Thursday, May 24, 2007

Top 5 Methods On Generating Low Cost Traffic


There is one highly effective rule in generating income for your website or blog: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating any sort income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a huge amount of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.


Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.


Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.


Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.


Make a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.


Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Monday, May 7, 2007

Viral Marketing - So Crucial To Your Business Strategy


Creativity

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spywares.


Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.


Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most every site and companies are catching on to the effectiveness of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz, many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular. Remember the movie “The Blair Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Grab Your Readers Attention With Your Subject


The race for supremacy in the internet based businesses has been really heating up and many sites have been put up to help others to get ahead for a small fee. But there are also ways in which you don’t have to pay so much to make yourself a good list of loyal followers. Having a satisfied web traffic and visitors allows you to put up a foundation wherein you can build an opt-in list and make it grow from there.

An opt-in list allows you to provide newsletters to your subscribers with their consent. When people sign up, they know that they will be receiving updates and news from your site and the industry your represent via an e-mail. But that doesn’t mean that all of those who subscribe read them at all. Many lists have been built due to an attachment with free software or for a promotional discount and such. Some are not really interested in receiving e-mails from companies and just treat them as waste of cyberspace and delete or trash them without so mush as opening the e-mail and scanning them.

You can change all that. While forwarding an email message is relatively after producing your newsletter. Getting people to open them is not as easy. You don’t want to waste all the time and effort used in making the newsletters, you want people to read them and have their interests piqued. Interested enough to go to your website and look around and most especially purchased and acquire your products or services.

One of the numerous ways you can tempt or persuade your subscriber is by providing a well thought out and well written subject. The subject of an email is what is often referred to when a person or a recipient of an email decides whether he or she wants to open or read an e-mail. The subject could easily be regarded as one of the most important aspect of your promotional e-mail.

Your subject must be short and concise. They should provide a summary for the content of the e-mail so that the recipient will have basic knowledge of the content. This is really vital in grabbing the attention of your readers and subscribers. You want your subject to instantly grab the attention of your subscriber and get them to be intrigued to open up your mail. Remember, it is not necessarily true that a subscriber opens up subscribed mails.

A good subject must always be tickling the curiosity of your recipient. It must literally force the recipient to open the mail. A certain emotion must be ignited and get them to open the mail. It is essential to use specific words to get the reaction you need. Keep in mind that the recipient or subscribers spends only a few seconds looking over each subject of the e-mails he receives. You must grab your reader’s attention right away.

There are many forms you can use for your subject. You can provide a subject that says your e-mail contains content that teaches them tips and methods on certain topics. An example of this is using keywords and keyword phrases such as, “How to” , “tips”, “Guides to”, Methods in and others like that.

You can also put your subject in a question form. These may include questions like, “Are you sick and tired of your job?” Or “Is your boss always on your case?” Try to stay on the topic that pertains to your site so that you’ll know that your subscribers have signed up because they are interested in that topic. This form of subject is very effective because they reach out to your recipients emotions. When they have read the question on your subject, their mind starts answering the question already.

You can also use a subject that commands your reader. Statements such as “Act now and get this once in a lifetime opportunity”, or “Double, triple and even quadruple what you are earning in one year”. This type of subject deals with the benefits your company provides with your product and services.

You may also use breaking news as your subject to intrigue your subscriber. For example, if you deal with car engine parts you can write in your subject, “Announcing the new engine that uses no gasoline, It runs on water”. This creates curiosity with the reader and will lead them to open the mail and read on.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Generate Traffic Using Videos


Video is the up and coming thing in marketing today. There are just so many ways you can use this media. A picture is worth a thousand words and what better way to market your hot selling product than through a video.

The latest thing to hit the marketing scene is video blogging. You can just use your own video camera and up load your video to your blog. It is not too hard and can easily be done for pennies. You can then promote it as you would a regular blog.

As well as blogging there are many other websites where you can upload your video for the world to see and sell more of your product than ever before. Many of them are free like Utube and Google video. You can generate traffic by putting their URL on the video. You can announce your video to your visitors and newsletter subscribers to generate more traffic to them.

