You Don’t Need To Be An Ass Kicking Marketer To Make Money Online
Posted on August 7, 2008
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I am constantly amazed at how people perceive the make money online industry. Most think that for some reasons you have to be nasty, deceiving and cruel to make an honest living online. In fact, if you believe this to be true, think again. If a 17 year old kid can build traffic and make money with his entrepreneur blog, then so can you.
Who am I talking about? The guy I’m referring to is a young kid by the name of Jason Pereira. He is currently living in Dubai and studies on the Australian University there. His entrepreneur blog is his vehicle to make money online while supporting a great lifestyle no doubt.
I was impressed by the way Jason projects a sound business mind while pursuing his dreams. He manages to earn a decent income online which is unheard off for most who try.
Many get sidetracked and eventually give up, but Jason and his entrepreneur blog just keep powering on. His blog The University Kid is an entrepreneur blog through.
I really can’t help admiring this guy and wish that I was that smart at his age. But I wasn’t. And what seems to come totally natural to Jason at only 17 (and younger) took a lot of hard work at my end.
hats off to this guy. I can see him going a long way further and his entrepreneur blog will help him to do so.
Now, if you are wondering why I’m linking to this guy like a mad idiot, there is actually a reason for this insanity. Jason is going to give away one of his secret to making at least $50 a day on August 12th if you do what I just did.
Since I’m a sucker for secrets (especially if they result in additional income) I figured why not. Therefore, this is the fifth link Jason requires for his entrepreneur blog to hand me his secret.
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HubPages for Backlinks
Posted on July 18, 2008
Filed Under Promotion, Traffic Generation, Internet Marketing | 4 Comments
Squidoo is probably better known than Hubpages - but for my money - Hubpages is the better bet for not only developing back links but also getting qualified traffic, and the potential to develop your hubpage home page with a good PR, a number of the better hubs have PR4 on their home page now. Oh and you can add as many links as you like on your home page!
What I like about hubpags includes:
- easy to add videos and pictures to break up the text: and get a bit of traffic from image searches;
- simple to use, no HTML is allowed and the capsules are more limited than squidoo’s but this makes it quick and easy to create an hub;
- use news feeds and/or eBay capsules for automatic updates for your hubs;
- limit to only 2 “self-serving” links per a hub keeps the spam level relatively low.
There are a couple of quirks with Hub Page that those who want to use hubpages for internet marketing purposes should know.
Hubpages Forum’s Ambiance
A number of the active community on the forums are primarily writers rather than online business people. There is a strong feeling that writing is important. Commercial hubs are tolerated - but anyone naively coming to the forums and asking what the community thinks of their very first hub: “How to Make Money Fast Online” will get short shrift - and probably get their hub flagged as inappropriate. Yes that’s right a lot of hubs which are flagged are done by community, so be respectful!
Hubscore Matters
Every hubber has an overall hubscore, and every hub as an individual hubscore. The two are somewhat related and both reflect traffic, particularly from outside hubpages, length of hub, and, in the case of the hubber’s hubscore, in activity such as rating other hubs, commenting and forum posting. And unless your hubscore is 75 your hub’s links will be tagged as “no follow” - a hub every month or so should see you easily maintain that score. This is the single most important feature of hubpages, in my opinion, because it keeps the spammers out.
Hubpages has never suffered from the fall from favour that squidoo has had. Most hubs are indexed within a few hours.
Hubpages appears to have a strong nternal linking strategy - with each home page have links to latest, hot and best hubs. Certain tags are routinely featured on the front page: make sure you include any that are relevant in your hubs: entertainment, how to, money, business, family are commonly featured. Tags are keywords and you should add a good number to your hub to improve your internal backlinks
Elisabeth Sowerbutts is an active hubpages author and wrote Hubpages and Internet Marketing for those who want to use Hubpages for internet marketing to best effect.
Technorati Tags: Internet Marketing, promotion, Traffic GenerationDo You Need Links?
