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How to Earn Money from Your Blog (Other Than Using Ads)
2008-03-14 14:34:00
google_ad_client = "pub-2424418246270212";/* 300x250, created 3/31/08 */google_ad_slot = "0378625278";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;//-->src="http://pagead2.googlesyndic ation.com/pagead/show_ads.js">The Value of Monetizing Your Blog Through Nonadvertising Opportunities:Displaying ads on your blog is certainly a simple way to try to generate an income from it. However, ads are not a guaranteed money-maker. For one reason, they are often dependent on the actions of your blog's readers. For another reason, generating a significant amount of money through advertising on your blog is unlikely (possible but unlikely) unless your blog receives a very large amount of traffic each day.By diversifying your income-generating opportunities, you'll have a greater chance of successfully monetizing your blog. Following are a variety of nonadvertising methods to earn money from your blog.Sell Merchandise:Many bloggers have success selling branded and non-branded merchandise on thei...
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Making a Squidoo Lens - Step by Step
2008-02-27 12:16:00
I made two new lenses on Squidoo today. Guess I had a sudden rush of inspiration come over me =) Ok - truth is that I came across some good keywords and decided to test them out. I like to test niche markets on Squidoo. The stats Squidoo offers on our dashboards are pretty good these days and that makes Squidoo a wonderful testing ground for potential niche markets I?m thinking of expanding on. And hey, Squidoo pays, too?. not a bad deal, is it?Anyway, as I started making my first lens today, I wrote down what I was doing as I went through the lens creation process the way I do it. As I was looking over my notes I thought, ?Hey, this would make a good blog post for my readers!? So - here we go:How to Make a Lens on SquidooStep 1:Before I ever step ?foot? into Squidoo, I do some brainstorming first. Sometimes my brainstorming comes from a product idea, sometimes it comes from a keyword idea - hence, the ?chicken/egg? nickname. Regardless of what came first, the keyword or the product...

How To Use Squidoo to Promote Your Internet Home Business
2008-02-27 11:11:00
Squidoo has become yet a famous phenomenon that enriches the arsenal of Internet Marketing tools. With the availability of Squidoo it is even easier to start an internet home business within an hour with a website (=lens) to promote your products.Seth Godin founded Squidoo and launched the website in October 2005. It is a platform designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. It's a social network of user-generated lenses -single pages that highlights one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Users of Squidoo, or lensmasters can use a lens template to create links, feeds, abstracts, and lists for other users. There are different modules that allow you to create Flickr photos, maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, iTunes music, Amazon products, and other links. You can get all these functions on your lens for free within an hour. You can even earn money with Squidoo since there are stan...
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How to get your articles more views and traffic
2008-02-24 11:20:00
The number one way I get paid, is to write articles about getting paid to write articles. You may need to read that again. Looking back before I post, it does look very silly. But since everyone wants to know how to make extra money from home these days, this is precisely the way to get the job done. It wasn't until I was able to read between the lines and realize this, that I made any kind of spendable cash. Of course there are a million other ways to make a living, but trends come and go like the tide on this world wide circus. At this point I don't see article writing going anywhere because writing is what one does online, in one form or another. It's like breathing. Not only that, but who wants to pay to sign up and sell other people's junk? Nobody pays to get a job.The thing you must pay close attention to when earning your living from home sweet home is to really make it worth people's time visiting your site. Your readers want something they can take away with them at no...
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Top 10 Reasons Why You Need a Technorati Account
2008-02-23 15:31:00
When you post a new article on your blog, when you link to some other blog or some blog links back to you - Technorati is watching and indexing all information about your blog. Technorati does all this automatically, so how can you benefit from signing in for a technorati account. There is much more stuff offered to Technorati members that you need?1. Claim Your BlogClaiming you blog entitles you to add and modify your blog listing in Technorati. This is the first step and you need to confirm ownership of your blog. You need to put a little bit of code on your site, ping Technorati and it will verify that it is indeed your blog. And you get your own blog page (our blog)2. Edit Blog DescriptionOnce you claim your blog, you can configure your blog settings. Set the description to whatever you like. Fill in your target keywords. Tell them what language your blog is about. 3. Tweak Your ProfileAll article listings in Technorati have a link to the author of the blog. This link leads to y...
