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		<title>ViralBookmarking &#8211; Social Bookmarking Exchange Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you struggling to get your webpages to the very top of search engine rankings? Well, there&#8217;s a trick that only few search engine optimization professionals use: social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a great way to get your webpages noticed by search engines. Digg, Reddit and Delicious (among others) are major social bookmarking sites that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you struggling to get your webpages to the very top of search engine rankings? Well, there&#8217;s a trick that only few search engine optimization professionals use: social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a great way to get your webpages noticed by search engines. Digg, Reddit and Delicious (among others) are major social bookmarking sites that Google and other search engines crawl every single day, searching for new webpages to index and rank. It&#8217;s simple: the more people bookmark your webpages, the more likely they are to be found by search engines, and the more chances the search engines will index them faster and rank them better!<br />
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<h2>ViralBookmarking</h2>
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Over the last few weeks I work on the development of a very cool project called <a rel="nofollow" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=26" target="_blank" title="ViralBookmarking">ViralBookmarking</a>, which is a semi-automated social bookmarking exchange service. The system is pretty simple: you spend credits so people bookmark your webpages, and you earn credits by bookmarking people&#8217;s webpages. One of the main advantages of using <strong>ViralBookmarking</strong> is that you&#8217;re sure that people who bookmark your webpages are people, unlike with most other social bookmarking services where everything is automated&#8230; but these bookmarks don&#8217;t count as much for search engines as they all come from the same IP addresses. </p>
<p>On <em>ViralBookmarking</em>, for every credit you spend, one person bookmark your webpage on up to 7 different social bookmarking sites, including Reddit, Digg and Delicious. By bookmarking other people&#8217;s webpages you earn credits. If you don&#8217;t want to bother bookmarking other people&#8217;s webpages, you may simply purchase credits. The more you buy the cheaper they get. There&#8217;s also an option to outsource the creation of your social bookmarking accounts and submission of your projects.</p>
<p>There are two membership levels on <u>ViralBookmarking</u>: Silver and Gold. As a Silver Member you can add up to 3 projects (in other words: you can promote up to 3 different webpages at the same time), and you earn .8 of a credit every time you complete a bookmarking session. As a Gold Member you can add up to 10 projects, and you earn 1 credit every time you complete a bookmarking session. There are several features that allow you to earn more credits, such as the Viral Booster for Twitter. You simply have to retweet a message to earn a 20% credit bonus.</p>
<p>You can also easily earn credits by referring people to the site. As a Silver Member you receive 15% of the credits earned by your referrals, and as a Gold Member you receive 30% of the credits earned by your referrals. Of course that&#8217;s on top of the commissions in cash&#8230; up to a whopping 50%! ViralBookmarking has a cool affiliate program with plenty of promotional tools so it&#8217;s really easy for you to promote the site, refer people and earn credits without doing anything.</p>
<p>Anyhow, if you feel like your webpages need a little boost in search engine rankings, make sure you give <a rel="nofollow" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=26" target="_blank">ViralBookmarking</a> a try! It might change the way you see social bookmarking sites! They are far more powerful than you think, especially if you want your webpages to be indexed fast and rank better&#8230; Social bookmarking is a proven technique but only few website owners use it as they should!<br />
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<h1>ViralBookmarking</h1>
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<h3><a rel="nofollow" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=26" target="_blank">>>> Click here to join ViralBookmarking! <<<</a></h3>
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<p><center><a rel="nofollow" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=26" target="_blank" title="ViralBookmarking"><img src="http://www.viralbookmarking.com/images/300x250.viral.banner.jpg" width="300" height="250" alt="ViralBookmarking" /></a></center></p>
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		<title>On-Page SEO WordPress Plugin</title>
		<link>http://marketingmeerkat.com/wordpress-seo-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[search engine optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress seo plugin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last time I talked about a WordPress affiliate plugin called ViralPlugin. This time, I&#8217;m going to talk about a WordPress SEO plugin called SEOPressor. I had the chance to give this plugin a try before it was officially launched. As soon as I tried it, I knew it was going to be a hit! Here [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last time I talked about a <a target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/new-affiliate-wordpress-plugin/">WordPress affiliate plugin</a> called ViralPlugin. This time, I&#8217;m going to talk about a <strong>WordPress SEO plugin</strong> called <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22">SEOPressor</a>. I had the chance to give this plugin a try before it was officially launched. As soon as I tried it, I knew it was going to be a hit! Here is why&#8230;<br />
