Ever wanted to get inside the mind of an Internet Marketer? Now you can with my new site, InsidePaul.com!!!

The blog focuses on Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. There will be useful tips and guides as well as some of my personal experiences.

The latest post deals with some common SEO myths…

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You must have keyword-rich page URLs - FALSE
You must have a keyword-rich domain - FALSE
Heading tags are necessary (H1, H2 etc.) - FALSE
Using keywords in comment tags will hurt your rankings - FALSE
You need to use keywords in meta keyword tags - FALSE
Meta keywords must be included in page content - FALSE

TRUE: It’s actually far better if you use the keyword meta tag to include misspellings and other keyword varieties that you don’t have in your pages.

You can read more about Search Engine Marketing and SEO myths on InsidePaul.com - Inside The Mind Of An Internet Marketer.

BuyNowDeal.com has a new offer for February. This month they are offering 24 products with resell rights. All products come with either Master Resell Rights (MRR) or Private Label Rights (PLR). Just like last month’s offer they are increasing the price each week in February. The price is currently $17 but will go up $5 each remaining week in February.

• Firesale Week 1 - 1st Feb - 7th Feb - $12
• Firesale Week 2 - 8th Feb - 14th Feb - $17
• Firesale Week 3 - 15th Feb - 21st Feb - $22
• Firesale Week 4 - 22nd Feb - 29th Feb - $27

There is an interesting combination of products on offer this month. Facebook Social Ads (with Master Resell Rights) is a guide to Facebook’s answer to Google Adwords PPC. It is being sold for $7 separately on the site and is worth every penny if you’re already using pay per click or intend to use it in the future.

There are also two packs of Adsense ready themes for WordPress blogs. 30 Adsense Ready Instant WordPress Themes (with MRR) and 50 Niche WordPress Blog Themes (with MRR). The first 30 themes come complete with Photoshop PSD files. The pack of 50 does not include PSD files but is still a good collection of WordPress themes. Both of these products is being sold separately on the site for $7 for the 30 themes with PSD files and $5 for the 50 themes without.

Craigslist Marketer Pro (with MRR) is a package consisting of a guide, video, speadsheet and list of popular cities. It is being sold for $10 separately on the site through the product mini-site. It’s surprising just how much traffic flows through Craigslist each day. The package shows you how to get started and how to avoid getting your posts flagged or deleted. It’s actually pretty useful, even if you don’t think Craigslist has much to offer your existing website. Give it a try and see the response you get!

Other products included in this months deal are…

• My $900 A Week Super Niche Revealed (MRR)
• Blogging For Cash (PLR)
• The Expert Guide To Pursuing Wealth (PLR)
• Web 2.0 Sites Exposed (PLR)
• The Lazy Man’s Guide To Writing Articles (MRR)
• Video Profits (MRR)
• 5 Steps To Article Marketing Secrets (MRR)
• Doing Business With PayPal (MRR)
• Basic SEO Explained (MRR)
• Traffic Overdrive (PLR)
• Fast Track To Online Profits (MRR)
• How To Set Up And Use Joomla (PLR)
• Niche Blog Affiliate Profits (MRR)
• Internet Entrepreneurship Survival Guide (PLR)
• How To Motivate Your Affiliates (MRR)
• E-zine Publishing Mastery (MRR)
• Social Madness (PLR)
• Bum Marketing Magic (PLR)
• The Big Book Of Resell Rights Tips (MRR)
• Selling Your Way To Your First Million (MRR)

Also still available are the December Deal ($27 for 14 products with MRR/PLR rights) and the New Year Firesale ($35 for 30 products with MRR/PLR rights).

I can’t wait to see which products go into the March deal!

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Facebook Social Ads is the key to effective Facebook marketing, but only if used properly.

There are lots of advantages to using Facebook as a marketing tool, but the pitfalls can be tremendous. Remember when you went through the growing pains of setting up your Adwords campaign and how long it took you to see any profit at all, let alone a significant profit? Facebook marketing is the same. Only through trial and error will you learn how to customize Facebook monetization for your particular needs.

If you are serious about slicing off just a small piece of the world’s most popular social networking website, then you need to learn how Facebook Marketing actually works.

Facebook Social Ads - The New Adwords is an extremely helpful guide when trying to understand and setup a Facebook Advertising campaign.

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How much is Firefox worth, will it go public and when? The answers are a lot, almost definitely and probably this year or next.

Mozilla’s open source browser, Firefox has done what most people would have considered impossible in the past few years. It has managed to eat away at Microsoft’s domination of the browser market. When you think of the major advantages Microsoft has had in that it’s browser comes pre-installed on just about every new PC, this is even more of an achievement.

Firefox currently has more than a 15% share of the browser market. That equals approximately 100 million or more downloads. So just how much is Firefox worth?

