I think we have all been through this situation at one point or another in our lives, you need to find someone online for a certain reason say an old classmate, an old friend, a relative, and you just don’t know how to find them! The Internet has made this problem a whole lot easier to fix with websites called People Finders.

These websites are usually split right down the middle with paid and unpaid inclusions. The paid ones give you a little more info and personally are for more of an investigation type situation. The free ones will give you things like the person’s name, relatives, location and even a phone number. The paid ones are good if you want to find out some “secrets” about a person such as a background check, SS check, or criminal background, so this is a great thing to use if you want to check up on a neighbor or someone you have employed!

Prices for paid inclusion can go anywhere from $15 on up to $100 depending on what you want to find out about the person. Believe it or not this is completely legit, but if you find yourself on one of these things you actually can contact the company and tell them to blacklist you. This blacklist option allows the company (with proof from you) to unlist you on the site so that your information no longer shows up.

These people finder websites can be found all over the Internet, from the official People Finder website on down to the ones that are more unheard of. As long as the place is legit you can trust them. I always like going on Google and looking up reviews for any site I deal within any situation for any website.

All you have to do is go to your trusty search engine, type in the name or the URL of the website without the http or the www part, and then add “review” at the end and you will receive several different results for that company in particular. Pretty simple stuff here, nothing overly complicated! Also, if you are interested in celebrity type things, you can also use these websites for that as well.

The inclusions will include things like fan email address, fan p.o box, location, age of celebrity, and a lot more! If I would use these for celebrity deals it would be for pure fun and I would use a free one (which does exist in this case). Pretty neat stuff, and as said above it’s a great way to get reintroduced to an old mate, friend, or a relative and YES these do work!

I tried one out one time for a pain inclusion to find an old friend I had and lost contact with, I paid the money and right then and there I got to see all sorts of info about the person. There is no waiting! So it’s easy, fast, convenient and helpful, what more could you ask for!

One main thing us marketers are constantly looking for, is a way to receive traffic. Sure this might seem easy to the non-Internet marketer, but receiving quality traffic is a difficult thing to achieve. Of course any person could just as easily go and buy PPC (pay per click) traffic, but it is expensive, and that there is the possibility of fraudulent clicks. And in a lot of cases when you buy traffic online it’s not even actual people going to your website you’re trying to promote.

Thankfully there are ways to receive quality traffic, one of the newest ways is a program called Stomping The Search Engines 2 which is created by Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins. This program is an actual course you can buy that presents different videos to you through DVD format, and it allows you to learn how to receive quality traffic for free!

There have been plenty of reviews about this program, some people love it and some people despise it. So what’s the deal exactly? What type of things can you learn from this program? What are some advantages and disadvantages? Well, first off the program itself was marketed for sale for a few hundred bucks. But Andy and Brad have decided to offer (for a limited time) a really interesting price that seemed to grab everyone’s attention.

They also give some examples on how to write press releases and how they can help you when you are optimizing for the search engines. And lastly but definitely not least, they give you some really interesting tips on link building (also known as backlinks) as well as pay per click marketing.

In terms of what this product gives you and the price, I think it is absolutely worth it. If you would like to find out more info about this product its pretty easy to find with the terms I included in this article. This “free” offer is all over the Internet, everyone is getting in on the action. This isn’t about making a quick buck, its’ about learning how to make continuous money, learning how to become successful online and through marketing online!

You can also try these other SEO options

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies by Peter Kent (book)

Search Engine Optimization by Richard John Jenkins (CD-ROM)

Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization: Drive Traffic, Boost Conversion Rates and Make Lots of Money (Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Guides) (Paperback)

Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint to Effective by Kristopher B. Jones

You can also try the following types of websites as well. Some of these sites help you with PR, traffic and sales, where as others help you actually make money!

My Great Empire -
This is a site related to the GDI system, now I have never personally tried the GDI system but, I know of friends who have and it has worked for them, so don’t count this site out just yet. Go take a look at it and at least sign up for the free information. Building a massive action driven GDI team beneath you has never been easier. Not only will you notice a much higher opt in ratio, but an increased GDI sign up ratio as well. Every opt in you get through your MyGreatEmpire affiliate link, will receive approximately 12 followup emails in a period of 30 days. This is a website made for users that want to receive opt-in leads with the system.

