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Articles - The Nitrous For An Online Home Based Business Opportunity
By Len Bartholomew
I have written quite a few articles about articles and their benefits, thinking to myself that I really understood the nature of articles and article marketing. For certain, after what I have experienced in the past couple of months with my own online home based business opportunity, I did not. As a matter of fact, I knew very little as to why I had to write and submit articles as the gurus instructed. I heard that it was because of the one way back links to my own web site. But that was not enough to motivate me. Eight months ago, I did not even know what a back link was. Instead, I focused on other aspects of internet marketing like Adwords, blogging, linking, list building and email marketing. These are all excellent endeavors, and they will help build the long term foundation that will eventually lead to success, but if you do incorporate article marketing into the repertoire of your internet marketing efforts, you will see improvements in the volume of website traffic to the tune of thousands, not the leanness that most marketers experience.

Articles are important for anyone with a website, big or small. Even an established online home based business opportunity is like a basketball with a leak in it. You have to keep pumping it up on a regular basis. There is a reason they say that the search engines like fresh content. The fresh content gets the most attention. The submission of one article to one article directory does not equal one back link to your website. It could mean thousands of back links to your website.

This can be explained by looking at a typical article directory. Each article is assigned a unique URL which is equal to one back link. Did you ever notice the article contents surroundings? These are the places that article back links multiply.

1. Featured (front page) - If your article is fortunate enough to land in the featured section of an article directory it is worth an additional back link in the search engines, the front page of an article directory is a web page

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Leonard Bartholomew, B.S. Computer Science, is an affiliate marketer for an organization that has been in business for more than six years. Find all of the qualification of an extraordinary online home based business opportunity. This is an original content publication authored personally by Leonard Bartholomew, 2006 and may be republished freely with the author's information included.

