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Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

 

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.

If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site.

Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.

Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

The accepted standard for a keyword density is between 3% and 5%, to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it.

Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site. It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.

Simple steps to check the density:

  • Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.
  • Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page.
  • Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.
  • When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.
Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.

 

It's not true that everything that has been said has
already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom
came into use, the whole universe has changed.
Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and the
mindsets of entire nations have changed.

The fact is that this is the perfect time to write an
ebook. What the publishing industry needs are people
who can tap into the world as it is today - innovative
thinkers who can make the leap into the new millennium
and figure out how to solve old problems in a new way.
Ebooks are a new and powerful tool for original
thinkers with fresh ideas to disseminate information
to the millions of people who are struggling to figure
out how to do a plethora of different things.

Let's say you already have a brilliant idea, and the
knowledge to back it up that will enable you to write
an exceptional ebook. You may be sitting at your
computer staring at a blank screen wondering, "Why?
Why should I go through all the trouble of writing my
ebook when it's so impossible to get anything
published these days?

Well, let me assure you that publishing an ebook is
entirely different than publishing a book in print.
Let's look at the specifics of how the print and cyber
publishing industry differ, and the many reasons why
you should take the plunge and get your fingers
tapping across those keyboards!

Submitting a print book to conventional publishing
houses or to agents is similar to wearing a hair shirt
24/7. No matter how good your book actually is, or how
many critique services and mentor writers have told
you that "you've got what it takes," your submitted
manuscript keeps coming back to you as if it is a
boomerang instead of a valuable mine of information.

Perhaps, in desperation, you've checked out
self-publishing and found out just how expensive a
venture it can be. Most "vanity presses" require
minimal print runs of at least 500 copies, and even
that amount will cost you thousands of dollars. Some
presses' minimal run starts at 1,000 to 2,000 copies.
And that's just for the printing and binding. Add in
distribution, shipping, and promotional costs and -
well, you do the math. Even if you wanted to go this
route, you may not have that kind of money to risk.

Let's say you already have an Internet business with a
quality website and a quality product. An ebook is one
of the most powerful ways to promote your business
while educating people with the knowledge you already
possess as a business owner of a specific product or
service.

For example, let's say that you've spent the last
twenty-five years growing and training bonsai trees,
and now you're ready to share your knowledge and
experience. An ebook is the perfect way to reach the
largest audience of bonsai enthusiasts.

Ebooks will not only promote your business - they will
help you make a name for yourself and your company,
and establish you as an expert in your field. You may
even find that you have enough to say to warrant a
series of ebooks. Specific businesses are complicated
and often require the different aspects to be divided
in order for the reader to get the full story.

Perhaps your goals are more finely tuned in terms of
the ebook scene. You may want to build a whole
business around writing and publishing ebooks.
Essentially, you want to start an e-business. You are
thinking of setting up a website to promote and market
your ebooks. Maybe you're even thinking of producing
an ezine.

One of the most prevalent reasons people read ebooks
is to find information about how to turn their
Internet businesses into a profit-making machine. And
these people are looking to the writers of ebooks to
provide them with new ideas and strategies because
writers of ebooks are usually people who understand
the new cyberspace world we now live in. Ebook writers
are experts in Internet marketing campaigns and the
strategies of promoting and distributing ebooks. The
cyberspace community needs its ebooks to be successful
so that more and more ebooks will be written.

You may want to create affiliate programs that will
also market your ebook. Affiliates can be people or
businesses worldwide that will all be working to sell
your ebooks. Think about this? Do you see a formula
for success here?

Figure out what your subject matter is, and then
narrow it down. Your goal is to aim for specificity.
Research what's out there already, and try to find a
void that your ebook might fill.

What about an ebook about a wedding cake business? Or
an ebook about caring for elderly pets? How about the
fine points of collecting ancient pottery?

You don't have to have three masters degrees to write
about your subject. People need advice that is easy to
read and easily understood. Parents need advice for
dealing with their teenagers. College students need to
learn good study skills - quickly. The possibilities
are endless.

After you've writtten your ebook

Getting your ebook out is going to be your focus once
you've finished writing it, just as it is with print
books. People will hesitate to buy any book from an
author they've never heard of. Wouldn't you?

The answer is simple: give it away! You will see
profits in the form of promoting your own business and
getting your name out. You will find affiliates who
will ask you to place their links within your ebook,
and these affiliates will in turn go out and make your
name known. Almost every single famous ebook author
has started out this way.

Another powerful tool to attract people to your ebook
is to make it interactive. Invent something for them
to do within the book rather than just producing pages
that contain static text. Let your readers fill out
questionnaires, forms, even crossword puzzles geared
to testing their knowledge on a particular subject.
Have your readers hit a link that will allow them to
recommend your book to their friends and associates.
Or include an actual order form so at the end of their
reading journey, they can eagerly buy your product.