VML - Viral Money List -
This is really a safe-list type program, but I signed up under a friend for free, and he upgraded, and I got $20 in a matter of hours. Actual money. This isn’t play money, it’s not site money you have to spend on advertising, it’s real money I can have! Now what I’m working towards is remaining a free member and referring people who sign up. For every person that signs up below me and upgrades (to any level) I will earn 20% of their upgrade fee. Lowest upgrade cost like $2, biggest one is $99 I believe. Okay so the $2 one is nothing. You make a few meager cents. But for the $99 one, 20% of that is about $20. Now envision if you could get even 50 people to sign up under you and upgrade to that $99 package, that’s an easy $1000 right there. So far, I made that $20 from my friend and I have 3 sign ups who have upgraded and I still haven’t paid one red cent.

PPC Classroom Affiliate -
Another type of program, this will help you to better understand how you can make money with your PPC affiliate programs. This one is not anything I’m ensuring merely because it’s not even available yet, but you can get a sneak preview by going to the website and signing up. With that you will get proof of how he makes his money, videos showing you how you can make money from this program and a sneak peak at the business model before it hits the Internet.

Many of you probably use a search engine such as google every single day, but do you know how one actual works? Do you know why all those results appear or what sponsored ads are? You would be surprised how many people don’t know the process or the inner workings of search engines! Some parts are pretty confusing and others not so much, maybe that’s because I have owned a search engine so I had to learn how it worked! Of course there are the big boy SEs like Google, Yahoo and MSN but there are also search engines that are medium and smaller ones referred to as PPC engines. For medium ones I would probably name off ones like Dog Pile or Alta Vista, for small PPC ones I would say Smart-Phart or Gold Searching.

If you delve down a little deeper there are also search engines referred to as Meta Crawlers, these search engines allow you to use one engine to search on multiple sites. Mamma is a good example. Every time you type in a query at a meta-search engine, they search a series of other search sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by search engine employed or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It’s like using multiple search engines, all at the same time but much quicker!

In general I think we already know how search engines work, you look for something, put in the keyword phrase, and the results show up. But where do all those results come from? Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They “crawl” or “spider” the web, then people search through what they have found. You literally can search for anything and it will be found. You can ask the engine questions, you can put in products/brands, you can say keywords, you can enter in store names, people’s names, anything and you will find a result.

The sponsored results you see for example, on the top and side of Google are bought ads. People can go to sites like AdWords and buy space on space to place their ads, these ads are almost always relevant to what the results are that you are searching for but once in a blue moon I’ll be searching for tennis and a golf ball sponsor ad will show up. It happens, not a huge deal! Usually the people that buy the ads on the side and the sponsor ads will place a certain amount of money in their account on AdWords, and then they can say okay I want my ad to be .10 cents, if you have $100 in the account that’s about 1000 clicks.

Usually when you allocate an ad and give it a high worth, its placed more on the engine. In other words you could search flowers once, and then search flowers again and the same ads probably won’t show up, if they do, then that person probably paid a good amount of money for it to do that.

There really is no default engine for everyone to use, people just find a search engine they like and they go with it, usually sticking with it and never changing. So, that’s why new engines need a nice little “hook” to reel you in. If you are super dedicated to using Google, you won’t move on and use another site unless it has something really special about it right? Well this is one of the reasons there are so many engines, each one is trying to out do the next, and each one is trying to get more visitors than the other. I have a few faves I use besides Google, one of which is a site called Find.

Find is a terrific engine where you cannot only just search but you can also find out information about certain subject. For example, if we go to Food, we will see a few extra subcategories to choose from such as Gourmet, Food Network, Easy Recipes, Cooking Light or Halloween Recipes. Now if you click easy recipes you will be given a little summary of what easy recipes are, how they are used, why should you use easy recipe. But as said above you can also use this as a search engine, by placing whatever you are looking for in the search box and pressing “find”. Pretty cool! Check it out!

One of the most popular reasons why search engines are so popular is simply because people are always searching for all sorts of things on the Internet. It doesn’t matter if they are looking for website URLs or something in particular. For example, say I want to find the official website for Barnes & Noble (just as a simple example). All I have to do is enter in Barnes And Noble or I could enter in Barnes and Noble plus my zip code and the official website will show up. Pretty simple! Of course adding your zip doesn’t really matter for this one but, if you are searching for other things like restaurants, automotive stores, or grocery stores within your vicinity it’s a good idea to obviously add your zip code or you could end up on the other side of the state!