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<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22">SEOPressor</a> is a <u>WordPress SEO plugin</u>, in other words: a plugin for on-page SEO. As you may already know, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is broken down into two categories: (1) on-page SEO and (2) off-page SEO. On-page SEO is everything you optimize on your site: page titles, meta tags, headings, keyword density and a lot of other factors. Off-page SEO is everything you do off your site: link building, social bookmarking, etc. SEOPressor is only about on-page SEO, which means it will help you optimize the posts and pages of your WordPress site or blog.</p>
<p>Setting up this <em>WordPress SEO plugin</em> is very easy. It&#8217;s like any other plugin. All you need to do is to upload it to your &#8216;Plugins&#8217; folder via FTP or WordPress and activate it. Once it&#8217;s activated, you can start using it right away. What you first need to do is to go to the post or page you want to optimize. You will see a new field entitled &#8216;SEOPressor Keyword&#8217; where you must enter a keyword. Once this is done, go to the plugin interface and check the on-page SEO score. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22">SEOPressor</a> lists all the scores of the posts and pages where you entered a keyword.</p>
<p>If the score for a given post or page is over 90%, good job. If it&#8217;s under 90%&#8230; then there&#8217;s some work to do! SEOPressor not only gives you scores so you know how well your posts and pages are optimized, but it also gives you plenty of suggestions to improve them, and make them more search engine-friendly. I&#8217;m not an SEO guru but I know quite a lot about this field, and I can say that the suggestions are very relevant and useful! </p>
<p>Even better, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22">SEOPressor</a> automatically improves the on-page factors of your posts and pages! If you go to the plugin settings you will see that you can choose to automatically improve these aspects. It will automatically add the keyword to your page title, bold the keyword in the body content and all sorts of things that will improve the search engine-friendliness of your posts and pages. These settings are turned on after you install the plugin but you can turn them off easily if you want to do the modifications yourself.</p>
<p>Check this out, the results for a niche site I created a few weeks ago:<br />
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<h3>WordPress SEO Plugin</h3>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22"><img src="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seopressor.jpg" alt="WordPress SEO Plugin" title="WordPress SEO Plugin" width="600" height="152" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-755" /></a></p>
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<p>This site is just a few weeks old and already ranks in the Top 3 of Google for its keyword! I let you check yourself&#8230;  I really love that plugin, because once you have a high score, you can focus on off-page SEO. You don&#8217;t have to worry about on-page SEO anymore&#8230; Daniel Tan, the creator of this WordPress SEO plugin, regularly updates the plugin so you&#8217;re sure it&#8217;s always up-to-date with the latest on-page SEO trends. I really recommend it to anyone who has a WordPress site or blog and wants to improve its search engine rankings. It&#8217;s another MUST-HAVE! <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22">Get SEOPressor NOW!</a></p>
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<h2>WordPress SEO Plugin</h2>
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<h2>>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22">Get SEOPressor NOW!</a> <<<</h2>
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<p><center><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=22"><img src="http://daniel-seopressor.s3.amazonaws.com/webimages/banners/336x280b.gif" /></a></center></p>
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<p><strong>P.S. -</strong> If you have several WordPress sites or blogs you want to optimize, get SEOPressor Unlimited, so you can use it on as many sites and blogs as you want. Awesome value for money!</p>
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		<title>New affiliate WordPress plugin</title>
		<link>http://marketingmeerkat.com/new-affiliate-wordpress-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[affiliate marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link cloaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viralurl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I published a blog post about an affiliate WordPress plugin called WP Affiliate Pro. If you own a blog and are into affiliate marketing, this is a plugin you should definitely consider purchasing. However, things have changed these last few weeks, because there&#8217;s now a free version! It&#8217;s called ViralPlugin and it does [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last month I published a blog post about an <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/must-have-affiliate-wordpress-plugin/" target="_blank">affiliate WordPress plugin</a> called <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WP Affiliate Pro</a>. If you own a blog and are into affiliate marketing, this is a plugin you should definitely consider purchasing. However, things have changed these last few weeks, because there&#8217;s now a free version! It&#8217;s called <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=20">ViralPlugin</a> and it does everything that WP Affiliate Pro does, and even more!</p>
