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Sunday, June 01, 2008

"10 Powerful Secretts To Make Money With AdSense "

Is your Adsense revenue lackluster?

Are you tired of trying to figure the secrets of more successful websites?

Earning money with Adsense does not have to be a guessing game, and anyone with the right information can easily achieve the following:

• How to start making money with AdSense even if you have never done it
before.

• How to triple your current click-through if you already have any.

• Multiply you earnings.

• Make More Than $10,000 in one month, every month, with Adsense
revenue!

The Secrets to Making More Money with Adsense

Believe it or not, there are time-tested secrets to increasing your Adsense revenue. We can teach you how.

By learning and following our carefully researched strategies, you will learn what 98% of Adsense publishers will never know on how to create an enormously profitable online-business.

Sure, it may SEEM like you're the only one not meeting your financial goals online, but sadly, only 2% of online entrepreneurs will ever successfully implement the tools necessary to financial success.

You can be part of that 2% that are succeeding!!!

Why You Need This Information

As we've said already, 98% of online businesses are not maximizing their profit potential. While in many industries, "following the crowd" may be the best way to guarantee a profit, this is not so with online ventures.

You must stand out to make money.

Simply slapping up an ad is no guarantee of making money - just ask the 98% of online publishers who do...

Learning our strategies will ensure that you set your site apart from the crowd.

Who Needs This Information

No one wants to come out and say it, but we will; anyone who wants to build and maintain websites for the sole purpose of earning Adsense revenue can and will benefit from our tips. And face it, that's why so many people DO maintain websites. Not only this form of business not uncommon, it's almost expected.

Are you not interested in maintaining websites simply for Adsense profits, but could still use some tips for improving your revenue? We can still help.

Anyone who wants to generate more traffic and Adsense revenues needs to understand trade secrets if they are to be successful.

Remember, while the internet is a wide-open frontier, standing out in the sea of online advertisers only gets more difficult with each passing day.

Learn how to stop visitors dead in their tracks and to earn more money.

What You Will Learn

Whether your earnings are $1, $100, $300, or $500 a day, you CAN increase your revenue.

Even better, you can TRIPLE your earnings - but only if you know what to do. In this report, you will learn:

• Three things you must do to build a successful and profitable Adsense
business.

• How to instantly give your click-through increase of 11 % by using a
simple, time-tested trick.

• Why you might actually be LOSING money every time someone clicks on
your ad and how to avoid it.

• Tips to optimizing your position in the SEO game - and how links aren't
the only answer.

• One Adsense feature that virtually EVERYONE uses, but NO ONE should.
Are you wasting time and money on a feature you don't need?

• Even more tips to ensure that your Adsense business stops being part of
the pack—and becomes a leader in one of the fastest growing industries
in the world.

Why would you want to listen to us?

We are in online marketing since early 2000 (8 years now).

We are involved in many Internet ventures that make us a few millions every

year.

In the past 2 years we're developed and revealed techniques that make our associates and us huge AdSense earnings every month. Here's a recent screenshot from one of the AdSense accounts we're managing:

We helped many of our customers to make solid 5 figures a month, and a few make even more, and this is by using the exact same techniques we're about to reveal here. Here's a screenshot of one of our customer's account, which he agreed we'll publish on this report. This fellow already making more than $10,000 a month:

An AdSense earnings report screenshot of one of our recent customers. Notice the growth of the income from day to day. This customer is already making more than $10,000 a month.

Why AdSense is so easy and so powerful for you?

A) It is a residual income, kind of "set it and forget it".

B) It is very easy to build good websites for the sole purpose of AdSense
revenue (as long as you treat this as a real business).

C) You don't need to be a genius search engine optimization (SEO) expert in
order for you to succeed with AdSense.

D) It doesn't force the visitors on your website to take serious action in order
for you to make money. All they do is naturally click on ads that might
help them reach their goals and you make money from each click!

This is why we decided to focus on AdSense... Especially for you!

So Let's Start....

Things You Have to Know Before We Start.

Before anyone can begin to understand the basics of increasing their earnings with Adsense, they must have a certain level of background knowledge.

Before we begin, make sure that you know how to do the following, and that you aren't fooled into buying this information from anyone touting it as a "secret" to success.

While the following fundamentals are key to success, they are not big secrets, so don't be fooled into paying for them. Do, however, take time to learn and implement them if you haven't already.

• Using large rectangle blocks for Adsense ads, borders, and outlines that are the same (or similar) color as your web page will avoid having your ad "stand out". In addition, sticking with the color blue is ALWAYS the best bet, as internet surfers are accustomed to clicking on blue-colored links. However, from our experience the below adds give us the best results.

• You don't have to write your own original content - Stop worry about duplicate content, done right you can use other people content, rank high in search engines and they will thank you for this!

• The more sites you have, the BETTER. Utilizing Adsense on only one website is fine, but isn't likely to garner much attention—or profit—unless you have an enormous amount of traffic. Put simply, the more sites you maintain, the better chances you have of realizing your financial goals.

Will these tips help you maximize your profitability through Adsense? Absolutely! Are they secrets? Absolutely not!

Remember, these are FUNDAMENTALS, not insider tips. Learning them will help you get started, but they will not separate you from the crowd, so don't spend your hard earned dollars just to have someone regurgitate the same information that your average webmaster already knows.

Tip #1: Forget About Perfect Markets.

Looking for a "hot market" and then trying to get in on the action just makes sense, right? Wrong.

While some online markets are definitely more profitable than others, the key to success with AdSense is not through picking one high-quality market and sticking with it - it's about quantity.

Put simply, the more you diversify your online interests, the more money you are bound to make.

Does this mean that you shouldn't take time to do market research by checking Overture's search numbers, click costs, search engine competition, and affiliate programs?

No. Those are fundamental tools that you simply must use and master.

But understand that not all markets are as easy to conquer as others, and there is honestly no rhyme, no reason, and no market research that can determine which ones you'll have success with.

For example, one day you may be able to reach the top-ten in a super competitive market, and the next day you may find yourself barely entering Google's ratings. Even wide-open, non-competitive markets may be difficult to get a foothold in (rankings wise), making predicting success is difficult if not impossible.

That's why it's important for you to work in as many different markets as possible, instead of analyzing which one or two might work best for you.

Chances are, if you test out ten markets, at least two or three will be profitable. Do this every week, and odds are that you'll be making quite a profit in no time.

Tip #2: Quantity Outweighs Quality

Unless you are extremely gifted at predicting the future, we suggest that you heed this secret. It is based on simple math. The more opportunities you are working with, the better you can expect the results to be.

We learned a long time ago that we cannot accurately guess which markets are going to profitable and which are not.

Now do not misunderstand us. We do all the standard market research that we all need to do before choosing a market.

We would investigate Overture's search numbers and cost per clicks, we'd check on the competition, we'd make sure there were at least 2 or 3 reliable and solid affiliate programs associated with the particular market and so forth and so on. We were doing our homework.