Posted on July 15, 2008
Filed Under Web 2.0 | 11 Comments
Well, do you need links? If that sounds like the stupid question of the day, it is! Of course we need links else our sites will not feature well in the SERPs. I started the ball rolling in my last post Web Directory, where you can create your own to provide your sites with extra one way links.
So what, in the present climate of Google unrest, is another good way to get strong backlinks?
Create your own PLIGG site!
Ok, I see some head scratching happening here, so I’d better explain what a pligg site is for those of you who don’t know. A pligg site is essentially a social bookmarking site where you can submit your latest blog post and get a link back to your blog from it. Digg and BloggingZoom are examples of a pligg site. If you have your own hosting account, there is nothing stopping you creating your own pligg site. All you need is a suitable domain (an aged one is best, preferably with some PR), the free software from pligg.com and a little work and Bob’s your uncle! Instant pligg site!
I posted a more detailed explanation over here: Social Links, if you want to know more of the nuts and bolts of pligg sites.
I have personally created my own and it lives here The Fast BookMarker.
Check it out for yourself and see how easy it is to register and submit a blog post of your own. Once you get the feel for it, you can make friends and vote for other posts. Other members will then vote for yours and once you get a mere 5 votes, you get onto page one where your blog will get a PR2 backlink and some good SERPs authority for your keywords which you should put at least once in your summary description - which for maximum benefit should be original and not cut/pasted from your blog, or your link will not be counted by Google.
How easy is that? A simple submission will promote your blog.
If you think that’s good, then when you create and start using your own pligg site, you can give as many of your own blog posts a boost as you wish!
So what are you waiting for? Have a look at my site for ideas and then get on and make your own!
Terry Didcott
Author of Blogging Web 2.0
Web Directory
Posted on June 16, 2008
Filed Under Promotion | 8 Comments
A web directory as most Internet Marketers will know is a useful place to register your sites in order to get a backlink to them. Most of them, especially the free ones however, require a reciprocal link back. That rather saps some of the link juice from your link. So here’s another rather more novel way to make use of a web directory.
A Web Directory in the Hand…
Host your own!
Yep, I’m not joking either. If you want more control over links generated to your sites, then go buy a domain name that is relevant to a directory of some kind and put up your own web directory! There are many scripts available for doing that and some of them are free, or will cost a minimal amount. I personally put a web directory together a couple of months ago using a free Link Bid Directory script (look it up in Google, there are lots of them).
The beauty of a Link Bif web directory is that while its not free for other website owners to place their links, it is for the owner! You can link out to all your main sites from your own web directory while promoting it and getting it links from elsewhere to boost its own PR and SERPs authority. Once you get some Page Rank for your web directort, you will attract offers from other website owners to place their links. This is your opportunity to make some money from your own web directory!
You see, while Google is mad as hell at blog owners who sell links, they are not bothered about owners of web directories charging a small fee for their directory listing services.
With a Link Bid you set a tariff of minimum “bids” a website owner can make for their link. For the minimum of say $5, they’ll get a standard listing with a main page link plus up to three deep page links. If they increase their bid, they get a chance of that listing being displayed on the web directory’s front page - meaning they get the most link juice, which they are happy to pay more for. The bidding comes into its own when several site owners are vying for the top places on the web directory’s front page as they will try to outbid each other to stay on page one. More money for the web directory owner, who does no work for this by the way - the script handles it all and yo collect the money in your PayPal account.
Cool.
While my own web directory is growing, I’m quite happy for it to just send link juice to my own sites until it builds up some PR of its own. As I’m hosting the web directory on my own reseller account, it isn’t costing me any more for hosting, so its a nice investment. It can also be sold down the road if you get fed up with it, using information in Trent’s previous post at Flip PLR Products For Quick Profit. I just saw a web directory up for sale on sitepoint for a minimum bid price of $2,000 so its very worthwhile as a long term investment.
