer system carrying waste from your home to the waste treatment center of the community.  If this pipeline gets clogged and narrows, the waste material backs up and eventually overflows into all the homes in the neighborhood, even those with a free-flowing sewage line into the community pipeline.

In order to get the colon and thus, the rest of your body back to properly functioning as a streamlined efficient machine once again, a safe and healthy colon cleansing is a perfect first step and will go far in making you feel healthier.  **Please note if you have a serious medical condition you should check with your physician first.

A good colon cleansing product should work in several synergistic ways to achieve a healthy colon and should contain:
·    Soluble fiber to promote normal water balance in the colon (like Psyllium husks and flax seeds)
·    Peristalsis support to achieve proper smooth  muscle contraction of the colon (like slippery elm, marshmallow root and fennel seed)
·    Soothing botanicals to prevent spasms and inflammation (like turmeric, hyssop leaf and ginger root)
·    Probiotics to promote normal digestion and metabolism (like Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium)
·    Anti-parasitic support to help kill and expel harmful intestinal parasites (like black walnut hulls, wormwood powder and clove bud powder)

Colon cleansing can indeed be a very effective means to restoring better health, gaining more energy, promoting weight loss, and creating a more slender profile. And aren’t you worth a healthier body?  For more information and a free trial of a guaranteed super product called The Ultimate Colon Cleanse for this ailment, click here

Article Source: Organica Research ]]> no@spam.com (Kerstin Sherwood) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/50/Colon-Cleansing---Why-Do-It.html <![CDATA[Some Essential Features Your Web Site Must Have]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/48/Some-Essential-Features-Your-Web-Site-Must-Have.html Must Have Features on Your Web Site

Just do not focus on the home page, keywords and titles. The first step to sales when customers visit your site is to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings cannot keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the  information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.

Understanding Your Target Customer
If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you do not really know who your customers are and what they want to buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an extension or replacement for a standard storefront. You can send email to your existing clients and ask them to complete a survey or even while they are browsing on your website. Ask them about their choices. Why do they like your products? Do you discount prices or offer coupons? Are your prices consistently lower than others are? Is your shipping price cheaper? Do you respond faster to client questions? Are your product descriptions better? Your return policies and guarantees better than your competitor’s? To know your customer you can check credit card records or ask your customer to complete a simple contact form with name, address, age, gender, etc. when they purchase a product.

Does your website give enough contact information?
When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your products 24 hrs a day and your customers may be from other states that are thousands of miles away. Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you. People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also, have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often. When customer wants to buy on line provide enough options like credit card, Pay Pal or other on line payment service.


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]]> no@spam.com (Thomas Galloway) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/48/Some-Essential-Features-Your-Web-Site-Must-Have.html <![CDATA[Mr Hat is a Funny Guy!]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/13/Mr-Hat-is-a-Funny-Guy.html

Mr Hat is a Funny Guy!

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To submit your articles and blog posts to our system you purchase credit points at an extremely affordable price. You will have your articles and blog posts published and distributed by ArticleNorth directory to our directoy and entire network of search engines, forums, ezine publishers, blog publishers and feeds. This includes pod casts, pdf files or Ebooks, videos, photos and pictures with each of your articles. As mentioned above, we also ping all of your blog posts to Technorati.com, Feedburner.com and syndic8.com regularly. Each of your articles and blog posts are reviewed and edited manually by a professional editor who is a real live person. 

It also means that you can upload a piece of music for your readers to listen to, or a recorded interview that you have made, or a seminar or tele class that you have attended, with your articles and blog posts. The choice is yours and the possibilities are endless. We want to give your readers as much information with your articles and blog posts as possible - and now you will have the possibility to do so as well.

You want to attach a separate extensive file for your readers to download besides your article? Therefore you will need that extra space hosted and we provide that for you too. You will also be able to upload files in different formats as attachments to your articles. This can add a lot of additional value to your items. For example a product catalog, a company presentation or your latest poems in an ebook - you choose.

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]]> no@spam.com (Editorial ArticleNorth) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/13/Mr-Hat-is-a-Funny-Guy.html Editorial ArticleNorth <![CDATA[Travel With Kids, Travel Prepared]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/40/Travel-With-Kids-Travel-Prepared.html

It is good to have your kids with you when you travel; this would surely open their eyes to a lot more of new knowledge and discovery. When you bring along your kids in your trips, this is not only a way of bringing them close to your heart but also through this, your child would definitely make him or her more aware about the world around him or her.

Well, when kids are with you, you need to be more prepared because as we all know they have special needs and we have to respond to such needs. With the tips provided below, it would surely help you get yourself prepared for the entire travel.

You have to bring with you some of the most useful things you could carry with you as you travel and as you reach destinations:

Band-Aids

antiseptic hand gel

small tissue packs

sun screen

Dr.'s phone numbers

Tylenol - children's & adults

a rubber door stop can provide extra security for a hotel room door

small plug in nightlight - to help find the bathroom in the middle of the night

* These things are for the activities you could have together in order not get bored and to get their attention fully

Crayons

mechanical pencils

highlighter - good for word search games

paper

deck of cards

zip lock bags (collecting shells, storing food, wet clothes)

* These are other things for travel uses:

sun glasses

hats/visors

light weight wind breaker

umbrella

camera with extra film

keep a photo of your child in your wallet - incase you loose them in a crowed area

extra copy of birth certificates, photo id, travel reservations, airline tickets

With these pointers in mind, you would not surely miss the thrill and the fun, you would also be able to good at preparing for traveling like from the simple trips to those that require loads of planning.

 

 

]]> no@spam.com (Claire Pierson) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/40/Travel-With-Kids-Travel-Prepared.html <![CDATA[How Do Search Engines Work - Web Crawlers]]> http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/46/How-Do-Search-Engines-Work---Web-Crawlers.html The search engines finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. Hence, it is better to know how these search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search.   

There are two types of search engines. The first is by robots called crawlers or spiders.

Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site's Meta tags. Moreover, follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so do not create a site with 500 pages!

The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The moderators of the search engine determine the frequency with which this happens.

A spider is almost like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.

Example:  Google, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Aol, and AltaVista.

When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index, which it has created, and not actually searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indices.

One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.


]]> no@spam.com (Thomas Galloway) http://www.articlenorth.com/articlelive/blogs/46/How-Do-Search-Engines-Work---Web-Crawlers.html