But even after all the research, the investigating, there were some markets that we were simply not able to turn a profit in.

More often than not, we noticed that this failure had nothing to do with the competition that we faced in that market. In fact, there were some markets that were very competitive in which we achieved very high rankings. Then, for some reason, there were other markets that should have been a snap for us to profit in that did not pan out at all. There were times when we couldn't even make the top 10 for a single keyword!

So that's when we decided to employ a new methodology.

It's simple: throw enough out there and something will hit the target.

And it works.

After using this rather simple method and seeing the results, we no longer care if a market appears to be quality market or not. Our results proved to us, at least, that if we go into 10 markets, we can usually expect 2 or 3 of them to turn out to be profitable winners.

Once we understood that this method, while simple, returned good results, we continued to use it. We would put in another ten markets per week, and over time, by doing that, week after week, we eventually built a huge network of sites, in hundreds of different markets, all of them profitable.

Now, you can follow our suggestion and do what we have been doing or you can work yourself to death trying to find those few "perfect" markets, which, as far as we are concerned, actually change one week from the next.

Our method takes work. There is no way around that truism. But we have some tips on that for you as well.

Tip #3: This is business. It is not playtime.

You might be surprised by the number of people who complain that they do not make any significant income from their AdSense campaigns. When we ask them how many markets they're in or how many domains they have, their answer is usually 10 or 15 markets, and only 1 or 2 domains per market.

Here is another truth that many people do not want to face head-on. You cannot make any money with AdSense unless you are in a lot of markets. And within those many markets, you must have many websites if you want to really penetrate your niche market and make the most profits from that market. In today's world, you need to have a lot of smaller sites.

So how can you do all of that?

Well, you cannot, unless you first address some important issues.

In order for you to accomplish all this work, you need three things:

1) Procedures

2) Achievable Goals

3) Help

PROCEDURES: As mentioned above, in order for you to maximize your profits and exposure, you must have a lot of websites working for you. With that being the case, you need to have some system of generating a lot of websites and be able to get those sites up and running in as quick a fashion as possible.

So how about an assembly line metaphor? Let's assume you want to get into 20 markets. One way to do this would be for you to do the keyword research for all 20 markets. Then purchase your domain names. Then setup your hosting accounts. And lastly build and upload your web pages.

Your procedure, in this case, allows you to work in a systematic, organized way which is much more efficient than attempting to build each site, one at a time, and one domain at a time.

ACHEIVEABLE GOALS: Anyone who is self-employed, either full time or part time, understands the importance of setting realistic goals and then achieving those goals. You need to set daily, weekly, and monthly goals to keep yourself on track and give yourself a clear picture of where you are and where you want to go.

Your goal list is your roadmap to success.

However, each goal that you set for yourself must be achievable. Do not set your goals so high that failure is almost assured. That sort of action will kill your self-confidence and cause you to lose faith in your work.

If you are just getting started out, you might set a monthly goal of 10 markets, with 3 domains per market.

Is that too much?

How about starting with 5 markets with 2 domains per market?

You would then set weekly and daily goals to ensure that you meet (and even exceed) the goals you set.

Without goals you can't keep score, and if you can't keep score you don't know if you're winning or losing in business, or in life, for that matter.

HELP: The last element that is vital to your success is help.

In order for all the work to get done, you will need to outsource as much as possible.

This is vital. You must understand why outsourcing is so important.

Your mission is to perform a task only until you know it well enough to teach someone else how to do it. The faster you can duplicate yourself, the faster you can expand your business as you focus on the most profitable actions that need to be taken. For this to work, you have to be management, not grunt.

Our entire page generation business is 100% outsourced. We have one person who selects my markets, another does the keyword research for those markets, and yet another who actually builds and manages all my pages.

This frees us up to concentrate on the markets that are truly profitable. It allows us the time and the mental space to think through our next move. That freedom to think would be greatly diminished if we had to spend the majority of our time doing work that others can do just as well, and, in some cases, better than us.

Tip #4: Target your pages to Keyword Phrases

Regardless of the markets that you are in, the vast majority of your traffic will come from the 3- to 5-word keyword phrases you select rather than from your 1-and 2-word "root keyword".

If you're going into the "Birthday Cards" market, you will get more traffic from keyword phrases like "Free Printable Birthday Cards" than from something like "Birthday Cards".

The secret for more traffic is to aim your website pages (title tags and content) to keyword phrases. To find the best keyword phrases you may use www.WordTracker.com or overture keyword suggestion tool here: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Tip #5: Use Relevant Content Related To the Theme

There are a lot of places where you can borrow content and articles as long as you credit the writer with a link to his/her site. The best content is an original content, however building a huge network of sites writing articles yourself or outsource the writing tasks to other ghostwriters is time consuming and very expensive. We use other people articles, once combining more then one article on a page, make the page an original page.

Below you may find a list of article directories where you can borrow articles and content.

Make money online predicting the direction of a stock

Luck, Do You Have It?
Cause If you do, and your stocks trading senses are good enough, heres a great way for you to make money online.

Tradingmarkets.com, a part of The connors group - A financial markets information company, offers you a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Each day, a stock will be selected and its price chart will be displayed.
You will have to predict if that stock will close up or down the following trading day.
The results are calculated on a close to close basis.
If the closing price is unchanged, your prediction counts as a win.

Your prediction must be made before 4:00 PM (ET).

Prizes:
The contestant that makes the most correct predictions in each calendar month wins $1000.
The contestant that makes the highest percentage of correct predictions in 2008 wins the $3500 bonus prize.

Is it Possible to make money without a job ?

Is there a possible answer to the question: "can I earn money without working".

"Earn money fast and easy, earn fast cash, earn fast extra money" and many more are all different names to quick-money programs offering you different ways to change your life.
While many people are joining those programs, others who have already started their work-at-home job, realized that there's no one who is being able to earn fast and easy money without having any job.
Surprisingly, even working as an independent mlm agent or affiliate program/company is a job which demands great efforts.
Therefor, we can change the basic question to how can I earn fast money from my home-based Internet business.
Making money on the Internet is absolutely not going to be easy, you would have to work for hours to succeed.
Do you wanna know who is making money from the Internet? - Well, finding people who truly did received Internet payments is a hard thing to be made, almost impossible, yet I can teach you a simple way to find out which program pays real money, so you will be provided with the valuable knowledge of how to work from home without being ripped off or scammed.
I searched for network marketing payment's pictures.....
To be able to decide whether joining a specific program was actually worthy, I checked the payment's proof photo - if it looks true to me, I started reading about the company and the product/service it provides.
Another good possible option for increasing your online safety is to search for the term "Internet checks" via Google images or other web site.
Usually I try to see who stands behind the check, and if it looks true and authentic, I am there.
So what should be your next step?, you will have to open an online bank account (for example pay-pal) and have it verified before starting your online business.