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5 Tips for Promoting your Blog to Popular Bloggers
2008-02-23 13:38:00
OK, so by now you are totally ?tuned-in? to blogs and all the wonderful things they can do to help spread the word about you, your company and your ideas. You've seen the power of good blog PR. A mention or two on a prominent blog and traffic to your own blog soars. But their doesn't seem to be any formula for getting those mentions. You keep sending those press releases and you submit every post you write to the popular sites but still the results are hit and miss. You decide to try harder. You begin to email everything to everyone hoping to up the percentage of signal by producing more noise. Wrong, wrong wrong. You're thinking broadcast in a relationship world. Blog gers, especially popular bloggers, can smell self promotion a mile away. They aren't the PR department for your business or blog. They want relevant value for their own audience. They want information that fits their blog and their voice. If you want their help promoting your ideas you need to know and understand t...
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Simple Ideas to Increase Your Feed Subscribers
2008-02-16 14:42:00
Every blogger is on the lookout for different ways to increase their feed subscribers. You should be no exception. A common misconception is that just because you have more traffic you have more subscribers, this is not completely true.What is true is that more traffic gives you more people to promote your feeds to, but if you are not successfully promoting you will not reach potential subscribers as you should be. If you take a look at the Technorati Top 100 you will find that even the most successful bloggers relentlessly promote their RSS feeds to their readers. So the big question is, what can you do to increase subscriptions for your blog?Don?t be shy, just put it out there and recruit. Ask your readers to subscribe to your feeds, let them know you want them to. Include something catchy at the bottom of every post with a link to sign-up. Place your RSS icons prominently. Make your feed subscriptions a main part of your design. Create a box that is big and bright with large icon...
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How To Develop Relationship With Your Blog Readers
2008-02-16 14:31:00
It is always important to increase relationship with your blog readers. I wrote a post few days back on How to increase interactivity in your blog. In that post, I wrote on how you can make your visitors to take any action in your blog. This post will be on how to build good relationship with your blog readers and what you can do to make the relationship better.Blog ging is a good way to get friends and to tell the truth, I have got many friends. The best people who you can be friend with online are your blog readers, commentators and those who add your post to social sites. So you know whom you can be friend with and you can go and try to start a good relationship with them. Here are few things that you can do:1. Comment On Their BlogThis is the easiest step and you can win many friends by just making a comment in their blogs. I try to comment on the blogs that link to me and also in the blogs of the people who make comments in my blog. Even a single ?thank you? can make wonders. Fr...
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Promoting Your Blog with Entrecard
2008-02-16 13:38:00
Entrecard is one of the newest blog promotion sites that?s causing quite a buzz around the blogosphere. In short, Entrecard requires no monetary commitment but a fairly significant time commitment in order to provide real benefits. Entrecard gives bloggers the opportunity to create a virtual business card that looks like a 125×125 ad. As an Entrecard member you?ll install a widget on your blog that provides a place for other Entrecard members to drop off their ?cards? when they visit your blog as well as a place for other members to place their 125×125 ads (see the picture above). Members pay for ads with Entrecard ?credits.? You can earn credits by visiting other members? blogs and dropping off your business card through their Entrecard widget (1 point), when someone else drops off a business card on your blog (1 point) and when someone pays you with credits to place an ad on your blog. Ads cost an amount of credits equal to twice as many cards that are dropped off on the site ...
