Welcome to the December 1, 2008 edition of linkedin bloggers. I am so excited to be the host of this week’s carnival! Check out the great posts from some really excellent bloggers:

Andy presents Top 5 Tips On Designing An Seo Friendly Website posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Getting high rankings in major search engines is essential for maximizing your visibility online and growing traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google.”

isabella mori presents simplicity and the internet posted at change therapy, saying, “an article a propos to the topic of this carnival. how many online connections can we sustain?”

Brian Terry presents Traffic vs. Sales Conversions - Which Is Better? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “This is a question I get time and time again, “how do I generate more traffic to my website?”. The problem is and it’s what most people miss out on is it’s not just about the traffic.”

Kevin Dawson presents The 10 Commandments of Direct Marketing #2 - Your USP posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “Value of Unique selling proposition”

Andy presents How To Avoid The Big Newbie Affiliate Trap posted at Personal Plug, saying, “One of the best ways to make an enormous amount of cash on the Internet is by selling your very own product. The reason it’s the best way is because every one that you sell, you will get 100% of the profits.”

Brad Trnavsky presents Can the best sales people become the best sales managers? - Sales Management 2.0 posted at Sales Management 2.0 - Featured Blog Posts, saying, “A great post with substancial comments about sales people and the transition to management. My linkedin URL is: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradtrnavsky”

hank presents Dream More, Work Less posted at My Investing Blog.

Ian Richardson presents How to create and run an ezine for profit, Part 1 posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is the first in a 3 part series of articles I have written on creating and running an ezine for profit.”

Ian Richardson presents How to create and run an ezine for profit, Part 2 posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is part 2 of a three part series on how to create and run an ezine for profit.”

Anthony McCune presents The Reward For Being Loyal To Stan Bunting Is Not Getting Paid posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

Anthony McCune presents John’s View In New York City (Borough of Manhattan), New York, USA posted at What I See Out My Window.

Anthony McCune presents PRN PAIN posted at The Vanity Of It All.

Anthony McCune presents Multiple Strategies Are Incorporated To Deter Drunk Driving - Installment 4 Of 5 posted at Stark County, Ohio News And Views….

Cindy King presents Culture Changes How Brains Work posted at Cindy King, saying, “Businesses targeting broad international audiences with one website need to pay particular attention to the images and visual perceptions of their websites. And this is part of the reason why country-specific websites provide stronger marketing.”

Cindy King presents Review Your Product For More International Sales posted at Get International Clients.

Cindy King presents International Article Marketing posted at Cindy King, saying, “Visibility Is Not Marketing. The internet does provide an opportunity for international visibility. But people still try to have an international business without any business activities.”

Brian Terry presents 5 Red Hot Tips To Effective Forum Marketing  posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “You’re NOT allowed to advertise or market directly through your forum posts, this is seen as spamming the forums. It’s a “surefire” way to get banned from ever posting to them again. Here’s the secret to highly effective forum marketing…”

Ian Richardson presents 5 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is an excellent article on 5 effective ways to make your website sticky.”

Andy Birol presents A Small Business Owner’s Prayer For Obama posted at Birol’s Blog, saying, “A Small Business Owner’s Prayer for Obama”

Andy presents Network Marketing Business - Secret To Succeeding With A Small Business Opportunity posted at Personal Plug, saying, “There is a distinct difference in small business opportunities today and those of previous eras. What is it? Simply put, the internet. Today, small business opportunities on;line are more popular and pursued than those off line.”

greg Group presents A Social Media Blueprint for Your Business - Associated Content posted at Associated Content.

Wayne John presents One Simple Method to Keep Visitors on Your Site posted at Wayne John, saying, “One method I use to help keep visitors on my site is by creating my hyperlinks so they open a new window when they are clicked.”

Diana Freedman presents How to Makeover your Linkedin Profile posted at U Stand Out.

Kevin Dawson presents The Important Art of Slogan Writing posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “The importance of a good slogan”

Anthony McCune presents Thinking Of Starting A Business? The Top 10 Tips posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

Bhupendra Khanal presents Entrepreneurs : Don’t Do an MBA posted at Analytics Bhupe, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/khanalbhupendra”

Andy presents Seo And Website Design For Small Company posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Some people are too tired to do the thinking and will opt to go with the flow whatever is the trend, be it on fashion, sports and even with businesses without even thinking what it is for. Most businesses find themselves in the need of providing websites for their company and/ or products because everybody else does. If you are one of these people, you may now start knocking your head for a very expensive mistake of not knowing what you do.”

Diana Freedman presents Before Networking on LinkedIn, Makeover Your Profile posted at U Stand Out, saying, “LinkedIn is a powerful tool for networking if you know how to utilize its features. But before you do, it’s important to have a well-written profile that fully explains your work experience.”

Diana Freedman presents Building Your LinkedIn Network posted at U Stand Out, saying, “Once you write a strong LinkedIn profile, it’s time to start building your network. Start by inviting people you know, getting your link in the search engines, and getting quality recommendations. Then you’ll be ready to branch out into the vast LinkedIn networks.”

Wayne John presents Recursively populating a TreeView controls TreeNode collection posted at Wayne John, saying, “Every now and then you come across a scenario where a Treeview control is the best solution for presenting a hierarchical view of data. How do you populate the tree? A recursive routine is what you are looking for perhaps (at least, I haven’t run into any other tree scenario where a recursive routine was not used).”

Jeff Rose presents 401k Tips: What Not To Do posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrosecfp”

Ralph Jean-Paul presents How To Become a People Person posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, ““All things being equal people will do business with people they like. All things not being equal, they still will. Learn to become a people person and become better in relationship, leadership, and influence in every part of business and life.””

Andy presents Seo Black Hat Marketing Techniques - Black Hat Is Back Increases Profit! posted at Personal Plug, saying, “If you are like most people who are feeling the cold crush of fear caused by the unrelenting financial catastrophes slinking around you right at every turn, then this may be the most important information that you will ever read.”

Raymond presents Credit Card Offers For People With Bad Credit Or Poor Credit History posted at Money Blue Book.

Raymond presents How To Become A Millionaire and Get Rich In 10 Steps posted at Money Blue Book.

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