Due to the vastness of cyberspace, tools such as social bookmarking have made it easy for Web users to not only have a way of remembering a favorite Web page or website in order to reduce the time spent on searching for them, but also to share these bookmarked Web pages and websites to other Internet users in a collaborative fashion.

It usually involves social bookmarking websites wherein its registered users can add their favorite bookmarks to their accounts using keyword tags to organize them, making it easier for other users or visitors to search for similar topics or subjects that the user has bookmarked.

Achieving financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet
By Tasos Vasilopoulos
Part 12 - Time to work – Start building your link popularity – Your tools
Introduction
This article makes part of a series of 20 articles. The subject of this series is the creation and promotion of a website as a cost-effective method to establish a profitable home based business on the Internet.
In my previous article, "Achieving financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet – Part 11 – Submit your website to Search Engines and Directories", I have indicated to you what to do and what to avoid while submitting your website to Search Engines and Directories.
In this article I will present you the tools that you will have to use while building your link popularity.
Your tools
In your job of building your link popularity (LP) you will need tools to help you distinguish the right web pages to exchange links with and also measure the results of your work.
1. Google's toolbar
It is a toolbar that contains a number of useful tools. Among them are two that are essential for your work. The "Pagerank Indicator" and the "Backward Links". The indicator shows the Pagerank (PR) of the page you are browsing and the backward links is a list of the incoming links of this page that have a Pagerank equal to 4 or better. You will have to download this toolbar from http:/ oolbar.google.com and install it its full capabilities. Google makes a note that, for the advanced capabilities to be activated, the toolbar will be sending info about the pages you are browsing to Google's servers. It really does that, but, if you want the toolbar to show you the PR of a page, then it must send to Google's servers the URL of this page in order to receive and present its PR to you.
This toolbar will appear in your browser's windows, under your other toolbars.
You can spot it just below the address box. In the middle of the toolbar resides the green bar indicating the Pagerank of the currently viewed web page. If you place your mouse in the bar the number of PR appears. In the image below I have opened the menu at the right of the green Pagerank bar to show you the "Backward Links" selection that will present you all the important incoming links. These "backward" links have PR equal or greater to 4.
Every month Google sends its spider to make a deep "crawl" of the websites on the Internet. It gathers all the web pages found (more than 3 billion currently – September 2003). Then it uses its algorithm to calculate the Pagerank of each one. Same work is done also by the other major Search Engines, maybe not monthly, but many times in the year.
2. Link Leaps – A tool to study all the Link Popularity of a website
There is a website that gives you the opportunity to see the entire link popularity of any web page that you are interested in (not only those links with PR of 4 or better like the backward links of Google do). It is called "Market Leap". Its URL is: http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
It provides three tools for free:
· Link Popularity Check
· Search Engine Saturation
· Keyword Verification
Each one of these tools is useful for your work. In "Link Popularity Check" you can enter the URLs of maximum four web pages. Then it presents to you the backward links that 5 major Search Engines (AlltheWeb, Altavista, Google/Aol, Hotbot/Inctomi, MSN) have in their databases stored for these web pages. Google presents only the links with Pagerank more than 4, but "AlltheWeb" presents them all. Also, AlltheWeb groups the links that come from the same website, so you can see if a specific page receives more links from a website. I consider this tool the best in building my link popularity. I get the list of the websites that link to any important websites for a specific keyword and use it to request reciprocal links from them.
Very useful is also the "Keyword Verification". You insert your URL and your keyword and the tool shows you in which Search Engines your website is listed for the specific keyword and in what position.
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Next article in the series "Achieving financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet" :
Part 13 – Link partnership - Search for the right link partners.
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About the author:
Tasos Vasilopoulos is a successful Network Marketer on the Internet as Group Leader of SFI Marketing Group. His main method to promote his home business on the Internet is websites properly optimized to obtain a good rank in the listings of the major Search Engines.
Get his ebook with an in depth analysis of all the steps of his method and find more resources on proper domain registration, effective website design and search engines optimization in his website at http://www.netincome.gr
You are free to use this article as long as you do not make any changes in its content, you keep all the links in it active and you include the information above about the author as it is.

If you haven't yet realized that social networking is now the focal point of internet marketing, then you haven't been paying attention. Utilizing social networking is more than creating a group on Facebook or opening a MySpace account. A business owner who truly understands social networking has a gift for taking a broad view of the internet. Where do people gather on the internet? What do they talk about?

"Don't be evil" is the code of conduct the Google Company abides by, to quote its owners, "We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served as shareholders and in all other ways by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains."

