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Weblogs | Adding a Weblog To Your Site - Important?

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Continuing my theme of how as a small business you can improve your search engine results. In a previous article I extolled the virtues of article writing and in this one I shall consider the practicalities and usefulness of adding a weblog to your site in order to drive more traffic to your web pages.

I am presuming that you have optimised your site, added numerous pages of content and update or add to that content at least on a weekly basis. All of this I did with our own website but still the search engines only visited the site about every 4 – 6 weeks. So although our content was being added to sometimes on a daily basis I couldn’t induce the Google spider in particular to visit the site more often even though I was submitting sitemaps to Google.which informed it of these updates.

I then started reading about the benefits to businesses of having a weblog attached to the site. SEO’s were and still do wax lyrical about how search engines just love weblogs. On this basis I decided to give it a go and looked around at the various free blog sites and finally settled on http://www.blogger.com as this site allowed the blog to be integrated into the website and offered a multitude of templates to choose from. So I chose my template and went through the process of integration with the website which is a very simple and easy process to follow. The next step was to start writing the blog. Very quickly I discovered that it was the ideal vehicle for announcing new services, new products and new branch openings as well as informing the readers of our day to day activities and experiences. All of it is excellent content and the SEO’s were quite correct in that the search engine spiders do love it. So much so that the googlebot spider visits everyday to update the web pages and the weblog. This now means that when my content changes or new pages are added they are immediately indexed by Google. This has done wonders for the search engine placement of the site.

The second benefit that SEO’s talked about was the increased number of links that having a blog would bring in. This part I didn’t quite believe as I couldn’t see how it would do this. I am still not certain of how and why it does attract links but the truth of the matter is that it does. The articles and the weblog seem to inhabit a world of their own and they certainly take on a life which you have no control over. However the combined effect is to boost your own content, attract search engines to visit your site frequently, increase the number of backlinks to your site and increase the number of visitors. All of which are of tremendous benefit to you as a business.

The latest figures I saw published for the number of businesses with weblogs was only 2%. So all you small businesses out there with a website, get writing articles and add a weblog to your site. Keep that updated, preferably on a daily basis, and you will soon see dramatic effects both on your visitor numbers and your search engine placement.

Credit: wesparkle.co.uk

10 Deadly Weblogs Mistakes < Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:49:00 +0000

"WEBLOGGING" Mistakes

1. No Author Biographies
Unless you're a business blog, you probably don't need a full-fledged "about us" section the way a corporate site does. That said, the basic rationale for "about us" translates directly into the need for an "about me" page on a weblog: users want to know who they're dealing with.

It's a simple matter of trust. Anonymous writings have less credence than something that's signed. And, unless a person's extraordinarily famous, it's not enough to simply say that Joe Blogger writes the content. Readers want to know more about Joe. Does he have any credentials or experience in the field he's commenting on? (Even if you don't have formal credentials, readers will trust you more if you're honest about that fact, set forth your informal experience, and explain the reason for your enthusiasm.)

2. No Author Photo
Even weblogs that provide author bios often omit the author photo. A photo is important for two reasons:

* It offers a more personable impression of the author. You enhance your credibility by the simple fact that you're not trying to hide. Also, users relate more easily to somebody they've seen.
* It connects the virtual and physical worlds. People who've met you before will recognize your photo, and people who've read your site will recognize you when you meet in person (say, at a conference — or the company cafeteria if you're an intranet blogger).

A huge percentage of the human brain is dedicated to remembering and recognizing faces. For many, faces work better than names. I learned this lesson myself in 1987 when I included my photo in a HyperCard stack I authored that was widely disseminated on Mac-oriented BBSs. Over the next two years, countless people came up to me and said, "I liked your stack," having recognized me from the photo.

Also, if you run a professional blog and expect to be quoted in the press, you should follow the recommendations for using the Web for PR and include a selection of high-resolution photos that photo editors can download.

3. Nondescript Posting Titles
Sadly, even though weblogs are native to the Web, authors rarely follow the guidelines for writing for the Web in terms of making content scannable. This applies to a posting's body text, but it's even more important with headlines. Users must be able to grasp the gist of an article by reading its headline. Avoid cute or humorous headlines that make no sense out of context.

