What Is Snoring - Snoring Cure
What is Snoring?
Snoring is caused by a vibration in the soft tissues at the back of the throat, including the uvula and the soft palate. Snoring occurs while you are sleeping.
The vibrations are caused by your breathing passages either being
blocked or severely narrowed while you are breathing, when your muscles relax and your tongue falls back.
The noise can vary from person to person and can sound like everything
from a rumbling to a rasp to a jet engine taking off.Some people are completely unaware of the fact that they snore, and it is not until they are sharing a room with a partner or spouse (or sharing a hotel room on a business trip) that they discover how loudly they snore.
Needless to say, if your snoring is loud enough to interrupt someone else’s sleep, it’s worth trying to resolve the problem.For a long time, snoring was considered harmless; today we know that snoring can be a sign of upper respiratory resistance syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea, both of which can be extremely dangerous.
Snoring is more common in men than in women; almost half of all men
snore while only about one-third of women do. Regardless of your
gender, however, snoring can be more than just a nuisance in your life
and can lead to or be a symptom of several other health complications.
What Causes Snoring?
As previously mentioned, the sound of snoring is created when the soft
tissues of the back of the throat—in the airway—vibrate because of a
narrowed or blocked passageway. During sleep, you are in a more
relaxed state. Every time you inhale, the air you breathe flows in through your mouth or nose and across the soft palate (the fleshy part of the inside of your mouth between the hard ridge and the back of your throat).This soft palate area, including your uvula, is capable of collapsing duringsleep. It is from here that the breathing passageway becomes blocked or narrowed enough to disturb the air you’re breathing and cause the vibrations. When the soft palate collapses and narrows the airway, your body works harder to draw in breath. As the uvula and soft palate are vibrated against the back ofthe throat, the snoring sound is made.If you still have your tonsils and/or adenoids, those, too can vibrate and add to the sound. The stronger the vibrations are, the louder the snore.
Snoring occurs during sleep or pre-sleep state, because when you are awake, the muscles of your throat hold the soft tissues in place. It’s only when you sleep that these muscles relax enough to allow the tissue to collapse and cause the obstruction.
In addition to snoring, a deviated septum can cause issues with sinuses and breathing.A lack of muscle tone in the throat can also be a cause of snoring,because the lack of muscle tone makes it easier for the soft tissues to collapse during sleep. Both age and poor physical fitness can attribute to this problem.Drinking alcohol or taking medicines that cause drowsiness can also result in the likelihood of increased snoring. Alcohol affects the part of the brain that controls breathing and can cause you to overly relax the muscles in your throat and tongue, blocking air movement and restricting passageways.Self help for relaxing and reducing and or eliminating the snoring problem completely
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How can I make money from being an affiliate?
How can I make money from being an affiliate?
Thease are just some tips and Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions.
There are many thousands of affiliate programs out there, all claiming to be the best. Some of them will give you the impression that all you have to do is implement their banners and links and wait for the commission checks to start rolling in. This CAN be the case, but this scenario usually only applies to very large sites with massive web traffic that is relevant to product or service on offer. For most of us, being a successful affiliate requires a little more work!and some
serious affiliate strategies,tips,tricks and tactics.
As the range of goods and online services offered via the Internet has grown at an incredible rate over the last few years, therefore so has the competition. Web site visitors need to have a very good reason for clicking on a link or banner.
Choosing the right banners
In most affiliate programs, you are offered a wide variety of banners to place on your site - very few of them will be effective. If you can attain a click through rate of 2%, then you are doing very well. It has been our experience, and this is generally speaking, that graphically rich banners do not perform as successfully as their simpler counterparts. The main reason for this is download time. If a banner is the last thing to load on your page and the banner ad is excessively byte "heavy", by the time it has loaded your visitor may already have scrolled down the page - missing it entirely. Heavy banner ads can also slow down the loading of your pages, or critical elements of your page and you can lose your visitors altogether! A graphically rich banner can also confuse the actual message - the artwork and marketing blurb can be imbalanced. For these reasons, we suggest that banners you implement be no more that 15kb wherever possible.
Banners that have "extreme" animation, such as rapid flashing, are also something to consider very carefully. While these do achieve high clickthrough rates, they are also highly annoying. If you do decide to implement this form of banner advertising, use it very sparingly.
When selecting any form of graphical advertising, try and keep the theme of your site in mind - while graphical ads are meant to stand out and catch a visitors eye, it shouldn't be to the point that everything else on the page is totally ignored. Wherever possible, ensure that all banner ads (and any advertising for that matter) uses a link that opens in a new window. That way, if a visitor does choose to visit one of your advertisers it is easy for them to return to your page and review what they actually came to your site for!
