Reality Check – There Is No Such Thing As Easy Money, Also Not Online

Despite that some people, especially the expensive -get rich quick- eBooks selling ones, want to make believe otherwise, trust me when I say that there is no such thing as easy money and easy to gain fortunes. Also not on the Internet. You don’t believe me? Okay….

Here is reality check for all the people out there that still believe in the myth about how easy it is to gain fabulous riches and make huge fortunes on the internet without hard work. Stop chasing a ghost, start thinking for yourself and start working on realizing your dreams via hard work and persistence. Some tips to get on the way don’t hurt though.

Here are a list of a lot of down to earth and practical tips that actually make sense. No Blah blah, but the real deal.

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Eight Internet Marketing Blog Lists – Covering over 500 Blogs

If you are looking for Blogs to the various types of internet marketing there are several ways to find them.

Blog search engines like Technorati are a good source to discover blogs. Also blog directories can be a good source, but to be honest, there are so much blog directories out there that you will have a hard time finding one that has a good selection of internet marketing related blogs, let alone categoriezed by subject.

Here are some additional blog listings by topic:

Search Marketing

1. Search Marketing Blogs List by Lee Odden – Over 300 Blogs to Search Engine Marketing and Optimization.

2. SEO Blogs and News Portals

3. Search Engine Marketing/PPC Blogs

 Affiliate Marketing

4. Affiliate Marketing Blogs List by SuperAff.com

5. Bumpzee Affiliate Marketing Social Network and Blogs – List of included Blogs

6. Affiliate Marketing, Contextual Advertising and Affiliate Networks Blogs at Cumbrowski.com

7. AffiliateMarketing Buzz – Aggregated Feeds. See List of included Blogs to the right 

Internet Marketing (Email Marketing, Web Analytics, Marketing in General etc.) 

8. Internet Marketing Blogs at Cumbrowski.com

Plenty of Blogs to explore. If you are more into Podcasts and Video, check the Resources here.

$20 off Keyword Research Service WordZe for Life (pay $25 instead of $45)

SEOmoz.org special discount for WordZe.com Keyword Research Service. Instead of $45 per month, pay only $25, for Life! Keyword Research is important for SEO and PPC Search Marketing. Take Advantage of this before they take it down. It was supposed to be up only 2 days, until yesterday, but it is not.

Read the interview with WordZe Founder Levi at G-Man’s Blog.

 Keyword Research is the single most important task when you start a new Web Project with SEO in mind, Organic Search Engine Optimization for existing Pages and also Paid Search/Pay-Per-Click Marketing Campaings. You can find more information and tools to Keyword Research here. There are also free Tools available with different qualities and features.

Competitive Intelligence is also an important task Internet Marketers should not take lightly. You can find a lot of Resources and Services for CI, Competitor Analysis and Ranking Stats for their Organic or Paid Search Marketing Campaigns at this site. 

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SEO: (0.X% x Y) > (100% x 0) = True?

Very interesting Post at ReveNews.com titled:

Is (0.X% x Y) > (100% x 0) no longer true?

It is about webmasters and their goals and search engines and their goals
It is about Bull crap from webmasters and bull crap from search engines

…. about deceptions and misconception, arguments, facts, injecting fear,

… predictions, fortune telling, cluelessness and ignorance, profit hunger …

and the user in the middle of it having no clue whats going on, because he is a number, a statistical “it” in the game only.

Who should you have in mind the most when designing a Website?

… the potential User of your Site that you try to target (and convert) or the Search Engine? The User? Dude, where have you been the last 10 years? 

Read it! It might helps to put a lot of things into the right perspective, if you understand it.

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Language of Search Engine Optimizers (SEO)

To the everyday marketer in a decision making role, the common language of SEO is not the language of marketing and this seems to be a major problem (especially in the learning curve).

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