Friday, June 27, 2008

Thank you very much for visiting my blog!

Thank you very much for visiting my blog. This will be my last post. As of today, my blog has moved to :

http://www.nice-biz.com/blog


To Your Internet Success

Carol Oon

The "Nice" Mentor

Make Money Online

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The #1 Reason Why Most People Fail To Make Money Online

I seem to like Kenneth Koh's articles. Today I read his article on "The #1 reason why most people fail to make money online?"

This article is also interesting, that's why I would like to share with you. I have just read it ...

Kenneth Koh, Managing Director of LeadsLeap wrote :

Do you know what’s the #1 reason why most people fail to make money online?

The #1 reason is indecision!

They can’t decide if internet marketing is for them. They are getting mixed messages from everywhere, messages like:

“You can make a million trading the stock market.”

“You can achieve financial freedom with MLM.”

“No, I think I should be a REAL brick and mortar businessman. Internet marketing is not a career!”

To read the rest of the story, pls go to :

The #1 Reason Why Most People Fail To Make Money


To Your Success

Carol Oon

Internet Marketer

Make Money Online

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Webste Traffic - 77 Ways To Get Traffic

Some people asked me how do I get more traffic to my blog and website. Do you often get asked on this question which is most internet marketers' headache to get website traffic? I have written an article on 4 Quick Low Cost Ways To Generate Traffic which may also help you.

Recently I stumbled upon this ebook "77 Ways To Get Traffic" by Allan Gardyne, CEO of Associate Programs. It's a FREE 69-page report on how to get free traffic to your website.

So how do you get a copy of Allan Gardyne's "77 Ways to Get Traffic"? :-

1) You can go to AssociatePrograms.com, and get a copy of it by subscribing to their newsletter. Their newsletters are all good stuff and informative. I do encourage you to subscribe to AssociateProgram newsletter which has alot of great tips and strategies for network marketers.

Or you can :

2) Click below to download a copy of "77 Ways to Get Traffic" here :

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So, go now and get the FREE report on "77 Ways to Get Traffic" today!


To Your Success

Carol Oon

Internet Coach

Make Money Online

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

EzineArticles.com - My Favorite Way To Get Targetted Traffic

Blogging is many internet marketer's favorite way to make money online. One of the best strategy to get free targeted traffic to your blog is write articles on affiliate products which you like or have passion about on your blog. If you blog frequently, several times a week, you should be able to to get some quality free search engine traffic to your blog because search engines loves fresh contents!

To get your free targeted website traffic, there are a few great article directories which you can submit your articles such as EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticleMarketer, etc. At this moment, EzineArticles.com is my favorite article directory to submit my articles as it is a really great place to get good website exposure; and Ezinearticles.com is also most internet marketer's favorite resource place to get backlinks to their blogs.

I have written some articles on how to make money online and submit them to EzineArticles.com and my blog had received some decent targeted traffic all the time. If you are keen, you can click below to view some of my published articles. As of today, I am a BasicPlus Expert Author in EzineArticles.com.


Carol Debra Oon, EzineArticles.com Basic PLUS Author



If you are new to article marketing, you should try it. It's not scaring as you thought. When you are writing your articles, try to write it in the shortest time possible. Never mind about the grammars because you can always check them when you have finished the whole article.

Anyway, since generating website traffic via search engines is free,why not make full use of it? It will definitely boost your PR (Page Rank) of your blog. The reason why Ezinearticles.com is so popular is because their web pages often rank very high in the Google SERPs. So, take full advantage of EzineArticle.com since it is a this free article directory.


To Your Success

Carol Oon

Internet Marketer

Make Money Online

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Directory Submissions - Another Effective Way To Increase Your Backlinks!

What are backlinks? Backlinks which are also known as inbound links are basically links that are directed to your website or blog.

The more popular your website, then most likely the more backlinks you will have, and of course the more traffic to your site. That's why it's important to have a good number of quality backlinks to your website.