Pop ups and pop unders,these are just a few Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions.The affiliate wizardWill teach you more on "successful affiliate marketing tips tricks and tactics".
Many companies, but mostly agencies representing a number of advertisers, now give their affiliates the options of using pop up and pop under ads. Our opinion - pop ups are evil. They annoy visitors and are usually closed before they even have a chance to load. Go for pop-unders and preferably those that only display once per visit. See below for further articles on this subject.
Using Text Link Ads.
One of the most successful forms of advertising are text link ads. They are bandwidth friendly, don't take up a lot of space and can be easily implemented into most page layouts. Good text links ads don't just scream "buy me!", they also offer some information as to why your web site visitor should investigate the offer. A company should also supply you with very short text links which only state the product or company name. The reason for this is so that you can implement the links directly into the content of related articles and reviews.
Articles and product/service reviews
Now, this is where a bit of hard work comes in. Your regular site visitors will view you as an authority on particular subjects, so why not write a review on a product or service you are advertising? This also supplies excellent content for search engine spiders to latch onto. We have attracted many visitors to our site using what I call "adarticles".
But there's a catch......The affiliate wizardWill teach you more on "successful affiliate marketing tips tricks and tactics".
If you are going to use the adarticle concept to promote products, you need to believe in what you write. Research the product and company well. Contact the company and let them know what you are doing and ask for further resources and assistance. Once you have created the review, send them the link - you may be surprised at the response you get.
One of our advertisers was so impressed with the effort we put into promoting his company's product that he gave us an extra 15% commission on each sale! This form of web site advertising is a bit time-consuming, so choose your products carefully. The information that you supply to your web site visitors will help them formulate a decision, so be honest in your sales copy. If you are successful in this promotion strategy, over time your reviews won't be seen as hype and bluster, but as a reliable source of information - everybody wins!
Email advertising as an affiliate marketing tool also a fantastic marketing tip. File under successful affiliate marketing tips.
Direct promotion via email has boomed over recent years, but has brought with it mountains of spam. If you intend on using email as a method of advertising products and services, ensure you stand behind the products you're promoting and make yourself available to answer any questions.
An effective promotion technique we have found is to combine email with the adarticle strategy. In our ezine we occasionally put a summary of a product or service, just enough information to stir the curiosity of our readers. The summary then contains a link to the adarticle on our site. The benefit of this is not only that you have a good opportunity to promote the product or service, but while visitors are on your site they may also look at other sections. The advertiser benefits through having highly targeted potential clients visit their site.
The affiliate wizardWill teach you more on "successful affiliate marketing tips tricks and tactics".
Thease are just some tips and Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions.
There are many thousands of affiliate programs out there, all claiming to be the best. Some of them will give you the impression that all you have to do is implement their banners and links and wait for the commission checks to start rolling in. This CAN be the case, but this scenario usually only applies to very large sites with massive web traffic that is relevant to product or service on offer. For most of us, being a successful affiliate requires a little more work!and some
serious affiliate strategies,tips,tricks and tactics.
As the range of goods and online services offered via the Internet has grown at an incredible rate over the last few years, therefore so has the competition. Web site visitors need to have a very good reason for clicking on a link or banner.
Choosing the right banners
In most affiliate programs, you are offered a wide variety of banners to place on your site - very few of them will be effective. If you can attain a click through rate of 2%, then you are doing very well. It has been our experience, and this is generally speaking, that graphically rich banners do not perform as successfully as their simpler counterparts. The main reason for this is download time. If a banner is the last thing to load on your page and the banner ad is excessively byte "heavy", by the time it has loaded your visitor may already have scrolled down the page - missing it entirely. Heavy banner ads can also slow down the loading of your pages, or critical elements of your page and you can lose your visitors altogether! A graphically rich banner can also confuse the actual message - the artwork and marketing blurb can be imbalanced. For these reasons, we suggest that banners you implement be no more that 15kb wherever possible.
Banners that have "extreme" animation, such as rapid flashing, are also something to consider very carefully. While these do achieve high clickthrough rates, they are also highly annoying. If you do decide to implement this form of banner advertising, use it very sparingly.
When selecting any form of graphical advertising, try and keep the theme of your site in mind - while graphical ads are meant to stand out and catch a visitors eye, it shouldn't be to the point that everything else on the page is totally ignored. Wherever possible, ensure that all banner ads (and any advertising for that matter) uses a link that opens in a new window. That way, if a visitor does choose to visit one of your advertisers it is easy for them to return to your page and review what they actually came to your site for!
Pop ups and pop unders,these are just a few Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions.The affiliate wizardWill teach you more on "successful affiliate marketing tips tricks and tactics".
Many companies, but mostly agencies representing a number of advertisers, now give their affiliates the options of using pop up and pop under ads. Our opinion - pop ups are evil. They annoy visitors and are usually closed before they even have a chance to load. Go for pop-unders and preferably those that only display once per visit. See below for further articles on this subject.
Using Text Link Ads.
One of the most successful forms of advertising are text link ads. They are bandwidth friendly, don't take up a lot of space and can be easily implemented into most page layouts. Good text links ads don't just scream "buy me!", they also offer some information as to why your web site visitor should investigate the offer. A company should also supply you with very short text links which only state the product or company name. The reason for this is so that you can implement the links directly into the content of related articles and reviews.
Articles and product/service reviews
Now, this is where a bit of hard work comes in. Your regular site visitors will view you as an authority on particular subjects, so why not write a review on a product or service you are advertising? This also supplies excellent content for search engine spiders to latch onto. We have attracted many visitors to our site using what I call "adarticles".
But there's a catch......The affiliate wizardWill teach you more on "successful affiliate marketing tips tricks and tactics".
If you are going to use the adarticle concept to promote products, you need to believe in what you write. Research the product and company well. Contact the company and let them know what you are doing and ask for further resources and assistance. Once you have created the review, send them the link - you may be surprised at the response you get.
One of our advertisers was so impressed with the effort we put into promoting his company's product that he gave us an extra 15% commission on each sale! This form of web site advertising is a bit time-consuming, so choose your products carefully. The information that you supply to your web site visitors will help them formulate a decision, so be honest in your sales copy. If you are successful in this promotion strategy, over time your reviews won't be seen as hype and bluster, but as a reliable source of information - everybody wins!
Email advertising as an affiliate marketing tool also a fantastic marketing tip. File under successful affiliate marketing tips.
Direct promotion via email has boomed over recent years, but has brought with it mountains of spam. If you intend on using email as a method of advertising products and services, ensure you stand behind the products you're promoting and make yourself available to answer any questions.
An effective promotion technique we have found is to combine email with the adarticle strategy. In our ezine we occasionally put a summary of a product or service, just enough information to stir the curiosity of our readers. The summary then contains a link to the adarticle on our site. The benefit of this is not only that you have a good opportunity to promote the product or service, but while visitors are on your site they may also look at other sections. The advertiser benefits through having highly targeted potential clients visit their site.
The affiliate wizardWill teach you more on "successful affiliate marketing tips tricks and tactics".
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Not Using These 18 Steps to Generate FREE Traffic?
Not Using These 18 Steps to Generate FREE Traffic?
This is my version of an article named “10 Steps to Generate Free Targeted Web Traffic”, I have edited and update it to included new techniques and eliminate items that are no longer relevant.
Update with 8 more FREE traffic generating techniques.
This is a guide to help those on a budget and/or do not want to spend money on advertising, but still want to generate huge amounts of traffic. You now actually can have your cake and eat it too.
1.) Know Your Niche; this is a key to getting traffic to any website. You have to know more than the average person on the topics and items related to your industry.
2.) Keyword Research – This is the most overlooked step, but most important step. You need to do extensive keyword research. I use Google’s Keyword Tool that is free, but I also recommend using WordTracker. You need to find what are the most looked up keywords and phrases for your industry. It is OK to target the most competitive because if you build it right, you will be blowing your competitors away.
3.) Relative Keyword research - Be sure that you have included many relative keywords in your page’s Meta tags as well. This is a huge deal with the algorithms today. There is a difference between keyword stuffed and having relevant keywords. Relevant keywords help build PR (PageRank).
4.) Site Structure - keywords must be in your URL, that is the best way for Google and other search engines to see you and give you relevance. You will see many sites nowadays using dashes “-”. This is the way search engines see a space and tells a word is being separated out. It helps in the site structure; for example http://www.test-site/testing-site-review.html. This structure is putting a very high relevance and ranking on test and site.
5.) Directory Listing - This is an age-old method that some have abandoned, but it still works. Remember, the objective here is to build traffic, so if you are serious, put your link in as many places as possible. By directory listing, you are getting one-way links back to your site, which is a great thing and improves your PR. Not your traffic, but PR is a way to get your site on Google’s top pages and therefore more traffic. Reciprocal links are not the best way, but if you are brand new, sometimes you have to do it. If you can, doing “one-ways” is much better. Search engines put a higher ranking on one-way links, so concentrate on those.
6.) Link Exchange - Again, reciprocal link is not as highly rated, but it is still very effective. You need to exchange links with as many websites as humanly possible and for best results make sure they are RELEVANT!!! What this means is it’s not a good idea to have a recording studio site and have a lot of links exchanged with a food site. It is a good idea for a recording studio to be exchanged with other music related sites such as CD mastering, mp3s, other recording sites, etc… This shows a great deal of relevance with search engines. One key; do not name your links page “links.html” or anything of the sort…it’s a dead give away to search engines and they do not appreciate it. Be creative; recording-studio-resources.html or something like that. Note, no more than 50 links on a page!!!
7.) Article Writing - This has proven, most recently to be a great method to produce traffic. The goal here is to get both one-way backlinks (on some sites) and traffic in an all-in-one step. Here’s the key to writing good articles, you must spin every article your write. What this means is change the articles. Each article generates traffic too…that’s the beauty.
8.) Article Submission – The key here, submit to directories every 2 days or so with your URL in the “Resource Box”, not in the Body of the article. If you put your URL in the body, most articles directories will decline you.
9.) Forums, Blogging, etc. - Always be focused on finding new outlets to generate traffic. For example, forums are a big deal. Get on a schedule to constantly help others in forums, discussion boards, blogs, etc… This will prove you as an expert and in return people will trust you. To benefit from this, be sure to have your signature file included and don’t spam the sites…this can only hurt you.
10.) Updating your Content - To keep the visitors coming back for more, you must constantly update your site and have unique content that you cannot get anywhere else (comes with knowing your niche, section 1). This keeps the visitors coming back for more and will get your site linked to by others because of your content. Earned backlinks!!! Free backlinks!!!
11) RSS Feeds - Create an RSS Feed of your website, and make sure to update it when your website is updated. You can use resources like Feedburner to create RSS feeds. Place your RSS feed in the header using the tag.
This will allow your website’s RSS feed gain traction from robots surfing the internet for RSS feeds, and will create a snowball effect of growing backlinks.
12) RSS Feed Submission - Submit your RSS feed(s) to as many RSS feed(s) directories as possible. Search Google for “RSS Feed Submission”, and other related keyword phrases, and submit your feed to those sites. I would attempt to submit to 25 or more for 30 days straight. It will help gain your RSS feed more exposure, which in return will gain you more backlinks and increase your traffic. The important thing to remember is to always have your feed updated!
13) Ping Blog Pinging Sites like Google Blog, Ping-O-Matic.com, Goat-O-Matic.com, and others every time you update your RSS feed. They have automated ways of sending pings to them with each update. If you are not a programmer, you may need some assistance with creating an automated pinging program and setting up a cron job (This is an application on Linux/Unix system that automatically runs a script/command/program for you at a given specified time).
14) Create a news / press release section on your website, where visitors can go to see new things. Have it updating regularly, and create an RSS feed of that section, and repeat the previous RSS feed methods mentioned to increase exposure for the feed.
15) RSS aggregate Industry news feeds onto your site, and submit them to RSS feeds submission sites as well. To RSS aggregate means you will gather as many RSS feeds of your industry’s top plays, or news outlets, and create one super RSS feed from it. Then place the RSS feed display in the news section, and/or a ticker on your site. Make sure it is readable by the spiders, since this will create the effect of you becoming an industry portal or trusted source. The spiders will see new information on your and use your site to navigate to other sites; which in return will result in your site becoming an authority site, and increasing the traffic that is sent to your site by the search engines.
16) Create Videos of things pertaining to your industry; for example a Video Tutorial on “Page Rank”, and explaining if you are in the internet marketing field. Post the video on Youtube, Metacafe, and as many video sites as possible, and on your site. Make sure you have links in the description of the video to your site, and place a watermark or the whole URL of your site inside the video; preferably at the beginning and end of the video. This alone can increase your site’s traffic by 500%. On one site I have, Youtube sends me between 500 to 1000 new visitors a day!
17) Web 2.0 Bookmarking – Submit ALL your web pages to sites like Del.icio.us, digg.com, stumbleupon.com, reddit.com, furl.net, technorati.com, and others if you can find them. This is the “web 2.0″ traffic that everyone is going gaga over, and there is a reason why. The amount of traffic that is generated from these sites has been known to take servers completely offline. You can easily receive 10,000 to 100,000 visitors in 1 day just from one of your pages being on the top of these sites. The key is to submit as many as possible, and concentrate on creating interesting content that people will love.
18.) Repeat, Repeat, and did I say Repeat!!! The whole key is to be consistent and persistently update your site. NEVER GIVE UP!!!
Another way (NOT mentioned above) to generate traffic is video. Get a FREE Video Tutorial Manual Here
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