Well, some of them anyway. They love natural backlinks from lots of individuals. On the other hand, the Big Three Search Engines (Google, Microsoft and Yahoo) have gone to war against the backlink services that are out there to falsly raise website rankings. Most of them have totally been removed from the search indexes.

So, what does this mean to you and what can you do about this?

Well that’s easy, just don’t focus on only one backlink sources. Rather make sure you get backlinks from a wide range of sites and web internet properties.  Also, add social network buttons to your site and BLOG to get your visitors to link naturally to you, which Google and the other Search Engines consider as very high value.

That’s it for now… be sure and Tweet me at: www.Twitter.com/Spidersweb and tell your friends about us.

To our mutual Success!

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www.SpidersMarketingWeb.com

Information publishing is the ideal Carefree Business. It’s one of the largest and most profitable industries in the world, full of entrepreneurs making great livings. And, there is plenty of room for newcomers to get in on the action.

In today’s essay, Gary Scott shows you how to create profitable information products, the first step to getting your business off the ground.

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The Secret Qualities of Successful Information Products
By Gary Scott

If someone asked you, "What’s the biggest chunk of the U.S. economy?" … you probably wouldn’t say "information."

But, expenditures on information and information products account for over half of this country’s economy. That’s roughly $5 TRILLION!

Why so much? Americans have an unquenchable thirst for information. We crave information to make us healthier … wealthier … more beautiful. But most of all, we want information so we can show others how much we know.

I’ve developed a highly-successful publishing business selling information that people want. You can, too.

The key is developing an information product that people not only want to buy but want to continue to buy (or renew). This isn’t hard – if you understand the following 7 Qualities of Successful Information Product Development.

Quality #1: Is the Idea Interesting?

Interesting ideas connect with a genuine fundamental aspect of life. And, the first person they have to interest is you. If you pick ideas that interest you, research and writing will be fun. But, interest goes beyond that. Your idea has to be truly interesting to your reader.

For example, my first retail publishing idea in the early 1970s was for U.S. investors to invest globally. The idea was sound and remained very interesting for a long time.

On the other hand, look at collectables. There will always be a collectables market. Yet, many collectables are attractive only because they are in vogue.

If, for example, you had a publication about Beanie Babies back when they were in vogue, you could have done well. Today, that publication would fall on its face.

Fads offer attractive publishing opportunities, but they don’t last. Publications about interesting topics survive.

Quality #2: Is the Idea Legal and Ethical?

I once got a letter about how I could mail First Class letters for only 3 cents! Indeed, the stamp on the envelope was 3 cents.

This seemed interesting, since I spend hundreds of thousands a year on postage. The letter promised that, for $12, I could get details on how to mail First Class letters for 3 cents.

This was too good to be true, but I was interested. A few days later, I got one photocopied page telling me how to do it. The page claimed that, as a business, the Post Office had made an offer to send my mail at the current rate. And it claimed that, as a businessman, I could counteroffer by putting a 3-cent stamp on my letters instead. If the Post Office accepted and mailed my letters, they accepted my offer. The idea was to simply mail all your letters with a 3-cent stamp, because most would get through. And, the idea was neither legal nor ethical.

The Postal Service’s Revenue Protection Department operates by spot inspection, true enough. So, yes, many of these 3-cent letters would get through. But, anyone mailing lots of them could expect to be investigated by the U.S. government. So, in the long run, it wouldn’t have been profitable. The fines (not to mention prison time) for these kinds of actions are very heavy.

Quality #3: Is the Idea Attractive?

Your idea has to attract first-time buyers. It doesn’t have to be pretty or pleasant. But, it must attract.

Attractiveness appeals to emotions in some way. The emotions can be good, bad, or even ugly. For example, one ad that worked well read, "I’m mad as heck at the government for cheating us – here’s how to get even." It’s not a very pretty idea. But, it’s certainly attractive.

A publication must hold your reader’s interest to succeed in the long-term. But, attractiveness gets potential readers to drop everything, read a sales story, and buy your publication.

Quality #4: Is the Idea Usable?

Your idea has to fill some need for your reader. This is vital to gaining repeat customers for your publication. The idea has to work for its readers.

A publication can be entertaining. With a golf publication, for instance, the pleasure of reading about golf courses may be enough to make it useful if the main goal is to give the reader satisfaction through description.

On the other hand, the goal might be to help the reader know how to get lower golf scores (pride). Or, show times at various courses when greens fees are reduced (savings).

Quality #5: Is the Idea Understandable?

Some years ago, the book A Brief History of Time was a New York Times bestseller for over a year. It was called one of the most-purchased/least-read books of all time. The author’s next books didn’t sell well. His books – all of them about quantum science – were just too complicated.

Ask: Is my information understandable for my target market? As A Brief History of Time shows, being interesting can sell a book. But if it’s not understandable, you won’t build repeat business.

Quality #6: Is the Idea Timely?

A successful publication is tuned to the times. If it’s too far ahead of or behind its time, it won’t do well in the long run.

I failed to understand this quality in the 1970s when I was first writing about investing internationally. I’d lived abroad for nearly a decade, so this idea seemed obvious. However, it ran contrary to public thought.

Twenty years later, most U.S. investors were ready for this idea. Today, it is so common that local stockbrokers give free talks on the subject, so we’ve had to adapt. Because I understand this quality, I’m able to change, update, and innovate my publications constantly.

Quality #7: Is the Idea Sellable?

In publishing, marketing is a very important part of success. You can have the timeliest, most usable, interesting, easy-to-apply idea in the world. But if you cannot sell it, you won’t make money. Defining your market and deciding how to sell your idea correctly is an integral part of the product creation.