Your posting's title is microcontent and you should treat it as a writing project in its own right. On a value-per-word basis, headline writing is the most important writing you do.

Descriptive headlines are especially important for representing your weblog in search engines, newsfeeds (RSS), and other external environments. In those contexts, users often see only the headline and use it to determine whether to click into the full posting. Even if users see a short abstract along with the headline (as with most search engines), user testing shows that people often read only the headline. In fact, people often read only the first three or four words of a headline when scanning a list of possible places to go. Sample bad headlines:

* What Is It That You Want?
* Hey, kids! Comics!
* Victims Abandoned

Sample good headlines:

* Pictures from Die Hunns and Black Halos show
* Office Depot Pays United States $4.75 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
(too long, but even if you only read the first few words, you have an idea of what it's about)
* Ice cream trucks as church marketing

This last headline works on a church-related blog. If you're writing an ice cream industry blog, start the headline with the word "church" because it's the information-carrying word within a context of all ice cream, all the time.

In browsing weblog headline listings to extract these examples, I noticed several headlines in ALL CAPS. That's always bad. Reading speed is reduced by 10% and users are put off by the appearance of shouting.

4. Links Don't Say Where They Go
Many weblog authors seem to think it's cool to write link anchors like: "some people think" or "there's more here and here." Remember one of the basics of the Web: Life is too short to click on an unknown. Tell people where they're going and what they'll find at the other end of the link.

Generally, you should provide predictive information in either the anchor text itself or the immediately surrounding words. You can also use link titles for supplementary information that doesn't fit with your content. (To see a link title in action, mouse over the "link titles" link.)

A related mistake in this category is to use insider shorthand, such as using first names when you reference other writers or weblogs. Unless you're writing only for your friends, don't alienate new visitors by appearing to be part of a closed clique. The Web is not high school.
5. Classic Hits are Buried
Hopefully, you'll write some pieces with lasting value for readers outside your fan base. Don't relegate such classics to the archives, where people can only find something if they know you posted it, say, in May 2003.

Highlight a few evergreens in your navigation system and link directly to them. For example, my own list of almost 300 Alertbox columns starts by saying, "Read these first: Usability 101 and Top Ten Mistakes of Web Design."

Also, remember to link to your past pieces in newer postings. Don't assume that readers have been with you from the beginning; give them background and context in case they want to read more about your ideas.

6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
A timeline is rarely the best information architecture, yet it's the default way to navigate weblogs. Most weblog software provides a way to categorize postings so users can easily get a list of all postings on a certain topic. Do use categorization, but avoid the common mistake of tagging a posting with almost all of your categories. Be selective. Decide on a few places where a posting most belongs.

Categories must be sufficiently detailed to lead users to a thoroughly winnowed list of postings. At the same time, they shouldn't be so detailed that users face a category menu that's overly long and difficult to scan. Ten to twenty categories are appropriate for structuring many topics.

On the main page for each category, highlight that category's evergreens as well as a time line of its most recent postings.

7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
Establishing and meeting user expectations is one of the fundamental principles of Web usability. For a weblog, users must be able to anticipate when and how often updates will occur.

For most weblogs, daily updates are probably best, but weekly or even monthly updates might work as well, depending on your topic. In either case, pick a publication schedule and stick to it. If you usually post daily but sometimes let months go by without new content, you'll lose many of your loyal — and thus most valuable — readers.

Certainly, you shouldn't post when you have nothing to say. Polluting cyberspace with excess information is a sin. To ensure regular publishing, hold back some ideas and post them when you hit a dry spell.

8. Mixing Topics
If you publish on many different topics, you're less likely to attract a loyal audience of high-value users. Busy people might visit a blog to read an entry about a topic that interests them. They're unlikely to return, however, if their target topic appears only sporadically among a massive range of postings on other topics. The only people who read everything are those with too much time on their hands (a low-value demographic).

The more focused your content, the more focused your readers. That, again, makes you more influential within your niche. Specialized sites rule the Web, so aim tightly. This is especially important if you're in the business-to-business (B2B) sector.