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Top Two Google Ranking Factors
2008-02-16 13:14:00
In this article I reveal what I believe are the two most important ranking factors used by Google .My findings are as a result of my ongoing optimization experiments of my network of web sites on Google.The top two Google ranking factors are:PageRank and Incoming Text Link KeywordsI'll explain each in more detail and what you MUST do to maximize the effectiveness of each element.1. PageRankPageRank is determined by the number and quality of links to a page. Both the quantity and quality of text links are important. Always try to get links from web pages with a PageRank rating of at least four.Concentrate on getting as many different quality sites as possible to link to one page on your site, usually your home page. Do not spread the links to different pages. This will maximize the PageRank of your main page, plus those of the subpages.2. Incoming Text Link KeywordsALWAYS provide text links for linking to your site. Avoid image links.Google does index image links, but without any tex...
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Search Engine Ranking - What Works Now
2008-02-16 12:41:00
The methods employed to increase your search engine rankings may seem like rocket science to you, so you have probably avoided dealing with this issue. I am here to tell you - the time has come to face your website! A high search engine ranking for your website is so essential that if you have the slightest desire to actually succeed in your business, there is no way you can continue to avoid this issue.At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the Internet find websites through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea of optimizing your pages for high search engine rankings is to attract targeted customers to your site who will be more than likely to make a purchase. The higher your page comes up in search engine results, the greater the traffic that is directed to your website. That's what search engine optimization is about.You can immerse yourself in all the technical information available online to figure out how to optimize your web pages to achi...
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Google Adsense tips to overcoming Smartpricing and maximizing your earnings
2008-02-16 12:25:00
Almost everyone has probably heard of AdSense by now, if not then I am pretty sure you have seen AdSense and may have not even known what it was. To explain AdSense, I must first tell you a little about ' AdWords ', Adwords is a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising system that is available through Google the search engine. You create a small text ad, which is placed on Google's search result pages, the ads match your websites subject or content. You bid or set a fee that you are willing to pay Google every time someone clicks on your ad, this is a great way to get highly targeted traffic that can turn into sales, subscribers, or whatever you are trying to achieve with your website traffic.Now that I have explained Adwords, I can now tell you about AdSense. AdSense makes it possible for website owners to earn money by simply letting Google place ads on their web pages. AdSense ads can be either text or images, the ads can be altered to blend into the webpages, so they don't make your ...
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Five Things Most Search Engine Optimization Firms Won?t Tell
2008-02-16 12:05:00
So, you want your Web site to rank high on Google and other search engines.To do that, you're planning on hiring a search engine optimization (SEO) firm. Good move -- maybe. A good SEO firm can help make your rankings and sales skyrocket. That's the good news. The bad news is there are a lot of SEO firms out there that will charge you big bucks without delivering results. As someone in the SEO business myself, I've heard countless horror stories about people who have gotten ripped off by paying for services they didn't need, or simply not understanding what their SEO firm is supposed to be doing on their behalf. Below are some of the things most SEO firms will never tell you. Knowing these insider secrets can save you thousands of dollars and many hours of frustration. 1. Most SEO work follows the 80/20 rule. In other words, 20% of the work will account for 80% of the results. If that's true (and believe me, from personal experience I know that it is), you should make sure that...
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Rotate Google AdSense And Image Banners In The Same Rotator To Increase You
2008-02-15 16:18:00
How can you persuade your visitors to click on the advertisings you are showing on your website and increase your site revenue?On almost every website you find flashy banners that try to persuade you to click on the advert.With banners?This market segment seems a bit satisfied.Today you are fortunate if you get a CTR (click through rate) of 0.02 %.That is 1 click for 5000 views!!With Google AdSense??An alternative offers Google AdSense? or Yahoo? advertising.These text-adverts bring some tranquility in your web pages and they can be easily read with the content of the page.But even here you can 'play' with colors, do you choose for contrasting colors so that the adverts look like banners or is it better to use colors that match the page layout? Google? does not offer an answer.With text links?Text links are easily to implement in the text that visitors are reading, but with every edit of your page you need to adjust them.Which then is the best method?Because you do not know the vi...
