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Strategic Commenting

2007-01-06T16:56:00.000+03:00

Amy Gahran, creator of the popular weblog Contentious has writen a very interesting articel, "Strategic Commenting: No blog is an island".

This is some text from it:

If your weblog currently doesn't have much of an audience, then an easy way to build an audience is to constructively leverage audiences already fostered by more established bloggers in your field. This means being proactive about building new connections. Strategic commenting is all about taking the initiative.

I think you will find it very helpfull if you want to get more visitors.

PayPerPost

2006-12-28T15:20:00.000+03:00

If you have a low traffic blog and want to make some money, maybe AdSense is a waste of time. Why not try PayPerPost?

OK, PayPerPost requires that all paid posts be positive and no disclosure is required. But if that is not a problem for you you can make a lot of money.

How much can a blogger make with PayPerPost? Colleen Caldwell of Tampa, Florida has made $1,000 in online advertising income in less than seven weeks. And she has about 2130 impressions per month, that is 71 pages views per day!

Well, why not try it out? Don´t you want to make some money?

What are you waiting for? Try ads on blogs now!

The Google Adsense-Adwords Automatic Money Machine

2006-12-21T01:38:00.000+03:00

Have you ever tried to make money through affiliate programs using Google Adwords?

Then you know it's not easy. Some say that only 2-3 out of 10 affiliate Adwords campaigns will actually make a profit.

But what if you could get your Adwords campaigns for free, or even make a little profit from using Adwords for promoting affiliate programs.

Actually you can get your Adwords campaigns for free if you combine your Adwords campaigns with Google Adsense.

With Google Adsense you place small ads on your own web-page, hoping that people will click on these ads. When someone clicks on a Google ad on your web-site, you make money.

The normal approach to making money with Google Adsense is to have thousands of pages with Google ads, but you can successfully make money with Google Adsense with just one page.

That's right - one page!

1. Step
All you have to do is find niches, where people pay several dollars to get the top position in the Google ads. You can use Overture's bidtool to find high priced niche keywords.

2. Step
Next step is to build your one-page Google Adsense money machine. Find a free article in one of the article directories and set up a page with your keyword targeted article and three Adsense ad blocks. Use small Adsense blocks, that only shows the top three high priced ads.

3. Step
Last step is to set up a Google Adwords campaign with that niche keyword (and related keywords) - but you only bid 5 cents!

Now sit back and watch the magic. People click on your 5-cent ad and come to your one-page-Adsense website. They read your article - and some of them will click on the high priced ads on your page. Bingo! - you've made a small profit.

Nothing much, maybe a one dollar profit a day. My first Google Adsense 'Money Machine' is generating a profit of 2-3 dollars a day - that's at least $730 a year for just one page.

Want to make more money with your one-page-money-machine?

Find an affiliate program in that niche, and put your affiliate link on the page. Some of your visitors will click the Google ads and some will click on your affiliate link. What ever they do, you win!

Now you've got your Google Adwords campaign for free or you're even making a small profit with your Google Adwords-Adsense money machine. At the same time you're marketing your niche affiliate program.

Final advice
Don't use this technique in the 'Internet Marketing' market place - it's much to crowded. Use your imagination and find niches like laser hair removal, wheel chairs, cell phone, homeowners loan etc.

Take action - and go find some money making niche keywords.

About the author:
Jan Sepstrup is the editor of the Google Profit Tools Follow Up Newsletter - A free toolbar and ebook for Google Adwords profit. http://www.jasmedia.com/googleprofittools

Track Google AdSense Clicks via Google Analytics

2006-12-13T19:30:00.000+03:00

This free script integrates with Google Analytics to allow you to track your adsense clicks.

This tracking is done through "Goals". A goal is a way of tracking when a website visitor does something you want - Buy an item, submit a contact form, or in our case click an adsense ad.

www.seobook.com

5 keywords that will help you get to the Digg homepage!