If you have the urge to speak out on, say, both American foreign policy and the business strategy of Internet telephony, establish two blogs. You can always interlink them when appropriate.

9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
Whenever you post anything to the Internet — whether on a weblog, in a discussion group, or even in an email — think about how it will look to a hiring manager in ten years. Once stuff's out, it's archived, cached, and indexed in many services that you might never be aware of.

Years from now, someone might consider hiring you for a plum job and take the precaution of 'nooping you first. (Just taking a stab at what's next after Google. Rest assured: there will be some super-snooper service that'll dredge up anything about you that's ever been bitified.) What will they find in terms of naïvely puerile "analysis" or offendingly nasty flames published under your name?

Think twice before posting. If you don't want your future boss to read it, don't post.

10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
Having a weblog address ending in blogspot.com, typepad.com, etc. will soon be the equivalent of having an @aol.com email address or a Geocities website: the mark of a naïve beginner who shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Letting somebody else own your name means that they own your destiny on the Internet. They can degrade the service quality as much as they want. They can increase the price as much as they want. They can add atop your content as many pop-ups, blinking banners, or other user-repelling advertising techniques as they want. They can promote your competitor's offers on your pages. Yes, you can walk, but at the cost of your loyal readers, links you've attracted from other sites, and your search engine ranking.

The longer you stay at someone else's domain name, the higher the cost of going independent. Yes, it's tempting to start a new weblog on one of the services that offer free accounts. It's easy, it's quick, and it's obviously cheap. But it only costs $8 per year to get your personal domain name and own your own future. As soon as you realize you're serious about blogging, move it away from a domain name that's controlled by somebody else. The longer you delay, the more pain you'll feel when you finally make the move.

Credit: useit.com

Review - Credit Card Processing Comparison Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:43:00 +0000

In this era, credit cards are one of the most used tools to pay for purchases. No matter if you own a retail store, internet business or run a small business accepting credit cards is a significant part of running a successful business.

For this reason I am going to review the free credit card processing comparison tool by http://www.creditorweb.com

This tool helps small businesses to compare merchant account/credit card processing plans to find the best deal for accepting credit card payments online. You have to select the kind of business you are operating (Internet, Home Based, Retail) and your average sales and transaction amount per month. The search engine will show you the most appropriate results with the most effective plan first and so on.

I hate sounding like a sales personal so following are the good points I’ve noticed.

Good Points:

1. Each of the credit card processing company caters to special markets and propose varying rates, fees and services. CreditorWeb has compiled a list of some of the top notch credit card processing providers which helps you to evaluate the various plans available side by side and make the best choice for your business.

2. This tool is extremely easy to use and the graphics is awfully appealing which makes the whole experience amazing.

3. They keep their services up to date for better performance.

4. Last but not the least, It is totally free service.

Conclusion:
I have personally evaluated the results and am satisfied to see that I can save more. I haven’t yet noticed any tool providing better results than creditorsweb tool.

Rating: AAA

Advanced Google Searching Techniques - Google Hacking

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:40:00 +0000

Google has done a terrific job in search industry by introducing their search engine years ago.

Today, It is no doubt the most powerful search engine.

Google Simple Search

We can simply search Google by writing the words we want to know about and that's it. We eventually find something useful.

Have you ever noticed the amount of time you waste by doing this?

Advanced Google Search - Ethical Google Hacking

We need to be a little more sophisticated while search through Google. Using operators is the best way for getting quality results.

Google Operators:
Operators are used to enhance results and to maximize the search value. These are our tools as well as deadly hackers’ weapons.

