Yahoo! Offers Free Sites to Small Businesses

"Yahoo! is offering every small business with a physical U.S. address a free, five-page Web site, the company announced today. Those sites will automatically be integrated into Yahoo! Local search results. ".....read the story over at ClickZ...

Read the Latest Issue of M.C. Promotions Press Ezine

If you'd like to read the latest issue of M.C. Promotions Press Ezine in PDF format just follow the link above. This week's issue looks at Print on Demand Publishing, how it works, and a couple of companies that are doing it. If you publish ebooks don't miss this...

Traffic Secrets Get's a Face Lift!

John Reese released "Traffic Secrets" about 7 months ago and it was a hit from the start. Now John has gathered together over 100 fully documented success stories of those who have used his course to increase their website traffic and sales. Screenshots of their website traffic logs and even their merchant account statements are shown. Even if you don't plan on buying it you should head over and study the copy. The site itself is a work of art weighing in at over 200 pages if you printed it out. You can learn a lot by studying his techniques.

The course (which I own) is over 8 DVD's, 5 CD's, and manuals over 500 pages and is well worth the investment for anyone doing business online. Check it out now at...
http://www.trafficsecrets.com/mstinnett

Google Bows 'Budget Optimizer' for AdWords

Google has launched a new tool to manage bids for those who use it's AdWords Progra.....

Press Release-O-Matic: Create Perfect Press Releases

Press Releases Use this free online press generator over at Bill Myers website. Even create a cover sheet to go with it. Easy as pie, just copy and paste.

NicheBOT.com - Achieve targeted web site optimization.

Nichebot is a handy online tool that will help you find keywords for your website quickly and eaily. No more guessing on what people are searching for and you'll also be given variations for each term you type in.

Flickr

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M.C. Promotions Press Ezine Teaching the Small Business Owner how to Market and Promote Your website

M.C. Promotions Press Hey, Hey, the latest issue of my ezine M.C. Promotions Press is now posted online. Today's issue covers tools every online entrepreneur needs. You say you're not a subscriber? Shame on you. Hurry over now, read it and while you're there make sure you subscribe. If you don't you'll be missing out on the best resources the Web has and of course my sick sense of humor to boot.

Google Local Business Center

Google Google launched a new "Business Center" for local businesses. Once registered you can create a business listing for free. You can always come back later and update the listing. If you're trying to promote your business locally you should list it with Google.

M.C. Promotions Press Ezine Teaching the Small Business Owner how to Market and Promote Your website

The Latest Issue Just to let you know the latest issue of M.C. Promotions Press Newsletter is now posted online. You'll want to read it as this week we take a look at Pay Per Click Fraud, what it is and what you can do about it.

"New Ebook Offers Marketing Guidance"

Cleveland, OH - March 8, 2005 - New businesses venture
onto the Internet every day, launch their websites --
then sit back and wait for traffic. Unfortunately,
in the "Cyber World," if site owners aren't proactive
in marketing and promoting their websites, no one will
beat a path to their door. There are many resources
that will steer someone new to the Net in the right
direction, if you know where to find them.

Online publishing expert and Internet entrepreneur
Merle has created "Must Have Marketing Resources-
Volume #1". It was written with the sole purpose
of helping small and home based business owners
run and promote their websites more effectively.

The PDF-formatted ebook is 65 pages in length. It
covers such topics as: "The Net's Hot Spots",
"Promotional Software," "Ebooks," "Ezines,"and
much more. Merle has published her "M.C.Promotions
Press," an ezine for online entrepreneurs for over
six years.

"These resources are the cream of the crop," Merle
said. "I love ezine publishing and I only include
quality websites in each and every issue. So many
of my subscribers told me they kept all their back
issues due to the helpful links, I thought it would
be a great idea to compile an ebook out of them.
In this way they can be easily found and utilized."

Merle runs several websites and her articles on
website marketing and promotion have been widely
published online. She also has authored several
free books and has been an ezine publisher for
over 7 years.

For more information see
http://mcebook.mcpromotions.com

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Kanoodle Targets Local Content Pages

Kanoodle: "Sponsored links firm Kanoodle has added local targeting to its array of options for advertisers on content pages. .."

Google Buffs Up Local Search

Google One thing I really like about Google is they never stand still. They're constantly in a state of change trying to keep one step ahead of the other search engines. They've recently added new features to their local search in their attempts to obtain more eyeballs...

Must Have Marketing Resources Ebook Volume #1

My Latest Ebook I have finally finished my latest ebook. At only 15.97 it's a real gem. I've combed thru a year's worth of back issues from my ezine M.C. Promotions Press and put the very best websites into this 65 page PDF ebook. You'll want to grab a copy and keep it on your desktop because when you're looking for a specific site to help you with your life as an Entrepreneur you'll find it in "Must Have Marketing Resources".

M.C. Promotions Press Ezine Teaching the Small Business Owner how to Market and Promote Your website

M.C. Promotions Press Ezine Just to let you know the Feb 7th issue of Merle's Cyber Promotions Press Ezine was sent out on Feb 7th. If for some reason you did not receive that issue you can now read it online.

Google Referral Program for Adsense

What You Should Know About the Google Referral Program I love Google Adsense and tell other website owners about it often. It sure would be nice to get paid for those referrals. Now you can. Google has launched a "by invitation only" Affiliate Program that pays out 20.00 for new advertisers once they spend 20.00 with Adwords or 20.00 for new publishers who sign up after they earn 75.00 with Adsense.

Ping-o-Matic!

Blog Traffic Psssst...Hey buddy, got a Blog? If you do and no one is reading it you've got problems. Enter PingoMatic, don't you just love that name? Reminds me of Xmas Presents by Ronco or something. In a nutshell you can go to their site and enter your Blog's URL to be pinged. Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. It's a great idea and something every Blogger needs to do and that means you!

Merles Mission Ezine the Newsletter for Webmasters and Site Owners

Merles Mission Ezine- Jan 30th Issue In case you missed it I have posted the latest issue of "Merle's Mission Ezine" to my website. If you use Blogger you won't want to miss all of the cool things you can do with it. If you thought you could just type text you're wrong. Read it now.

Overture - Advertiser Newsletter

If you're trying to attract a local audience to your website you'll want to check out Overture's Local Match Program. Not all websites want to attract people from all over the world so you need to know what tools are out there to attract the guy or girl in your neighborhood. This is one option, of course there's more.

Report: Local Online Ad Spend to Rise 46 Percent in '05

Local Advertising: "Spending on local online advertising will total approximately $3.9 billion in 2005, a 46 percent increase over the $2.7 billion 2004 total, according to research conducted by Borrell Associates on 210 U.S. media markets. "....get the full story over at ClickZ...