If you own a blogging business and you intend on making money through blogging online, Keep writing, typing, sending good articles, and improving your readers ability to comment and share their knowledge.

Other online businesses:
You can start your own data entry/typing home based business.
You can keep looking for the best work from home job over the Internet, easy money programs have exploded the web with offers, you just have to find the one matching your skills.
You can join a new mlm business, buy some fresh leads and you are on your way to earn free cash from home.
You can promote products from home and earn for every sale been made.
Remember that a successful strategy means earning money.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Tips For Search Engine Optimization

Ranking high in search engines is every webmaster’s dream. If your website was to be ranked in the top 3 positions for a given keyword, your website will be flooded with highly targeted traffic for free.

In the world of search engine rankings, your ultimate goal is to land the first spot in search results using a targeted keyword. One way to do that is on-page optimization. Lets see how you can do this.

On-page optimization refers to the improvement of both content and structure of the website so you can have better a chance of improving your page rank. There are numerous techniques available, but it does not mean that everything is actually applicable.

There are unethical practices known as Black Hat strategies which are frowned upon. Using those techniques will hurt your website on the long run. Thus, if you do not want to hurt your rank and even your reputation, here are some excellent techniques in on-page optimization which I highly suggest you follow.

1. Keep relevancy in your content. One of the major reasons why other websites would want to link to your website which in turn brings you a massive amount of traffic is because of your content. Another way to do this is to use your articles, and use a number of high-ranking keywords. Their purpose is to allow your article to show up once Internet users utilize your keywords in searching for information. The idea is to get your articles to appear on the first page of search results for a set of keywords that are relevant to your website.

When writing articles and playing with keywords, keep in mind that they should be relevant to the articles that you are writing about. As much as possible, your content should appear natural. Place your keywords at the right places. Most of all, do not over-stuff them. Not only does it make your copies sound incomprehensible, but you will likely get punished by search engines because of such technique. Remember to use keywords sparingly.

2. Validate your HTML. There are a number of disadvantages when you do not double-check your HTML code. One of these is you will never rank well in search engine results. What’s more, your website appears disoriented in some of the Internet browsers. There are many tools on the internet that will check your website for HTML errors. AnyBrowser is one of them.

To validate your HTML, you can also utilize a W3C HTML validator. All you need to do is to place your URL in it and allow the application to analyze your HTML codes and your HTML structure. In the end, it can give you a list of errors that you may have done in your webpages. You can then come up with the best solution to your problems.

3. Use bold text in your heading tags. One of the most effective ways to rank well with a particular keyword is to place it in your heading.

If your website is about Cats then place the word “Cat” in the heading of your website before your first paragraph. This is because search engine spiders “read” your content from top to bottom. And thus if you use bold text at the top of your web page you will have a better chance of getting a higher rank. However, to further increase your chances, set the keyword in bold. Spiders will view your keyword as highly relevant to the theme of your website which in turn will help you rank better.

There you have it. Those 3 strategies will help you optimize your website

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Making money with your food blog

As I mentioned in “How to start a food blog“, food blogging is a terrible way to make money if you enjoy living in the First World. This year, food blogging will pay my rent but not much else. Here is how to do at least that, without devoting your entire life to blogging:

Advertising for your food blog

Which ad network? Or which combination of ad networks?

There is no single ad network that is right for everybody. The most profitable blogs tend to use a mix of networks and play to each of the networks strengths. This list of networks is by no means exhaustive: there are hundreds of ad networks out there.

Google Adsense – Everyone has Google Ads; the number of people getting rich from them apart from Google shareholders is miniscule. Google’s biggest coup is that it has realised that most bloggers are happy to get paid nothing as long as a few dollars trickle through. The advantage of Google is ease of use: they’re dead simple to add to your site, customise in a bare bones fashion and earn a few cents a click. You can use them on every blog network. They’re the ultimate in low maintenance. The disadvantages are the low pay and the complete lack of control over which ads turn up on your site. Because the ads are geographically targeted, the ads that you see won’t be the ones that anyone else sees. This is fine if you don’t care.

Yahoo! – Just like Google but second best!

Text Link Ads – if you want to people to find your website by searching on Google, this network is dead in the water. Google penalises your “page rank” if you use it, but I use it over at Phnomenon because in most of the categories that I write in, I have no competition on the web. It pays very well, doesn’t rely on clicks (so you make money whether people click your ads or not), and if you place them judiciously, people won’t even notice that they’re being advertised at.

A similar network TNX.net has beaten Google for now. They’re still in the early stages of development (as the spelling mistakes on their beta site attests) but worth watching.

Blog Ads – the specialist ad network for bloggers. They’re a handy way to make money when you have low traffic because they pay regardless. The downside of this network is that if you do receive big, unpredictable spikes in the number of people visiting your site, you won’t be getting an equally large spike in earnings. They’re invite-only which is a strategy that I still don’t understand.

Selling other people’s products

When people read your favorite cake recipe, it is unlikely that they’ll click on the ingredients to buy them online. When people read a digital camera review, the opposite is true. Selling other people’s products and making a commission is a popular way to make money for most bloggers but it is difficult for food bloggers to do well because of the nature of the subject. Most of society does not buy the bulk of their food online. The easiest way to sell products is via Amazon affiliates program or the lesser known Chitika (Probloggers swear by it, because unlike Amazon, it relies less on you making sales and more on click-throughs)

If you want to spend your time writing reviews of products then this is a possible way to make money and there are still a few niches where food bloggers could be making huge amounts of cash: major appliances and kitchenware. Most of the top food bloggers already use Amazon to link to cookbooks but most of the time it is just a half-hearted link rather than a ringing endorsement.

Selling your own ads

Selling your own ads is by far the most profitable way to make money for your blog because it is one of the few avenues by which you’ll firstly be in direct contact with the advertisers’ money and secondly, will be able to charge what your blog is worth. The only downside is that you have to do the selling. As much as I love marketing, marketing is not sales. The low effort way to sell your own ads is to put a banner where your ad would be and link to your rates page. How much should you charge? Here’s blog network Gawker Media’s rates for their network of professionally produced and edited blogs. That will at least give you a point for comparison.

Unconventional means

Merchandise

A few food blogs sell their own merchandise: Chubby Hubby was selling notecards for a time; Ideas in Food sell their photo book; I’m considering turning Phnomenon into a book. If you can find a niche this may be worthwhile.

Make money from every link

I was going to call this bit “monetize your food blog”, but I get a sharp stabbing sensation in the part of my brain that stores verbed nouns every time I write “monetize”. Whenever you can throw in a product link, make sure that you make money from it. For most bloggers, this means the occasional link to an Amazon product, but you’ll notice that practically every link on this page has my referrer code on it. If you sign up for anything then I make money from you! It doesn’t affect your income but I benefit.