2006-12-12T21:47:00.000+03:00

1. Digg
All you need to do is to write about digg.

2. Microsoft
Diggers hate microsoft, so write about Microsoft.

3. How to’s
Almost every other day a How to makes it to the homepage.

4. Linux
Again, diggers hate Microsoft.

5. Google
Diggers love Google and its services.

Landing Page Quick Reference Guide

2006-12-06T18:21:00.000+03:00

A landing page is a website page that is created for one purpose - to persuade the site visitor to convert into a customer by making a sale, completing a form (thereby becoming a qualified lead), signing up for a newsletter, etc.

We provide this landing page quick reference so you can pull it out every time you are creating a persuasive landing page. It is divided into 4 sections and is intended to be an all-inclusive tip sheet.

Most importantly, consider that you have 8 seconds or less to convince your visitor to act. If you haven't convincingly made your case in this time then your visitor will move on and will be lost, as the Internet has created the most fickle customer in sales history.

Click here to read more!

The Ultimate Guide to Attract Links Part 2

2006-11-19T02:22:00.000+03:00

You want that traffic to your site, but how will you get it? Well, take a look at our Part 2 in the "The Ultimate Guide to Attract Links".

6. The 8 Free Things Every Site Should Do

7. Advanced Link Building Tactics

8. Linkbaiting, How hard is it?

9.How To Build Traffic To Your Blog

10. The 10 greatest publicity stunts

Lots of Traffic Doesn’t Always Mean Lots of Money

2006-11-11T03:04:00.000+03:00

Just because you have a lot of visitors on your web site doesn't necessarily mean that your web site is going to make you a lot of money. And you don't have to have a lot of visitors in order to make a lot of money from your web site—you've got to have the right visitors looking for what your web site has to offer.

Read more at: Search Engine Guide

How to get listed in Dmoz

2006-11-08T22:25:00.000+03:00

As you all know DMOZ is a human response Directory/Search Engine and has editors from around the world.

To get listed at DMOZ means that your Google Pagerank will increase. So take a look at this article and follow it´s five simple rules.

How to get listed in Dmoz

Using The Competitive Ad Filter To Increase AdSense Earnings

2006-11-06T00:40:00.000+03:00

The purpose of the Competitive Ad Filter is to enable you to block specific ads, such as competitor’s ads, from appearing on your pages.

If you click the link you can read about how you can take advantage of the Competitive Ad Filter.

Competitive Ad Filter To Increase AdSense Earnings

The Ultimate Guide to Attract Links Part 1

2006-11-05T04:13:00.000+03:00

Do you need traffic? Get some more links. But how? There are a lot of excellent resources on the internet. I have published a few below, but I will publish some more soon so please come back for some more links.

Building Traffic with Article Marketing

Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine Journal

How Much is Link Bait Worth?

Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit

Linkbaiting with Attack

How to make your blog lively?

2006-11-03T21:22:00.000+03:00

Not all blogs are equal. There are some that have a touch of class, an expression of individuality. It is always interesting to read such blogs, as if each time there will be a new revelation, a new way to know things that you're already aware of. More than writing prowess, it is the passion that drives blogs. So if you're passionate about something, you're most likely the ideal candidate to make your blog a success.

There is a growing concept that blog needs search engine optimization as much as a webpage does. This has proponents both for and against. And there is a reason for that. Many websites are in fact blog-sites in the sense that they are built on the back of content management applications, like Nucleus CMS and Wordpress (you need to download on to your server) or the ubiquitous Google's Blogger (you don't download anything).

In these cases, since each blog-post makes a separate webpage, it perhaps makes sense to optimize it with a chosen keyword for better search engine ranking. Those who speak against optimizing blog-posts hold the oft-repeated view that it will spoil its spontaneity, which is so necessary for a blog to be liked by viewers.

What then are key points that go to make a blog eminently readable? Here is my take.