<p>Like WP Affiliate Pro, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=20">ViralPlugin</a> allows you to automatically add links to your posts and pages. Once the plugin is installed, all you need to do is to add a keyword and a target link (via the plugin interface), change a few settings (like how many times you want the keyword to be hyperlinked), and the keyword will be automatically hyperlinked on all posts and pages of your blog. You can of course choose to make the links open in a new window and have a nofollow attribute.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re into blogging and affiliate marketing, you should definitely give this plugin a try as it will help you save hours of boring work and also help you better monetize your blog. ViralPlugin uses <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=14">ViralUrl</a> to cloak the links so they are protected against commission fraud and you can also take advantage of all the features and benefits you get with a ViralUrl membership (including click statistics).</p>
<p>Installing and using the plugin is very easy. There&#8217;s nothing complicated to do. Once you fully understand the concept and know how it works it will only take you a few seconds to hyperlink all the keywords you want. Visit the plugin page for more information and a short introduction video: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=20">ViralPlugin for WordPress</a></p>
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<h3>>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=20">Download ViralPlugin Now</a> <<<</h3>
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		<title>Marketer-friendly link cloaker</title>
		<link>http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketer-friendly-link-cloaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[affiliate marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link cloaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link cloaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[list builder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I published a blog post on web hosting for marketers. The hosting solution I talked about is called ViralHosts and is an all-in-one web hosting, list building and traffic and lead generation solution targeted at internet marketers and home business owners. This time I want to tell you about another product [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few weeks ago I published a blog post on <a target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/web-hosting-for-marketers/">web hosting for marketers</a>. The hosting solution I talked about is called <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=10">ViralHosts</a> and is an all-in-one web hosting, list building and traffic and lead generation solution targeted at internet marketers and home business owners. This time I want to tell you about another product of the &#8220;Viral&#8221; family. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=14" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ViralUrl</a> and is a link cloaking, list building and traffic and lead generation tool. This site is quite similar to ViralHosts but instead of coming with web hosting it comes with a link cloaker.</p>
<p>The link cloaker is great to shorten, protect and track your affiliate links. If you&#8217;re worried about affiliate commission fraud, make sure you give it a try. There&#8217;s even a Firefox plugin that allows you to cloak your links in just a few seconds: <a href="http://www.viralplugin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ViralPlugin</a>. However, the real value of this site is in the marketing tools. Like ViralHosts, ViralUrl has a built-in list builder and a downline mailer, which is great to build a huge list of contacts and promote your products or services to them. You can build a downline down to 5 to 7 levels!</p>
<p><a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=14" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ViralUrl</a> also comes with a system mailer, with which you can email 3,000 or 6,000 random members every 3 days. That&#8217;s 30,000 to 60,000 emails sent per month, 360,000 to 720,000 emails sent per year! If you take the one-time offer(s), this is truly great value for money. Upgraded members report 20 to 60 leads generated by mailing, up to 120 leads with value-added products and high quality email copies. This is a very powerful tool as the ViralUrl member base is mainly composed of internet marketers and home business owners, to whom you can promote internet products and services.</p>
<div style="float: left; margin: 5px;"><a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=14" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://viralurl.biz/images/120x240ani.gif" width="120" height="240"></a></div>
<p> ViralUrl also comes with other traffic generation tools (text advertising, banner advertising and guaranteed visitors) and of course an affiliate program with up to 60% commissions on upgrades. ViralUrl was launched more than two years ago and has now over 65,000 members. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s responsible for thousands and thousands of dollars made in commissions, so if you decide to join make sure you consider promoting the system, because you could make profits with just a few upgraded referrals. There are even periods where you can earn money on free referrals! ViralUrl has 30-day money back guarantee period so it&#8217;s totally risk-free. </p>