When people interact with books, they become a part of
the world of that book. The fact is just as true for
books in print as it is for ebooks.

That's why ebooks are so essential. Not only do they
provide a forum for people to learn and make sense of
their own thoughts, but they can also serve to promote
your business at the same time.

 

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

 

How do you maximize your site?

By earning some few dollars per click from displaying Adsense ads on it. Many are now realizing that good money is made from this source of revenue. Try the simple mathematical computation of multiplying those clicks for every page on your website and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that little effort you have made.

Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense.

How much you will be earning will depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. It will depend also on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser have chosen are in high demand, you could receive more dollars per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you just a few cents per click.

How can you start making profits out of your website using Adsense?

1. Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.

2. When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a clip code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites that you want. The AdWords will start appearing immediately after.

3. You will be earning a few cents or some dollars per click when someone starts clicking on the AdWords displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.

4. View your statistics. Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account.

Once you got your account working, you may still want to pattern them to the many sites that are earning more money than you are. It is important to note that there are factors affecting how your website will perform and the amount of money it will give you.

It is a common practice that when a site earning money, the tendency is for the owner to want to make more out of what they are getting already. It usually takes some time combined with trial and error to attain what you want for your Adsense contents.

Time and some important factors that you can practice and use.

How do you increase your Adsense earnings?

1. Choose one topic per page. It is best to write a content for your page with just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant which will then result in higher clickthoughs.

2. Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the color of your ad with the web page color.

3. Test your ad placement. It is recommended to use the vertical format that runs down the side of the web page to get more positive results. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results.
4. More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your website by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimize the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the AdWords to be displayed.
5. Site Build It. This is the perfect tool to be used for creating lots of Adsense revenues. Site Build It has all the tools necessary to quickly achieve a keyword-rich site that can rank high in the search engines. This will also produce a flow of traffic to your site of highly targeted visitors.

 

Search Engine Optimization: What Not to Do.
Most internet marketers understand the importance of a well optimized site. In fact it is the goal of most internet marketers to rank highly for keywords relevant to their website. Successful search engine optimization and the subsequent high rankings that it brings, allows webmasters to drive laser targeted traffic to their sites without having to spend a dime. The problem is that most people are not sure about how to get their sites ranked well. Perhaps, worst yet, they don’t know what not to do, which can results in penalties from the search engines. This article will provide some guidelines on things to avoid when you are looking to optimize your site for the search engines.

SEO: What Not To Do

1. Never Update Your Site: Updating your website is very important to achieving high search engine rankings. If you want your site to stay on page 1000 of Google for your keyword, let it die by never updating it or adding new pages to it.


2. Repeat The Same Keyword Over and Over: It is now harder then ever to achieve high rankings by simply repeating your keywords over and over in your web copy. The search engines have wised up to it. They view it as keyword stuffing and will penalize your website for it. Search engines want their visitors to be able to find websites that will provide real value. If their visitors only find junk sites, created for the search engines, their reputation suffers and people will begin to look elsewhere for the information that they need. This would be bad for everyone.

Many of the search engines are using Latent Semantic Indexing to rank websites. This is simply making sure that your website has related keywords. For example if your site is about dogs and you are looking to get your site ranked for the keyword “dog training,” the search engines would scan your site for related keywords like, “Doberman,” “puppy” and “house training, etc.”

3. Don’t Worry About Incoming Links: Incoming links will make or break your attempts at achieving high search engine rankings. The worst thing that you can do is to not work hard to get incoming links. There are tons of available and free ways to get great links. Article and blog directories, social networking and book-marking sites are great places to begin.


4. Rely Solely on Search Engine Optimization: While successful, search engine optimization can be a fantastic thing, it would not be wise to put all of your eggs in the SEO basket. This is because search engines change and what they want in a website does as well. Also, there will be many people competing against you for the same keywords that you are targeting. Your website can be in the top five one day and then no where to be found the next. This can be devastating to your bottom line. Therefore, it is wise to diversify your traffic sources. Use both paid and free methods.

5. Do What Worked Five Years Ago: The one thing that does hold true regarding the internet is that things will change. Methods that would have sky rocketed your website up the search engines five years ago may no longer work today. That is why it is more important than ever, to keep updated and better yet, one step ahead, of any changes that may potentially affect your business.

 

Optimizing your website or blog for the search engines is a really great way to get some free traffic. And while many people are confused about the proper way to optimize their website, the formula is really pretty simple and straight forward. You need to have the proper tags, update your site consistently, perform some on-page optimization and most importantly, get incoming links. The persons who commit to this formula, will have the most success with the search engines.

1. Proper Tags: You will need to be sure that your site or blog has optimized meta, description and header tags. This simply means that these tags should include the keywords that you are looking to get ranked for. Don’t stuff them, just make sure that they are there.