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Tracking Your AdSense Performance
2008-02-15 16:10:00
Google AdSense is a program that offers an easy way for web publishers to display ads relevant to their site on their pages and earn money. It also offers pay per impression, or pay per click advertising, options to businesses who want to get the word out about their product or service to interested customers. Once you start your AdSense account don?t forget about it and wait for money to start rolling in. There is still work to be done.Since you will only make money from click-throughs on your site, you?ll need traffic ? and the more traffic, the more money you?ll make. Here are some tips for getting the most from your AdSense dedicated space and for driving up traffic:Location, location, location. Position your AdSense ads at the top of your page or near the focal point of your pagesOffer freebies or unique content. Free stuff is a big draw to visitors and more visitors equal more click throughs, which turns into more money in your walletRotate content often and let your visitors ...
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Learn How to Improve the Performance of your AdSense
2008-02-15 10:45:00
Google introduced some new features to AdSense account. When I checked its really useful, So I request to all adsense members toCheck below given points to increase your AdSense Revenue. This is equily important for Publishers who will going to join AdSense.If they read this points and put banner accordingly it would increase their Adsense income.Tips for Maximizing Your Google AdSense Revenue.These easy-to-implement tips to help you maximize your AdSense earnings potential.1. Show your ads above the fold.Placing ads above the fold (the section of your page that is visible without scrolling) will make the ads more readily visible to your visitors and increase the opportunity for clicks.2. Try different ad formats.Not all web pages are alike, so try using different ad formats to complement the varying layouts of your web pages. Google have a number of ad formats available for AdSense publishers, Choose one from that which is most suitable to your page.3. Customize ad color combinatio...
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Adlink Units: Are They Worth It?
2008-02-15 10:38:00
Know More About Google Adlink Units When Google first launched AdSense, there was some skepticism from publishers. As much as most people were blown away by the idea of ads that were targeted to the content of a Web page there was the question of whether users, used to banners and skyscrapers, would click on something that looked so different.Boy, were those doubters wrong! AdSense has more than proved its worth to advertisers, users and publishers.A similar sense of skepticism greeted Google's launch of AdLink units. With nothing more than a list of links (which then lead to the ads), these units contain even less information than a traditional AdSense unit. And the user has to click twice before the publisher gets paid. That makes them sound about as welcoming as a winter barbeque in Siberia.It took a while for publishers to discover that actually AdLink units weren't as bad as they looked, and that with a smart bit of positioning they could actually take advantage of the way som...
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Link Building Strategies for Bloggers
2008-02-13 15:09:00
The two main ingredients to rank highly in the search engines are that you must have good content and have lots of links pointing to you. For the vast majority of bloggers, writing excellent content is not the problem. The problem is finding the best ways to build links to the blog, as well as building deeplinks to the blog posts themselves.Thousands of self-proclaimed "link building experts" will try to sell you expensive ebooks showing you the greatest places to build your links. The main reason this article was written is to show you that there is no reason to buy your way to a great link building campaign when you can do it all completely free. As a prelude, you should know that the most common free link building strategies such as link exchanges or linkfarms can be hazardous to your sites search engine rankings. As a good way to judge whether or not a link building technique will be dangerous to your site or not is to imagine if that link would be placed there if the search eng...
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The Shocking Truth! Is Your Blog Throwing Away Advertising Revenue?
2008-02-13 11:01:00
Blogging is hugely popular and blogs range in sophistication from humble online diaries to massive corporate promotion machines. For those who intend to make money from their blogs, there are a multitude of methods and techniques available in order to do that. One of the best ways to make money with your blog is by making it attractive to advertisers.So why are so many bloggers throwing away this opportunity?Well, the simple answer is they probably aren?t aware of it. So let?s look at the most successful ways of attracting advertisers to your blog so that you can make money from your hard work.Most bloggers wanting to make money with their blogs start by adding pay per click ads. These will earn you a few cents for every click they generate, but the downside is that once that visitor has clicked the ad, they are taken away from your blog, never to return.Some of the more enlightened bloggers are turning to more intelligent ways to make money from advertising. More importantly, they ...