<p>For more information, read the full <a target="_blank" href="http://viralurlreview.com/">ViralUrl Review</a>.</p>
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		<title>Free Internet Marketing eBooks</title>
		<link>http://marketingmeerkat.com/free-internet-marketing-ebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing ebooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I launched a new website that I haven&#8217;t really taken the time to talk about. It&#8217;s called AllMarketingeBooks.com and is basically a compilation of ebooks related to internet marketing. I already posted quite a few ebooks and will of course continue doing so. You can expect a new ebook every week [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago I launched a new website that I haven&#8217;t really taken the time to talk about. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://allmarketingebooks.com/" target="_blank">AllMarketingeBooks.com</a> and is basically a compilation of ebooks related to internet marketing. I already posted quite a few ebooks and will of course continue doing so. You can expect a new ebook every week or so&#8230; as long as there are good ebooks that are worth sharing!</p>
<p>I already posted ebooks by marketing guru Seth Godin, affiliate marketing expert Ewen Chia, search engine optimization specialist Brad Callen, internet entrepreneur Jeff Dedrick, copywriting specialist Michel Fortin, internet marketing firm HubSpot&#8230; All these ebooks are free to download. You can find all of them online but I figured out that it would be easier for everyone to have them all in one place. Easy to find, easy to share&#8230;</p>
<p>I only post the ebooks that I think are worth sharing, from renown internet marketers and alike, so if you decide to download one, there&#8217;s a very good chance that you find it useful. If not, well grab another one! I might post a few paid ebooks in the future but you will find all the information you need in the posts. I would love to have your feedback on this new website so feel free to leave a comment or even send me a message.</p>
<h4><center><a target="_blank" href="http://allmarketingebooks.com">>>> Free Internet Marketing eBooks <<<</a></center></h4>
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		<title>Image editing tips for site and blog owners</title>
		<link>http://marketingmeerkat.com/image-editing-tips-for-site-and-blog-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[graphics editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gimp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photofiltre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I just want to share a little tip with you. As a site or blog owner, you should know how to edit an image with a graphics editing tool like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. If not, make sure you read the blog post I wrote about Paint.NET, PhotoFiltre and GIMP a little [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week I just want to share a little tip with you. As a site or blog owner, you should know how to edit an image with a graphics editing tool like <a rel="nofollow" href='http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=12' target="_blank">Photoshop</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href='http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=13' target="_blank">Paint Shop Pro</a>. If not, make sure you read the blog post I wrote about <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/paintnet-photofiltre-gimp/" target="_blank">Paint.NET, PhotoFiltre and GIMP</a> a little while ago. Every webpage or blog post you publish should have at least one image. Text content without any image makes the whole page rather boring to read, don&#8217;t you think? There are of course other reasons why you should consider adding images to your page content.</p>
<p>Anyhow, if you read the blog post I previously mentioned, you will agree that not all image editing tools are easy to use. If you have no knowledge of Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, editing an image can become a nightmare. What I mean by editing an image is not resizing it or converting it from .bmp to .jpg. This is actually rather easy. What I mean is formatting an image so it looks better on your webpage or blog post: with shapes, frames, shadows&#8230;</p>
<p>What I suggest you to do is to create a <a rel="nofollow" href='http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=11' target="_blank">Microsoft Word</a> document, insert the image and try different formats to find the one that best fits your needs. After you inserted your image, click &#8216;Format&#8217; under &#8216;Picture Tools&#8217; and choose a picture style. You may add a frame, make the corners round, add a shadow or create a perspective. There are plenty of settings to format your images in Microsoft Word. Once you&#8217;ve formatted it, simply copy and paste it into a graphics editing tool and save it as a .jpg. Here is what I&#8217;m talking about:</p>
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<p>While this is not ideal, it&#8217;s definitely a quick and easy solution that can help you save a lot of time. You can of course do the same thing with Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro but if you aren&#8217;t really familiar with these tools and want to get things done quickly, you should try using Microsoft Word. It&#8217;s just so easy! Anyway, I hope this helps!</p>
