09.21.2007 | 12:48 pm | Beginners, Blogs, Getting Started, Google, SEO, Search Engines, Site Building
Now that your site has been listed in Google you may want to improve your sites rank.
These suggestions can easily apply to other search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, ASK ect.) as these are basic
Quality Unique Content
The most important thing you can do is provide a reason for people to visit and return to your site (and even beter link to your site from their site!). To have this happen naturally it’s very important you provide unique quality content on your pages. I could never stress how important this is. If you don’t stand out and get noticed then you will get no where. When you are building your pages build them for your visitors with information rich content that you write out in text. It’s best to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links ect. The more you give a complete discription of your page content, giving special attention to including the information you would use to search and find this information, the easier it will be for someone to find your website.
Natural Links
There is nothing more valuable to you than someone linking to your site with out any promting from you. Natural links show someone found your content valuable and useful enough to link to it so others can do the same. This ads value to your site in Google eyes and will improve your rank. Google can tell the differance between Natural and Unatural link (Paid links, link schemes, doorway pages ect) which are not acceptable practices and will actually take away forom your rank. Also, if the links are sites with the same or similiar topic asr your site gives it a little more weight in your favor. :o)
Your Domains Front Page
Use your front page to your advantage. Usually this page is the highest rank page, visited more often by the crawlers, as well as the most link to by others. You need to provide as much information about your site as possible on this page. Make sure to be honest and clear. Make it easier for your visitors to get to popular pages for this front page by providing an organized clear menu to your sites sub pages
Use your TITLE and ALT tags
Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are complete, descriptive and accurate. The Title tag should be used at all times. It is so important. Use this title to attract visitors. The Google crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images so using ALT tags will help the bot know what your image is. Images hold a bit of value themselves if acurately ranked
Search Engine Optimization
Don’t feel you have to hire someone to improve your rakings you can do this yourself with some simple tecniques. If you do hire someone be warned there are some techiques that are used by some SEO consultants that Google may not approve and of coarse NO company or individual can garantee you a #1 ranking and any one who does is trying to scam you. It’s worth the time either wat to do a little research and see what oyu can do to step by step to making your page more search engine friendly
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09.21.2007 | 11:31 am | Getting Started, Search Engines, Site Building, Sitemaps, Tips, Traffic, Visitors
You have been creating this wonderful site with great unique content.
But nobody is there!
Now what do you do?
How do you get visitors?
Initially you are going to need to do a lot of foot work to attract visitors to your pages. It’s going to take time too. Ideally you would like your site to appear #1 for your sites main keywords in Google. This will drive free targeted visitors which means these people were looking for what you have or are talking about.
So you are going to need to do a little research on how to get this done and the first places I sugest stopping by is Google Webmaster Help Center. There is a wealth of information to read on the ideal practices to increase chances of your inclusion into Google.com’s Search Results, how Google crawls your pages, Ranks your pages, in addition there are links and tips on fantastic tools like Google Sitemaps, Google Anylictics.
- Have sites link to your site: It is best if these sites have similar topics as your site
- Submit your site to Google .
- Submit a Sitemap of your site. This will help the Google bot be able to crawl your site’s pages better
- Let other sites, people, directories know about your site.
- Follow Googles other suggestions given as Webmaster Guidelines
You should get tons of information from the Google Webmaster Help Center that you will be able to apply to your site and keep you busy for a while. :0)
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09.19.2007 | 6:14 pm | Beginners, Getting Started, HTML, SEO, Search Engines, Site Building, Tips, Traffic, Visitors
SEO is an acronym that stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is various techniques used to improve the ranking of a website in search engines listings.
SEO can also be considered as a subset of internet marketing as it provides a valuable service for your business. Search Engines provide new targeted customers who are looking for you and are ready to buy.
Creating a new industry, many coperations as well as small business websites tend to hire SEO consultants who undertake optimization projects on behalf of clients’ sites. But so much of it is pretty straight forward stuff that you can do it yourself.
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09.19.2007 | 2:27 pm | AdSense, Beginners, Getting Started, Google, Income, PPC, SEO, Site Building, Tips
If you are really wanting to make money with Google AdSense I think there are a few things that are important for you know or do.
Of coarse as always these suggestions are only my opinion. Please make sure you test what works best for your site . I can only tell you what is working for me take ‘m or leave ‘m but I tell you this same info made a big difference with my online income increasing.
- First off the most important thing I can recommend is to read Google Adsense’s Terms of Service. This is an agreement made between you and Adsense when you joined. It tells you a lot of information on what you can and can’t do while the ads appear on your pages. Not only do I suggest reading it once I suggest reading it so many times you could recite it by heart. It’s that important. Breaking Google’s rules can get you banned for life and nothing is worth that!
- Never EVER click your ads There is NO reason that its ever ok to click your own ad. There are always other options!
- Certainly don’t ask others to click your ads. I found out that the clicks will happen naturally.
- Play around with your ads colors.
- Try blending your ads background with your pages background color Remove ad border I.E. Blend border color with your background too.
- Use the same text colors that you have within your page. Maybe a slightly darker or bolder color for the Subject.. maybe your pages content links color.. color coordination is very valuable.