According to the New York Times in May 2007, Firefox has generated more than $100 million in revenue over the past few years. It generated $6 million in 2004 and $52 million in 2005. If revenue continues to grow we could be looking at $100 million to $200 million per year. And that’s before it has really started trying to build a business.

Mozilla hasn’t made much effort yet to actually build a business. Their main revenue stream is derived from per browser carriage revenue for the little Google search box you see in the top right corner of your toolbar. This is equates to approximately $1 a download according to some estimates, so there is clearly a lot more money to be made.

Even if you allow $50 million a year for costs that still would leave Mozilla with annual profit of $50 million to $150 million.

So when will Mozilla/Firefox go public? Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker says “never!”. But why would the Mozilla Foundation not want several billion dollars worth of public company stock?

Let’s face it… an IPO is inevitable.

And here’s a thought… what if Mozilla bought Netscape from Time Warner and renamed the company Netscape Firefox!

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If you want to make some SERIOUS money online in 2008 you should check out the BuyNowDeal.com New Year Firesale!

You get 30 hot products with Master Resell Rights/Private Label Rights that you can resell right away.

But the real value is in actually reading them and applying some of the techniques to your own sites. The Tag & Ping guide is VERY helpful.

The starting price is just $7 for all 30 products but will increase every seven days throughout January…

• Week 1 - 1st Jan - 7th Jan - $7
• Week 2 - 8th Jan - 14th Jan - $12
• Week 3 - 15th Jan - 21st Jan - $17
• Week 4 - 22nd Jan - 28th Jan - $22
• 29th Jan Onwards - Normal Price - $27

Here is a list of the products (with the rights included)…

1. Super SEO Guidebook (MRR)
2. Freelance Riches (MRR)
3. A Beginners Guide To Web 2.0 (PLR)
4. The Expert Guide To Opt In List Building (PLR)
5. Squidoo Basics (PLR)
6. Secrets of High Profit Websites (PLR)
7. The Expert Guide To Article Marketing (PLR)
8. Craigslist Exposed (PLR)
9. Video Marketing Profits (PLR)
10. Making Sense Of Google Adsense (MRR)
11. 101 Basics to Search Engine Optimization (MRR)
12. Become An Affiliate Marketing Master (PLR)
13. The Expert Guide To Cashing In On eBay (PLR)
14. Squidoo Profits (MRR)
15. The YouTube Revolution (PLR)
16. Tag and Ping Basics (PLR)
17. List Building Explained (PLR)
18. Buying Websites on eBay (MRR)
19. Advanced SEO Techniques (PLR)
20. MySpace Profit Strategies (PLR)
21. Change Your Mind Change Your Life (PLR)
22. The Expert Guide To Affiliate Marketing (PLR)
23. E-mail Marketing Riches (PLR)
24. How To Uncover Red Hot Niches In Minutes (PLR)
25. Virtual Real Estate Tycoon (MRR)
26. Learn The Secret Marketing Mindset (MRR)
27. Craigslist Advertising Revealed (PLR)
28. The Expert Guide To Pay Per Click Marketing (PLR)
29. Blogging On Steroids (MRR)
30. Traffic 2.0 (PLR)

The price is currently $7 but will increase each week throughout January.

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BuyNowDeal.com is offering a great Info Products package of 12 products with Master Resell/Private Label Rights for just $27. All products come in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Each product is also available individually (there is a minisite for each product) but with a price of just $27 it makes sense to get the lot!

The products included are:

• Social Marketing Secrets
• The eBook Success Blueprint
• Optimize It (With Audio Interview Included)
• Grow My List Fast
• Video Sites Revolution
• Internet Marketing Fortune Jumpstart
• 7 Days To Profitable Blogging
• The Road To Niches
• Adsense Profits Exposed
• Viral Traffic Generation
• Ultimate Guide To Free Web Traffic For Your Success
• Build Me A 50,000 List Fast

There are also 2 bonuses available for a limited time:

• Instant Blog Cash (Video)
• 30 Days To Niche Success

There are also some older products available for free through the “Download Free e-Books” page.

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A programmer in Ohio is so tired of drinking instant coffee he created a website to help him buy his dream DeLonghi ESAM3300 Espresso/Coffee Machine.

The site aims to raise around $1000 in 22 days by selling 100 downloadable products for just 10 dollars. The web developer who works from home describes himself as “not a morning person”.

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What is the Secret Special Sauce?
Ed Dales Secret SauceAnyone who has been following Ed Dale and his Thirty Day Challenge will instantly recognise the phrase “Secret Sauce” or “Special Sauce”. It has been mentioned by Ed on a number of occassions and a great deal of atticipation surrounds it. It is supposedly a way to increase your position in Google for a particular phrase.

If you’ve followed all of Ed’s advice and got your blog indexed in Google in record time and you’ve used social bookmarking responsibly you should be getting Google traffic by now right? Well, maybe….