Basic Operators:
+, -, ~ , ., *, “”, |, OR

Advanced Operators:
allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl:, bphonebook:, cache:, define:, filetype:, info:, intext:, intitle:, inurl:, link:, phonebook:, related:, rphonebook:, site:, numrange:, daterange

Basic Operators
(+) force inclusion of something common
Google ignores common words (where, how, digit, single letters) by default:
Example: StarStar Wars Episode +I
(-) exclude a search term
Example: apple –red
(“) use quotes around a search term to search exact phrases:
Example: “Robert Masse”
Robert masse without “” has the 309,000 results, but “robert masse” only has 927 results. Reduce the 99% irrelevant results

(~) search synonym:
Example: ~food
Return the results about food as well as recipe, nutrition and cooking information
( . ) a single-character wildcard:
Example: m.trix
Return the results of M@trix, matrix, metrix…….
( * ) any word wildcard

Advanced Operators:

“Site:”
Site: Domain_name
Find Web pages only on the specified domain. If we search a specific site, usually we get the Web structure of the domain
Examples:

site:http://www.workers-place.blogspot.com
site:www.mylotlovers.info

“Filetype:”
Filetype: extension_type
Find documents with specified extensions
The supported extensions are:
- HyperText Markup Language (html) - Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) - Microsoft Word (doc)
- Adobe PostScript (ps) - Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
- Lotus 1-2-3 - Microsoft Excel (xls)
(wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) - Microsoft Write (wri)
- Lotus WordPro (lwp) - Rich Text Format (rtf)
- MacWrite (mw) - Shockwave Flash (swf)
- Text (ans, txt)
Note: We actually can search asp, php and cgi, pl files as long as it is text-compatible.
Example: Budget filetype: xls

A budget file we found …….

Intitle: search_term
Find search term within the title of a Webpage
Allintitle: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the Web pages with the title that includes all these words
These operators are specifically useful to find the directory lists
Example:
Find directory list:
Intitle: Index.of “parent directory

Inurl: search_term
Find search term in a Web address
Allinurl: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in a Web address
Examples:
Inurl: cgi-bin
Allinurl: cgi-bin password

Intext: search_term
Find search term in the text body of a document.
Allintext: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the text body of a document.
Examples:
Intext: Administrator login
Allintext: Administrator login

Cache: URL
Find the old version of Website in Google cache
Sometimes, even the site has already been updated, the old information might be found in cache
Examples:
Cache: www.mylotlovers.info

..
Conduct a number range search by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces. Be sure to specify a unit of measure or some other indicator of what the number range represents
Examples:
Computer $500..1000

Daterange: -
Find the Web pages between start date and end date
Note: start_date and end date use the Julian date
The Julian date is calculated by the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC. For example, the Julian date for August 1, 2001 is 2452122
Examples:
2004.07.10=2453196
2004.08.10=2453258
Vulnerabilities date range: 2453196-2453258

DVD player $250..350

Link: URL
Find the Web pages having a link to the specified URL
Related: URL
Find the Web pages that are “similar” to the specified Web page
info: URL
Present some information that Google has about that Web page
Define: search_term
Provide a definition of the words gathered from various online sources
Examples:
Link: workers-place.blogspot.com
Related: anysiteforexample.com
Info: examplesite.com
Define: Social Networks

Phonebook
Search the entire Google phonebook
rphonebook
Search residential listings only
bphonebook
Search business listings only
Examples:
Phonebook: robert las vegas (robert in Las Vegas)
Phonebook: (702) 944-2001 (reverse search, not always work)
The phonebook is quite limited to U.S.A

Enough For Today, Play with these advanced searching techniques. These are the same techniques which can be used to search extremly efficient and fast.
Also a site can be hacked via these commands. I suggest you to go in deep only for LEARNING purposes.

I hope you people enjoyed this guide. Thanks to GoSecure for their contribution.

3 Easy Ways - Earn In Real

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:55:00 +0000

Here are just a few of the many things you can do in order to make money with your website.

1. Put Google Adsense ads on your site: Google is not just an awesome search engine, it is an advertising monster. Google has a very popular advertising program called ‘Google Adsense’. The way it works is you sign up for an account, select the layout, size etc. of the ads you would like to display on your site and paste a simple code that they provide to you on your site. This code will display ads on your site that will be relevant to your sites topic. Every time your site visitors click on the ads you get paid.

2. Promote Affiliate Links: There are millions of companies out there that have a product or service to sell. Most them are smart and realize that other people will promote their product or service for them if they can get a cut of the profits. That is why most big companies have affiliate programs. To get started, just find a product you would like to promote and see if they have an affiliate program. If they don’t just keep looking, they are not hard to find. You just sign up and they will provide you with a unique link that you can post to your website. You will earn a certain percentage of each sell through your link.

