Finally! After two months, the great god Google has finally ranked my new crop of blogs. Woohoo! This site has a giant “4″!

And the crowd goes wild. *clap clap clap*

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Writing headlines for articles always takes me an inordinate amount of time. I know how important they are for search engine rankings, and since I use my headlines as my permalinks, it is even more important for me to write memorable, attractive ones.

The Advanced Marketing Institute Headline Analyser is exactly the tool for me. It lets you try out various headlines, and then gives Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) scores for them. Higher is better, and a 50% or better score is considered a great headline.

For this article, I tried several variations until I managed to score a stellar 66% EMV rating.

• Powerful headlines - 0%
• Sweet powerful headlines - 33%
• Create sweet powerful headlines - 50%
• Cool headline tool - 66% (ding ding ding, we have a winner)

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Making a storefront is usually a time consuming, fiddly process. I like to roll my own with Zen Cart, but many will find this too much work and too prone to consuming entire days and weekends. If you have an Amazon Associate relationship (very easy to set up), you may find that the associate-o-matic software hits the sweet spot for you.

Use it to set up a niche store

You simply install the software on a site, and then use it to create a full-fledged store in your niche. It pulls all data from Amazon, so you just need to pick your sections and do some look-and-feel customization. You don’t have to enter descriptions and prices at all, which saves loads of time. All sales are fulfilled through Amazon, and you get your affiliate cut of all those transactions. Pretty nice for just a bit of configuration work, and a $99 license fee.

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