Discover a niche

It's not uncommon to find people having experience in diverse fields. For example, landscaping and philately. While that may be symptomatic of your personality, you're not expected to explore both in the same blog. Instead, it is always wise to discover a niche topic, say landscaping roof-top gardens or 19th century philately in Europe. As you can see, your topic is very focused. That would be ideal, given today's mushrooming of blogs everywhere.

Name yourself

Often, blogs are kept deliberately anonymous or given strange names. This has been the style in the beginning when blogs have just come into fashion. This doesn't work anymore. The point is you want to connect with your viewers, listen to what they have to say, and so a blog is served well when you let your viewers know who you actually are. Any ambiguity on your part will hasten lessening interest in your blog, even if it is well-modulated and well-written.

Develop your style

Your blog is the ideal place to leave your imprint. You may be good in narration, or you may be good as a critic, or perhaps you are a good story-teller, or may be you're a combination of more than one trait. It helps to remember that there are readers of any style that you adopt in your writing. If you are adept in weaving words, you may try switching between 2 or more styles, but a single style is more preferable if you look at it from your readers' viewpoint.

Say something of value

This is very important. Unless you've something fresh to add, why do you think your readers will find your blog interesting to read. It is tempting to gloss over this matter for the simple reason that it is difficult to write value-posts every time. It perhaps is. But keep telling yourself that you can always give a small twist to a tale already told. That may not be as difficult as you like to imagine.

Write regularly

It's surprising that among several thousands of blogs debuting everyday, only a handful makes it beyond a month, even less beyond 6 months. One reason may be lack of preparedness, which means many blogs are started on the spur of the moment. If you wish to slog it out, ensure that you write regularly, perhaps every alternate day or 2 to 3 days a week. There are 2 important issues here. Not only you signal to your readers about how frequent to expect your posts, the search engines too will pay regular visits, which is good for overall 'health' of your blog.

Link, link everywhere

Be generous with your links. If you've taken an idea from another site (no bad that), give a link there, albeit opening in new window. It's a mistake to believe that you cannot hold your own if you give away links where they matter. On the contrary, you may emerge as a good reference point whom your readers will come to trust in course of time. The other necessity is to link to your own earlier blog-pages whenever there's a chance to do so. As much as this strategy helps your readers, it's an important fodder for search engine spiders who prefer links like nothing else.

Coming back to the heading, "How to make your blog lively?", suffice it to say that a blog is the wholesome fruit of all your efforts above, a sum-total of your ability and willingness to do it well. If one of these is lacking, your blog is likely to suffer, but more than that it is your valiant effort that will go waste. You don't want that, do you?

Suggested readings:

5 ways to building a better blog

Make money online with ProBlogger blog tips

About the Author
Partha Bhattacharya is an expert web content writer. It's rare that his clients have preferred any other provider after availing his service as content provider. Partha uses SBI! for his targeted website.

New Linkbaiting Service

2006-11-03T02:36:00.000+03:00

Text Link Ads has launched a new Link Baiting Service.

They offer two plans, plan 1 will cost $5,000 and plan 2 will cost $10,000. With both plans they will create a link baite, mail it to social mediums and appropriate bloggers. In plan 2 they will also If site is compliant, submit to CSS galleries.

The question is, is this service worht $10,000? Write a comment and say what you think!

Things to Avoid When Looking For Link Partners

2006-11-02T22:59:00.000+03:00

1.) Avoid sites that contain more than 25 to 50 links per page.

2.) Make sure you only link to sites that you think could be usefull for your readers.

3.) Do not link to sites that are irrelevant to yours.

4.) Avoid sites that have a "Links Page" that is hard to find.

5.) Avoid linking to a lot of sites with a low PR.

The Value Of Forums In Business Growth

2006-10-29T01:04:00.000+03:00

Recognition as an expert in your field leads to acceptance and respect which in turn leads to Sales! One of the fastest ways to become recognized as an expert is to offer helpful and valuable posts on a regular basis in forums where your target market or audience gather.