One of the most effective ways to generate great backlinks is by submitting your website manually to directories. By submitting your site to directories, you can significantly increase your Google Page Rank of your website.

So, what are the advantages of directory submission? If you are looking for an affordable, reliable and unique way to boost your Page Rank of your website, you should try directory submissions.

Directory submissions are also popular for website owners on a budget. It definitely has the great advantages of keyword targeting, website's link popularity and brand building. And if you can find a company which charges an affordable and nominal fee, directory submission is really a no-brainer.

There is this company which does your directory submission manually but yet they do not cost you an arm or a leg to use their reliable and affordable services.

If you are in a hurry, you can click below for more info :




Directory submission is definitely an inexpensive way to :

- Increase Your Link Popularity

- Get Listed quickly and easily in major search engines

- Increased visits from Search Engine Robots

- Increased Search Engines Visibility

- Building Your Keyword Relevancy

- Brand Awareness


When you're a website owner on a budget, directory submissions give you the biggest "bang for your buck" in terms of affordable website promotion services, and coupled with the benefits they provide what more could you ask for?






To Your Success

Carol Oon

Internet Marketer

Make Money Online

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

101 Ways To Get More Website Traffic?

I recently read the following interesting article at DigitalPoint which I would like to share :

101 Ways To Get More Traffic :-

1. Write and submit articles . It is a classic, but it works. This will be indefinite traffic stuck in the search engines for you. Write quality unique articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers, which is a huge problem these days.

2.Write and submit press releases, think prweb after you do one.

3.Write and ping blog entries. Always make sure to link back to your website with your blog posts. Try making multiple blogs and have them all link back to one main site.

4.Make sure your website is listed in DMOZ: http://dmoz.org/.

5. Advertise your website in the appropriate categories at Craigslist. Try posting your ads in the most populated cities in the world.

6.If a niche related forum that you frequently visit allows signatures, then make sure to add your website url in there.

7.Make sure to view related products on Amazon.com. You can try and take some customers from your competitors here by providing your own url if the product is similar.

8.Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site.

9.Review some related products on epinion.

10.If you purchase a product that you actually like, then feel free to give an individual respect when respect is due and leave a testimonial. You should be able to get some traffic from that website if your testimonial is left with a url.

11.Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.

12.Keep updating content on your websites/blogs… try at least once per week.

13.Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites, especially at http://del.icio.us/.

14.Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords.

15.Tag blog photos at Flickr.

16.Politely ask your readers to subscribe to your rss feeds.

17.Try coining your own term. Might want to trademark it if you smell that it will become popular.

18.Encourage readers to comment on your blogs.

19.Include translation for your websites/blogs, especially in Chinese.

20.Do not be boring, write about something that a wide select of people would want to know about.

21.Make sure to edit your writing (unlike what im doing ).

22.Comment on other related blogs.

23.Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche.

24.Sponsor a charity, most charities will link back to your website, and you are also doing a good deed .

25.Sell an item on eBay as a charity auction. Most charities will link back to both your auction and your main website.

26.Start a publicity campaign, do something that individuals in your niche will take note of.

27.Brand your website with a logo and a slogan/catch phrase. Think IBM.

28.Hold a crazy contest that people in your niche will talk about. This will equal more links and traffic to your website.

29.Build a tool that individuals in your niche will love and enjoy. Then give it away for free. If the tool is helpful, then you will get quality one-way links to your website.

30.Contact small newsletters sources offline and submit articles to them.

31.Become friends with editors of an offline publication.

32.Give speeches offline. Start small and local. Also, do not forget to participate in toastmasters meetings in your area.

33.Have a GREAT product. All of the marketing/advertising in the world will do you NO good if your product is sub par.

34.Make something innovative. If you are selling information, what makes your content something you cannot get from the local bookstore, Barnes and noble or even eBay for that matter?

35.Is your product groundbreaking? Will you leave individuals with no choice but to talk about your product or service?

36.Are you selling something that wide groups of people want to know about but there is limited/scarce knowledge?