My web directory can be found by following this link: Web Directory
Technorati Tags: Blogging, directory, link bid directory, link bid web directoty, make money, make money online, promotion, saturn directory, terry didcott, web directoryBuilding Blogs and Flipping Them for Profit
Posted on May 6, 2008
Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments
In the past few years, the make money online niche has become almost a jungle situation where it’s “survival of the fittest” and if you haven’t been an internet marketer for quite a while then tapping into the make money online niche is going to be a long uphill battle. I’m not saying it’s impossible to compete in the MMO niche because it’s not. However, it won’t be easy. But there is a fairly new trend that is quickly gaining popularity and you could jump on board and cash in on it…
The title of this post probably tipped you off to what I am about to say, but there is a huge market right now for buying and selling blogs, and if you’re even a little bit knowledgeable about blogging, then this is a great opportunity for you to start making money online.
Flipping blogs you won’t have to learn a lot of the usual internet marketing stuff, like:
1. Adsense
2. List building
3. Affiliate marketing
4. Niche marketing
5. SEO
And the list goes on and on….
Instead, you can focus on a different way to make money through blogs, and really do well with it if you follow a few simple guidelines. Blogs are hot right now and you could be banking some serious cash by flipping blogs. The steps below should be taken using the Wordpress.org blogging platform.
Here are the basic steps you need to take so you can make money flipping blogs:
1. Pick a niche or topic that you want the blog to be about. It could pretty much be any niche, but make sure there is a market for it.
2. Purchase a related domain name for the blog, and hosting if you don’t already have it.
3. Buy a premium theme for your blog, so that it looks more professional. If you don’t know where to find these, then do a Google search for “Premium Wordpress Themes”.
4. Write (or outsource) about 20 or 30 articles centered around various keywords in the niche to post on the blog, and time stamp them so that you have a new one posted automatically every day or every other day.
5. Customize the blog with a cool logo for even more of a professional look (you can outsource logo creation pretty cheap on most of the webmaster forums in their “buy/sell/trade” section).
6. Once you have the blog ready and customized to your liking, then you need to start promoting the heck out of it. Comment on dofollow blogs, network with other bloggers, utilize social bookmarking/networking sites, submit to directories, do some article marketing, press releases or any other way you can to build up traffic and links to the blog.
7. When you have all the steps above done and the blog has aged for a while, it’s time to sell! Head over to a site like the Sitepoint.com marketplace, and list your blog for sale. Get a feel for what you should list it for by looking at similar blogs being sold and what kind of stats (traffic, revenue, RSS subscribers, etc…) they have. Even fairly new blogs with some traffic and readership have sold anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars. Make sure your auction listing details everything about the site, and emphasizes the strong points to make it attractive for potential buyers.
You can do this over and over again for as many blogs as you have time to keep up with. Some of the blogs you flip will sell for a huge profit and some won’t make you much money. You will probably even have several that don’t sell at all. That’s not a big deal. Just move on to another one.
One more hint to remember is that when you build a blog that gets a lot of bids or sells for a lot of money then it’s probably a good idea to build more of them in that niche. Using the steps above will give you a nice head start on flipping blogs for profit, and it really is pretty darn easy to do!
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of a top Make Money Online site and a popular Work at Home Blog.
Off Site SEO
Posted on April 13, 2008
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I’m going to link back to the second of my posts that dealt with online SEO, entitled: On Site SEO Update, because it provided proof that when you go about something single-mindedly and mean to do it successfully, you usually will.
I said I’d get this blog onto the first page of Google for the term on site SEO and I did just that. So what about off site SEO? Well, that’s not an impossible task either, because I only have to repeat what I did for the previous project to rank on page one for off site SEO. In fact it would be an easier task as there are less than ten thousand competing pages for”off site SEO” so to attack that particular keyword niche would be a bit like using dynamite in a small lake to catch a fish.
So, while this post will indeed rank on page one for the term “off site SEO” within a few days, that’s not going to be the reason for the post. I’m going to talk about one aspect of off site SEO that is probably the most important when it comes to ranking your site on Google’s page one for whatever keyword term you intend to rank for.
