Google Drops Plus sign from Search Operators

Back when Google announced Google Plus, I laughed that the search engine giant named their new social networking platform something that their users can’t even search for, since the plus sign [+] is used as a way to define a search string. This meant when you tried to search for [Google +] in Google, you might not actually find “Google Plus”.

Well, they announced that they will fix that problem, by actually dropping the use of the plus sign as a search operator.

Before, you could search for something like
relocation +missoula
and you’d get results that were about relocation, but only those with Missoula in the results.

Now, when I do that search it tells me:

The + operator has been replaced.
To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks: relocation “missoula”

I guess this works the same, but to me it seems slightly different. I always felt the plus sign meant “show me ONLY those results with that word in the results”, while Quotes meant “Show me these two words together, as in “firstname lastname”. While I suspect the latter still works the same way, which is good, since Google our own names is something I’m sure we all love to do. One guy even made it into a Documentary called “Google Me“.

I have a lot of Google Alerts set up that use the plus sign. But I guess I have to spend some time changing those now since Google had to change this core part of search… Do you think it’s because they want people to find Google Plus?

What if every time we use the plus sign in a search from here on out, they just show us Google Plus as the top result.

Well, they make the rules…
So if you’d like to get better results from your searches, I recommend you spend a few minutes studying up on the various tricks you can use in your search queries.

Enjoy…

-Andy

Online Multilevel Marketing And The Current Day Entrepreneur

What are some of the aspects todays internet entrepreneur’s run across in their efforts for success? This editorial will explore the issues involved.

Sorting through the web based cyber world for wealth building options in the year 2011 is like panning for gold in the 1800s. There is a constant spotting of something glimmering at you in your sorting pan that captures your awareness and makes you believe that becoming rich is surely going to happen.

Most of those sparklely little flashes you set eyes on are akin to the business programs that you are lambasted with every day. That means it gets your blood racing initially but pans out to be worthless in the long run.

Every marketer who is working online today has their own personal list. I’m not speaking about who they get to mail to, I’m talking about the list of marketers that you and I both hear from everyday that fill our inboxes full of time consuming worthless crap.

Marketing by electronic mail is rapidly losing the effectiveness it use to command when the inbox reeks of spam, maybe even more than the actual spam box. So called marketers who once shined so bright are appearing more and more like money grubbing pimps.

So you are eyeballing infinity downline or another online business opportunity as a means to increase your monthly income, so how do you make it work with out stupeing to the level of the aforementioned? Well I am not going to BS you, the cold hard truth is not pretty.

Now this is just my view point, if a person is curious about your business, they will look at your venture 1rst and you 2nd. This is true with a lot of well known Multilevel Marketing companies like infinity downline.

My unsolicited advise to you is to be truthful with your leads in your promotional efforts and your communications with them as to your experience with the business. You’re not just looking for them to join, you want them to work at the program and to stay in.

I think a lot of the hype about working an Multi level marketing is that it is suppose to be this simple thing to sponsor new members and to generate income. If you over hype by doing this then when a new recruit finds out that you have just been BSing them, most likely they will just self terminate their membership.

If you have a good network marketing company with a good compensation plan then just be straightforward with your prospects about what they really need to do to become successful. You may be asking yourself what I mean by that.

This is just my own view point and you may choose to feel how you want on the matter but many of the established mult-level companies are designed to earn one a pretty good income if members only bring in a few members a piece. In my own situation with infinity downline this is most certainly a valid and true statement.

I believe that the prevailing principal that will bring success to all people is the combined level of personal commitment of all. With a non-specific amount of time and personal action I believe that any person can refer the amount of new referrals that will bring about success for all members who commit to it.

That is what I tell prospects about from the beginning. I don’t try to shellac the truth to make it sound better. I fully believe people can accept this and appreciate what the truth really is no matter how much they want to believe the grand sounding hype.

Growing Your Internet Income – How Your Family Can Help

Earning an internet income from home can be very rewarding for both you and your family. But what can your kids do to help out ?