37.Write good content, if your writing is good then people will share it with their friends. In addition, webmasters will use it as content on their website with a reference back to your article, or at least they should.

38.Spark emotions. If you get people emotional about something then they will most likely talk about it.

39.Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.

40.Build a list of subscribers. Your list is like a golden asset to you if utilized correctly.

41.Write tip articles, such as “Ten easy tips to blank-blank-blank.”

42.Buy traffic from the search engines by utilizing one of their PPC campaigns.

43.Open up a myspace account and find targeted friends so that you can promote your services to them. Do not spam people, myspace is cracking down on spammers and are starting to sue people.

44.Solicit a link from your local chamber of commerce.

45.Have an easy to remember domain name. If your domain name is too long or not memorable then people may forget your site.

46.Add a bookmark option to your website/blogs.

47.Purchase the misspelled versions of your domain name and have it redirect to your main one.
48.Use keywords in your image alt tags. For example,

49.Make sure to include appropriate keywords in your title tag, search engines show more prominence or importance to keywords here.

50.Place appropriate keywords in your anchor text when linking.

51.If you have a profile anywhere online, always include appropriate keywords and link back to your website.

52.Try to get links from websites within your niche with a high pr (pagerank). Some The more one-way links (inbound links/backlinks) you have to your website, the higher your pr will become. Pagerank is important because websites with higher prs tend to have a higher search results in Google. It is a no brainier that if you can get number one for a competitive keyword then you will have enough traffic that you can handle… oh by the way its all free targeted traffic to remind you.

53.Outsource grunt work. Time is in essence money…. you can hire individuals at freelance services to send emails, request JV proposals, or to answer questions from prospective or current customers.

54.Offer something for FREE. Abracadabra is not the magic word, FREE is. It is like a worm on a pole for a fish in the water…. its bait! Offer a free mini course or free ebook to help collect more subscribers. You can always offer a backend to monetize on this opportunity, such as an affiliate product for example.

55.After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product. For example, if I offered a traffic ebook, then after the individual purchase it would make sense for me to offer a traffic conversion bonus for a limited time only.

56.Become the virus within your niche. Make yourself the bug and have people talking about your product. When people talk about your product then you can induce the viral effect. However, you must give people a reason to talk about you, and being like everyone else is not one.

57.Do your research and find expensive niches to tap into. A good way to do this is to find how expensive someone is paying for a keyword on a PPC search engine. If you can sell items that are more expensive more often then it is a quicker way to get rich .

58.Become an active respected member of niche related forums. You can do this by offering quality posts. Hint Hint, it is not the number of posts you make, it is the quality. Remember, quality or quantity. Many useless or negative posts will have people looking at you funny.

59.Test, test, test. Your flushing money down the toilet if your not testing to see what campaigns are bringing you in the most money compared to which ones are costing you money. When you test, you can eliminate the campaigns that are costing you dollars so that you can properly maximize your marketing efforts. Without proper testing, you are pretty much lost and can’t improve. You can only guess to what has or what is working. With proper testing, you do not guess, you know.

60.Stay up to date on what is going on in the world, you can monetize off hot topic trends.

61.Network, when you know more people you can find people that can help you get what you need.

62.Offer an affiliate program for your product or service. Make sure to let your satisfied customers know that you have one, if they like your product then they will be even more delighted to know that they will get money for referring you.

63.Write and give away a free ebook or report. It does not have to be long as long as its quality information neatly formatted and put together. You can also make a brandable ebook or report and allow affiliates the opportunity to brand their affiliate links in there to pass on to the next individual. You can then send this ebook to your subscribers or submit it to ebook directories.

64.Add viral components to your blog such as social bookmarking options, and a refer a friend option.

65.Be funny, people like something that will make them laugh and they will spread it for you if it is a genius idea.

66.Syndicate your content by using an RSS feeds on your website.

67.Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! answers with a link to your website in the sources area.

68.Put a link in the “about me” section of your eBay profile.

69.Make and upload a viral video to you tube. Use appropriate keywords in the video description for your target audience.