You can also place a link to your video in your direct marketing advertisements. This will mean that you can pre sell with your ad and then close the sale with your video clip. You can additionally use your videos to create curiosity and excitement about your sponsor’s products and get visitors to click through to your sponsor’s site. When done properly this will increase sales conversions and get you a bigger commission check.

Marketing with videos is a fun way to promote and pre sell products. You can make your own videos and upload them to your website or the others mentioned. Your visitors will be enthralled and you will increase your sales conversions. Everyone likes watching videos and seeing is certainly believing. Videos can win over those visitors who are just a little skeptical as to whether it really works.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

SEO - 8 Basic Uncomplicated Steps


By Daryl Lau

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is an important piece to the internet marketing puzzle. A search in Google will show 128 million results which goes to show the importance placed by many in this area. All these can be quite hard to fathom for someone who is totally new to SEO and its many concepts such as white hats and black hats.

Instead of diving into the more comprehensive and complicated part of SEO which even for me is an ongoing learning process, I would like to share the simple basic steps I've learnt so far along the way. Just by doing this, I believe you would be so much better off than millions of bloggers who doesn't, thus dramatically improving the search engine driven traffic to your blog or site.

Kindly note that some of these steps are more towards those hosting their own blogs especially with Wordpress or Typepad.


Step 1
Sticking To One URL


Don't split all your countless hours of promoting efforts into half by having both 'http://www.yoursite.com' and 'http://yoursite.com'. Choose one and direct all traffic to this preferred domain of yours. All marketing efforts also should be targeted to only this domain. This can be done easily by editing your .htaccess file or via a WP plugin.

Step 2
Built Into Title and Meta Tags

Ensure that the keyword of your choice is included into your Blog Title and Meta tags located in the section of your blog source code. Here are some examples based on the keyword 'online games':


Step 3
Permalink For Your Posts

It simply means a URL that points to a specific blog post which is permanent. Picking the one that includes your keyword will help significantly rather than a short numbered permalink. The screenshot on the right will give you a clearer picture which shows the available choices for Wordpress.


Step 4
Choosing The Right Keyword

You can do so simply by using the free Overture Keyword Selector to get an idea the popularity of the keyword you have in mind. The screenshot on the left is an example of a highly popular keyword which many might overlook. By looking at that example, if you have a Tech blog and you make a post on '2000dpi copperhead gaming laser mouse' with good keyword positioning, you can expect a huge surge in traffic once it is indexed by the search engines. To make it even sweeter, you can include an affiliate program selling that particular or similar product to that post.


Step 5
Include Keyword In Post
If you look at search engine results for your individual blog post, it also includes a short summary of the article itself. So make sure you use the keyword in you blog post without diluting the article. Do keep in mind that the main objective of your post is for your visitors to read and gain knowledge so quality content should always be your priority.


Step 6
Using ALT tags on Images
A lot of bloggers do not take that little extra time and effort to insert an ALT tag to the images they add on their blogs including myself especially on my blogspot blogs. All you have to do is include this code in your tag: alt="keyword" which complete image code should look like this without additional attributes.


Step 7
Help Spiders Navigate
This is to ensure the search engine spiders crawl your blog effectively by guiding them using a sitemap. If you are using Wordpress, you can easily do so with a Google Sitemaps plugin. It is also important to track how your blog is being crawled by using Google Sitemap and Yahoo Site Explorer.

If your blog is quite extensive, you might want to tell the spiders which posts to exclude from being added to their database by using a robot.txt file.


Step 8
Link Building
Last but not least is building links to your blog. You can start off by submitting to directories and then exchanging links with related blogs pertaining to your blog topic. Bear in mind it is not the quantity but quality of links which will help you greatly in your SEO efforts. One of the best way to obtain links is writing good and useful content which others would want to share with their own readers.


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How To Earn Money Blogging

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

An Indispensable Tool To Increase Traffic On Websites


By Deon Plessis

Website traffic has become a priceless commodity. Like many of the ‘old world’ commodities like gold and silver it carries a value that almost exceeds the value of money. With the sheer amount of websites out there the competition for traffic is getting increasingly tougher and no website is guaranteed of a top position anymore. It seems like wherever we look someone is trying to get our attention on ‘their product’ and out of desperation, many website owners resort to rather drastic measures – all for a little more traffic. The real question however is what can you do to increase traffic to your website? Is there a tool to increase traffic on websites that will give you the edge over your competition?