The Problem with the 30 Day Challenge…
The problem is that most of the traffic from Google searches goes to the first four sites returned from the Google search results…

Therefore, if your site isn’t listed in the top four then you’re going to see limited or no traffic. Obviously this is a big problem for anyone trying to make their first $10 and win the challenge.

Enter the Secret Sauce…
The Secret Sauce has been mentioned as a way to address this problem. Ed has built up the suspense as to exactly what the Secret Sauce is. On Friday it finally looked as though the Secret of the Secret Sauce would be revealed on “Monster Monday”.

Well Monster Monday is here and guess what?

There will be no Secret Sauce…
Ed has decided pull the Secret of the Sauce because of a small minority of spammers who have been following and abusing the challenge. This may be a good reason but ultimately it’s going to dissapoint a lot of legitimate followers of the challenge (myself included).

Ed Dale’s Secret Sauce - The Secret is there’s no secret, but shhhh it’s a secret

What may also start alarm bells ringing for some people is that anyone who subscribes to The Immediate Edge, which costs around $150 a month, will get access to the Secret Sauce. To some it may appear as though The Thirty Day Challenge was just about recruiting for The Immediate Edge.

Personally, I have to believe that the motives behind the Thirty Day Challenge have been good. Ed and his team have provided a lot of quality training which has been both informative and useful. Indeed I only started this blog because of Ed and the Thirty Day Challenge.

No doubt there will be an increase in the level of interest in Ed’s paid services as well as subscribers to the Immediate Edge. I don’t think that this is the primary reason for providing the 30 Day Challenge, although i’m sure nobody will be complaining about the increase.

The Challenge Continues…
The good news is that the 30 Day Challenge will continue past the 30 days. This is good news right? Well it will enable more people to do the challenge. For those of us who have almost completed the first 30 days, we’d much rather have the secret of the sauce!

“Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.”

At least that’s what the Tumblr website would have us believe.

So, why then has Tumblr chosen to delete tens of thousands of it’s customers blogs over the past 3 days? The answer, we’re told is to intercept ‘spammers’ taking advantage of their free service.

Most sites would welcome the creation of over 20,000 new user accounts practically overnight, but not Tumblr. It seems Tumblr isn’t interested in a massive influx of new users or huge interest in their services.

The problems began when members of The Thirty Day Challenge began to create accounts as part of the challenge. The Thirty Day Challenge is a free service run each year by Ed Dale and members of The Immediate Edge. The aim of the challenge this year was to make $10 online by using many of the free resources available on the web.

Ed Dale has been very clear on his stance on spamming throughout the challenge. There has been an emphasis on providing good quality content. Ed often tells participants to ask themselves if the user going to be happy or annoyed with the content provided?

Tumblr’s reaction has been a mass cull of new and old users alike. They pulled the trigger and deleted around 20,000 accounts. There has also been blocking of new and existing accounts where they perceive their services are being used for financial gain.

It appears that in Tumblr’s trigger-happy rampage, they may have shot themselves in the foot. Many users are annoyed with Tumblr for the way in which they deleted content without so much as an e-mail. Many people have lost hours of hard work and feel very bitter towards Tumblr. If Tumblr’s aim is to compete with existing blogging sites like Blogger.com they have certainly thrown away a huge opportunity.

Participants of the Thirty Day Challenge are learning more than just how to sell on the Internet. They are learning the ethics of Internet Marketing. Ed Dale supports doing this in a positive way and providing the user with good quality content.

The Thirty Day Challenge gave a huge thumbs up to Tumblr. It’s a shame then, that Tumblr chose to act in this way. Choosing to nuke everyone instead of carrying out a surgical strike may be a blunder that Tumblr will regret for a long time.

I’m going to take this opportunity to introduce you to a great forum.

Digital Point Forum has sections on Search Engines, Internet Marketing, Business, Web Design & Development, Products and Tools and more!

In the Buy, Sell or Trade section (listed under Business), there is an interesting Sub-Forum called ‘Freebies‘.

Basically anything that is free (either a product or service) is listed here. It ranges from free products like free ebooks and scripts right through to free services like logo design.

What i’m interested in at the moment, mainly because of the Thirty Day Challenge is social bookmark exchanges. It just so happens that there are a lot of people advertising to exchange social bookmarks like StumbleUpon and Digg in the freebies section.

Some people ask for you to Stumble or Digg their sites in return. Others ask for you to leave “Green” or “Rep” which is just positive feedback.

Normally you will have to Stumble/Digg a users site and then provide your StumbleUpon/Digg username in order to get your own site Stumbled/Dugg.

I tend not to post my Digg URL in the forum as I’ve heard that Digg has been banning accounts asking for Diggs in certain forums. I would normally send a Private Message to the poster with my Digg URL in order.

Anyway, hope this is of help to you. If you’re a part of the Thirty Day Challenge remember to use all the great resources there too, especially your fellow team members!