Listed below are several different categories (subcategories not included) you may find on a search engine:
Electronic
Recreation
Health
Computers
Science
Business
Real estate
Sports
Education
Politics
Personal-finance

So needless to say everything you could or would need to search for is available, and that wasn’t even including all the categories! Also, listed below here are a few of my favorite search engines available online right now!

Find - When I first heard of this engine all I kept hearing was the business side of me going “wow now that’s a great domain name” and it is, but more than that it’s also a terrific engine where you cannot only just search but you can also find out information about certain subject. For example, if we go to Electronics, we will see a few extra subcategories to choose from such as Bluetooth Headsets, Cellphone Cameras, Cellphones & Home Theatre Systems.

Now if you click Bluetooth you will be given a little summary of what Bluetooth is, how its used, what its functions are and much more. But as said above you can also use this as a search engine, by placing whatever you are looking for in the search box and pressing “find”. I did a search for money, and results that were relevant to money showed up. Very easy to use, minimal ads means minimal annoyance, and its got a nice user-friendly template as well!

Wid Explorer - Widexplorer is a whole new way to view, surf, search, organize and share the web! At Widexplorer you can visit multiple websites simultaneously. So in other words its pretty much a meta crawler that doesn’t want to be called or classified as a crawler! You can search google, yahoo, msn, ask, dogpile, and a few other search engines all at once.

Ms. Dewey - I don’t even use this site to search on, I use it purely to give me a smile upon my face! This is a great SE if you are looking for something to make you smile or you are bored out of your skull and looking to do something interesting, and I suppose it’s a good search engine as well! Ms. Dewey is a viral marketing campaign started by Microsoft in October 2006. The Ms. Dewey website is an Adobe Flash-based experimental interface for Live Search.

The interface features a modern-looking cityscape as a backdrop with the character on the left side, while the search results appear on the right. The cityscape backdrop changes depending on the time of day! Ms. Dewey appears to be an interactive search assistant who audibly comments on searched keywords in her own style and makes random actions when idle, including taking props from behind her desk.

These are all some pretty cool search engines in their own ways, try em out and see what you think! You can also look for more of these cool sites by checking out Google! Have fun!

It’s really incredible the amount of information available online nowadays, you really can find anything your heart desires. The best place you can go to is a search engine, these engines allow you to search directly for what you want by using keywords, or you can also pick categories and subcategories on their websites to find what you want. I’m a big foodie freak, mainly because I’m a Chef, so I’m always looking for new recipes online, and adding new ones I make to my own websites such as cooking light, cooking healthy, holiday recipes, gourmet, grilling, etc. I also like to find cooking shows online that I may have missed on TV like Top Chef, which if you search for can be found online not only to see when it’s on next but to actually watch it on your computer! And once in a while I find myself going to these search engines to find things like restaurant names, locations, phone numbers, etc.

Any of the above and so much more are available to you quickly, easily, and most important conveniently! I think that those are probably the top 3 reasons people even bother to use search engines to begin with instead of calling information or looking in a phone book. And besides information went up a dollar over here! Yep, it’s now over a dollar to ask someone to find a piece of information for you that you could find for free (technically) on your own! Don’t worry, I say technically because you are paying for your Internet, not because you have to pay these search engines! The day it actually costs money to use a search engine, is the day I will actually keep my phone book!

These search engines are really quite simple to navigate, just go to the search engine you like, put in the keyword you want, and get the results. Or as said above, they also may ask you to refine your search results, which is nice because then you can say okay I want a restaurant located in Naples Florida, but I want it to be on Sea Gate Drive because I’m going to be in the vicinity and will want to grab lunch. So just enter in that easy info and voila, results! If you are really lucky you may just go to an engine and they asked for the type of restaurant you want such as eat in, dine out, delivery, etc. Or the type of food the restaurant serves such as Italian, French, Japanese, Mediterranean, etc.

All in all these sites are perfect for just about anything you want to find on them. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with food, it can deal with any of the other zillion and one things you might be searching for such as electronics, jobs, finance, sports, health, computers, etc! Need to rent a car? Go to travel. Looking for a Dentist? Go to health. Want to know where the nearest salon is? Go to beauty! Yea, it really is this easy. Just think about what category it would be in and you are good to go! Good luck!