- Although many have found the border improves their CTR as well as making ads stand out more different colors than the page. Try. Test. Try. test
- Text is your best friend. Use it as much as you can. I could never begin to stress this enough. Google AdSense ads are created by the text found on your page as well as search engines use text to include you in searches.
- Use your META Tags. Be descriptive about your page in your title tag. Use Meta tag for keywords and pick out the best keywords from your page Use descriptive alt tags for images.
- Keep adding the code to more and more pages in visible spots. Don’t be shy with them. Higher in the page and close to content is best.
- Don’t talk with others (friends,family ect) about your ads or that you are or not making any money with it ect.
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09.18.2007 | 6:57 pm | FTP, Getting Started, Site Building, freebies
If you are looking to build a site you are going to need an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program to help you upload your files from your hard drive to your server/host/website. You will probably want something simple too. I did! I know starting off I had almost no clue what to do. SmartFTP makes it simple for you. To upload files SmartFTP uses a drop and drag interface. If you can use windows explorer to navigate your computer you can upload files.
All you will need is the information your webhost will give you to log on. Then you will just drop and drag!
- Address: Where to find your site. This could be the domain, IP, or something your host says to use
- Username
- password
Added Notes:
- SmartFTP has relesed a new version (2.5) of their software.
- SmartFTP states it works with Windows Vista
http://www.smartftp.com/download/
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09.17.2007 | 11:30 am | Blog Rush, Blogs, Site Building, Traffic, Visitors, freebies
I just found this new way to increase traffic blogs and the best part is its free! It’s called Blog Rush. And its a bit like a banner exchange program where you collect “credits” for showing the Blog Rush code as well as for clicks/visitors you send. The banner for Blog Rush contains links to blogs with topics similiar to yours. You can see an example down and to the right. I think this is a fantastic idea to be able to reach readers of other blogs like yours! They are saying that they are having a good amount of growth already & I just signed up so lets see how it goes.
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09.7.2007 | 11:58 am | Ad Networks, AuctionAds, Getting Started, Income
AuctionAds is the newest Ad program out there it has been noted as the most successful product launches of 2007. EBay gave them a developer award. And the network is growing by leaps and bounds with over 20,000 current members with as much as 200 new members daily. This affiliate program is H-O-T!
So what are you waiting for … Try AuctionAds on your site to see how it compares to your other sources of online revenue, such as AdSense or YPN.
If your still not sure here are some reasons why I think you should test out AuctionAds:
1. Some publishers have reported at various message boards that AuctionAds is making them double what they were earning with AdSense. AuctionAds is safe for to use along side the major ad networks so you won’t even have to remove any of your current advertising to add AuctionAds it will compliment what you are currently using. However, if you know what your doing you may want to swap out AdSense or YPN for AuctionAds at least partially!
2. The large inventory variety there are so many keywords with a lot of inventory. So it’s easy to find keywords to commpliment your sites niche. If you visit EBay and do searches you will be able to se inventory available. It’s that easy!
3. No PSAs! As default AuctionAds shows ads related to technology (think iPods and Xbox), so you don’t lose any revenue potential.
4. AuctionAds uses 30 day cookies so you will continue to earn on those eBay clicks for the next 30 days. I noticed a large increase in income 30-60 days after implimenting AuctionAds. and it even got better from there.
5. AuctionAds AuctionAds does have geotargeting, meaning you can earn money off your visitors when they click ads from outside the US… YPN still does not permit their ads being shown to non-US visitors.
6. Because AuctionAds uses standard ad unit sizes, you can easily replace AdSense or YPN ad units without having to change your layout, not to mention they will fit in all the standard places such as sidebars or underneath blog or forum entries. The can also be easily used as default ads to replace AdSense PSAs!
7. You can earn an affiliate commission of 5% for 6 months off new AuctionAds publishers when they click the “Ads by AuctionAds” link on any of your ad units. Again, neither AdSense nor YPN do this.
8. A majority of the ads they show have a picture, which has been found to increase your click through rate since your visitors will have a visual cue of what is being sold.
You have to keep in mind that AuctionAds is new and is growing very quickly so there may be a few growing pains involved. But I really think this ad network is worth it. I am awilling to stick with AuctionAds for a while as I have noted a good steam of revenue from the ad format and look forward to growing right along side of AuctionAds .
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08.20.2007 | 7:47 pm | AdSense, Google, Income, PPC, Statistics and Reports, Tips
Are you monetizing your website with Google AdSense? LOL
If you are you’re going to want to take a moment to set up alternate or default ads for your AdSense Ads. Alternate ads would be an ad that would replace the AdSense Ad when there are no available ads and instead a lovely PSA (Public Service Announcement) appears that when clicked will not result in any revenue for you (Example of a PSA RedCross.org). These ads, while helpful to communities and/or non for profit organizations, will instead lower your CTR (click through rate) as well as ePCM (Page View Value per 1000). I personally had no idea how simple it was to set up a default ad until fairly recently and wanted to take a moment to pass this valuable information on as it did increase my overall CTR and ePCM as well as created an additional source of revenue.
