Trends to Follow for Internet Marketing in 2013

When we look back at 2012, most of the predictions and resolutions about Internet marketing came true. Considering the advancements that shaped online marketing last year, you will be wondering what this year 2013 has in store. As there is none other marketing technique with the speed and efficiency which internet marketing offers, you must make sure you spend sufficient time to focus on this marketing technique to maximize your growth and revenue.   Here are some major trends that we had found in the online marketing industry and their impact on customer behavior.

Content quality over quantity across platform

Nowadays search engines are giving more important to quality website content. The content that you publish on a web page must be relevant, fresh and unique. Moreover, it must be interesting and can create a social impact. Uploading quality contents is the only way attracts more customers to your website. Also, it will help the users easily find what they want. It is also necessary to post fresh contents frequently to keep it updated.

Design :

Just like the quality of the content, the design of the website also matters a lot. Most of the very successful companies like Apple, Nike etc. have a very attractive website design. They have given more importance to the design of the website which makes them remain top in the industry.

Marketing goes visual :

Communication through visual means is the latest fad in the online marketing industry. Through this one can directly deal with the client by talking face to face.

Build you website with Schema’s :

A set of standard codes have been developed for the web developer known as SCHEMA by the three most popular search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo. With these codes, the search engine will be able to find the most relevant and informative website easily. So it is important to use proper SCHEMA in your website which will force the search engine to list you among the top ones.

Mobile channels :

As you know, the number of mobile phone users is sky rocketing. Just like the number of smartphone users too. As per the research done by Cisco the number of smartphones and tablet phones will outnumber the number of human beings in the world soon. With the advancement in the smartphones, more number of people uses mobile phones to purchase things online. So it is necessary to have a robust mobile strategy for all businesses. However, you should consider the time, mobile screen size and obviously the consumer intention in mind. This is a one great way to connect more number of people via mobile channels. Through this, you can get in the touch with the targeted audience and of course it will provide you good revenue.

Links :

Link building is one of the most important factors when considering SEO articles. To maintain the credibility and top notch ranking of your website, it is important to check the quality of the link that you insert in your website and how we got the link is also important. A website having 5 credible links is expected to have qualified traffic. It is also possible to earn natural links by sharing worthy content via the most popular social network sites Facebook and Twitter.

Usability and conversion factors :

Not just creating a website will increase the traffic to it. You must check and confirm how efficient it is after the overall work. Usability of the website is necessary to attract more customers to it. Also you must set some goals which will help you do the site conversion and make it more user-friendly.

With all these marketing trends, you can make your business a huge success for sure.

The Better Business Bureau to keep the observance by websites

Effective January 1, 2014, the Council of better business bureaus has beefed up its compliance check initiatives Web pages to certain rules of advertising. I recently went ahead and implemented the Program accountable Online advertising Interest-Based main purpose is to encourage compliance with the rules among websites.

The much talked about rules have been supported by reputable trade organizations in the advertising industry. And their purpose is to ensure that the standards user friendly are used when it comes to online, interest-based advertising. When the Council was given the responsibility of making sure that these rules are met on websites, propagated self-regulatory Program for online behavioral advertising Online, which gained no longer bite.

To make sure that the high standards and principles of this programme have been cross-appointed Council met some famous names. Together they have put forward a program that is quite comprehensive and can have a huge impact on the advertising practices by websites. Therefore, it is important to know some of the most important features of responsibility Online Interest-Based advertising and which can be influenced by:

It has the ability to monitor the market externally. It this way to collect information that may suggest non-compliance with any of the requirements.In the event of non-compliance observed in reports of the interested parties or consumers, and can then be viewed on a thorough analysis.In addition, also rule on proceedings and investigations in cases where there is potentially not in accordance with the instance.If you put together all the information you need, you can then report the non-compliance or non-compliance, which remain unrepaired, to the Government.

In order to facilitate things for the consumers, the program has developed a model called "enhanced notice" that they can take advantage of consumers can now find an icon of the ads that appear in the ads, or somewhere around it. There are instances when the icon can also be seen in various places on the Web. They may be places where advertising is served or collecting data for online advertising takes place.