Someone once said that any good website is like a hungry monster. It’s hungry for traffic and the more you feed it the bigger it becomes and the bigger it becomes the more it can eat. Building traffic to your website can be your life’s work if you don’t put in place some strategies to work for you – even if you don’t work on it anymore. This comes back to the old thing that you don’t want to replace one day job with another. The whole idea behind running your own online business is to work less while earning more and not the other way round.

SEO Elite is a powerful tool to increase traffic on websites and it taps into the best form of traffic which is search engine traffic. Although there are many traffic sources on the internet, none equals the volume, quality or longevity of search engine traffic. Search engine traffic is free traffic and because people find you via a direct search, this traffic is highly targeted and qualified. Above all, search engines bring a level of credibility that no paid advertising can give you – it’s traffic on ‘recommendation’ as opposed to traffic that is bought. Once you are indexed by a search engine you will continue to get traffic even if you do absolutely nothing more. The only issue that is left then is to get a top search engine ranking.

If you don’t rank on the first 5 pages of a search result you simply won’t tap into the real power of search engines. Ideally you need to be on page one, which means that you have to rank in the top ten of a specific search term. Once you have a couple of page one rankings, your traffic will start to soar. So how do you get page one rankings when it looks so impossible? Can you even do it?

The good news is that the majority of marketers see it as impossible, so they turn to alternative methods of traffic building. It’s important to realize that getting a page one ranking will not happen by coincidence. There is a science to it, although it’s not an exact one as Google, Yahoo and MSN consistently revise their algorithm that determines these rankings. What we can do though, which is quite ingenious, is to look at the top ranking sites and to see why they get their ranking. Once you know why the top three sites in your niche are the top three sites, you can simply copy and improve upon what they are doing.

This reverse engineering is not really a new concept as we all tend to try and decipher what other sites are doing. The reason why SEO Elite is such a great tool to increase traffic on websites is because it does the ‘reverse engineering’ for you. This is a very sophisticated piece of software that has the ability to dissect any website to find exactly why it ranks so well. It then allows you to emulate what the top ranking sites are doing. The best part is that it automates most of the process which means that you really don’t have to spend a lot of time and effort on getting a top rank.

Although there are many good tools to increase traffic on websites, SEO Elite is unique in that it focuses entirely on search engine traffic. If you are going to spend your precious time on building traffic and ‘feeding your monster’ you might as well feed it the best -which is still search engine traffic.


Article published with permission of Sincere-Advice.com. To learn more about SEO Elite, visit http://www.Sincere-Advice.com/SEO_Elite.html to see just how you can use this software to boost your search engine rankings. (you can also download a fully functional trial version for free)

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Traffic Building - Site Promotion or Custom Lead Generation


By Leo Hanes

What is the difference between Web Site Promotion and Custom Lead Generation?

Site Promotion: is an internet marketing term that refers to the activity of publicizing the vendor's web site to consumers.(i.e. advertising)

Lead Generation: is a marketing term that refers to the manufacture of connections between well-matched consumers and target corporate vendors.

Custom Lead Generation: is an internet marketing term that refers to producing specific types of visitors to your web site yourself from specific publicity about your web site offer.

In layman's terms that simply means communicating with, and attracting a qualified visitor to your web site, willing to provide you with their contact information, and have a need for your specific offer today, and are potentially going to purchase today, and again in the future.

What is a custom lead?

Somebody you have communicated with

Somebody attracted to your specific offer

Somebody willing to provide you their contact information

Somebody that wants your product, solution, or opportunity

Somebody that has bought your product, solution, opportunity or a competition's

Somebody that is capable of making purchases immediately, and in the future

Site promotion therefore is just telling everybody about your web site, hoping they will visit sometime (i.e. branding for example)

Custom lead generation is a very specific process that results first in the capture of a specifically defined somebody's contact information, and finally with multiple repeat sales transactions with them.