Get hired by someone else as a food blogger

This isn’t as hard as you think it might be. B5 Media are always on the lookout for good bloggers. Problogger keeps a handy jobs board: at last check there were two paid food blogger positions. The biggest advantage of making money from your food blog in this way is that (generally) you need not worry about the technical side of the blog or selling ads as the blog network/business will do the design and marketing. The down side is that the pay is terrible and you have no control over design and marketing.

Sell your posts and photos

If you think that your posts and photos are magazine quality, try selling them to magazines. For me, selling a single article to an American newspaper earns just a little less than the income from my two sites for a month. Get over to mediabistro and to your local press to get started. Scoopt started a business selling blog posts to mainstream magazines as ScooptWords (e.g. these food bloggers in Olive Magazine) but have since seemed to have discontinued the blog side of their business to concentrate on cellphone snaps of celebrities.

As for photos, the online stock photo business is well on its way to destroying a valuable income earner for the bad professional photographers who take the photo of the guy climbing the mountain with a briefcase. Good pro photographers will always have a business. To sell your food photos online, see the links below.

Sell out entirely

Get paid to write reviews of other websites at somewhere like ReviewMe. If I no longer valued human decency, I’d make $60 every time that somebody wanted me to review whatever shit that they thrust in my direction.

Where should I place ads to make the most money?

Here.

blog ad heat map

Google published the above heat map to show which ads are clicked the most with the red areas being the most clicked. They have also produced one targeted at blogs which is a little more rudimentary and when I’ve tested it, doesn’t seem to work well.

Also useful are themes for your site designed with making money in mind. See below for links.

The easiest way to make money from blogging is writing about making money from blogging.

Just because I’m making a Third World income from blogging doesn’t mean that you can’t earn more. Read Shoemoney or Problogger. They’re earning 6 figure amounts but they’re also devoting the entirety of their lives to doing it. Sadly, that is the bare minimum amount of time you’ll need to spend.

Maintaining your audience

How often should I write?

As often as you like.

The standard answer to this is that if you are looking to increase your audience, often is better. If you look at Technorati’s top blogs, most of these sites are updated multiple times a day. You’ll also notice that none of them are food blogs, unless you count icanhascheezburger.com which is substantively about cats perverting the English language.

I’d prefer to be reading blogs that update once a month and write 15,000 word articles rather than one that writes two 250 word posts a day. I’m not most people, but nonetheless, I’d encourage you to write for me. What seems to matter as much as frequency is consistency. If you plan to write once a week, stick to your schedule.

I’m burnt out and sick of blogging. What do I do?

Take a break.

What I tend to do is write articles that aren’t time dependent and change their post date to two weeks in advance (you can do this in Wordpress). If I have enough content in two weeks time, I push it forward another two weeks. This maintains the appearance that I’m equally motivated all of the time. I’m quite clearly not. The scary thing is that my blog will continue to run for a few months if I’m dead.

People don’t comment. How do you make them?

Ask a question at the end of your post. People are that easy to manipulate…or aren’t they?

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Ways of Increasing Your Website Link Popularity

There are various ways of increasing your web site link popularity. I’m listing out some important tips which are easily doable.

Submit your site in popular search engines manually. Don’t go for automated submission.
Get your site listed in Open Directory Projects like dmog.org, yahoo.com. Getting listed in these directories will give your site a boost in link popularity and improve search engine ranking in other search engines.
Provide high quality content - people will naturally link to your site if you have what they want and no where is available.
Leverage your personal relastions with other webmasters. Put your site link on their sites. One way links often count for more than reciprocal links.
Particiapte in Link Exchaneg Program. Find top 20 sites doing the same business and contact them for reciprocal links. Link exchange between unrelated sites might affect the ranking of websites in the Search Engine.
If you are subscribed in a forum and forum does not have any restriction to keep your site link as your signature then it can help you to increase your site popularity.
Submit your site to bookmark sites like DIGG, and Slashdot etc. Before submitting please go through their spam policy.
Write good articles in blogging sites and give few references of your links with-in that article.
Keep providing good content to your site visitors. Try to keep them busy on your site. If possible create forums, news letters, blogs etc.

There are other ways but you need to spend some dollars to go for such alternative.

Buy a place on high rank website where you can put your link.
Subscribe for google’s Adwords program to drive traffic towards your site.
You can go for alternative advertising option to increase the number of hits on your site which will result in your site link popularity.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Top Money Making Ideas and Methods

Internet marketing is a great way to make a living. There are numerous ways to profit from the opportunities on the web. Here are some of the top money making ideas that predominate on the net. I’m going to briefly explain to you the 3 most common ways that you can profit from home and earn making money online.

Here goes!

[1] Affiliate Marketing.

This is hands down in my opinion one of the top money making ideas used online today. The concept is rather basic. You advertise a product and then divert that traffic to the merchant’s sales page. If the merchant converts that visitor, you receive a percentage of the sales price in the form of a commission.

You’re job is marketing and that’s it. You’re referring people and get rewarded accordingly. Commission percentages can range between 40% to 75%.

This can be a very lucrative way of doing business if done correctly. What’s makes this one of the best money making ideas is that you are just responsible for marketing and marketing only. The merchant takes care of all the rest of the business such as selling the product, all the follow-up, customer service, refunds etc.

The disadvantages are that although you are receiving the commission, you don’t retain a customer for repeat business. It’s a one-sale deal in most cases. You’re kind of like the middleman and if you’re okay with that, then this is a good way to go.

[2] Selling your own Information Product.

If you have the means and you want to go this route, this is one of the good ideas making money and you can make a lot of money for sure.

One suggestion is to really do your research and find what kind of information people are looking for. Find a market that wants a product and then make that product versus the other way around.

To many people spend all their time and resources developing an info product and then come to find no one wants to buy it. Swallow your pride and decide to produce a product for a ready market and you’ll be richly rewarded and earn making money online.

If you own and created your own product you have full control how you want to market it. You can decide to attach resell rights to it or set up your own affiliate program and use this leverage to spread the word and cash in on profits.

Just remember to do your research first and identify what solutions to problems people are looking for and provide it. This is really one of the top money making ideas for many and it’s not as hard as you may think.

Just remember that when you are selling your own products you also need to attend to all the other aspects of your business. It will take more of your time and you might want to hire someone else to help you, so you can concentrate on the money making end and not all the customer service issues.

[3] Start a subscriber and/or customer list.

Of all the top money making ideas, this one alone will ensure the long-term success of your business for years to come. Everyone that does business on the Internet needs to build a list (or multiple lists).

How do you get started to earn making money online with your own list. Well if your just starting out write a quality report on the subject your target market is looking for and give this away in exchange for a name and email address.

If you stay in touch with your subscribers on a regular bases and have an interest in helping them, they will become very responsive loyal customers or subscribers. You can do this by always giving them great information on the particular niche theme. Let them know you care and know what you are talking about and they will trust your advice.

Then you can send them offers from time to time mixed in with your good ideas making money in a newsletter or weekly tips. If your offers are targeted towards your list they will be very responsive to what you have to offer. When you build up a highly responsive list it can really be like printing your own money.