Looking for a sign, consumers can know that the party is collecting data from them. By clicking on the icon, the users will be linked to a site that gives them a fair idea of how to collect data that are used in this particular case. Users will then have the opportunity to opt out of interest-based advertising in the future. In this way, users can stay on things while they are browsing information, the things that they want and most importantly have a "choice".

But that's not all; the industry has gone a step further to make things easier for consumers. Now created a wide industry site, which contains a list of the largest for interest-based advertising, the data collectors. Users can then as much as possible with a simple link that will take them to resign. These practices are designed to maintain with a rich and long tradition of the advertising industry and the belief that people are better served when they are well informed.

Of course, these recent changes are bound to have a profound impact on Web sites that now they will have to put their best foot forward to ensure compliance. Those who fear the risk of non-compliance on their sites can use plug-ins, which are specially designed for this purpose. Some of the features of different plug-ins and their advantages are:

The ability to Let readers know that they are not getting the compensation in any form for the position.If users are going to buy something with one of the affiliate links they will be notified that you are going to get compensated for it.In the case of sponsored posts will disable for users, which clearly states that we were rewarded for it.In cases where you are writing about a product or service will be referred to, that he has received a copy of the probation or review.Users will also be alerted if you happen to be using online behavior tracking technology. That is in keeping with enhanced notification system follows the Bureau can use to your advantage, as well as the "custom text".The overriding feature of the text is also offered by the plugin if you do not want any text that appears on the post.You can also keep things crystal clear through disclosure by default on all the posts and pages that you may have.

To send the message, loud and clear, the Bureau announced the compatibility warning to companies which do not persist enhanced notification system we talked in the program. Although it did not want to disclose details of the companies has made people sit up and pay attention. So far the warnings do not take a moral tone, but many believe that this is just the beginning. (A) compliance with these practicces might just become demanding standards.

Renowned Internet Marketer Bill Guthrie developed the plugin WP simplified'm thinking "to remove any risk of non-compliance, when installed on your wordpress blogs.

A very simple WordPress plugin that allows you to select one of the 5 disclosure made by a lawyer for all the posts and pages can be found at the website:
• No material connection-allows visitors to know that you are not getting any kind of compensation for writing a post.
• Affiliate links-inform site visitors you will get compensation if they through their affiliate links.
• Review or copy-explains that you have received a copy of the review or sample product, you're writing about.
• Sponsored Post-Disclaims that were compensated in some form to write a post.
• Third party ads-allows visitors to your site, I know that you are using online behavioral tracking. It meets the "enhanced notice" requirement to the Better Business Bureau.
• No text-if you do not want to show bias on the post, you can use this feature, replace the "no text".
• Custom text – if you want to write your own solution "custom text".
• And to simplify even further, you can select the default disclosure on all pages and posts

So don't threaten your business and make sure that you are ready when you get an audit with the BBB in any visits from your site tomorrow. Just use this simple WordPress plugin.

Pyramid Links The Best Protection Against Google Panda and Penguin

Have you suffered terribly after what the Google updates of Panda and Penguin made significant changes to the SEO world in the last 2 years?  I know that many people have lost their income and have had many of their websites taken down for good. That’s how bad the situation was although many are still recovering from it or at least trying to.

You may even be considering quiting your online business if your main money sites lost most or all of the rankings. But for whatever reasons, you could be holding back this decision till another day. Perhaps you may be in the midst of re-evaluating your options or trying to make sense of what you should do next. Well this article is probably going to help you get through this phase of your thought process. It’s important so read on.

Has SEO Died?

Definitely not. But it is right to say after Google Panda and Penguin algorithm changes, it has substantially changed the way how website owners should now do their SEO. You should find out what you must do if you wish to stay in business. You should if you still love being a part of the vibrant online world and the challenges it has once brought you. I am sure you want things to be the way they were. But… if you don’t do anything, nothing changes. So this could be your defining moment when you read what I have to say.

Leveraging on the power of organic traffic that lands on your websites every single day is still your best hope of making a comeback and start to make money online once again. Today we focus on one of the most important link strategies of all time. One that has stood virtually unscathed after Panda and Penguin came down with all its might – Link Pyramid. I won’t waste time explaining this in any length so read Jonathan Leger’s article to find out what Link Pyramid is here.