So if you intentionally will start off to generate custom leads instead of promoting your web site, your methods of advertising, communicating, requesting information, making your offer, asking for their order, and after sales communicating will all automatically change for the best for you.

Custom leads are generated for the sole purpose of creating profits online for your business, and one of the best methods of generating your own custom leads is through article marketing. You are writing articles to communicate with somebody that is already interested in your niche market that you publish the article in.

After reading your article, and if they like your style, and your offer they are very willing to give you their contact information when they get to your capture page on your web site. Since you are targeting somebody who has already demonstrated they are capable of buying, have bought similar items, or want your offer they will sign up, and buy in much higher numbers that visitors from site promotion.

For example: Somebody that is wearing tattered old shoes may very well need to buy new shoes, so you think they are a prime target for your exciting new shoe offer. The reality is the best custom lead is somebody who is already wearing shiny new shoes, with a few rather new looking shoes in their closet already.

The first person may need to buy your new shoes, but do not, they are obviously still wearing the tattered old ones you seen, waiting for that perfect pair to go on sale. (i.e. opportunity seekers)

The second person has already demonstrated that they are willing, are capable of buying, and want to buy new shoes. They will buy your new shoes if your shoe offer is communicated in a way that attracts them today, and they will buy again in the future - they are shoe buyers. ( i.e. entrepreneurs, investors, buyers)

The Difference is Custom Lead Generation Will Result in Creating Profits On-Line for You Faster than Site Promotion!


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Leo Hanes is an experienced full time internet marketer, who has written a number of articles on the principles of custom lead generation and creating profits online.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The Dangers of a Blogging Spouse


By Shane Woods

Creating and maintaining blogs have quickly become popular because it is a convenient way to impart personal thoughts and air emotions and get comments and opinions from people who read your blog. Given this concept, it may seem that only really brave people can blog especially since a blog entry can be read by virtually the entire network of Internet users all around the world.

The truth however is that some people who blog are lulled into a false sense of security when it comes to sharing blog entries perhaps because they may feel a certain sense of anonymity when they don't have to communicate face to face with people.

This fact can be good therapy but unchecked, it can lead to some complications. For instance you have a blogging spouse or a spouse that maintains a blog and uses this to air feelings and emotions. In this case your blogging spouse used his or her blog as a personal online diary. The problem with an online diary is that other people can read it.

Even if your blogging spouse restricts the allowed viewers of his or her blog entries, there will still be other people reading it. The problem may then be when your blogging spouse chooses to share some information in the interest of clearing his or her mind and getting other's opinions on the matter.

The first problem that may arise in the occasion mentioned above is that you may feel that your blogging spouse has divulged too much personal information to others for your own comfort. The tension will be between allowing your blogging spouse to have the freedom to exercise his or her freedom of expression without trampling all over your rights to privacy. If this is the case, you will need to discuss some ground rules to your blogging spouse so that both of your rights and privacy is respected by each other.

Another problem that may arise from have a blogging spouse is that your spouse may be easily swayed by opinions from blog viewers who want to share their opinions on the entry. It may be that you and your blogging spouse had a tiff and to process and let it out, your spouse decided to blog about the incident. Naturally, being your blogging spouse's entry, it can appear to show a bias and readers may not see it that way and begin to take sides and give opinions that may upset your spouse more than should be.

This is why it is important to talk and communicate with your blogging spouse about the importance of understanding that decisions and discussions about differences within the marriage should only be done between the two of you and if he or she insists on blogging about it then they should be prepared to read opinions they may not want to have to deal with.

Aside from problems with having a blogging spouse, there is also an opportunity to have fun. Perhaps it would be nice to have your own blog so that you and your blogging spouse can have an entertaining "he said, she said" thing going on to entertain visitors to your site. Just remember not to lose perspective when doing that. Also, instead of creating separate blogs, you can just combine forces with your blogging spouse and come out with a joint blog to share with your family and friends.

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Hands Down The Easiest Way To Start Making Money Online


By Fabian Tan

In this article I'm going to discuss the easiest way to make money online. Yes, and I don't mean those cheap surveys (of which some are scams) which pay you pennies for your opinion, nor is it those email reading ventures where you get paid $0.01 to read an email.