Its no big secret, either. They’re called one way inbound links, otherwise known as backlinks. But I’m not talking about any old backlinks here, although it is true that quantity of sheer numbers of crappy backlinks still count and will make a big difference to your position in the SERPs. No, I’m going to talk about the best quality backlinks you can get your grubby little hands on!
These are top quality links that come from authority sites within the niche you are targeting with the added imporatnt factor that they must include your main keyword in the anchor text. That’s the most important part of any off site SEO you can do with any backlink you can get pointing to your site or blog.
I can’t hark on about this with enough emphasis - it is absolutely vital if you want to get up onto page one of the SERPs to have as many keyword anchored backlinks as possible, especially when there are other competing pages that also know a thing or two about on site and off site SEO.
Why?
Because the more authority sites that you can get to include your keyword in the anchor text of the backlink they give you, the more authority your blog will have in Google’s eyes for your main keyword and therefore the higher it will place you in the SERPs. Google ranks authority sites highest, above sites with high page rank (PR) and above sites that are full of great content that do not have keyword anchored backlinks and therefore are seen as having less authority. To add to this, it is also important to vary the keyword anchor slightly to include other related long tail keywords, as this will make it look more natural. There’s more… getting keyword anchored backlinks to some of your deeper pages in your site count highly for off site SEO as well - giving your site even more authority.
That’s the long and the short of it. So you may ask, “where do I get these coveted authority keyword anchored backlinks from?”
There’s the rub - its not easy else everyone would be doing it. Most site owners that mean business and are determined to dominate their niche will buy them, pure and simple. They’ll use services like PayPorPest or other so-called paid review service, or Textlonk Ads (deliberate misspellings, there) to buy their way to the top of the SERPs.
But you can do it more legitimately if you have several sites or blogs of your own that all occupy similar or related niches. Even if they do not have high PR or a whole lot of authority, if you can use each of your other related sites to provide one keyword anchored link to the site you want to dominate your niche with, you will do it a lot of good by raising its keyword authority. That’s your off site SEO taken care of without having to resort to buying links. You then need to do your on site SEO by writing lots of keyword rich, relevant content and keep writing it often so Google sees the constantly updated content and the authority links and will then continually improve the position of your site in its SERPs.
That’s how you you do your off site SEO and combine it with good on site SEO to compete in your chosen niche. The rest is up to Time (it takes some) and the search engines to spider your site and recognise the links and content.
Lets see what happens with this site…
Terry Didcott, owner of Saturn Directory
Blogging Web 2.0
Are You Blogging Just for the Sake of Blogging?
Posted on March 26, 2008
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Have you ever sat back and asked yourself why it is that you spend day after day blogging? Do you have a purpose? Do you make money? Do you want to make money? Do you even know how to go about building a profitable blog? Are you trying to get famous? Are you just trying to get yourself heard? Do you market your blog?
There are far too many people who blog day in and day out without really knowing why, and without getting anything in return. I’ve seen countless blogs over the years come to an end far before their time. These were blogs that I visited often and were updated frequently with great posts and packed with tons of useful information. The owners wrote new blog posts all the time but eventually they had to quit because they weren’t making any money or getting anything else in return for their efforts. But why?
Think about it…
If you are blogging to make money, you need visitors so they can take the actions necessary for you to make money. If you are blogging for fame, you need people to come to your blog so you can get famous. If you are blogging just to get your personal thoughts out there, you still need visitors to read them or else there is no point in doing it. Do you see the recurring theme here? It’s people coming to your blog! And to do that you need to market your blog instead of just blogging.
Remember that blogging by itself will get you nowhere. It’s the marketing of that blog that really counts. A mediocre blogger who is an excellent marketer will win every time over an excellent blogger who doesn’t market their blog. I know of many blogs that don’t teach much of anything but they make thousands of dollars per month because they are marketed very well. I also know of numerous blogs that are loaded with great information but they don’t make money because they are not marketed properly.
As an internet marketer, the biggest part of your business is to “market” your website, blog, product, or whatever you built your online business around. That’s how you will make money online!
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of one of the top make money online websites
and the free home business tips blog.
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