Achieving financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet
By Tasos Vasilopoulos
Part 6 - Time to design - Design the structure of your website
Introduction
This article makes part of a series of 20 articles. The subject of this series is the creation and promotion of a website as a cost-effective method to establish a profitable home based business on the Internet.
In my previous article, "Achieving financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet – Part 5 - Link Popularity - How to build it", I have explained to you what "Link popularity" is and why it is essential to work hard to build it.
In this article I will present to you important issues to take in consideration regarding the structure of your website.
Design the structure of your website
This is the first step towards the creation of your website. Design its structure on the paper.
What are the web pages that the first version of your website must contain?
They are:
- The home page, the page that people will be presented with, when they will decide to click on your URL and visit your website and
- The structure of your links pages, the pages that will contain the reciprocal links.
Your home page will be selling your product and the links structure will be the tool for your website to be positioned well in the listings of the Search Engines.
So, our problem here is to determine who will be the links pages.
We can use only one page to insert the reciprocal links. But, take in consideration that you will create more than 300 reciprocal links. So, putting all these links to one page is not a good idea for two reasons:
- The more links one page contains, the less the power of each link
- What will be the theme of this page? Will this theme be similar to the themes of the web sites you're linking to? Take in consideration that a link is good when it comes from an important web page that has a similar theme and also has the right linking text.
When you will request a reciprocal link exchange from another webmaster, he will examine your website:
- Is it a serious website?
- Does the link come from a web page with a similar theme to his website?
- Is the page important?
If your link comes from a links page with hundreds of other links and its theme is not similar with his theme, then probably he will refuse to exchange links with you.
This is the reason to create more than one links pages.
I suggest that you create at least the pages below:
- A page to insert the links to websites with "work at home opportunities" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "work at home resources" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "home business opportunities" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "work at home resources" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "make money opportunities" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "make money resources" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "Useful links" as their theme
- A page that explains how another webmaster can request a reciprocal link exchange from you, which will be the link exchange procedure.
Other links pages that you can create are:
- A page to insert the links to websites with "Network Marketing opportunities" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "Network Marketing resources" as their theme
- A page to insert the links to websites with "Webmaster resources" as their theme.
As I said before, having a structure of the kind for the pages that will contain the reciprocal links, will allow you to take the links from the other webmasters, since they will understand that you are a serious marketer and a link from your website will give them strength.
The content of the page that explains the link exchange procedure must be the tasks a webmaster must do to request a reciprocal link exchange from you. These tasks must be:
- To place a link in his relative links page towards your home page with the linking text, the description and the URL that you will be indicating to him in your link exchange procedure page
- To communicate with you through email or by filling a form that you may place in this page, requesting the reciprocal link and indicating, the URL of his home page, its description and the desired linking text.
- To indicate the URL of his links page, where he inserted the link towards your homepage, in order for you to verify the existence of the link and its correctness.
As an example take a look at the page explaining the link exchange procedure at my website http://www.netincome.gr/links-exchange.htm. You will find this page on the menu under the name "Home business owners – Exchanging Links".
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Next article in the series "Achieving financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet":
Part 7 - Design the layout of your web pages
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About the author:
Tasos Vasilopoulos is a successful Network Marketer on the Internet as Group Leader of SFI Marketing Group. His main method to promote his home business on the Internet is websites properly optimized to obtain a good rank in the listings of the major Search Engines.
Get his ebook with an in depth analysis of all the steps of his method and find more resources on proper domain registration, effective website design and search engines optimization in his website at http://www.netincome.gr
You are free to use this article as long as you do not make any changes in its content, you keep all the links in it active and you include the information above about the author as it is.

It always helps to know about search engine marketing before you launch your internet marketing campaign. Here are some must know facts!

With millions of websites available on the Internet and more being added almost daily, the only way for people to find what they need online is through the use of search engines.  People rely on search engines the way early sailors relied on the stars – they'd literally be lost without them.  The good news about this fact is that people's reliance on these tools has made search engine marketing a popular and affordable way to boost traffic to your site and to increase your revenue.

Search engine consultants and website designers are often called in at different times to work on a website development project. Rarely do the two ever work together, which is very unfortunate. With this being the case, many search engine marketing consultants have seen their client's rankings plummet without hope after a website redesign. Vise versa, many designers have seen their exceptionally created and beautiful website designs destroyed by an seo-focused optimization. This does not have to happen!

We all know how historic the 2008 US Elections have been, President Barack Obama has a lot of 'first' in history now, one of them being the 1st presidential candidate who owes a big portion of his 'thanks for helping me win' to the Internet!

Social Media Networking played a massive role in Obama's campaign, he has MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, his website and even an SMS opt in. What are the factors that made all the difference for Obama's campaign? It wasn't anything new, they didn't invent anything special, rather they combined different social networking applications that had a huge impact on people all over the net and they managed to raise money, organize locally for different states, they had more power in fighting smear campaigns and eventually gain the vote of the people.

Every Website owner would like to get more Search Engine
traffic. But it's getting tougher and tougher to get a good listing
these days. There are literally millions of other web pages that
are vying for the same top 20 search engine listing that you want.

Most of us don't have the time or expertise to carefully edit
and reedit the keywords and meta tags for each engines
specific criteria.

No matter what job you get into, you are going to need some training and advice when first starting out. You cannot expect to go into a job and know everything right off of the bat. The same can be said about the internet; you have to learn how to make money online in order to succeed. So who can you turn to?

There are a number of people that can help you learn how to make money online. If you are joining an internet program, you obviously want to look at the person that signed you up or whoever is in charge of the program. They will be able to provide you with the tools needed to succeed.