Some of the most successful mlm and internet marketers in the world have involved their whole family in what they do, this not only makes things easier on the person doing the marketing but also the whole family working together to achieve goals is good for the family generally.
Anyone involved in a home business knows that it is vital to set boundaries around ‘work time’. Your kids must understand that there are times when it is important you are not disturbed unless it is very important, otherwise you can be spending your time listening to what Woody did in his latest cartoon, instead of writing an article. Of course the big advantage of a home business is that you can decide when these ‘work times’ are and all the advantages that result from that.
This article looks at how your family can help with your business, both indirectly and directly .

1) Giving You Space To Earn An Internet Income
One of the biggest things your family can do for you is to give you space and time when you need it, if you have an office that is separated from the rest of the house with a door that closes it is a lot easier to set boundaries around noise and space, but even a large rug can be used to designate a ‘work space’.
As the never stops working there may be times when your schedule doesn’t fit smoothly in to theirs, to get your family to help you out they must also be flexible.

The next few suggestions apply to family members who have a good understanding of written English and usually require an extra computer in the home.

2) Helping Earn An Internet Income Through Social Networking
For an internet marketer sites like Facebook are a way of building relationships instead of just giving you a place to post links. Showing yourself as someone real, having real success with internet marketing , is a great tool for developing trust and getting high quality prospects.
Teenagers love social networking and would probably be quite happy to look after your sites for you. Updating your Facebook page with posts and pictures of what the family has been doing, or even interesting videos, recipes etc, is something a family member could do without a problem. Of course However, this does not mean you should have anyone pretending to be you when it comes to interaction with others.

3)Helping You Earn Internet Income By Running Your Blog
I have spent days going over various plugins, looking for the best themes, fixing up conflicts between plugins etc, when I should have been focusing on content. Many of the tasks mentioned can be ‘outsourced’ to children with the necessary computer skills. A basic direction of “I want this YouTube video embedded in the centre of that page of my blog and I want buttons for sharing and bookmarking with a place for comments below it” and your child completing it could save you hours of work.
By teaching your child some basic SEO methods you can leave them in charge of doing things like making sure keywords are in different headings and ‘alt’ images etc.

4)Helping Earn an Internet Income By Sharing and Social Bookmarking
Sharing new articles and bookmarking them on various sites can be quite time consuming but it is easy enough to do. Giving your children the responsibility for link building your article can give you much more time to focus on higher priorities.

5) Spinning Articles To Help Earn An Internet Income
I loath auto-spinners, mostly they just turn articles into gibberish and at best they make it seem as though you don’t know how to speak English very well. I do however spin articles manually so they can appear in multiple locations on the internet as well as my blog with no risk of duplicate content. Manually spinning an article takes a great deal of time, however if you have a child with a good grasp of written English they should be able to do it for you.

I am sure there are many other areas of your business that you could outsource to your children so you get more time to focus on more important areas. Much of your work can be outsourced by looking on directories like Craig’s List, but why pay a stranger when you can pay your children instead (not many teenagers will do this without getting something in return)

As well as providing your children the chance to earn a little extra money, having them help in earning an internet income will benefit the entire family, and not just when it comes to earning money.

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Business Building Approaches You Can Employ To Ignite Your Business

When considering Infinity Downline, plenty of people think they don’t have time to operate and run a business ran from home. They assume with their job and family activities and the multitude of other activities they are involved in that they just don’t have the spare time to do it.

Infinity Downline, like a lot of enterprises can be marketed online in a matter of a few hours a week, if not less, depending on the manner one uses to advertise said business. The first thing you need to do to find the time to work your home business is to thoroughly analyse your time and precisely how you utilize it.

Subsequently when you have some time to yourself, grab your pencil and paper and begin a documentation of how your time is spent. Mark down all the things you do and note a start and stop time or an estimation of the quantity of time each activity makes use of.

On your work day activities, write down such things as showering, breakfast, getting the kids off to school, commute to work, then continue onto your week end activities. Be thorough as you possibly can be.

Once you do this time consuming activity it will give you a great visual depiction of all of your activities. If you need to put it in chart form to see this, by all means please do so. You should start to find some openings here and there where you could slot a couple of hours to put towards your new business.