To be honest, a membership in a forum offers more in the way of advertising value than all the eBooks, training programs, and membership training sites you could possibly join. Have you noticed that most of the publishers are in fact active forum members themselves?

It has been said that to be successful, you have to hang out with those who are successful in whatever business you have chosen. Is there any better place in the world than a Forum?

If you participate consistently in a forum, you will learn quicker, and start earning more, and you can take that to the Bank!

A forum is an online community for discussion among Internet users, used by some of the best Internet marketers in the world. It is also a training ground for the up and coming. It is a place to share ideas, find answers, solve problems, make friends, and develop partnerships. It is also a support system or resource for most any business, on or offline.

It is no secret, but takes some longer to learn than others, that to be successful you must market yourself first. Forums are the perfect place to promote yourself and your business. By adding value to discussions, you are promoting yourself as an expert in your field, gaining recognition.

There is etiquette in forums. Most forums do not allow sales pitches in general or business discussion areas, but some may have a section designated for posting ads. Other topics that are taboo include disparaging or derogatory comments. Foul language, and or anything of a sexual nature.

Registration is a simple process in most forums, entering basic information of user ID and a password along with a verification email sent to your primary email address for you to click on to validate your email address as being real. You will also want to fill out the signature box which posts below your content posting in which you may ad a short comment about yourself or what you do plus a link.

Once registered, there is usually an introduction section to introduce yourself before browsing the forum topics. You can post a simple hello to introduce yourself to learn the ropes and become familiar with the forum's procedures.

Search "forum" plus the topic of your choice using Google or AltaVista to find a whole list of forums available. You may also contact some of the professional organizations in your trade to see if they have a forum.

There is a legend in most forums that the more posts you have, the more money you make online. By becoming an active contributor to forums, you gain recognition, and people pay more attention to your posts and your signature file.

Posting to many forums can be a little tedious if you have to log in and browse through your previous postings or find new topics you can respond to. I recommend an automated posting package or software to enable multiple thread tracking. This will speed up the task of message posting and an unlimited number of forums while managing multiple conversation threads. You can automatically track all replies and organize them as you continue to respond and post to multiple forums. I am sure there are many to choose from but I use and recommend Forum Fortune as the submitter of choice.

George Marshall

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Ping-O-Matic

2006-10-25T19:52:00.000+03:00

To promote your blog you can use Ping-O-Matic.

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.

Try it!

Ping-O-Matic

More free SEO tools

2006-10-24T02:08:00.000+03:00

Free meta tag generator

http://tools.seobook.com/meta-medic/

Reciprocal Link Checker

http://tools.seobook.com/general/link-check/

Link Popularity Comparison Tool

http://tools.seobook.com/general/linkpop/

SEO

Translate your blog

2006-10-22T16:13:00.000+03:00

Why not translate your blog or website? It will open up a much lager market for you.

64.8% of the world is surfing the Internet in a language other
than English. By translating your website, you will open
up a stream of new markets and increased traffic from foreign search engines.

And the best part, you don´t have to translate your blog yourself!
There are tools out there that make the process quick and easy.
For example you can use Wordpress plugin called Simple Thoughts. With this pluggin you could translate your blog into eight languages, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

Download this plugin at:

http://blog.taragana.com

Free SEO Tools

2006-10-20T02:28:00.000+03:00

Get the SEO-tools you need, for free!

Seobook
http://tools.seobook.com/

seomoz.org

http://www.seomoz.org/tools.php

We build pages
http://www.webuildpages.com/tools/default.htm

10 Website Essentials to Increase Your Sales

2006-10-18T02:58:00.000+03:00

If you are a serious Internet Entrepreneur, your top priority must be your website. Your website is a direct reflection of you and your business. Creating a professional website designed to sell will take a great deal of time and effort, as there is much more to take into consideration than design. You must look at a much broader picture and specifically design your website to sell.

1) You must have a professional looking website. Your website is the most important sales tool you have. Your visitor's first impression will almost instantly determine whether or not you're going to make a sale. A professional website should be pleasing to the eyes, well organized, easy to navigate and load quickly.