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<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/red%20bull%20am%20cup*100.jpg?v=3'>San Franciscans love a party. Blow up some fireworks. Pump loud music in the streets. Blaze klieg lights outside a theater. These are the kinds of things that pique our curiosity, draw us out of our homes and to where the action is. Yacht racing won't do that -- not for long stretches of time such as the July to September period in 2013 when dozens of races will be held in San Francisco Bay to determine the boat that will challenge for the America's Cup. A big party? That's another story. That's...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=pZUs3S74ttg:Uc3_5j3tF_4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=pZUs3S74ttg:Uc3_5j3tF_4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=pZUs3S74ttg:Uc3_5j3tF_4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=pZUs3S74ttg:Uc3_5j3tF_4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=pZUs3S74ttg:Uc3_5j3tF_4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=pZUs3S74ttg:Uc3_5j3tF_4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
U.S. puts 30% tariff on solar panels
The United States is sticking it to Chinese solar panel makers and will enforce tariffs of 30 percent or more on equipment manufactured there and sold into the United States. The U.S. Commerce Department decided to impose the tariffs, which are in addition to a 2.9 percent to 4.73 percent already imposed in March ? and the new tariffs will be retroactively applied 90 days. "(The Department of) Commerce has now confirmed that Chinese manufacturers are guilty of illegally dumping solar cells and...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=jDdh_L-NbKE:YsnfydTlxco:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=jDdh_L-NbKE:YsnfydTlxco:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=jDdh_L-NbKE:YsnfydTlxco:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=jDdh_L-NbKE:YsnfydTlxco:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=jDdh_L-NbKE:YsnfydTlxco:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=jDdh_L-NbKE:YsnfydTlxco:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
Facebook prices stock at $38
Facebook priced its shares Friday at $38, giving the company a valuation of more than $100 billion, and the stock will start trading Friday morning on the NASDAQ under the symbol FB. The world?s largest social networking Web site raised $16 billion at the price, which was above the initial $28 to $35 share price the company had initially sought. Of that, $6.84 billion will go to Facebook, while $9.16 billion will go to selling stockholders.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=8Lek0V0tsio:IqvtnXr3sA4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=8Lek0V0tsio:IqvtnXr3sA4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=8Lek0V0tsio:IqvtnXr3sA4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=8Lek0V0tsio:IqvtnXr3sA4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=8Lek0V0tsio:IqvtnXr3sA4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=8Lek0V0tsio:IqvtnXr3sA4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
Big Hewlett-Packard layoffs rumored
Huge layoffs could be coming to Hewlett-Packard Co., according to rumors that are being widely reported Thursday. Numbers being thrown around range as high as 35,000 -- according to Business Insider, which cited an unnamed source -- but HP (NYSE: HPQ) has not provided any confirmation or details. HP's stock is down by more than half from what it was in early 2011, and the company employed a whopping 349,600 employees as of October 31, 2011, notes 24/7 Wall Street Wire. The anticipated cuts are...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=eaW46H1Jbh0:BrP-lYZBmwI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=eaW46H1Jbh0:BrP-lYZBmwI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=eaW46H1Jbh0:BrP-lYZBmwI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=eaW46H1Jbh0:BrP-lYZBmwI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=eaW46H1Jbh0:BrP-lYZBmwI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=eaW46H1Jbh0:BrP-lYZBmwI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
UC Berkeley to consolidate HR, admin staff at West Berkeley site
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/Cal_Campanile_Yellow_Roses*100.jpg?v=1'>The University of California, Berkeley picked a site at Cedar and Fourth streets in the West Berkeley flatlands for a "shared services" center that will handle consolidated personnel, finance, research administration and information technology work now done in 200 separate places on the campus. This new center, near Berkeley's Fourth Street shopping district, is "projected to generate significant savings for the campus," the university said. Cal's division of biological sciences and its colleges...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=7P9ytoZKE0M:92wWiB23O1E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=7P9ytoZKE0M:92wWiB23O1E:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=7P9ytoZKE0M:92wWiB23O1E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=7P9ytoZKE0M:92wWiB23O1E:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=7P9ytoZKE0M:92wWiB23O1E:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=7P9ytoZKE0M:92wWiB23O1E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
Heller Manus settles into its new office under the Transamerica Tower
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/Heller_Manus5*100.JPG?v=5'>Heller Manus Architects has debuted its new digs in the shadow of the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco. The architecture firm took an unusual space for its new headquarters at 600 Montgomery St., which formerly housed restaurants. Click the image to start a slideshow of the new Heller Manus headquarters. >>> The space has been empty since 2002 when Redwood Park closed. Jeffrey Heller, president of Heller Manus, said the firm was thrilled to find a such a unique structure for its new...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=bK61jlEqva4:C6Qz3Y4RN8k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=bK61jlEqva4:C6Qz3Y4RN8k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=bK61jlEqva4:C6Qz3Y4RN8k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=bK61jlEqva4:C6Qz3Y4RN8k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=bK61jlEqva4:C6Qz3Y4RN8k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=bK61jlEqva4:C6Qz3Y4RN8k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
Ross raises the roof on earnings guidance, seeks 1,300 more stores
Discount clothing seller Ross Stores Inc. raised its guess about this year's earnings after sales and profit grew in the first quarter ended April 28. The Pleasanton company (NASDAQ: ROST) now thinks it is likely to earn $3.26 to $3.37 a share for the year ending Feb. 2, 2013, up from an earlier guess of $3.12 to $3.27 per share. Ross, which has 1,146 stores now in 30 states, thinks it could expand to 2,500 stores all over the country. That would be 1,500 Ross Dress For Less stores and 500 DD's...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=vysJhCT-xGY:sDNRpJOLDt8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=vysJhCT-xGY:sDNRpJOLDt8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=vysJhCT-xGY:sDNRpJOLDt8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=vysJhCT-xGY:sDNRpJOLDt8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=vysJhCT-xGY:sDNRpJOLDt8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=vysJhCT-xGY:sDNRpJOLDt8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>
MarkLogic appoints Gary Bloom CEO
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/Gary_Bloom_Mark_Logic*100.jpg?v=1'>MarkLogic Corp., a San Carlos maker of hardware and software for managing and interpreting data, hired Gary Bloom as chief executive officer. Bloom was most recently CEO and president at eMeter, the San Mateo maker of software for electrical, gas and water utilities that was recently acquired by Siemens Corp. Prior to that, he was a vice chair and president of Symantec Corp. and chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. He replaces MarkLogic co-founder Christopher Lindblad, who had quietly retaken...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=lYlTTrue2Ng:2Q9G2MPxSag:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=lYlTTrue2Ng:2Q9G2MPxSag:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=lYlTTrue2Ng:2Q9G2MPxSag:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=lYlTTrue2Ng:2Q9G2MPxSag:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=lYlTTrue2Ng:2Q9G2MPxSag:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=lYlTTrue2Ng:2Q9G2MPxSag:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div>

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