Now when I say slot, what I really mean to say is “to commit”. coming up with and committing at least 2 hours to your business should be your objective. Now go back and look at your activities again and see if there is not some further ways that let you free up maybe 2 or 3 more hours to your business a week.

You want to write this time into your schedule and then make a strong commitment to working this time no matter what. Don’t waste time during these time frames by being inefficient.

People throw away a lot of time when when working online at times like spending all their time checking emails, or checking out all the new biz opps. Being efficient means that you take a task, or several tasks that kick your business into high gear and you don’t waste time on other activities. You work those tasks and nothing else until they are done.

You want to idea map, engage your plans with hard and fast action steps until you have achieved successful completion of your of all your plans. Endeavor to figure out in advance the time you will need to allocate to complete the necessary action steps you have set towards the success of your business. This determination of action will help you in your creating reasonable goals and diligently working on them until you have successfully achieved them.

Documenting your ideas and turning them into action plans with set times to get them done will get you a head faster than you can believe. For example, creating several follow up messages with a reputable autoresponder company would be one of the first action plans I would have to get accomplished as soon as you could.

If you have joined Infinity Downline like myself, be as efficient as you can, or keep this practice for whatever your business venture may be. Efficiency by and large means you cut out the wasted time expending activities. A lot of internet marketers these days waste many hours a week sorting through their email inbox studying the countless offers that flood their inbox daily.

True efficiency comes from having a superb business strategy with beginning goals, intermediate goals, that as your business success grows, you set higher goals. You build up and complete action steps that propel you towards those goals and this is how efficiency is maximized, you only work on your written action steps in your designated work time.

In closing, I would say to you in all of your started activities, do not feel the obstacles in your way as blockages keeping your from achieving victory but as dealings that are just part of the complete achievement of your goals that you planned, mapped out and achieved.

In actuality the universe operates under a strick law of attraction, what you do say think or feel is exactly what you are creating. And the marvelous thing about this law, is you are the one that governs it with all of your attitudes, your thoughts, how you feel and how you imagine things to be.

The Periodic Table of SEO

I know the world loves a good infographic, and my man Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land did a great one for the world of SEO.

This chart really nails it. It shows the main factors in helping a website rank in an a simple, clean way.

I share this as a way to promote good thinking when it comes to SEO. Can this stuff be done by business owners? Yes, but as I’ve said before on why hire an SEO, it’s a matter of focusing on what you do best. I’m not scared to let others know what I do. Many will happily hire me to do it for them.

See the table here:

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The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors, used with permission

SEO is no pun anymore. How Article Headlines are no longer funny thanks to SEO – in Missoula MT :-0

In this article for the Atlantic, David Wheeler talks about how SEO is affecting headlines. (go read it. I’ll wait right here). :-)

I enjoyed the article, but had to grin when I went back to read the headline of the article itself. It’s a mix of both humorous and Keyword rich.

But, this actually makes the case for building a good online following and not just relying on Google. People who use online media site on a regular basis don’t need to find them via a search. They come to the home page and see what’s being offered (much like the catchy headlines in the paper or magazines). They get to enjoy the headline all the same. I will say that sometimes the puns can be so esoteric they leave me working too hard to figure out if I’m even interested in the content. When this happens, you do risk the chance of turning off your readers. Also, SEO is not all about the headline. It’s important, yes. But,  if the keywords are in the title tag and article body, it should still come up. And once it’s well liked and shared a bunch (linked to for real, by real people), even more so.

Perhaps headline writers of the future will just have to up their game and figure out how to write a headline that is both keyword rich AND entertaining. Thoughts? Leave me a comment… and be sure to submit this to your favorite bookmarking site, post it to facebook, tweet a link, and stumble it.  (But only if you really want to).

-Andy

Small business workshop in Missoula Wednesday

Did you read hear about this? I’ll be there, and I would suggest you try to attend if you’re at all interested in the things I talk about here on my site.

Montana Senator John Tester will host a Small Business Opportunity Workshop in Missoula on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. The event focused on expanding small business opportunities, especially for young entrepreneurs.