Why Link Pyramid Works.. Always

Well simply because it is what Google wants to see you NOT doing – i.e. send tons of links to your website which once upon a time seems to be what we used to do when we first learned about SEO. Well today the scene has changed. Quite dramatically I might add. It does not work anymore and the sooner you learn this the faster you get your websites back ranking again. You also avoid all the Google slaps in any form or fashion and in any other new animal Google chooses to name their next algorithm updates.

Essentially the linking strategy in a link pyramid is simply building massive amount of links that point to a bigger website that links to your money site. By doing so not only do your sites get all the “link juice” it brings but more importantly does so without risking a red flag in the eyes of Google. Google has no choice but to love your website and it can’t get any easier.

It’s a good feeling to know that you can build tens of thousands of links that will help increase your trust in Google, ranking and finally more traffic yet again. Yes build 1000s of more links to all of the links pointing at the bigger site and in so doing you create a “pyramid” like effect. Hopefully this now explains the term more clearly for you and understand the power it yields. It’s also the safest link strategy people who stay in business are doing right now.

How Do You Build Link Pyramid Links

Even if you just have only one website (but most serious people in business have hundreds of them), it would be impractical or foolish to do this work manually. Instead, just go for the easy way – just buy those cheap fiverr gigs or buy a software to do it yourself. For me I choose to use a software to do it myself since it is that simple to do.

The Essential Features of a Link Building Software for this purpose and what they can do or give you are:

1. cheap or at least inexpensive software
2. able to create 1000s of backlinks within a reasonable time like 1 hour
3. drip feed feature
4. report generated with auto-save feature during backlink building
5. simple to use like just provide your destination site that allows input of multiple urls
6. allows input options for different levels of backlinks – tier 1 (money sites), tier 2, tier 3
7. Panda/Penguin safe and your links to be on a wide variety of blogging platforms and you get comments/trackbacks on them
8. allows creation of Premium Backlinks i.e. quality .edu and .gov backlinks.
9. allows backlinks built on different web statistics / domain services platforms
10.links created should vary in their PR status, as well as their no/do-follow status, so that they will appear completely natural and organic to the search engines that will be crawling them.

I used this software to build Pyramid Links…everyday

I am currently using such a software called Sweet Submitter that has all these features and I used it everyday for all my websites and blogs. Take a look to find out more about this software. It’s cheap, easy to use and safe and specially for building link pyramid. It has helped me stay in business after Panda and Penguin. So check out Sweet Submitter here.

Own A Blogspot Blog? Learn These OnPage Tips

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Competition to rank on top of search engine results for your target keywords grows by the day. That is why you need to keep tightening your SEO grip at every step of the way. This post is specifically dedicated to those blogging on the Google-owned Blogspot (also known as blogger). We take a sneak peek to various on-page SEO tips for optimizing your blog.

Activate custom Robots Header Tags

These tags allow you to tell web crawlers not to index certain pages of your site. You only check the ‘ nofollow ‘ box under any of the pages you want ignored. The feature is pretty easy to use. However, one must be very careful to use it correctly. Incorrect use can result in your site being ignored by search engines. How to use them: Blogger-> Settings ->Search Preferences, click Edit next to ” Custom robots header tags ” finally select YES.

Optimize your images

Image optimization is an art you want to master to ensure that you maximize on your image search traffic. It’s very easy: name your images in plain (but descriptive) English), add the alt attribute, ensure that your images are descriptive (you can add description to your base alt tag). Be careful not to put too large images as these may negatively affect your site’s load time.

Internal Linking is vital for SEO

Internal link building is one of the best ways to create natural incoming links to the pages of your blog. You have more control, which is not the case when someone links to a page on their own. Internal linking works perfectly when combined with great content and is a perfect way attract bonus search traffic.

Page-load speed

The speed at which your site loads is critical to attracting more readerships for your posts. If your blog more than 4 seconds to load then you’re probably getting less traffic and lower conversions than you actually should. Avoid displaying more than 10 posts on the main page. Also, use small sized images (videos and other multi-media). If uploading third-party images, consider using Picas Web Albums to later link them to the album in your sidebar. For optimal load speed, Google recommends using Blogger widgets, JavaScript and links. If you have any links in your side-bar, you’re advised to put them at the bottom end of the side-bar.