First, you will need an alternate advertiser and/or affiliate program. There are many to choose from like Chitika, Amazon ect. but I suggest a non contextual affiliate program since you are probably running more than one AdSense ad block on a page and you want to stay within the rules of the AdSense program.
Second, you will need to create a basic template page. You can use Note Pad or HTML-Kit or a similar text editor. You will need to make this page a .html, .shtml, .php or what ever page type you want. I prefer .php myself so I will create a page called google-default.php. I suggest keeping your HTML in this page simple but you will want to at least a 0 left margin in the BODY Tag.
Then in the BODY area of the page you place the code for your alternate affiliate source. Upload to your site in a location you can easily remember. You can use this text as your initial AdSense alternate ad HTML code if needed. (To save code : Right click the link and “Save Target As”)
Third, you will need to update your AdSense code. The best way to do this is to login to your AdSense account and visit the create code area. When updating ad settings for your pages ad you will need to place your default ads URL, or web address location at your site, in the box for the “Alternate Ad” and it will automatically ad the proper code. It will ad a line in the code that looks similar to this
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://mysite.com/google-default.php";
You will need to repeat this process for various sized ads so the alternate ad that appears is the same size as the original AdSense ad would be so the alternate ad will appear correctly on your page.
Origanilally posted (12-08-05) by me at another blog.
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08.6.2007 | 6:07 pm | Getting Started, Income, PPC, Site Building, Visitors
For those who already have a site with some content and maybe even some traffic too should begin testing and gathering information on what ad programs work best for your sites niche. I personally have tried several programs and find that many are not going to work on my site at all or maybe just made a small amount. But there are a few that make a moderate amount as well as even performs beyond my initial expectations.
Don’t disregard programs that don’t make a lot because each little bit helps and multiplied by thousands of visitors this can really add up. And keep in mind that some times if you spend time investigating and customising ads to work better with your site this will increase your revanue as well. I found it to be benificial to find a select few programs and become very literate in how the programs work and keep work with them until you find the best fit for your site.
There are so many differant programs out there that you can use to make money from your website. There is Pay-Per-Click, Contextual, Affiliate, Direct and several others. All these programs are waiting for you to make money from why not give it a try!
AuctionAds
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08.6.2007 | 4:37 pm | Getting Started, Income, Site Building, Visitors
In order to make an income online you are going to need people. So traffic or visitors to your website is going to be your main goal for quite a while. In order to gain visitors initially as well as earn their return visit you will need to have a site with quality content that is valuable to your visitors. This is very important as we all hate to end up at a site that runs you in circles and gives you little or none of the information you are looking for.
So make sure to take the time to do it right. While it is possible to make money quickly online I suspect that your goal as a work at home mother is more of a long term stable income, right? Well then you are going to need to put some thought, heart, time and a lot of work into this but I garantee if you do this you will be on your way to financial freedom.
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08.6.2007 | 4:10 pm | Blogs, Income
The newest craze for making money online is Blogging. Blogging is creating a way for many people to make a very decent income. Blogging for those who don’t know is for the most part a website with the owner of the site being a journalist on their topic of choice. This site is an example of my new blogging attempt. I am not really a blogger but I do however love to share what I learn. Blogging is a simple way for anyone to have a website.
Blogspot.com is a popular place for beginners to start a blog with little or no HTML knowledge. But to be honest with you I think for the long term you would be better off having your own domain right from the start. I feel that there are so many benifits to having your own domain that they outweigh any small quick income you get from a controled by someone else free blog.
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08.6.2007 | 3:59 pm | Getting Started, Income, Site Building
As I stated before in my last post I am a little ahead in the “Get Rich Quick Online” game. I already have a large content website running. To be honest I have several websites old and new live. The older ones are very beneficial as they can give boosts to the new sites being developed. With some time and effort you can do the same.
The first step in building a good content website is to find something you are passionate about, something you would like to spend a lot of time on. Your going to be doing this day in and day out so you are going to want to find something that is fun to you. I personally started a hobby site many years ago and it now makes almost 50% of my income. It certainly the site that started it all. In addition you will want to make sure you have knowledge on your niche or subject. This will be what makes you invaluable to your visitors in the long run.
Ideally you would want to have a product or service that you can start a subscriber base. Having many people paying monthly or yearly for your valuable service can really add up over a short period of time. Even if you do not have a service or product you feel you can market there are so many other options to explore that even the newest computer newbie can make money online
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08.3.2007 | 12:40 pm | Getting Started, Income, Site Building
I am an average mom. Ok. Well maybe I am slightly more than average. :o) The main differance between me and most other moms out there is that I am able to support my family 100% off of my online income. My children have never and will never have to be sent off to day care so that I can go to work outside the home. And in my opinion that really says it all. I am home with my family what could be better?
While I am already making a decent income online I am very motivated to continue in my quest to make more money. I love to learn and I love my websites and learning ways to improve my sites content in order to create a more enjoyable visit but also to increase the revanue the sites create.
I have started this blog to help document the things I learn and to pass this info on to others. Hopefully inspire you the way I have been inspired by others who I have looked to in the past.
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