Well I hope these top money making ideas gave you some direction to go in your online efforts. Again these are not all of the best money making ideas but just 3 of the many, many options you have to make money online.

And I could have gone into way more detail with each of these methods but there’s simply not enough space. I wish you the best and with determination and the right information you can do it too.

Get a head start with one of the best online marketing courses on the Internet. Knowledge is power and this will get you on the fast track to success.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

6 Small Steps to Promoting Your New Business

In order to get more money, you have to get people to give it to you, yes? It sounds simple, but that’s the part that people tend to forget. It is so easy to focus on what you will use it for, what bills you will pay off and what new goodies you could afford, that you forget the exchange of money is all about persuading someone else to give you theirs.

Baby steps in self-promotion

Figure out your niche
Find people you know who operate in the niche
Offer them a freebie for recommendations
Print up some business promotional materials
Leave your promotional materials everywhere
Answer phone calls promptly and professionally. Write a script beforehand if necessary.

I’m not interested in cheating anyone, so I’m never going to be covering pyramid selling or mail stuffing scams. What I am interested in is coming up with a viable business concept, costing it out and implementing it. You don’t have to be Donald Trump or Alan Sugar to come up with an idea for a small enterprise - it doesn’t have to be about replacing the day job, there is nothing wrong with earning a little bit of pin money with a hobby, for example.

So, you’ve decided that you have a fair few spare evenings, you like kids and you like watching tv. Maybe you’ll set up a babysitting business! It’s going to be difficult to market yourself, as an unknown adult to parents. However, I’ll bet that you have some friends who are parents, don’t you? The key is to find a way in to your circle of clients. Offer a free night’s babysitting to some friends in return for recommendations to the other parents they know. Networking is king in this situation. Get some cards made, print some brochures out, and give them to your friends who had the freebie. The key here is that people in a niche (parents, classic car owners, teddy bear collectors etc.) usually know other people in the same niche, and their recommendations carry a lot of weight. Ask them to hand them out to some of the other parents at the school gate.

Personally, I’d be thrilled if another parent handed me a babysitting service flier, and I’d be on the phone in seconds.

The key to this sort of business is finding that way into the niche. Often friends are a great way in - they understand your drive, and are usually more than pleased to be able to help you out. Don’t take advantage of them, but make really sure that they know how much you appreciate their help. It’s always nice to help out

I’m going to do a bit of a shameless plug here as I’ve just had this service recommended to me:

Vistaprint do very cheap business stationery, including lots of free opening offers - business cards, fridge magnets, rubber stamps etc. All you pay for is the postage. A friend who runs a music company recommended them to me as a way of getting very cheap business cards for several different companies at the same time without having to pay origination costs for all of them. I’ve followed his advice, and have been very pleased with how easy the website is to use. (Full disclosure: I get a £1 off my next order if someone clicks the link! But this recommendation isn’t about the quid so much as finding an easy to use and free service!).

Once you’ve got business cards (the absolute minimum), carry them with you everywhere. Every time you stop somewhere, leave a card on a table/shop counter/pub bench, whatever. Vistaprint will get you 250 nice quality cards for about £3 postage, which means that you can afford to scatter them about like confetti. Remember that people need to know about you to give your their money. The more pro-active you are with that promotion, the better the response from your customer base.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make very sure that whatever telephone number you put on the cards/leaflets is one where you can be reached as often as possible. If necessary, put an answering message on your home phone, or redirect to your mobile. You usually only get one chance at a first impression. People will ring ONCE, and if you don’t pickup, or don’t sound confident they won’t ring again. Once the fish slips off the hook, it tends to swim away - you should be aiming at reeling it in!

Tip on Answering Phones

I operate a number of businesses from one phone line - two seperate building businesses, a holiday rental, web design & upkeep, The In-Debt Net, and …err… about 5 or 6 bands (last count) as well as all my personal calls. It is impossible to answer the phone correctly for each business, as I never know what sort of call it will be. My promotional material is very upfront about my name and connection with each business (see my “About Me” box above right…), so I answer the phone with “Hello, Annie Walker speaking!” This solves the problem of not knowing whether someone wants to book a tribute band or have a conservatory built - most people calling are doing so from some form of promotional material, so are *expecting* to speak to me…

Friday, May 23, 2008

Making Money From Hobbies

I talk a lot about taking a hobby and viewing it as a business. Life is just too short to spend it doing something that you don’t actually like. Why should we spend our entire lives working at something that makes us miserable, only to do our actual *living* at the end of our time? What happens if we get hit by a bus the day after we retire? Isn’t that a waste?

However, it often isn’t realistic to give up your job as a merchant banker and expect to make the same amount of money as a professional stamp collector. The key is to start small and start looking at, and treating your hobby as a source of money which you enjoy earning. It can be a revelation to realise that you don’t have to be guilty about doing things you love, and that if you are good at it, often people will pay you for it!

For me, the thing that I love to do more than anything is making music. I love impromptu music and music made with friends, just for the love of it. I adore the sound of my voice rising from a group in harmony and the feeling of strings under my fingers. The bits that I don’t like *quite* so much are the bits that involve promoting myself and phoning around for gigs. which is where busking comes in. I sat down and looked at what I liked and didn’t like about making music:

Liked

Singing, particularly harmony
Making people smile
Improvisation
Playing with friends
Being to stop and start whenever I want
Laughing
Being able to swap between instruments and voices

Disliked

Hostile audiences (the “go on, entertain me then!” attitude)
Phoning around for gigs
Schmoozing before and after gigs
Gigging when I feel ill, depressed or simply not in the mood
Having to find babysitters constantly
Losing weekend evenings.

When I looked at my hobby like this, I realised that busking was a way of bringing in money that I would really enjoy. It took advantage of all the things that I loved, but minimised all the things that I didn’t.

Why not look at your hobbies/existing job in the same way? Look at the things that you love and the things that you don’t, and start to work on maximising the first whilst minimising the second. It isn’t always going to be possible to make your fortune straight away with a hobby, but the way I look at extra earning is this: if I do something I enjoy, I don’t begrudge the time spent. If I earn a small amount of money, I ask myself whether, if I found that amount of money lying in the street, would I bother to pick it up and then consider myself lucky? If the answer is “yes”, then it’s been time well spent. And with busking (as with almost all other hobby businesses) every time I go out, I learn something different that allows me to make a little more money. Last time I went out, my partner and I tried a different position. It worked brilliantly, and earned us more money. Every time is an improvement, and enables us to work more efficiently and earn more effectively.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Social Bookmarking Helps in Driving Traffic

Using Social Bookmarking sites are a really great way to promote your website or Blog. They are becoming one of the best marketing tools today, especially since they have very useful tools and features that users can utilize to improve their search engine optimization.What is Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking allows users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. This enables Internet users to access and add their favorite bookmarks from any computer. Personalized, informal tags are used to organize bookmarks instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders. These sites measure the popularity of a given website as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system. So you can see what bookmarks are favorites to a lot of people. Learning new things is easy and effortless with social bookmarking sites. Everything on these sites is someone’s favorite — they’ve already done the work of finding it, so all you have to do is look! Some common bookmarking websites are Digg, del.icio.us, Furl, Technorati, Blinklist, Reddit, and Spurl.

