Increase web site traffic – 21 easy ways for $0…
Posted by admin in Sales, getting started, webiste visitors on July 30th, 2009
1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.
2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.
3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com.
4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.
5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com.
6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com.
7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.
8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.
9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.
10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.
11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.
12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.
13. Use PPC search engine advertising.
14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.
15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.
16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.
17. Hold a crazy contest and make it go viral.
18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.
19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.
20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.
21. Post information about any content you publish to social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon etc.
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Build one way links from .edu sites, courtesy of Google
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, Howto, Search Engine Optimization, Seo, Twiitter, social media, webiste visitors on July 24th, 2009
Further to the last post where I explained how Yahoo! can help you find both .edu and .gov sites that will link to you, try this one with Google. Run a standard search using variations of this string as your search parameters (make sure the spacing is correct):-
site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”you must be logged in” -”comment posting closed” -”comment closed” “<your keyword term>”
Do this and Google returns all of the .edu university and college blogs to which you can submit your comments to generate a link. It is probably a good idea to ping his/her blog after your comment is added to the post to make certain it gets picked up too.
Of course, you must ensure that the links are followable before posting a helpful and thoughtful comment. Install either the Google toolbar or the excellent (and free) Search Status Firefox add-on to simplify this latter task.
Build one way links with .edu and .gov sites the easy way…
Posted by admin in Howto, Seo, blogging, marketing sense on July 17th, 2009
Almost every site that you see nowadays is talking about links and especially about how to generate them. But, did you know that some links seem to have more value attached to them than others?
More specifically, were you aware that links from .edu and .gov site seem to have more importance attached to them than links from ‘ordinary’ .com, .net and .org sites.
As with most things to do with Google, then only people who really know how true this notion s are the Google folks themselves, but there is certainly a logic to the idea.
After all, it is possible to manipulate links from ordinary domain names, but far harder to do so with links from educational and government establishments, and you would naturally assume that those links should carry more weight too.
But, how do you find sites like these, .edu and .gov domain sites that are willing to link to sites in your niche? Here’s how…
Run a standard Yahoo! search using your main niche keyword.
This will produce the top ten sites in your niche, so you then take the first domain name and type it into Yahoo! in exactly this format:
‘linkdomain:competingsite.com inurl:.edu’
And, hey presto, you’ll have a list of .edu sites that are carrying links to your competitor.
Now all you need to do is follow up and request a link for your own site from the same .edu establishment. Alternatively, check the site to see whether you are able to ‘register’, in which case you can probably create the link yourself from within your profile.
And of course, exactly the same works with .gov sites as well, so give it a shot and let me know how you get on by leaving a comment.
Debt Relief with PLR…!
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, Howto, blogging on July 6th, 2009
I’ve just written a brand new debt relief related e-book plus a 3000 word special report which I’m giving away for almost nothing, especially when you consider that there will only ever be 20 copies sold in total. With almost half of them gone already, you need to get your skates on if debt relief is your market and you want a very special deal that comes with full Private Label Rights…
That’s right, you can do whatever you want with this baby. Put your own name on it and claim it as your own work, break up up inro articles or specila reports, basically, whatever you like.
But you’ll need to be quick…click this link now
What happens in an economic depression – part 2
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, getting started on February 24th, 2009
In the first part of ‘what happens in an economic depression’, I tried to suggest that in these extremely difficult times, many people are going to start trying to earn a living from the internet, primarily because there is less work and therefore less money flying around.
Hence, the first question that people who are thinking of earning a living online are going to ask is, ‘how do I do so?’. The simple answer is, by blogging.
Traditionally, if you want to generate an income from a blog, you would do so in one of two different ways.
Either you would feature paid advertising on your site (generally using Google AdSense) or by promoting someone else’s products as an affiliate.
However, I would suggest that neither of these solutions is going to be effective or profitable in the future, for several reasons.
Firstly, there is less money available to the businesses who were previously spending lots of money with Google, and it therefore stands to reason that there are going to be less companies advertising with the ‘big G’ in the future. Furthermore, one of the big bugbears of anyone who has ever used AdSense is that Google has steadfastly refused to tell you how much you will get paid for featuring their advertising on the site, or indeed, what percentage of the money they are paid ends up in your bank account.
Am I wrong in thinking that the percentage is likely to come down when Google see less and less people advertising? And when that happens, will you be any the wiser?
I believe that the answer to these questions is ‘yes’ and ‘no’, in this order.
Thus, if you are going to feature advertising on your blog as a way of making money, you really need to look at other advertising companies apart from Google, companies who offer paid advertising that is an awful lot more transparent than AdSense.