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Banner Advertising Secrets - Everything You Need To Know About Banner
2008-02-13 10:55:00
If you want to learn the basic of banner advertising, then you will need to know some terms that usually used to talk about banner advertising. Understand the basic, before you use it.Banner ad is a graphic ad linked to a website. The ad?s owner is called advertiser. Banner ad sometimes placed on the top of the page, but can also run up the page (?skycrappers?).Banner view is the number of times a banner is seen. It?s just like the page views, but counts the number of times the banner is downloaded and not the number of times the page is downloaded.Click throughs, is when users click the image ad and go redirected to the website?s advertisers. Sometimes it called clicks.Click Through Rate (CTR) is the percentage of the number of users who see the ad and how much users click on it. A good banner will have higher CTR.Conversion Rate is the percentage of people who click on your banner, go to your website and then buy your product. The higher the conversion rate, the better.Cookies is ...
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Make money with paypal
2008-02-13 10:52:00
HOW TO TURN $6 INTO $6,000+!!! THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY!!!IT WORKS!!! BUT YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW IT TO THE LETTER FOR IT TO WORK!!!!A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like youare now and came across an article similar to this that said you couldmake thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investmentof $6.00! So I thought, ?Yeah, right, this must be some kind of scam?but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it saidthat you send $1.00 though PayPal to each of the emails stated in thearticle. You then place your own email address in the bottom of thelist at #6, and post the article in at least 200 news groups. (Thereare thousands) No catch. That was it. So after thinking it over, andtalking to few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured whathave I got to lose except $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a littleskeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it. Itfollows the same regulations as th...
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9 Ways to Make More Profit with RSS
2008-02-13 10:47:00
RSS is a great way to get all kinds of messages to listeners and fans. It has replaced most of the email spam that we suffered through for so many years, and has become a welcomed sight in most people?s email boxes. Here are 9 ways to productive RSS.1. RSS NewsYou can use productive RSS to broadcast news about your business or other things that might concern customers.2. Think Lean, Part 1You should keep abreast of RSS technology to learn new way to streamline your production. Look for new equipment as well as new software.3. Think Lean, Part 2If you really want to streamline your operation, use productive RSS in combination with podcasts and other forms of internet communication.4. Think Lean, Part 3Streamline even more by combining feeds and releasing them together. This can help you increase your subscriptions as well as your website hits.5. Surprise EventsSurprise your subscribers now and then with special events and sales. Use your productive RSS to announce them.6. RSS as Pres...
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How is PageRank calculated?
2008-02-07 09:40:00
To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site. PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn))That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. It's the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and it is probable that Google uses a variation of it but they aren't telling us what it is. It doesn't matter though, as this equation is good enough. In the equation 't1 - tn' are pages linking to page A, 'C' is the number of outbound links that a page has and 'd' is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85. We can think of it in a simpler way:- a page's PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a "share" of the PageRank of every page that links to it) "share" = the linking page's PageRank divided by the number of outbound links on the page. A page "votes" an amount of PageRank onto each page that it links to. The amount of PageRank that it has to vote ...
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What is PageRank?
2008-02-07 09:38:00
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated. PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.From here on in, we'll occasionally refer to PageRank as "PR".Notes:Not all links are counted by Google. For instance, they filter out links from known link farms. Some links can cause a site to be penalized by Google. They ...
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My Top 7 Blog Monetization Methods
2008-02-06 08:02:00
This list reviews my preference starting from the best to the least effective monetization methods I have implemented on my blogs. Note the list is entirely representative of my experience and I believe what monetization methods work depends heavily on the topic you blog about and consequently the type of reader you attract. This is why, as you will see, my list differs from Chad?s, although I do agree with him that AdSense is at the bottom of the heap.The important thing is to test and find out what works best for you. Don?t assume because something is best for someone else?s blog that is the case for all blogs.1. Recursive Affiliate IncomeIf you are on my early notification list for Blog Mastermind you already know why I love recursive affiliate income. Affiliate marketing is great because you sell something and you don?t have to deliver any product or provide customer service. With commissions as high as 75% you can run an online business that never produces anything, all on the ...
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