2. Update Your Site: The search engines will reward your site if you update it consistently. A couple of times a week is good. If you have a blog, you should try to post to it everyday. It doesn’t have to be an incredibly long post, but you do need to continually add to it.


3. On Page Optimization: On page optimization is still important when trying to achieve high search engine rankings. Be sure to place your keyword at the very beginning of the web page and also throughout the page and at the very end. Again, don’t add your keyword over and over. The search engines are rewarding sites that provide value to the reader. You also want to be sure to use words that are related to your main keyword.

For example, if you are trying to get ranked for the keyword “weight loss,” be sure that words like “diet,” “lose 10 pounds” or “lose weight” appear in your text. Because many search engines are incorporating Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) into how they rank websites, it is important the you stay cognizant of it. LSI is meant to counter keyword stuffing by ensuring that related keywords occur in any web copy.


4. Incoming Links: Incoming links are probably the most important part of search engine optimization. Incoming links are like votes to the quality of your website. The rational behind this is that you must have a really great site, if it is receiving lots of “votes” or incoming links. You can get links from a number of different places. Other websites, article directories, blogs, social book marking and networking sites are good places to begin.

Search optimization is a great way to drive free and targeted traffic to your website. And although the formula to achieve good rankings is quite simple, the competition is fierce. Everyone wants those top spots because it means 100% profit. For this reason, you should not totally rely on SEO to market your website or blog. Instead, have a more well-rounded plan that includes both free and paid advertising options. You may want to consider driving traffic to your website by writing articles, using forums and even pay-per-click. It will help to safeguard your business. You could be in the top 10 in Google one day and be gone the next. So it is best to diversify your advertising methods.

 

Another way I like to generate income from the web is through survey programs. Below I list a few programs I have used in the past with good results.

1. Fusion Cash - The best.. you must have $40 in your account in order to cash out.
2. Online Surveys
3. Online Best Surveys
4. Survey Scout
5. Paid Surveys Etc.
6. Paid Surveys Online - very nice program

 

Of course, I must start with blogging since this is a blog you are on. There are several programs that can be used to monetize a blog. Before we get into that I must advise that you really work on building your blog's content and traffic in order to see the best results from these programs.

My top 5 programs:

1. Adsense
2.Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN)
3.AdEngage
4. UserCash
5.ExoClick


The others:

  1. 24/7 RealMedia
  2. AdBrite
  3. Advertising.com
  4. Burst Media
  5. Kanoodle
  6. Link Share
  7. Accelerator Media
  8. Ad Agency 1
  9. Ad Dynamix
  10. Adgenta
  11. Adhearus
  12. AdKnowledge
  13. AdPepper
  14. ADServing Network
  15. Adsmart
  16. Adtegrity
  17. AdZuba
  18. Adversal
  19. Affiliate Future
  20. Affiliate Sensor
  21. Affiliate Fuel
  22. AllFeeds
  23. Auction Ads
  24. AV Nads
  25. Azoogle Ads
  26. Banner Boxes
  27. Banner Connect
  28. Bardzo Media
  29. BClick
  30. BidClix
  31. BidVertiser
  32. BlinkAds
  33. BlueFN
  34. BlogadNetwork
  35. BlogAds
  36. BlueLithium
  37. Buy.at
  38. Casale Media
  39. Chitika
  40. ClickAdsDirect
  41. Click Booth
  42. Click Share
  43. Clicksor
  44. Click Xchange
  45. CrispAds
  46. ContexWeb
  47. Cyber Bounty
  48. Cover Clicks
  49. CPX Interactive
  50. Direct Networks
  51. Enhance Interactive
  52. Esource Media
  53. Etype-Europe
  54. EtypeUSA
  55. Etargetnet
  56. ExpoActive
  57. Fairadsnetwork
  58. FluxAds
  59. HurricaneDigitalMedia
  60. Hyperbidder
  61. Hydramedia
  62. Incenta Click
  63. Industry Brains
  64. Interclick
  65. JoeTec
  66. Kontera
  67. LookSmart Adcenter
  68. LinkBLiss
  69. Mamma Media Solutions
  70. MSN adCenter
  71. MaxBounty
  72. Mirago
  73. MIVA AdRevenue Xpress
  74. MoreNiche
  75. Nixxie
  76. Oridian
  77. Oxado
  78. Paypopup
  79. PayperPost
  80. PeakClick
  81. Popup Traffic
  82. Quigo
  83. RealCastMedia
  84. RealTech Network
  85. Revenue Pilot
  86. ReviewMe
  87. RightMedia
  88. Searchfeed
  89. ShareAShale
  90. Sponsered Reviews
  91. TargetPoint
  92. Text Link Ads
  93. TMP Express
  94. Tremor Network
  95. Tribal Fusion
  96. ValueClick
  97. Veoda
  98. Vibrant Media IntelliTXT