2) You must specifically design your website to rank high in the Search Engines. This involves much more than just including META tags. Your KEYWORDS, TITLE, IMAGE ALT tags, Text and overall design, all play an important roll in determining how your website will rank. You can learn more by reading the Optimization tutorial here:

http://www.web-source.net/webpage_optimizing.htm

3) You must use effective sales copy. Your words are the entire foundation of your business. Most business failures are the result of ineffective copy. Whether it is your website, sales letters or advertisements, your words play a major role in determining your success. When writing your website copy, use the following formula:

A -Attention - Use a powerful headline that demands attention
I -Interest - Intrigue interest and create curiosity
D -Detail - Provide details about your product or service
A -Action - Call for action

4) Drive traffic to your site. In order to create a steady stream of traffic to your website, give your visitors a reason to visit and continue to visit in the future. You must provide your visitors with fresh content on a continual basis. Content comes in various forms, such as news, articles, tips, horoscopes, weather, etc. and is freely available on the Internet. Your content should blend in well with the focus of your website and be updated on a regular basis.

The following websites provide free articles for publication:

http://www.web-source.net/free_articles.htm
http://www.mega-success.com/

http://www.marketing-seek.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/

http://www.infobot.net/

Syndication services provide free content from a wide variety of sources. You simply place a small line of code within the HTML of your web page and each of the following services provide fresh content for you. The great thing about syndication services is that once you've placed the code, you don't have to worry about updating the content, as it is automatically updated.

Syndicator - Provides free syndicated articles and columns with photographs
http://www.web-source.net/syndicator.htm

isyndicate - Provides free headlines for news, articles, comics, weather and more.
http://www.isyndicate.com/

Moreover - Provides news headlines from over 1500 sources.
http://www.moreover.com/

ScreamingMedia - Provides free headlines from various resources
http://www.screamingmedia.com/

5) Provide free instruction. Your website is the storefront for your product or service. You must convince your visitors that they need the product or service you're offering. This can be accomplished by providing your visitors with free helpful advice and instruction in the form of an article, tutorial, free ebook or free autoresponder course.

6) Display your testimonials. You must gain your visitors trust. By displaying customer testimonials, you are boosting your potential customers confidence in you and your product or service. You can either create a web page to display all of your testimonials or use a script to rotate them on your main page. You can find a great random text script here:
http://willmaster.com/master/merrygoround/

7) Let your visitors know who you are. Provide complete information in regard to your company including, address, phone number and email addresses to request information and support.

8) Tell your visitors about their privacy. Create a page on your website called, "Privacy Statement," and let your visitors know exactly what you do with the personal information you collect.

9) Provide a sample or trial of your product or service. For example, if you're offering a Search Engine optimization service, provide a free META tag analysis at your website. Not only will this increase your sales, but it will drive more traffic to your site as well.

10) Remove the risk. To further increase your sales, you must remove the risk by providing a guarantee. A guarantee will boost your potential customer's confidence in purchasing your products or services.

A professional website specifically designed to sell is one the most important factors in determining your success. Take your time and make sure you're looking at the complete picture before you begin. If you're not secure in your abilities to create your own website, rather than risk the potential success of your business, consider hiring a professional web designer. Your success depends on it.

Copyright © Shelley Lowery

Shelley Lowery is the author of the acclaimed web design course, Web Design Mastery. http://www.webdesignmastery.com And, Ebook Starter - Give Your Ebooks the look and feel of a REAL book. http://www.ebookstarter.com Visit Web-Source.net to sign up for a complimentary subscription to Etips and receive a copy of the acclaimed ebook, "Killer Internet Marketing Strategies." http://www.web-source.net

Start planning for Christmas!

2006-10-15T02:29:00.000+03:00

1. Make sure your web site is optimized for appropriate keywords (holiday-themed keywords)

2. Update your site with a holiday theme

3. Holiday shoppers usually have a budget in mind. Have a page on your site for “Gifts under $25", another for “Gifts under $50?, and so forth.

