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Anik Singal of Affiliate Classroom posted a video on it’s new AffSphere blog about finding profitable niches for article marketing with some information on their much awaited Niche Calculator.

They discuss why a good niche in PPC is not necessarily a good niche for article marketing (and vice versa).

After today’s video, you’ll never have to guess whether a niche is any good for article marketing.

The video is absolutely free and there is no registration to watch it.

AffSphere is an article directory that pays you for submitting articles.

You may have noticed that Google has updated it’s Pagerank values. This affected the positions of article directories in our list of the Top 50 Article Directories by Traffic, Pagerank.

Most Interesting Gainers

• One of the most popular article directories, goarticles.com is back from pagerank 3 to well-deserved pagerank 6.
• Several directories reached pagerank 5:
  • ArticlesFactory.com
  • FreeSticky.com
  • ArticleInsider.com
  • TheAllINeed.com
  • ArticlesBase.com

Amazon announced the availability of new online-payment services it will offer to online merchants, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay.

Checkout By Amazon

Checkout By Amazon is a complete checkout solution. It lets web site visitors sign in to web sites using an Amazon Account login and buy items using the familiar Amazon’s 1-Click® button. Checkout By Amazon service provides tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks..

Amazon Simple Pay

Amazon Simple Pay is a service that allows consumers to use their Amazon account information to pay for purchases on other web sites. It is for those merchants who don’t need sophisticated checkout and order management capabilities, but who would like to incorporate Amazon’s customer login system to sell products.

Sylvie Fortin has announced Marketers Pledge teleseminar with highly successful online marketers to answer some of the most burning questions on the minds of aspiring business owners.

Questions like:

• how to find profitable niches in the market
• how to make money with a blog
• how to select a price for your product
• when starting, what would be the most effective way to drive traffic
• how to select a mentor to learn from
• how to keep track of business’ progress?
• and many more…

The list participating marketers includes:

Do you often fail to write a new article because the pain of producing it exceeds the future pleasure of your gain from the article?

Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com published the Pain Avoidance article template that can help you speed up the creation of your next set of quality original articles by addressing this time-proven principle:

Most people will do more to avoid pain than they will to seek pleasure.

Pain problem solving can become a new angle in your article marketing, or you could “re-package” your old articles with this new template.

In his blog post, Chris provides The Pain Avoidance Template simple four-step layout and tells why this article template idea works.

The Pain Avoidance article template

There are a lot of schemes and scams to get traffic to your website.

One involves bringing traffic to your website through redirects. You’ve probably seen these programs sold online. You can get 100,000 people to your site if… you use their tracking tool because any tracking you have in place won’t notice them and… you don’t care about sales because these phantom visitors come and leave without buying anything.

But let’s assume you want to bring targeted traffic to your website.

Most people start (and end) at pay-per-click. But there are at least 20 other ways to get hordes of traffic to your online business.

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PayPal has announced they are launching a way for its customers to make payments on web sites that do not accept PayPal.

They offer a downloadable software utility that is called PayPal Secure Card. The utility automatically detects when a customer visits an e-commerce checkout page, generates a unique MasterCard number, and then helps fill out the payment form. This is done through a partnership with credit card issuer MasterCard Inc.

If you are an Adsense publisher, you’ve certainly read a lot about the importance of testing your Adsense blocks placement, colors and size to improve the ad’s CTR.

But the truth is, after a publisher has placed Adsense ads into the web page, the ads’ formatting and placement is seldom tested and altered to get more clicks. As a result, the ad’s true earning power is never realized.

YieldBuild is a new service that provides automatic yield management for Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) and eBay AdContext. Their software algorithmically changes ads format and place to analyze what can be done to maximize text ad revenue.

1. Think Audiences Not Markets

What’s your market? Hire a consultant to help you with your Web-business problems and one of the first questions he or she will ask is, what’s your market? How about eighteen to thirty-four year old, single male college graduates with a dog named Spot; or maybe forty-five to fifty-nine year old married women, who hate their husbands and can’t get their adult children to move out of the house. Maybe, just maybe, they’re asking the wrong question.

The Web isn’t about markets, it’s about audiences. Audiences need to be entertained, enlightened, and engaged, and if your website doesn’t, you’re never going to achieve what you want.

Time to rethink how you’re delivering your marketing message. Start treating Web-visitors like an audience not a market, and you might just find what it takes to be successful on the Web.

2. Think People Not Customers

You know all those visitors you attract to your website with your brilliant search engine optimization schemes, how many actually purchase anything? Stop treating visitors as if they are already customers and start treating them like what they are - people. That’s right, people. You know the two-legged funny creatures with wants, needs, desires, and maybe even a few bucks to spend.

Customers are always looking for a deal and they’re leery of websites that only want to take their hard earned cash. Treat your Web-visitors like people who can satisfy their wants, needs, and desires with your assistance and guess what? Maybe it will make a difference: one small step for Web-credibility, one giant leap for Web-success.

3. Think Experiences Not Features

Bought any good features lately? Didn’t think so. You would think the way business pushes the whole feature-frenzy thing that features are exactly what people are looking for, but nobody buys features, they don’t even buy solutions - boy doesn’t that whole solution provider nonsense really get to you after a while.

What people really buy are experiences, hopefully positive ones. Whether it’s soft ice cream or a new accounting program, what people are paying for is the experience your product or service provides.

Does your website offer an experience? Does it explain the experience your product or service delivers? If it doesn’t, then you really haven’t got anything anybody wants.