Custom Robots.txt File 

This is one of the features that were added when some dramatic changes occurred on Blogger a couple of months ago. Custom robots .txt works in pretty much the same way custom Robots Header Tags do i.e instruct the search engine to ignore certain pages of your blog. Carefully use this tool because any mistakes could cause your site to vanish from search engines.

Optimize blog post titles

Page title is a very vital element in your site in terms of ranking well on SERs. If you’re new to using Blogger, chances are that your title bar is still featuring Blogger’s default template ‘ ‘ Your blog: Post Title ‘. From an SEO perspective, page title is more important than blog name. You’ll therefore want to swap the title from ‘blog first’ to ‘ post title first ‘ format. The main reason for this is because users are more likely to search for specific posts rather than the name of your blog. Having the post title come first increases your chances of being found.

Submit blog to all major search engines

Lastly, if you’re yet to get your blog indexed by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing), then see to it that that is done soon. Submission is very easy to do and is free. If you’re not sure if your blog is indexed or not, enter this query on all the three search engines: site:myblogname.blogpost.com. If all the searches produce no results, your blog is not yet indexed and you therefore need to submit it. Note that submitting your blog to Yahoo will cover both Yahoo and Bing since the Yahoo Explorer was merged into Bing Webmaster tools back in 2012.

Wow! That’s it  A basic introduction to the 7 most crucial steps to take to optimize your Blogger blog. Hope you’ve gained plenty of new ideas. We look forward to seeing your blog grow to become one of the most sought after sites in your specific niche going forward. All the best!

Author Bio:

Bernard Naylor is an Online Consultant for VictorPest – Mole and Rat Kill Tunnel Trap. He likes blogging about online strategies that are related to SEO, Content, PPC & Lead generation.

Important Note from Peter Lee:

For serious Amazon affiliate marketers there is now a new automation tool that can create an arsenal of blogger blogs to make a serious income from Amazon.  Take a look at Amazon to Blogger Autoposter I used which has helped me raked in $350 from Amazon in the last 2 months all on auto pilot (see my earnings screenshot below).  If you need more information and details on this blogger auto poster and how I am doing this just write a comment or contact me using my contact page.

 

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Do You Love Yourself Enough to Make a Difference with Your Expertise?

You’re filled with the desire to help others. You have a system, product, program or process that can transform lives, yet you just can’t seem to get enough clients or make enough money to really say you have a successful business. It’s so frustrating.

You’ve attended numerous free training events, downloaded free e-books and reports and you study all the time. You’ve even tried every marketing tactic you’ve learned. Yet it’s still not coming together. You’re just tapped out. You’ve heard others explain how their system works and is the best and you see that they are successful but you are doubtful it will work for you because nothing has so far.

Sure you may be making some money, even getting by and paying the bills, but soaring would not be the word you’d use to describe your business.

You just don’t get it. So what’s wrong? Why is all you do not getting the results you want?

You’ve probably heard people talk about the importance of working on developing an entrepreneurial mindset, right? The truth is that all the knowledge in the world won’t pay off if your thinking and beliefs are not aligned with your vision.

I’ve seen this situation unfold more times than I can count and each time I see the same problem keeping women stuck, keeping them invisible and unable to change lives with their God given talents. And the reason is often the same. It’s not easy to hear, but the truth is that often they just don’t love themselves enough. They don’t believe that they too can join the seemingly exclusive success club and be seen as an influencer who transforms others. The problem is this—if you don’t believe in yourself, why would someone else believe you could really get them great results?

Every daunting situation we face is there to teach us something and as soulful, service based entrepreneurs our job is to look within and figure out what the lesson is and then set about to learn it. That takes courage, humility and real gumption. It’s not for the weak hearted. Difficult situations like money problems, stagnation, relationship problems or anything else that blocks us don’t mean we are unworthy, unlovable or a failure. They don’t need to be used as an excuse to hide the real truth. When you love yourself enough to be as nurturing with yourself as you would be with a child; when you look at a difficult situation as a self-learning and growth opportunity, not as proof that you were never meant to succeed and when you start doing the work to learn the lesson your world will shift, your business will shift and your self confidence will soar.

When you look in the mirror and see Divine inspiration and unique gifts staring back at you, you’ll smile and begin to invest in changing, moving and growing.