70.Record an informative podcast and submit them to poplar podcast directories.

71.Provide helpful answers for Google adsense on their help forum with a link back to your website. Go here to check it out: http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help

72.Get people to comment and add content to your site. When they do this, they will provide you unique content, no need to pay for ghostwritten articles.

73.If you cannot get JVs, then try to bribe webmasters for sponsored advertising space on their newsletters.

74.Include a media section on your website so that you will give the media an easy way to stay up to date on what your company is doing.

75.Try to teach a class at your local community college or university. The more exposure you get in the public, the more credibility you will receive.

76.Make a screensaver and make it easy for individuals in your niche to download it. Have eye candy graphics combined with your company logo to brand yourself.

77.Write something controversial and spread it freely to your target market. It can be something as idiotic as the Da Vinci code, but as long people talk about it, its a successful campaign. A few hints, something controversial is something that goes against established beliefs in your market.

78.Write and publish a book. Having your own book is a quick way to gain credibility.

79.Take a guru in your niche out to lunch, and pay for it.

80.Start an organization or club about something. This can be done online through Yahoo! or Google groups.

81.Volunteer. Donate your time to a good clause…you can always network with people and form connections at the same time.

82.Get involved in your community and try to run some type of outreach program.

83.Offer good customer service, you may be surprised on how many referrals you get just be having a reliable one.

84.Consider adding a direct mail marketing campaign to your marketing ****nal.

85.Put an ad in your local yellow pages to get some local customers. Yellow pages tend to be more successful then newspaper ads because individuals are looking for a particular service when they are browsing through the yellow pages as opposed to newspapers.

86.Post bulletins in your local supermarket. However, since not everyone may carry a pen or pencil, place your contact information and url on strips on the bottom so that individuals can rip it off and take it with them.

87.Host your own commercial so you can put “as seen on TV” on your products.

88.Conduct surveys and publish them. These make you appear as an expert in your field of study.

89.Break a record or shoot to be in the Guinness world records for something.

90.Make a sitemap for your website.

91.Use a favicon for your site.

92.Make your visitors more involved in your website. You can help accomplish this by adding CGI scripts to your site.

93.Make sure you have no broken links on your site, and make sure that your website shows clearly in all browsers.

94.Find domain names that get traffic, purchase them, and have them redirect to your website.

95.Spell correctly whenever using keywords in writing.

96.Look at sites related to your niche to try to figure out how they get their traffic.

97.Properly optimize your website for the right keywords.

98.Try to avoid java scripts on your website as much as possible.

99.Do not use frames on your website.

100. If your website becomes popular and starts getting lots of traffic, try switching to a dedicated server. The longer you site is down equals the more lost visitors you will have.

101. Write a quality 101 article about a steamy topic that people want to know more about in your niche.

Wow! Really 101 Ways to get more website traffic! Even if you can use one of the above ideas effectively, I am sure your time is well spent reading it.



You can read the Forum thread at DigitalPoint :

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=246573


To Your Success
Carol Oon
Internet Marketer
http://www.nicebiz.ws/

Saturday, May 24, 2008

TrafficSwarm - Delivers Free Targeted Traffic





Have you heard of TrafficSwarm before? It's an easy and free internet marketing service. TrafficSwarm will send free, targeted traffic to your websites. Their mission is to assist webmasters, entrepruneurs, home business owners as well as affiliate marketers to to market their sites more effectively and simply.

One of the challenges for most business owners is to get high-quality targeted visitors to their websites or blogs, but yet this is so crucial to the success of any website.

Well, I am letting you know of this free service - TrafficSwarm - which will send 1000s of targeted prospects to your site, every single day, absolutely FREE! It's truly a new, fully-automated traffic-generation system.

This new internet marketing system is:

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TrafficSwarm is quite a new free advertising system, and you will benefit even more if you create your FREE account now before most people join. Check it out!





To Your Success

Carol Oon

Internet Marketer

http://www.nicebiz.ws/