I learned this lesson while pioneering the idea of investing abroad. As I said, my idea was right … but ahead of its time. Because I was out of sync with most American investors, my original selling failed.

The product wasn’t salable until I discovered avenues that led me closer to the small percentage of Americans who were interested. This process of understanding the customer is called "focus," and it’s crucial to publishing success. For example, I found that though I marketed across the country to all professions and religions, a large percentage of my original readers were Jewish, Southern, or chiropractors – groups that had less trust in the establishment. Once I understood that all three of these groups perceived that the establishment had been, at one time or another, biased against them, I was able to zero in and focus my sales in those areas.

Tap Into the Unquenchable Thirst for Information

People in the United States – and all over the world – are seeking information and advice on every topic imaginable.

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For most people, vacation is a time to spend money — usually more than they planned.

But, there is a way to make money during your travels, enough to cover your trip. Without sacrificing any of the fun.

Shelly Perry travels all over the world as a stock photographer, and one of her favorite places to visit is Paris. Each time she goes, she spends time in cafes, enjoys lavish meals, and always makes time for long walks through this beautiful and history-filled city.

Like most tourists, she snaps pictures throughout her trip. But, instead of posting them to Facebook or showing them off to family and friends, she sells them to an online stock photo website when she gets home.

But you don’t have to travel the world to sell your photos. Shelly takes photos and sells them when she’s back home, too. Stock agencies are looking for photos of just about every topic, setting, situation, and subject you can think of. Check out some of Shelly’s pictures below. They’ve all sold multiple times, but as you can see, they’re of a variety of subject matters.

Stock photo sites are used by all sorts of individuals, publishers, and businesses to illustrate magazines, websites, corporate manuals, advertisements, picture frames, travel brochures, and more. They need pictures of people, objects, landscapes, and more. You’ve probably seen a dozen today without realizing it.

More than six million photographs are published every year in the U.S. print media alone. That’s more than 16,000 per day. And, more than 40,000 photos are published a day worldwide. That’s not even counting all the photos online. A huge number of those are stock photos. And sooner than you think, the photos being published could be yours.

While it was easier to break into these online agencies a few years ago, there’s still a lot of money to be made today — a couple of thousand a month once you get in the groove. It could be a fun side income for you as you build your primary Carefree Business.

What’s more, you have basically all the tools you need already to make this little freelance gig work for you if you already have a camera. And if you don’t, there are lots of websites online where you can buy used equipment for just a couple hundred dollars — money you can earn back through the sale of your photographs.

The key is in learning how to work the system — what kinds of images are selling best, and how you can create them with your camera.

The Kinds of Photos that Sell Best

There are hundreds of different in-demand categories of stock photos.

You can make money by taking photos on your next vacation … in your backyard … of friends and family … in your city or town … in the park down the street … out in nature while on a hike … the zoo … during the holidays … of hobbies … at festivals and sporting events … the beach … the mountains … wildlife … in your office … the list goes on.

Shelly Perry, the stock photographer I mentioned earlier, has three specific recommendations for saleable stock photos. These are a great place for you to get started:

1. Farmer’s Markets
   “Farmer’s markets are teeming with stock shot opportunities … from the repeating patterns and colors of seasonal fruits and vegetables to signs scrawled in chalk and people picking out their wares.”
2. Your Hotel
   “I’ve sold photos of curtains, tassels, pillows, and more. One photo of a front desk bell has sold 1,021 times on iStockphoto.com.”
3. Textures and Patterns
   “People like to buy photos of simple textures or patterns to use as backgrounds for their websites … fine art on their wall … and a myriad of other things. Keep an eye out for these: peeling paint, rusted metal, brick walls, cracks in the sidewalk, bark on a tree …”

Of course, there are lots of other subjects you can shoot. For more, visit one of the popular online stock agencies and browse their list of topics.

Shelly works with iStockPhoto.com, but there are many other agencies. A simple Google search using the keyword “stock photos” will help you identify others.

On iStock, it’s free to upload your pictures. And, it’s the perfect place for you to get started, too. Amateur photographers are welcome.

A typical stock photo on these sites sells anywhere from $1 to $15, depending on what size photo the customer wants to purchase. And, the photographer gets a royalty based on sales.

This may not sound like much. But, when you add up all the downloads (there is no limit on how many times a picture can be sold and downloaded). Popular photos can sell hundreds or thousands of times.

In general, stock photographers earn an average of $1 per image per month from their portfolios. Upload just 10 photos per week and this time next year, your royalties should amount to over $500 a month in spare cash — an extra $6,000 a year of passive income.

Commit to uploading twice that amount, and your earnings will be an extra $12,000 a year. Money you can put towards a new car, a mortgage payment, multiple vacations, and more.

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Like I said earlier, it takes a little know-how to choose the right online stock photo agency, submit the kinds of photos they’re looking for, and earn you your first royalty check. But, there’s no reason you can’t start on your journey to becoming a stock photographer today. Why not give it a shot this weekend?

1. Take a look through the photos already up for sale at iStockPhoto.com to see the types of photos that are selling. Also check out magazines with a lot of photos. Look at the shots accompanying articles, as well as the ads. Look for common themes or subjects.
2. Then, head out this weekend with your camera and … start practicing. Take a lot of photos! Multiple shots of the same subject. And, a lot of different subjects. You want to have a lot to go through when you get home — so you can figure out what you did right and why certain photos didn’t come out.

And here’s an inside tip: Set your camera to shoot at the highest quality, largest size possible — a must for profitable stock photos.

Good luck and good shooting!

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