Recently my friend and colleague, Kathleen Gage wrote a blog post about the assumption many people have that they should be able to get everything they need to make more money and be successful for free, without investing a dime in themselves. In other words, some people think they can get great results with no “skin in the game”. We all know that’s not how it works. Similarly you have to do the work and invest the time and energy necessary to face challenges, learn from them, be determined to overcome them and change.

If you know what your purpose is and that the work you were meant to do is important, then why would you stay stuck taking the same actions thinking you’ll get different results? If you see yourself as loved and lovable, if you value and believe in yourself and your gifts, why would you make excuses for not doing whatever it takes to attain your dream? If you truly can see your dream for your business becoming real, you will have the quiet, but powerful inner confidence you need to get outside your comfort zone, take action and invest in change. You will stop hiding, stop remaining invisible, stop settling for just barely getting by.

Otherwise you will tend to blame circumstances, make excuses, postpone, procrastinate, give away your power to others, stall until it’s “perfect” , operate from fear and put up a false front.

When you are filled with self-love, self-acceptance and self-confidence, you take 100% responsibility for the results you get. You know that the decisions you make today will determine the results you get tomorrow so you take bold action. And you will know you are special. You will feel determined to serve others with your gift and you will feel worthy of being well compensated in return.

This is a mindset shift of huge proportions. To love yourself and put yourself first so you are full enough to nurture and help others, instead of depleted and overwhelmed is truly stepping into your power and who you were meant to be.

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8 Action Steps to Break through the 5 Most Common Success Blocks

In my last entrepreneurial mindset article I listed the 5 Success Blocks that I’ve found are the most common stumbling blocks for many women who in every other sense are smart, savvy experts who work hard. Now I’d like to give you 8 action steps that can help you begin to shift. You can know every marketing strategy in the world. You can work hard and be darn good at what you do. But if these blocks stand in the way you’ll likely struggle and not understand why. I’ve been there. Breaking through is exhilarating.

Here are 8 action steps you can start practicing TODAY that can help you improve your ability to get the results you want in your business (and your life). They are not about marketing or social media, but about doing the inner work that allows the right marketing, clients and money to flow into your life.

1) Make a list of what you’ve done that is extraordinary in ANY area of your life

2) Make a list of how you are valuable to others—clients, family, friends, the world.

Write it down.Read it out loud.Acknowledge it.Own it.

3) Write down which situations cause you to lose your sense of power to control outcomes and go from confident and competent to unsure or insecure.

An example would be if you have created an awesome product or scheduled a webinar and only a few people show up or you only make a few sales. I’ve seen that through people off track for weeks.

4)  Identify any OLD message or wound that causes this to happen. Just becoming aware of the message is powerful because you begin to see how it’s controlling you and you can kick it to the curb.

When are you buying into this messageWhy?What is the trigger?Become conscious and aware each day for a week.Go back to owning your value by telling yourself the truth, which is most likely the OPPOSITE of your old message.

5) Overcoming Stamp of Approval—ask yourself in each situation, what is the WORST that would happen if someone disapproves of my words or actions?

Could you survive it?How many more people would love what you do because you took a stand or came from a confident place?How can you ignore the naysayers and start surrounding yourself with YAYsayers?Begin to accept that to step into the spotlight, you will not be“all that” to everyone.Feel aligned with your purpose. If you are fulfilling it you will connect with the RIGHT people

6) Getting past “they can’t afford it if I charge more”

What kind of person CAN afford it?Who says THEY can’t?Are you confident about the value you offer?Are you able to articulate it?Do you BELIEVE you are worth more money?How much money are you losing my undercharging?

7) Letting go of Overwhelm

Monitor how you spend your time for a weekWhat % is spent on MONEY GENERATING tasksList rote tasks are not worth your hourly rate.Outsource themWhat can you change that you currently spend time doing in your business? What is siphoning off your time?Begin to value your time as precious

8) Work on becoming a Money Magnet

Create a Money Attraction Avatar who truly cares and encourages your success. How does he or she look, act and interact with you?Imagine that this person was your best friend, your confidant, the one who believes in you and encourages you to be the best you can be.Let her tell you how she will show up in your life when you offer value to othersGive generously to open the giving and receiving flowBe aware of those negative Money Monster Messages that may be sabotaging you and making you believe you have to stay smallMake an abundance gratitude list. We all have so much more than most people in the world. Look around you and list every single thing that provides you with comfort, health and nourishment. You’ll be amazed and you’ll start to feel abundance

Once you begin to understand that where you put your mental focus and your emotions is actually creating your results. If you choose, even unconsciously to focus on lack, worry, fearful thoughts and worst case outcomes, you will attract that and you will act as if that’s what you deserve.