Why would I want/need to be Socially Bookmarked?

There are lots of uses to social bookmarking- such as sharing your favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and anyone else. Groups can create a shared account to collect and organize bookmarks that are useful to the entire group. For example, if you’re planning a group vacation, you all can collect bookmarks and review what everyone else finds. Creating wish lists on social bookmarking sites is also a great idea to get the word out to people you know. Make a birthday list by shopping online, saving your “wishes” as a bookmark and tell your friends/family to check it out from their computers!! Whatever the use for sharing information, social bookmarking can save a lot of your time. And today, time is so precious!

Why is Social Bookmarking good for SEO?

Due to the immense popularity of social bookmarking websites, being on their front-page, you are increasing your traffic to your website. In the long run, the numerous inbound links to your site will increase and regard you as a link reference, thus you have increased your link popularity and efficiently increased your rank. Between your high traffic and increased link popularity, social bookmarking websites use this method as their media platform with a viral marketing campaign to their advantage by doubling it with link baits. You win in more than one way!

Overall, social bookmarking is a great way to increase traffic and potential customers to your website. Just keep in mind, in order to be successful in social bookmarking, you must provide content that has value and worth bookmarking!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Money Making in the Google Way

If you are not familiar with Google Adsense you should consider looking into the many features that it offers. Google Adsense is relatively new to the internet world, but it has proven to be a very effective tool that may even be able to make you some money. There are people who make a decent chunk of change every month from using Google Adsense.

Making money from adsense is not very difficult. The first thing that you will need to do is open an account. You can do this by accessing the Google Adsense website. You will then have to supply your contact information as well as the website that you want to have your ads placed on. After you are approved you will be able to get started. Google will send targeted ads to your site. So for example, if you are running a site on how to make money on line, they will send ads that correspond with that subject.

Making money from adsense is not a difficult concept either. The main thing to remember is that you will make money on how many times your visitors click on the ads that are displayed on your site. Making money from adsense is much easier if you have a lot of traffic. Because obviously, if nobody is visiting your site nobody can click on your ads.

Adsense for blog users has become very popular over the past few months. Blog owners have found that they can make a lot of money by placing these ads on their site. This is especially true for blogs that get a lot of traffic.

If you are skeptical about making money from adsense you are not alone. There are many people that feel that this program is too good to be true. But in all actuality there is not much to it at all. You never have to pay to use the service, and you will be sent payment every month. Many people feel that making money from adsense will be difficult because they do not have enough traffic; and these people are right. If making money from adsense is what you are after you will need to have a good marketing campaign in place. This way as your site begins to get more hits, you will also begin to make more money through adsense.

Making money from adsense is a viable opportunity if you put your mind to it. There are many people who have used this system to their advantage, and are cashing in on it. Making sure you increase your overall traffic is the best way to ensure that you give yourself the best chance of making money from adsense.

Tips for Money Making Online

Who wouldn’t want to make money online? You choose your hours, you can work from any location in the world and you can leverage your time in a way that makes having a job seem like the biggest waste of time imaginable!

However, it’s only easy to make money online if you do your homework first. The best way to make easy money online is surely to follow what other successful internet entrepreneurs do, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. You could waste a ton of money and a lot of time trying to make money with, for instance, Google Adwords, or on eBay or with affiliate marketing and so on, if you simply log onto the website, create an account and start trading. There are proven techniques, tricks of the trade and short cuts to enable you to make money online quickly and successfully. There are also a lot of mistakes to be made and a lot of money to be wasted if you don’t know what you are doing.

Tip One is to study first, make money second.

So many people want everything for free and feel that if they have to buy information, they are somehow being ripped off. I bought a stack of information when I started out, and don’t feel that any of my money was wasted – yes, some information helped me more than others, but it was all a learning curve, and saved me wasting a fortune making mistakes. I learnt from the mistakes others had made instead. Think of it this way – if, in one year from now you are earning enough to walk away from the day job, would it be worth ‘going back to school’ and studying your new career path before you get started?

Tip Two is to have a variety of online businesses – some you will take to more than others, some will pay out sooner than others, but at the end of the day why put all your hopes on one business stream when you can have several?

Tip Three. Be patient. Give yourself a year or 18 months to really give your online career a chance. If you don’t see results as soon as you want them, don’t give up only to try something else that you may not stick at either. It takes time, for instance, for new websites to get ranked in the search engines, and although you can learn how to create a website that will rank well, you cannot cheat the system. What you can do, is learn search engine optimisation techniques and put them all into practice, which will reap you big rewards further down the line. (There’s a free e-book on my website about this).

Making money online can give you total financial freedom – you have to want it enough to work hard initially, so that you can then sit back and enjoy it. Follow the leaders, don’t imagine you don’t need anyone’s help, be a ‘sponge’ and learn all you can and kiss the day job ‘goodbye’.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Link Building Machine

Social media, linkbaiting, link building, blogging and building an audience are hugely time consuming tasks that require a lot of skill, some great ideas and most importantly a long term vision.

Intelligent online publishers have been creating Link Building Machines for years but others try to rely on short term fixes. The short term fix (as you might have guessed) isn’t a good long term business strategy.

Put simply a Link Building Machine is a site that attracts thousands of links every month and hundreds of links to each one of their recent stories or blog posts without any direct marketing being carried out to create those links.

The BBC is a Link Building Machine, so is Wikipedia, so is Engadget, so is the New York Times. They are all sites that have the following key components making up their Machine.

A large number of fans who love to read their content
A fanbase that likes sharing content across social networks
Fans & readers who publish content on blogs & other websites - the linkerati
Good search engine rankings

Any website that has these elements is a Link Building Machine. Take a site like Wikipedia for example, it doesn’t have any RSS subscribers but Wikipedia ranks highly for so many informational queries that the articles are used as citations and reference links thousands of times every single day.

A site like the BBC can release a news story and find it being shared across thousands of blogs and social networks without the BBC having to do any marketing whatsoever.

One of my favourite examples of a Link Building Machine is a site that has thousands of well optimised images attracting millions of visitors from Google Images every single year. This site cleverly uses this script (this one is good too) to build thousands of new links every month with zero effort.

Creating your machine

Publishing one off linkbait articles is great for traffic and links but it isn’t a particularly effective long term strategy - unless carried out as part of the Link Building Machine development process.

Publish one linkbait article and it might get thousands of readers and hundreds of links but if you can replicate that success and publish similarly high quality articles every day for 6 months you might just end up creating a Link Building Machine.