3. Sell Advertising Space: One of the biggest factors that the search engines factor into their algorithms in order to determine any given pages quality is the number of quality links pointing to their site. This is why it can be very valuable to sell advertising space on your website. Whether you get a lot of traffic or not, many webmasters may be interested in purchasing a small spot on your site to display their text-link or banner. To do this, just do some searches on Google for ‘link broker’. There are several services out there that unit link buyers and sellers.

As I stated above, these are only a few of the many ways in which one can start making money with a website. Look into these techniques further, take action and stick with it and I am confident that you can be making money with your website as soon as today.

Credit goes to ezinearticles.com

Making Money From The Internet ? - Earn Easy Money Online

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:55:00 +0000

What does the downfall of the dot-coms mean to home-based entrepreneurs? Maybe not much. However, the question that plagues the dot-coms also haunt the small online entrepreneurs: how do we make money on the Internet?

The past few years have been a sobering experience for Internet entrepreneurs. The collapse of many high-profile dot-coms can be compared to a head-splitting hangover that just won't go away. Yes, the dot-com world has learned that even online businesses must make money in order to survive.

What does the continued downfall of the once-mighty dot-coms mean to home-based entrepreneurs? Maybe not much (unless you use their products or services).

The dot-com world seems too far removed from the humble operations of the home-based entrepreneurs. Unlike the dot-coms, the small online entrepreneurs do not have IPOs to consider, shareholders' interest to safeguard, public images built by costly primetime advertising to maintain. We also do not have venture capitalists on our backs pressuring us day-in-and-day-out to deliver, demanding quick returns of their money. We do not have hundreds of staffs to pay, chic offices to rent, and costly technology buys. What we lack in cash and capital, we compensate for total control of our businesses, growing our own online ventures at our own pace.

However, the question that plaques the dot-coms also haunt the small online entrepreneurs: how do we make money on the Internet?

Sell products or information

Selling a product, service or information is the best way to make money on the Internet. Customers pay you for a product or information. You can sell information-based products such as books, courses, kits, e-books, business research tools, and databases. Commercial products, on the other hand, can range from baskets, beads, handicrafts, toys, wine and liquor, electronic products from all over the world. The range of products that you can offer on the Internet is just incredibly wide.

You can also sell custom-made items or products you yourself manufactured, selling them directly on the Web without the wholesalers or retailers. As the manufacturer, the Web can enable you to reach your buyers directly, allowing you to set prices that are more competitive as you eliminate middlemen. You can also appoint dealers or what is called "affiliates" in the Internet and give out generous commissions for reasonable sales volumes. Your knowledge and understanding of your customers will also enable you to provide better customer service.

Having your own products to sell is the best strategy for making money on the Internet. You will not be thoroughly dependent on your traffic, as compared to businesses that rely on advertising for their revenues. Traffic is less valuable for e-commerce plays because revenue is more essential. The important question is "how much sales did I make today?" and not so much as "how many people visited my site today?" Although, of course, the next important consideration is: 'how much will they pay to keep it?'" In other words, will they keep coming back for more? The success of your site will depend on how well you are able to convert your traffic to sales, and how much of your customers will become repeat clients.

Sell advertising and ad products

The advertising model is a common business model on the Internet employed by both generalized and niche portals. Sites such as Yahoo and Blue Mountain make their living primarily by selling advertising.

To earn money through online advertising, your web site must provide content (usually, but not necessarily, for free) and services (like e-mail, chat, forums). You may offer free services such as collection of scripts or even web hosting. Advertisers then pay to reach your audience, with their advertising messages often presented in the form of banner ads. The banner ads will then be the major or sole source of your revenue.

However, the advertising model only works when the volume of viewer traffic is either large or highly specialized. If your site attracts a specialized market, such as home owners, new parents or home-based entrepreneurs, it can be highly sought after as a venue for certain advertisers who are willing to pay a premium to reach that particular audience. Nonetheless, the quality of your traffic is still essential.