What I am about to reveal here is what less than one million people in the world know about, I guarantee it.

So what is the easiest way to make money online? The answer: Affiliate Programs.

As always, the big money is not where the popular affiliate programs are, such as Amazon and eBay. The big money is in what is known as affiliate directories such as Commission Junction and Linkshare. In fact, the most profitable affiliate directory are the ones which only promotes informational products. Informational products provide the biggest profit margin, because they cost almost nothing to produce.

Here is my simple 2 step plan for your Internet success with affiliate programs:

1. Set up an account with an affiliate directory (they are usually free of charge)

2. Set up a Google Adwords account for US$5 (you will need a credit card for this). Do a search on eBay to get free coupons. This is where you will advertise your affiliate program.

What is Google Adwords? It is a system of advertising where you only pay when the user clicks from the search engine. This is a revolution in advertising and it is how Google keep themselves in profit. Why does this advertising model work? Because when users are searching on the Google search engine, the advertisers targetting them are targeting an audience which is reciprocative to their ads, unlike TV ads for example.

With that, I hope you have learned enough on how to start making online profits. Believe me when I say people are making money 24/7/365, and in their sleep, and even when they are sipping coffee in a restaurant!


Fabian Tan makes a short trip to his office everyday – his home! In 2006, he ‘murdered’ his job and now earns a solid income online. Go behind the scenes to discover more of his job-killing strategies and secrets at MurderYourJob.com

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Monday, April 9, 2007

Make Fast Easy Money Online - How Adsense Changed The Ball Game And What You Must Do To Cash In


By Christopher Kyalo

The wildly popular Google Adsense program has done more than any other affiliate program in history to open the doors for virtually anybody to make fast easy money online.

And this has been done by completely changing the rules of the ball game. For the first time affiliates could earn money without having to sell anything. Anybody who has ever attempted to make any money online, let alone fast or of the easy kind, will know that it is quite a drag trying to selling anything. You place the affiliate link at your website and even with reasonable traffic of a few hundreds, you will wait for ages before any sale is registered and your affiliate account gets a few miserable cents in it.

The Adsense program changed the rules of making fast easy money online forever. Now all that one needs is for people visiting their site to take interest in the small text ads that look like part of the content, that are Adsense ads. And when they click on them for more information, you earn. In fact folks are earning thousands of dollars without having to sell a thing.

To join this party, all you need to do is find the right high demand niche for your passion, build a blog (rather than a website) and concentrate on churning out quality content and information and building traffic. And before you know it the guys at Adsense will be sending you hefty checks.

Actually the truth is that to start earning serious cash from Adsense and not just miserably cents, and to do so fast, you will need some special coaching from an Internet business expert who has a track record of pulling in huge checks from Adsense.

The other option is to learn it all yourself using search engines and by trial and error. Either way, it has never been easier for anybody looking to make fast easy money online. All you must do is to focus on what you want to achieve.

Pick up as much knowledge on this subject by first reading an article that offers an overview on what is required to make money from an Internet business. Also discover the two main Internet business options.


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Sunday, April 8, 2007

How To Earn Thousands Of Dollars A Month By Using Your Website?


By Kenny Lam

There are always myths in the internet that someone can earn over millions of dollars a year by just sitting at home and building their websites during the leisure time. And finally those guys found out that they got better paid by building websites than doing their own jobs.

Is this a joke or there is really someone out there can achieve that? I’m not sure about whether someone can earn millions per year but I think earning hundreds or even thousands per month is not that difficult to achieve by just using your leisure time!

First of all, you’ll need a website. But how to earn money? In recent years there are lots of companies launching the affiliates program to attract their target audiences and make sales. What is an affiliate? In short, if you send someone to a website which has an affiliate program, and if that person makes an order, you will get commission on that sale.

How high the commission will be? You may wonder. Different companies have different profit margins from their products and so the commission varies a lot. Usually the commission varies from 2% to 50% per sale.