But, why depend on advertising in the first place? After all, by doing so, you are relying on other people (Google et al) to place advertising materials on your website, and then you are relying on your visitors to click on those ads. Granted, that is the very basis of PPC advertising, but it is a fact that the average net user is becoming increasingly ‘ad blind’. AdSense is almost everywhere nowadays, even featuring on the websites of the quality broadsheet newspapers so the average net user is nowadays bombarded with online advertising. Thus, they are becoming increasingly adept at ignoring it.
Then, you have the affiliate product option.
In this situation, you find a product or service created by an individual or company which you promote in exchange for a commission. The problem here is that the product or service you are promoting does not belong to you and you did not create it, so you have no guarantee of the quality of the product unless you buy it yourself.
As 99.9% of affiliate marketers don’t do so (if you bought every product you are thinking of promoting, you would probably spend more money than you generate from sales), there could plenty of refund requests, and again, you are relying on other people for the success of your business.
Add this to the fact that you only ever going to earn a percentage of the overall customer spend as your commission, and you again have to ask is this the best way of earning money online?
As far as I can see, neither of these traditional solutions is going to be the answer for how to make money through your own blog site in the future.
So, is there a better option?
The answer is, of course there is.
More on this next time…
The Incredible Effectiveness of Social Marketing
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, People, blogging, social media on February 18th, 2009
Social marketing has evolved into a VERY influential type medium whose effects are felt both on and off the internet today. From our recent presidential election, to the public opinion of the Californ…
Web 3.0: Death of the Website
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, People, blogging, social media on February 18th, 2009
Hard to believe it was just a decade ago when we had to rely on phone books, newspapers and advice from friends to figure almost anything out. Today, the Internet is our bank, encyclopedia, store, adv…
Let a Blog Enhance Your Work or Business Productivity!
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, People, blogging, social media on February 18th, 2009
Within the blogosphere, there is a new trend called microblogging. These microblogs will help you grow and maintain your business or enhance your productivity.
Microblogs are a new form of social m…
Journalism faces an uphill battle
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, People, blogging, social media on February 18th, 2009
audiences once attached to traditional media outlets. There is a lot of attention these days being paid to social media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter and various internet blogs. But again, the audience for most individual sites (Barack Obama aside)
What happens in an economic depression – Pt 1
Posted by admin in Business Making Money Online, getting started on February 17th, 2009
Like me, I am guessing that most folks who are reading this are too young to remember the last great economic depression back at the end of the 1920’s which lasted pretty much throughout the 30s. But, it’s interesting that so many people are now searching online for information about what happens in an economic depression and how to survive a depression, although not perhaps that surprising.
There is little doubt that the world in general is in a financial mess, with big business shedding staff like there is no tomorrow (I suspect that for any companies, there won’t be!) and people all over who are really struggling.Whether what we are going through is truly a depression is open to debate, although if you accept the definition of the Great Depression as being an ‘economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries’ from dictionary.com, it is hard to argue against it.
But, here’s the thing that I see.
As long as you have a computer and a net connection, there is no need to struggle. Indeed, rather than seeing this as bad times, I am certain that for many people out there, this is the point in their lives where they set off on a journey to true financial freedom.
What happens in an economic depression is that the go-getters get going.Rather than complaining about their lot, they start doing something to alter their position and situation, and unlike the 20s and 30s, your computer is all that you need in order to start doing something today.
Bloggers in particular are in a position to take the bull by the horns and really make a killing in these hard times. The thing is, even if times are as hard as they have ever been, it doesn’t take a great deal of money to get yourself set up your own internet business, and it is pretty much something that anyone can do.
So, rather than being a downer, I believe that for many people, what is happening in the world right now could represent a fantastic opportunity to do what they have always wanted to do. I guess that for most people, stepping away from the security of a job and a steady, guaranteed income is hard, but if your hand is forced and you need to look elsewhere to secure your future, starting your own online business is definitely one very good way of going about it.
But, having said all of this, I also believe that to make money in the future, bloggers are going to have to change their approach and tactics, because I am not sure that what has been working during the ‘good times’ is going to be quite so effective when money is a lot tighter. Nevertheless, that does not mean that you cannot start an online business, nor does it mean it cannot be successful either. And it still costs a lot less to get started online than it does in the real world.
Maybe you know all this already, and have been seriously thinking about starting your own online business for some time. If so, then all I can say is, stay tuned for the next installment…or even better, subscribe to my RSS feed, so I can send you the information as soon as it is available!
What happens in an economic depression and how do you survive a depression?
You finally launch yourself towards financial freedom, that’s what and how! More very soon….
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