The upcoming workshop will be held at the University Theater at the University Center on the campus of The University of Montana.

He’s bringing with him a top Microsoft executive who will deliver a keynote address on his experience working with the software giant, and several social media gurus who will give a presentation on how websites like Facebook and Google can help grow businesses.

The social media portion of the workshop will show attendees just how important a tool the medium can be for small businesses.

Sign up here http://tester.senate.gov/Resources/workshop.cfm

Business Birthday Cards – Affordable But Valuable

In every business you can find things that are performed to create connections with customers and keep those connections alive during the times between the customer’s need or want for the firm’s product or service. Things like mailings to promote sales or promotional items for instance pens and mouse pads are common ways for businesses to nudge clients to remember them once in a while. Another way to conduct this that is a little more personal and could be far better kept in mind is to sendbusiness birthday cards.

Giving business birthday cards to customers upon their special days will not only remind them that the firm is there, ready to meet their demands for the merchandise or service, but it will also make them feel really honored. A birthday is a unique deal. For a company an individual has done business with in the past to not forget their birthday creates a long lasting impact. To do this sort of thing for clients creates a big impression yet costs the business very little in overall cost and effort. It is certainly a worthwhile investment.

Making the effort to deliver out business birthday cards as part of the business’s investment in consumer relations seem sensible, both on a personal degree and a business level. Businesses can find quality, classic style cards at Hallmark Business Connections that will be personal yet appropriately professional as well. The company rep can pick a tasteful design then add your own closing message as well as the company’s logo. This is what is needed to get a custom bulk set of business birthday cards. What is probably a small gesture has the possibility to have a huge, long-term effect to consumers. Whenever a consumer remembers a business as a result of a good product plus a great birthday card note, they will definitely come back again.

Repeat customers are what business is all about. Creating a brand in which consumers use the product or service supplied and come back once they need it once more is what business is all about. Business birthday cards being delivered are no exception to that platform. These kinds of cards are thoughtful touch to a business venture in which the customer feels really special, not just one of many. By making the client believe this way, business obtain a place in memory and will be kept in mind for the future. The good will achieved by giving business birthday cards is felt on a lot of levels.

SEO and Blog Posts – What You Need to Know

Driving targeted, relevant traffic to your blog should be one of your main aims as a blogger. The best blogs have lots of activity, with people reading the posts and leaving their comments. It takes time to generate traffic to a blog, and search engine optimization is something you have to do to achieve this. It allows you to start ranking highly for your chosen keywords in your blog posts, which brings you traffic. The following 3 factors should be kept in mind when you blog, as these will help your SEO efforts.

You must market your blog posts because in order to get the search engines to see and rank them, they look at particular factors first. You must advertise your blog posts because for the search engines to notice and rank them, they need to take other things into account first. So make an effort to submit your blog posts to bookmarking websites such as Delicious, Digg and Technorati. This will get you backlinks in addition to get your blog posts exposed. You can use a service like socialmarker due to the fact that it will bookmark your link on plenty of sites at one time. You need to try and build as many incoming, relevant links to your posts as you can. You can comment on other blogs with the link of your post in the anchor text so that the search engines know what keywords to rank your posts for. This isn’t something you can do in a day but if done correctly it will slowly increase your rank and garner more exposure for your post. Just make sure you’re not spamming your blog post’s link anywhere. If you post smart comments on blogs that are relevant you will also get more direct traffic as well.

Last, if you want to get your blog ranked and indexed, you have to keep writing new posts. Search engines love posts with new content, which means that if you are able to consistently post articles, they won’t have any doubt about giving you a high ranking. Even if your blog is about a very particular topic, you still have to be able to provide fresh content on a day to day schedule. Yes, it does take hard work but eventually what really matters is the continuous flow of traffic.

All in all, from the above article we come to understand the value of using blog post writing in conjunction with SEO. It lets you drive more targeted traffic to your blog post and lets you get more exposure. This is not as complicated as it may sound, just learn SEO step by step and it will start to make sense.

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