Therefore, if you are going to pursue this revenue model, be sure that you can convince potential advertisers that have a solid customer base and that you can indeed reach your market. Advertisers may require a minimum number of page views that your site can deliver.

Sell consulting services

A number of small business entrepreneurs do a living on the Internet by selling consultancy services on a variety of subjects - from Internet marketing, import-export, securing loans, financial services, personal development, and many others. You can create a web site that aims to provide advice and guidance to people who may need help in your subject area. Website Analyst of Israel (http://www.website-analyst.co.il), for example, offers consultancy from Web site planning to publicity strategies. The creators of Internet Marketing Challenge (http://www.marketingchallenge.com) gathers a number of "Internet experts" and offers a collective consulting services to those requiring help in marketing effectively on the Internet.

Bring buyers and sellers together

You can also earn on the Internet, not by selling goods or information, but by bringing together buyers and sellers. An example of this is eBay, which have popularized the auction model. Market exchanges, business trading communities, buy/sell fulfillment and other B2B business models fall under this category.

Small online entrepreneurs can launch their scaled down version of B2B business models through sites that facilitate transactions, earning fees in the process. You can create a site where people sell a product or information to other people, and you take a cut of the transaction. For example, many netpreneurs have created classified ads sites, providing a listing of items for sale or wanted for purchase. They then earn from the listing charges regardless of whether or not a transaction occurs.

Another way for a home based entrepreneur to earn money using this approach is through the creation of online malls, where you provide a central place on the Net where people can find a particular business or service. You earn money through setup fees, monthly listing, and/or per transaction fees. Virtual malls, however, is best handled by an experienced Internet entrepreneur with some capital.

Sell subscriptions

Some small entrepreneurs sell subscription-based services over the Internet, although this could be the hardest. This model entails offering your content to members willing to pay your subscription fee.

However, a 1999 survey by Jupiter Communications found that 46 percent of Internet users would not pay to view content on the web. To succeed, you must offer high value-added content that is not available elsewhere for free. The Wall Street Journal (http://www.wsj.com) is an example of a successful subscription model. Generic news content, viable on the newsstand, has proven less successful as a subscription model on the web. Slate.com and TheStreet.com are good examples of these failures.

The challenge for a small online entrepreneur is how to make your site with an unknown brand succeed in charging a minimal fee amidst all the free information available on the Internet. Check the demand and supply equations for the kind of information you are providing. Are the subscribers demanding this information enough to want to pay? Can they get the same kind of information for less or even free elsewhere? How well have you established yourself as an expert in your field that people will be willing to pay a fee to read what you have to say? These, and other questions, need to be answered before you can expect your subscriptions-based site to earn money for you. Some businesses have combined free content (to drive volume and ad revenue) with premium content or services for subscribers only.

Whatever way you plan to make money on the Internet, be aware of the so-called "free trap." Start out by giving away your product and customers will disappear (along with your business) when you start charging.

The Internet as a business medium is still evolving. Home-based entrepreneurs must learn from the excesses of the dot-coms. As more and more people gets connected to the Web, the Internet will continue to be a potent force in commerce.

Make Big Money With YouTube in 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:42:00 +0000

Here’s another way how you can make money from online videos. Magnify.net is a service that allows you to create your own video site from videos you found on YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video and others.

You can also upload your own video and create a branded video channel that you control. Here’s an example of a Video Channel created using Magnify.net

Magnify.net provides upload, storage and free bandwidth. You’ll be able to create your own video community and generate revenue through Google AdSense or Revver.com.

So how do you actually make money from this?

Members make money from 50/50 revenue sharing on the advertising displayed on your Magnify.net site. The type of advertising messages shown on Magnify sites are

Text Links and Banner Ads Magnify shows contextual advertising messages in the margins of some pages.
Integrated Advertising Some videos syndicated from third-party hosting services contain integrated advertising. (For example, videos hosted by Revver include an advertisement after the end of the video.)
Video Pre-Roll A few Magnify sites are currently testing a pre-roll offering that plays a 10-30 second video advertisement before some video views.