Forget about building links to your site today - concentrate on your long term goal of finding thousands of people who love your website enough to tell the world whenever you write a new post.

Make Money Online

Good advertising is the key to making any business successful. Without it, a business would have to rely solely on word of mouth to become successful. They would have to start out small and please customers who in turn will tell others that they know about the business. Word of mouth is some of the best advertising. However, a business will grow too slowly if this is the only means of advertising. Placing advertisements is one of the best ways to make money online.

One of the best ways to make money online is to offer customers free information. You may think that it is counterproductive to offer people something for free. However, many people perceive anything that asks for money upfront to be a scam. They are less likely to pay for information if they do not know what they are getting into. Therefore, if you offer them basic information for free, they are more likely to become interested and be willing to spend some money to learn more. The more people you have requesting information, the more prospective customers you will acquire.

Many people do not understand that making money online will likely require paying out some money of their own to start. There are many people who want to be able to make money without spending any of their own. They are essentially looking for that get rich quick scheme. There is no such thing, however. The old saying, “it takes money to make money” still rings true today. One of the most important ways in which a new entrepreneur can make money online is to spend some money in advertising. There are ways in which a person can advertise for free but these methods are not always as effective. Purchasing advertisement space in magazines and newspapers can be a little more expensive but they will reach more people which will mean more money for you.

It is important for a new business owner who is trying to make money online to find an avenue that will create the largest interest in their company. It is important to find advertising space that fits what you are offering. For instance, you would not want to advertise in a home improvement magazine if you are offering pet related services. You want to find advertising space that directly correlates to what your business is offering. In addition, you will also need to find advertising space that fits within your budget. You can always expand your advertising once the business gets going so do not be afraid to start small.

There are many tricks and tips to making money online. Knowing the right way to advertise to maximize your earning potential is very important to creating a successful business venture. There is a little bit of trial and error that is involved with advertising. Different things are more successful with different businesses. It is important to try various different things to find out what works best for your business.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Checking Money-Making Potential Pt. 1

When an Estate Agent shows you around an old wreck of a house, they don’t tell you about the peeling wallpaper or lack of flooring. No, they tell you about the *potential* of a house. They want you to believe in the possibility of what you could achieve if you just put your mind to it. And let’s face it, they do that because a great many people will spend money on something that isn’t actually there - potential.

What is potential? It’s the actualisation of your vision and your hard work, not just in a house or flat, but also in your money-making life.

Just as a damp, peeling wreck of a house can be turned into a “Homes and Gardens” special with the application of thought, vision and hard-work, so your damp, peeling wreck of a financial life can be turned into a debt-free wonder through the same process. You certainly won’t achieve either of these goals by simply sitting down and doing nothing (that roof won’t fix itself, young missy!), but by working hard and seeing your potential, you have every chance of success.

You need to put a little work in, though. That’s the start of the process. So here’s what I want you to do:

Put on some relaxing music and fix yourself a drink of your choice (I highly recommend tea, but I’m English, so no surprise there!).
Take the nicest sheet of notepaper, and the nicest pen you have and write a big, fat “1″ at the top of the paper.
Now, think about all the things that you *can* do. Not necessarily the things that you enjoy doing most (although those should come first if you are in the right frame of mind) and write them down on your paper. This list can include things like “using a computer” or even owning a lot of stuff that you could Ebay. Write down your *potential*. Imagine that you are the Estate Agent, selling your life on your potential.

I’ll be doing this exercise myself tomorrow and posting the results so that you can see how I categorise my own potential. At the bottom of your list of potential, I would like you to write the words “I have the potential to be wealthy, successful and happy”. Underline it. Draw little flourishes underneath if you like. Feel good about the words….

Sunday, March 23, 2008

9 ideas for making money

So, if you read yesterday’s post, you’ll be determined to develop your positive mental attitude and make inroads into some debt repayment and income generation. What opportunities can we think of to make money in the Spring?

Spring Cleaning. If you are time-rich but cash-poor, why not offer a spring-cleaning service in your local community? If you don’t feel like cleaning an entire house top-to-bottom, then think about offering a specific cleaning service? If I had the money, I’d love for someone to come and wash all my window coverings and clean my glass…
Easter Crafts. Spring has sprung and people are enjoying going to craft fairs again – if you create crafts, have a think about building up a stock of your speciality and taking a stall at a nearby craft fair. There seems to be something about seasonal festivals which mean that people really enjoy properly hand-crafted items.
Car Boot Sales/Garage Sales. The weather is improving and people are getting back out of the house at weekends. If you’ve got a lot of stuff, then consider spending some time pricing and packing it for a car boot sale (or equivalent). Nobody likes to buy or sell when the weather is miserable, but it’s a proven fact that people are willing to spend more when the season starts up again.
Grass Cutting and general garden tidying. The grass is growing, but people have become accustomed to not cutting it over the winter. Offer a general tidying service, including a lawn cut and trimming of bushes. If you have access to a van or car/trailer, you can charge a premium for taking away material to landfill. *OR* offer to build them a cheap compost heap (4 pallets wired together and topped with a bit of old carpet) to put it all in.
Home Repair Consultancy. How many times have you heard that you should only employ workmen on personal recommendation? Why not act as a gathering place for that kind of information? There have been a lot of storms (and in my area, an earthquake!) recently, and lots of people need fences put back up, roof tiles replaced and chimney pots secured. Act as a “one stop shop” for workmen who can do all of that, as well as keeping records of who is available at any one time (workmen will usually tell you, “I’ve got three weeks of work lined up”, so you aren’t asking for confidential information!)
School pickups. This one takes a little more preparation, and is only applicable to those who like children. If you have a Criminal Records Bureau check (or don’t mind getting one), you could apply to pick up children from school and either escort them home, or look after them in your own home until their parents arrive. Bear in mind that a LOT of children start a new school after Easter, and if they haven’t got something lined up, parents will realise the value of this service and be prepared to pay well for it.
House staging. There’s a recession on. Houses aren’t selling well, and many people have problems seeing the potential in a house if it’s cluttered. If you have a good eye for design, then consider offering a house staging service (also known as “House Doctoring”) to people looking to sell. Spring is a great time to sell a house, and this service would be in great demand.
De-cluttering and home organisation. If you are a good organiser, and get on well with people, think about perhaps setting up a de-cluttering service. Talk to a local storage service about negotiating preferential rates for your customers too…
Pet-sitting/house visiting. Lots of people go away for Easter. Who will feed the cat , walk the dog, clean out the hamster and water the houseplants? You, of course! For a fee….

I’m sure that you can probably think of some more ideas – why not post them in comments?

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Eight Facts sbout SEO

If you are going to take up an SEO service, it is important for you to understand that SEO is not something that can be done based on some set principles and then left at that. There is lot more to SEO than just building links or writing title tags. There is a whole lot of planning and execution that goes into building a successful SEO campaign, and this takes time. There is time required to work out a linking strategy, there is time required to approach websites and build quality links, there is time required to ensure that the site ranks consistently and is not penalized by search engines cause of excessive or bad link building.