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		<title>Web hosting for marketers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[web hosting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you work in the internet marketing or home business industry, you have specific hosting and marketing needs. You need web hosting to host your site(s) and blog(s), but you also need marketing tools to promote them and generate traffic to your pages. There is a great web hosting solution for internet marketers and entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you work in the internet marketing or home business industry, you have specific hosting and marketing needs. You need web hosting to host your site(s) and blog(s), but you also need marketing tools to promote them and generate traffic to your pages. There is a great web hosting solution for internet marketers and entrepreneurs who need more than just hosting: <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ViralHosts</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ViralHosts</a> is a marketer-friendly cPanel-based hosting solution. It comes with powerful hosting features as well as a wide range of marketing tools. cPanel is a click-and-point platform to manage your web hosting. It&#8217;s a proven application and is very popular among site owners and bloggers. It supports several useful add-ons such as Fantastico De Luxe, a script auto-installer, RV Site Builder, a site builder, SiteReptile Website Builder, another site builder&#8230;</p>
<p><center><a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://viralhosts.com/banners/468x60-T1.gif" width="468" height="60"></a></center></p>
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<p>As previously mentioned, ViralHosts has a built-in list builder, a downline mailer (to email your referrals, and their referrals, down to 5 to 7 levels depending on your membership level), as well as &#8211; for upgraded members only &#8211; a system mailer (to email 3,000 or 6,000 random members every 3 days). It also comes with other traffic generation tools (text advertising, banner advertising, etc.) and an affiliate program with up to 60% commissions on upgrades.</p>
<p>One of the most popular features is the system mailer, with which you can email 3,000 random members every 3 days as a Gold or Platinum member and 6,000 random members every 3 days as a Diamond or Elite member. That&#8217;s 30,000 to 60,000 emails sent per month&#8230; 360,000 to 720,000 emails sent per year! Upgraded members report 20 to 40 leads generated by mailing, up to 80 leads with high quality email copies.</p>
<p>If you decide to upgrade, make sure you take the one-time offer at sign up so the cost for every email sent becomes ridiculously low. <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ViralHosts</a> has a 30-day money back guarantee period so it&#8217;s totally risk-free. It&#8217;s already responsible for thousands of dollars made in commissions, so if you decide to join ensure you consider promoting the system, because you could become profitable with just a few upgraded referrals. There are also periods where you can earn money on free referrals!</p>
<p>For more information, read the full <a href="http://viralhostsreview.com/" target="_blank">ViralHosts Review</a>.</p>
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		<title>Thierry Henry upstaged by&#8230; meerkats!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online ads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I just want to tell you about an ad I saw earlier this week. Some of you may have seen it already. It&#8217;s a Pepsi ad featuring Thierry Henry and a bunch of meerkats. I didn&#8217;t really get the point of this ad when I first saw it&#8230; I then understood that there was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I just want to tell you about an ad I saw earlier this week. Some of you may have seen it already. It&#8217;s a Pepsi ad featuring Thierry Henry and a bunch of meerkats. I didn&#8217;t really get the point of this ad when I first saw it&#8230; I then understood that there was no point! It&#8217;s definitely not the best Pepsi ad but it features meerkats, and with the World Cup coming up (only a few months to go), I couldn&#8217;t resist to post it to the blog. Check it out:</p>
<p align="center"><object width="500" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y_r2Lg__0vI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y_r2Lg__0vI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="315"></embed></object></p>
<p>For those who don&#8217;t know who Thierry Henry is, he is a world renowned French football (soccer) player currently playing for F.C. Barcelona. There&#8217;s a very good chance that we see him playing at the World Cup in South Africa later this year. I really can&#8217;t wait for the competition to start! Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the ad! Feel free to leave a comment on anything you feel like!</p>
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		<title>How to automate Twitter and schedule your tweets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I published a blog post on how to automatically send a message to new Twitter followers. In this blog post, I recommend a great social media tool called Social Oomph. I&#8217;m regularly using this program as it helps me manage my Twitter accounts and improve my social media productivity. If you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago I published a blog post on <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/how-to-automatically-send-a-message-to-new-twitter-followers/" target="_blank">how to automatically send a message to new Twitter followers</a>. In this blog post, I recommend a great social media tool called <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Social Oomph</a>. I&#8217;m regularly using this program as it helps me manage my Twitter accounts and improve my social media productivity. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it before, make sure you <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">grab a free account</a> now. It is the best social media tool I have used so far.</p>