I should choose the one who provides the highest commission rate? Am I right? No, very usual a very high commission rate would mean that the value of the transactions will be very low. Therefore the commission per sale would be very low. What you’d need to choose is a affiliate program with high commission, but not high commission rate.

Although there are thousands of affiliate programs, not all of them really provide a high commission to the affiliates. Asia-Product.com, who recently launched the affiliate program, really does provide a high commission to the affiliates. They are offering a very high commission rate, only 5% per sale. However, the revenue of their transaction is high since they are one of the largest wholesale electronics store in Asia and China. For example, a customer referred by an affiliate buys 10 car dvd players each costs $350. Then the affiliate will earn $350 x 10 x 0.05 = $175. If he/she can refer only one such customer a day, he/she will earn $175 x 30 = $5250/month, and there is no upper limit!

Sounds easy, right? Of course, you’ll need to be smart in order to attract traffic to your website. But by joining a few affiliate programs like Asia-Product one, you may become one of the myths in the internet.

Kenny Lam, Chief Operating Officer of EC Group.

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DIY Web Site Optimization And Promotion


By Deon Du Plessis

It seems like only yesterday when a couple of 'on site' tweaks could get you top search engine rankings with virtually any of your web pages. With the internet reaching a milestone of more than 29 billion websites, this most certainly is a thing of the past. Web site optimization and promotion today is a completely different ballgame altogether. Gone are the days of guaranteed search engine placements.

Before you get desponded, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Although web site optimization and promotion became a much more complicated task, it is still well within any website owner's reach to achieve top search engine rankings. It all depends on how much time and money you are willing to spend. Regardless of your business, product or niche, there is always room for something that has real value.

I am constantly amazed by how many companies out there still provide so-called SEO services to 'desperate' website owners. It is important to distinguish between on-site optimization and off-site optimization. On-site optimization is very basic and includes all the things you can do to your actual webpage. These are things like your title tags, descriptions, image tags ec. In the end, on-site optimization counts for very little these days. It all boils down to off-site optimization. Not only is this the hard part, but it also represents there very crux of whether you get a page 1 or a page 100 listing with a search engine.

Off-site optimization is hard work, but the rewards are immense. Search engine traffic is still the best form of traffic for any website. Someone once told me that no one else will take care of my money like I would. This is very true and when it comes to your website this is even more so. Web site optimization and search engine promotion is best done by YOU. There are very few shortcuts and the majority of 'black hat' shortcuts will end up getting you banned by search engines. Once your site it banned it pretty much spells the end of your business.

Off-site optimization can be a daunting task without the help of the correct software. The thinking behind off-site optimization is that if the majority of websites in my niche like me then Google (or Yahoo or MSN) will also like me. There is absolutely no substitute for unique, quality content websites. If it's good, then eventually someone will catch unto it and there is simply no better marketing strategy than word of mouth. There are however some very good strategies for speeding up the rate at which the search engines find your site. With software like SEO Elite, virtually anyone can take their site to the top of the search engines – without all the usual hassles and guesswork.

With the help of software like SEO Elite, you can employ many different strategies for getting high search engine rankings. One of the most powerful features (that no other software package has) is to find out exactly why a website gets a top ranking with any of the major search engines. SEO Elite helps you to get underneath the workings of a specific site and by going 'back stage' you can learn exactly why a site has its ranking. All you have to do then is to copy and improve upon their strategy.

Although this sounds pretty simple, it still requires dedication and a fair amount of work. Ideally you would want to use this kind of software before you start building a website. This would allow you to get things right from the start and it really streamlines the process quite nicely. Getting high quality search engine traffic while you are still building your site is priceless. But whether you are reverse engineering a site or whether you are starting from scratch – know that web site optimization and promotion is not what it used to be. For the most part it is something that you have to do consistently and not some one-off task that someone else can do and 'voala' all your pages have #1 rankings. This just isn’t going to happen.

Not only CAN you do it yourself, but I believe that you should do it yourself. Whether you want to go it alone or whether you want to employ software, no one will care about your ranking the way you do. Even if the learning curve is a bit steep it is well worth it. In many ways the very crux of making money online lies in web site optimization and promotion.


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