If instead each day you CHOSE to try to focus on happiness, joy, abundance, and gratitude your actions, results and life will begin to make a seismic shift. This is a daily choice.

Please share your comments and what you are committed to changing so everyone can benefit.

Want to start a seismic shift in your business? I challenge you to do so if you’re ready. If you are I have a few open slots when we can have a private conversation. If you are ready for a real breakthrough and a prosperity plan, let’s talk. In less than 60 minutes we’ll get you started in a new, exciting direction.

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Entrepreneurial Mindset Makeover Series: How Charging Too Little and Giving Too Much Undervalues You

Entrepreneurial Mindset Makeover Series: How Charging Too Little and Giving Too Much Undervalues You

Enjoy the first article in my Entrepreneurial Mindset Makeover series. This series will help you remove the internal ways of thinking, habits and old beliefs that create an invisible wall between you and real success. It’s crucial that you do this inner work along with daily action in your business. 

As women we have been conditioned and are wired to nurture, to serve and to give. This is a beautiful thing, until, like a fast growing weed, we overdue it and it starts to overwhelm us and undermine our efforts to create a powerful, successful business and a life filled with joy and passion.

Each time you undercharge for your time and services you are sending a message that you don’t attach much value to what you do. As a result people don’t value what you offer as highly as they should. And you will tend to attract people who care more about a bargain then about getting amazing results from you. Some people undercharge because they fear that “people won’t be able to pay me more”. I’ve heard this so many times. Who decided that people won’t pay you more?  If you are deciding what someone else can or can’t afford, what is really happening is that you are afraid you will lose a potential client if you “charge too much” and that fear causes you to give everything away, or you afraid your results aren’t valuable. Coming from a place of fear rather than a place of powerful certainty that you can change that client’s life in some way will not attract your ideal clients because you are not owning and articulating your value.

I’ve helped many coaches and consultants who charged a low monthly rate and worked too many hours completely transform their businesses. They also often over-delivered. Again, over-delivering springs from fear—fear that your client won’t like you, recommend you or continue to work with you if you don’t give them everything they ask for and more.

Think of your ability to give and nurture as a well. If you keep pulling water out but no new water enters the well runs dry.  And just think about how you’re missing out on the joy and exhilaration of success with time available to live the life you want.

As long as you can articulate the value of what you offer and you get results that really are transforming you can start charging more.

People don’t pay for your time, they pay for results!

Just do some simple calculations to understand the money you’re leaving on the table. Say you’re a coach charging $400 a month for 3 hours of monthly coaching (a common occurrence). That’s $2400 for six months if the client stays with you that long. Imagine if you created a 6-month package that sold for $5500 and that required less of your time but got the same great results. And let’s say we’re talking about serving 10 clients. That’s $55,000 vs. just $24,000—more than double and in less time. Plus with a package you can spell out exactly what your clients can expect and what they’ll receive, thus eliminating the problem of over-delivering. And the type of clients who will pay you more will value you more and will work harder to succeed.

You only have so much time and energy, right? Why not make the most of them and fill your well with more joy, more time and more money.

To get started honoring what you’re worth–

Pay attention to how you justify undercharging and over-delivering. What story do you tell yourself that keeps you stuck? I can guarantee you those stories emanate from fear.Re-write the stories to come from a place of self-love, honoring your value, and proudly speaking about the results you can achieve.Tell yourself the new story. Imagine yourself living the new story every day. How would it feel?Create a new higher priced package, program or service and clearly articulate the results it gets and how it will change some aspect of your client’s life.Ask people to say yes. Will it be scary? Probably. Will it take a bit of courage? Sure. Will the results be amazing? Absolutely. You may not get a “yes” on the first try, but if you keep doing the above you will get a “yes”. Logging In...