4. If you can, offer a gift card to shoppers.

5. Wish Lists. Wish lists let shoppers make and save a list of items they’d like to have someone else buy. Do miake it easy for the shopper to share the wish list with their friends (via email, an easy-to-share URL, etc).

10 Most Valuable Free Google Marketing Tools

2006-10-14T16:10:00.000+03:00

Google has become the dominant search engine on the Internet. It would be hard to imagine a web without Google. For that matter, it would now be hard to imagine a world without Google. As frightening as that may seem to many people, it is none the less true.

Every marketer and webmaster should be taking advantage of Google's good-will and snapping up these professionally run services and marketing tools. Here's a quick run-down of the 10 most valuable free Google Internet marketing tools.

10 Most Valuable Free Google Marketing Tools

My top three

2006-10-13T02:13:00.000+03:00

3) The S, E, and O keys on your keyboard are broken.

5) When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you fear you won’t see him again for eight months

18) When your daughter brings home a new boyfriend to meet you, your first thought is to check his backlinks.

Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO

Five affiliate tips

2006-10-12T01:59:00.000+03:00

Affiliate tip 1

Did you know the most popular method for promoting an affiliate program is with a 468x60 banner? That's OK, but do you know that the 468x60 banner is also the least effective way to promote an affiliate program?I recommend you instead to try pop-up. Why? Cookies, the pop-up cookies every person that sees it (so long as their cookies are not disabled). This means that if the person go to the site you promoted 16 days (for example) after he or she visited your site you could still get payd, altough the person didn´t click on any link!

Affiliate tip 2

Sticky notes. You can customize this script as to how often the note should appear on the page, for how long, and whether a fade-in effect should be accompanied. It works in MSIE and Mozilla FireFox. Best of all, it doesn't get blocked by pop-up blockers.
Sticky-note-script

Affiliate tip 3

Rotate Your Affiliate Banners: If you are running affiliate banners on your site, it's essential that you keep things fresh and rotate the banners. Otherwise, you risk banner burnout with your visitors. When you rotate the banners, you will increase your click-throughs and revenues, since you can serve a variety of banners to every visitor.

Affiliate tip 4

Write Content: One of the most effective ways to display affiliate links is to incorporate them into relevant content. This sort of contextual affiliate content can come in many shapes and forms, such as testimonials, reviews, and articles targeting a certain demographic.

Affiliate tip 5

Affiliate Links in Your E-mail Signature: There's a great space for advertising that most people leave barren - the space below their e-mail signature.

Do you want some traffic? Get some links!

2006-10-11T01:12:00.000+03:00

The best way to get traffic to your site is to get some links. But how do you get links? Well, take a look at these link and traffic resources and get to work!

1. Using Digg to attract hits

2. What Makes a Site Link-Worthy?

3. The definitive link building strategy

4. 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic

5. How to get links without asking

6. Link Building is Important

7. Link Development

8. 12 Different Types of Links and How To Get Them

9. 25 Tips for Marketing Your Blog

10. 8 reasons why lists are good for getting traffic to your blogg

11. How to get traffic for your blog

5 Ways to Promote Your Blog

2006-10-10T08:34:00.000+03:00

1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines.When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed. Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes.

2. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and directories. You can submit your blog's url to websites such as Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex.

3. Exchange Links with other Bloggers or blog owners. This is another effective strategy for generating targeted traffic to your blog for free.

4. Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSS feed to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to start is http://www.guidetorss.comwhich provides a list of the top RSS directories.

5. Install a blogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. Services such as Technorati spider your links to tell who’s linking to you and who you’re linking to.

The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores

2006-10-10T01:08:00.000+03:00

The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. I found the list at John Chows blogg. I think this list tells us that it´s possibly to make a lot of money with Adsense and I belive that you could get one or two tips how you can do better at the affiliate game by study this list.

The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores