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Computeach IT Training Courses - November 26th, 2007

While browsing t’internet today I noticed a forum where some woman was complaining about the IT training course offered by the UK company; Computeach. She was saying how her son had taken out a £5,000 loan for his course with the bank and after not even completing the first module of work, was stunned that the bank wanted their money back.

This is what starts to worry me. Some people expect success and wealth to fall into their laps without actually doing any work. They think that by enrolling on a course with Computeach they’re automatically entitled to a £35K per year job in the IT industry. They’re not. They need to actually do the work first.

It’s the same within the Affiliate industry. If you spend any significant time on some of the major web marketing forums such as Sitepoint, A4U or V7n you’ll get question after question from people asking how they can get rich quick. How they can make money with no effort. How they can become millionaires without doing any work.

Anyone who knows how to make money with no effort isn’t going to share it on a forum. That’s completely the wrong idea and indicative of the ‘lottery’ culture in which we live. “I don’t want to do any work; I just want to be rich”.

The real sad thing is that once Google has indexed this post it will start to rank for search terms like ‘make money with no effort’ and the people who read this will be looking for that get rich quick solution to their lives.

There isn’t one!

As with all things in life you get out of it what you put in. If you want a £35K a year job in the IT industry you need to work to get it. You could take a course like those offered by Computeach, but unless you do the work to complete the course you’ll get nowhere. Effort and dedication are required to succeed.

That’s the same with Affiliate Marketing. The biggest earners out there are always switched on, always looking for the next niche, always tweaking their PPC campaigns. They don’t just spend their time watching Trisha and hoping to be rich one day. They make it happen.
Go out there and make it happen!

Darren
Affiliate Marketing

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Google Maps in Search Results - November 26th, 2007

It has been mentioned before in this blog about Why You Should Get Your Business Listed in Google Maps today I thought I would add another great reason. Localised searches could get your business displayed with a nice little map of where you are; a link to your website and a link to your business information.

SERPS map example

Another great reason is that when Google displays the search results it also displays your phone number in the search results. This is good as reading about this subject on various sites web owners have noticed an increase in telephone inquiries due to this and web users have given this the thumbs up because they are never more than a couple of clicks from the number you need.

I personally think that it is important because even though we live in a digital age and everything can be done online people still want human interaction, people will still pick up the phone especially if your number is put in front of them and there won’t be more people looking for you online as there will be from Google.

Gary
SEO Programmer

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