<p>One of the great other advantages of this program is that you can schedule (recurring) tweets. Yes, you can fully automate your Twitter activity by getting the system to automatically tweet your updates whenever you want! So you can tweet messages while you&#8217;re at the beach, at the movies, at the stadium&#8230; and even while you&#8217;re sleeping! How good is this? This is truly a great feature and the best part is: Social Oomph lets you <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">try this free</a> for a few days! However, I must warn you&#8230; if you try this upgraded feature, you WILL want to upgrade, no matter how much it costs. The good news is: it&#8217;s pretty cheap! </p>
<p>With the free version, you can schedule messages to be tweeted once, as many times as you want. Good&#8230; but not good enough! With the trial and paid versions, you can schedule messages to be tweeted as many times as you want. You can indeed schedule recurring updates! If you have your messages ready, setting everything up only takes a few minutes, and you can then tweet for life without even connecting to Twitter, connecting to the internet and using a computer! To make money online&#8230; automation is key!</p>
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<p>This is must-have if you&#8217;re an internet marketer or alike. Social media marketing has become very popular in the industry and every day thousands of dollars are made on Twitter with 140 characters or less messages&#8230; that people haven&#8217;t even tweeted themselves! Even if you aren&#8217;t in the industry <a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Social Oomph</a> still is a social media program you must definitely try. As a reminder, it&#8217;s free, but the real value is in the upgraded version! A must-have if you want to make money on Twitter! Who wouldn&#8217;t want to do that anyway?</p>
<p><center><a href="http://marketingmeerkat.com/marketingmeerkat/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" src="http://www.socialoomph.com/idevaffiliate/banners/tl_468_60_01.gif" width="468" height="60"></a></center></p>
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		<title>Google Alerts for marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marketing Meerkat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you must have heard of Google Alerts already. If not, make sure you continue reading the rest of this blog post! This free service offered by Google notifies users via email when new results are found on the web for specific search terms. Google Alerts is a great service for marketing professionals as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of you must have heard of Google Alerts already. If not, make sure you continue reading the rest of this blog post! This free service offered by Google notifies users via email when new results are found on the web for specific search terms. Google Alerts is a great service for marketing professionals as it can help them monitor their online presence with ease. Creating an alert takes less than a minute and it works great for home and small-to-medium businesses.  </p>
<p>To create an alert, simply go to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/alerts" target="_blank">Google Alerts</a> and enter a search term. I recommend you to use quotation marks (as in &#8220;Cool Example&#8221;) so the searches are more specific and you thus avoid receiving unwanted alerts. Then choose a type of page to be monitored, how often you want to receive alerts and how many alerts you want per email. Then enter your email address and&#8230; that&#8217;s it! You will need to confirm your email address though, and repeat the process if you want to create multiple alerts. Note that they are now also available as RSS feeds.</p>
<p align="center"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://marketingmeerkat.com/images/galerts.jpg" alt="Google Alerts for Marketing" /></p>
<p>Still not sure how Google Alerts can help you as a marketer? Let&#8217;s say you have a product called &#8220;Blue Widget&#8221;. If you set an alert to be sent to you for the search term &#8220;Blue Widget&#8221;, you will receive emails whenever someone writes about your product on the web. You can not only receive alerts about your products but also about the products of your competitors. Without having to search for anything yourself, you can know when your competitors announce new products, launch special offers, etc. Google Alerts can also help you identify new competitors and monitor your personal online presence.</p>
<p>You can easily track your company, product(s), service(s) but also your competitors and anything else you would want to monitor on the web. These are only a few marketing uses of Google Alerts. I&#8217;m pretty sure there are several other uses that I don&#8217;t know about yet. If you use Google Alerts for marketing as well, feel free to share your own techniques with us! This service is a must-have for almost all types of marketers!</p>
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