Below I present 8 SEO limitations that you as a client should know before taking up an SEO service.

1.) SEO Cannot Guarantee Results

The first thing that you have to understand is the fact that SEO is not magic. It’s not about building a few links and getting the site to rank top for keyword queries. It’s a lot more than that. If you look at a wider picture, you will realize that there are thousands of websites out there who want to rank within the top 10 for the very same keywords that you want to rank for. All these websites are using SEO services, and some are even paying a whole lot more than you can even afford.

Let us take an example. Say a website wants to rank for the keyword “acne remedies.” The competition for this keyword is around “338,000.” (You can find the competition of a keyword by going to Google and searching for the keyword using quotes. Just put a quote before and after the keyword and search. The competition will appear in the top right hand corner of the search results.)

Now, out of these 338,000 odd competitors, let us assume that we have around 1,000 good websites. All of these good websites are using SEO services to rank top for the same keyword (acne remedies). The number of spots available are only 10. So, considering this, how do you expect an SEO to guarantee results?

A good SEO will never guarantee results. The only thing he guarantees is the quality of service he will offer.

2.) Keywords Don't Remain Within the Top 10 Forever

I have seen many clients who simply stop the SEO service once their keywords start ranking on top. This is a mistake. You are ranking top today, and this could be your moment of fame. Search engines like Google keep updating their database on a daily basis and the SERPs change accordingly. If an SEO is making your keyword rank on top, appreciate him and stay with him.

SEO is not a one time process. It can never be, because there is competition out there waiting to topple your ranking at a moment’s notice. You have got to keep at it on a consistent basis so you can maintain your rankings. Please understand that SEO is an ongoing process.

3.) Rankings Can Fluctuate at Times

As mentioned above, Google keeps experimenting with its search algorithm. This means one fine day your top ranking keywords can drop down the order. But this does not mean that you should start panicking or blaming your SEO service provider.

Please understand that this is just a phase; your keywords can start ranking top once again in a matter a few days. Sometimes it might even take a few months; but if your website is of good quality and you have not done anything wrong, you should get back up there eventually.

It could also be that the keywords are ranking low only in a few old datacenters. You can always cross check your results in different Google datacenters using online tools. Here is one, for instance:

http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php

4.) PR Has Got Nothing to do with Rankings

There are many clients who think that SEO is about increasing the PR, so therefore the rankings would automatically improve. I am tired of explaining that PR has got nothing to do with a site's rankings, and that a low PR does not reflect badly on a website’s quality. There was a time when PR was taken into consideration in deciding the value of a website, but those days are gone. You can safely stop worrying about PR. What matters is the number of quality backlinks that you have. Check your backlinks using the following command in Yahoo!

Linkdomain:yoursitename.com –site:yoursitename.com

5.) SEO is Not About Mass Link Development

It’s not about the quantity of links that you get, but rather the quality. Sometimes a single quality link is worth more than 100 non-quality ones. Beware of SEO companies that develop hundreds of links every month from resource pages that have hundreds of unrelated links.

I had a client who was not happy with my link building. He showed me a list of links that his previous SEO company had developed. I had one look at that list and was shocked. All links were from crappy resource pages and each resource page had more than 500 to 600 links on them. Wow, if only link building was so easy.

I had to get all those links removed to keep the client site from getting penalized. Always remember, it’s not about quantity, it is all about quality when it comes to link building.

6.) SEO is Not About Directory Submissions or Article Submissions

Anyone can do directory or article submissions. But what do you think is the value of these easily generated links? The value of these links is close to nil, and these links can never be counted as quality links. I am not saying that all directory links are valueless. There are a handful of directories that can offer you good link value, but these directories are very rare. The other host of directories that accept any site that is submitted to them pretty much pass no link value.

When it comes to article submission, it’s not the link that you get from an article directory that matters. What matters is the links that you get from websites that decide to reprint/reuse your articles. You have to give a lot of thought towards writing good quality articles and not crappy ones.

7.) SEO is Just Like Website Maintenance – It’s Ongoing

SEO is ongoing and cannot be over in a set period of time. This is because, as I mentioned earlier, there are many websites out there competing to outrank your site. The only way you can maintain your position is by constantly working towards building good quality links spaced over a period of time.

8.) Slow and Steady Wins the Race

The question that really frustrates me is when a client asks, ‘How soon can you bring my keywords to rank on top?’ As already mentioned above, there cannot be a set time period for SEO. SEO is a slow and steady process. It is not like AdWords or any other PPC campaign that can bring results in a matter of minutes.

In SEO, just like anywhere else, the slow and steady win the race. Not the fast and the furious. The fast and the furious can generate a lot of links in a very small span of time, only to get your website penalized by Google. What is the point of spending so much on links when all you get is a penalized website?

Search engines are strictly against links generated artificially. They rank only those websites whom they think got their links naturally. It takes time to naturally acquire links. These links are generated over a period of time and not overnight. SEO is about generating links artificially, giving the search engines the impression that the links were actually generated naturally.

Building Links

We’re always talking about keeping links fresh and how important it is to keep up with your link building efforts. It’s great to talk about, but it can be daunting after months of trying to generate new and different links that will register well with the search engines. This week we thought we’d give you ten quick ways to add some links so that you can take a breather from the strenuous stuff and still feel good about adding real link value to your site. Each one should not take more than 5 minutes, a total of 50 minutes!

3 Internal Links: Go to your site right now and find three places where you can link your own content to content on another relevant page. This internal linking is often overlooked and is actually a great way to keep people digging deeper within your site. Look for a good keyword phrase on your homepage and link it to an inner page with more information so that readers will stay longer and explore further.

3 Free Directories with Value: In the past we’ve warned against indiscriminate use of directories, but there are some free directories that continue to show some value. Here are three that are consistent performers and that have all been seen in Google backlinks. So click on them and add your site right now.

2 places to Go Local: http://local.yahoo.com and http://register.local.com/free/update.aspx are both local searches that are ideal linking opportunities for small businesses. You get great links and you can draw some added local traffic from the many people who routinely use local searches to find local businesses. Yahoo Local includes customer reviews, maps and blogs as well. Local.com is a more straightforward listing, but does include business descriptions and you can search by zip code or city.

1 Link Site you should join is LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com. This professional networking website provides you with great access to thousands of other business professionals who are members of the network and allows you to connect with others through affiliations with companies, schools and universities you may have in common with other members. You can give and receive recommendations, discover business opportunities and create multiple links as a member. It’s free to sign-up and takes only minutes to get through the set up process. Look for me at my LinkedIn profile.

1 Blog Comment Right Here. Yep, all you have to do is add a nice little comment below and you will get a “do follow” link right back to your site. Maybe you can even suggest a couple other places to get a decent link in 5 minutes or less!

For some more great ways to quickly add links to your site, check out the link building tips at WIEP.

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