So to earn money with Magnify and AdSense for example, you can enter your AdSense affiliate ID in Magnify members area. Your AdSense affiliate ID will then be used half of the times that a AdSense ad is shown on your site. The overall revenue share is thus 50% to you and 50% to Magnify.

Your AdSense affiliate earnings are recorded at Google, reported through Google’s AdSense affiliate interface, and paid to you directly by Google according to their terms and conditions.

You can use your own domain name for your Magnify site to further integrate your video channel with your own brand. This is what Shawn Collins did which allowed him to create Affiliate TV literally in minutes.

Some of the features include the ability to customize your video pages with built-in templates and admin tools, add a blog into your channel, view site statistics, and more.

Credit goes to sabahan.com

Make Big Money With YouTube in 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:42:00 +0000

You can also upload your own video and create a branded video channel that you control. Here’s an example of a Video Channel created using Magnify.net

Magnify.net provides upload, storage and free bandwidth. You’ll be able to create your own video community and generate revenue through Google AdSense or Revver.com.

So how do you actually make money from this?

Members make money from 50/50 revenue sharing on the advertising displayed on your Magnify.net site. The type of advertising messages shown on Magnify sites are

Text Links and Banner Ads Magnify shows contextual advertising messages in the margins of some pages.
Integrated Advertising Some videos syndicated from third-party hosting services contain integrated advertising. (For example, videos hosted by Revver include an advertisement after the end of the video.)
Video Pre-Roll A few Magnify sites are currently testing a pre-roll offering that plays a 10-30 second video advertisement before some video views.

Your AdSense affiliate earnings are recorded at Google, reported through Google’s AdSense affiliate interface, and paid to you directly by Google according to their terms and conditions.

Some of the features include the ability to customize your video pages with built-in templates and admin tools, add a blog into your channel, view site statistics, and more.

Credit goes to sabahan.com

Get Strong Referal Traffic from Social Networking Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:16:00 +0000

Not all websites are made equal. The value of a website and its ability to attract natural votes from social websites depends a great deal on its overall niche and content.

For example, if your corporate website focuses on topics such as real estate, auto insurance or financial products like credit cards, it might be difficult in making an article on it popular in social websites like Digg, Reddit or Netscape.

The general lack of popular interest in the content of your website is usually the main problem. You can create an interesting press release and seed it with friendly votes but it remains unlikely that it will be very well-received.

Why? Because you are dealing with a crowd that favors attractive non-commercial content that usually revolves around popular or niche sub-cultures.

For these websites, the key to effective viral marketing not just lies in creating attractive on-site linkbait, but rather the ability to create linkbaits which grow into powerful sources of referral traffic through social websites.

The Viral Solution to Unattractive Websites: Gain Visitor Traffic by Association

The exact location of your linkbait article is of great importance. Determining the right placement is especially vital when your website is in an industry that generally does not appeal to social website audiences.

There is just one motto to follow: If you can’t get social traffic visitors to your desired website, get them through other websites or webpages.

There are generally two ways of doing this:

Place your linkbait on a sub-domain or customized webpage that is aesthetically different from your main website. Leave sidebar navigation and a clickable header/logo that points back to your site’s homepage/sell-page and you’ll be likely to get some traffic from visitors attracted by the linkbait.
Set up your linkbait on a separate domain or website and include a link to a highly relevant article at the bottom of the article. This is a popular strategy used by several websites and is very effective if the inserted link and copy is relevant.

A recent article which reached the Reddit Topspot used the second strategy and this is what we will be examining in detail.

Characteristics of a Successful Traffic and Link Bait: A Case Study

I’m a big fan of Reddit and I usually spend some time everyday going through all the links on their first two pages. A few days ago I came across a link to article which hit the Top spot on the frontpage.

I’ve seen articles of this sort before and thought I would write about it so you can learn how to develop an effective boilerplate webpage which can act as a referral source for massive traffic when it gets popular on social websites.

Let’s start by taking a look at this page, which contains the marketing article that got to the Reddit top spot.

Here are some characteristics of the website:

The webpage is social media optimized. Note the prominent placement of Digg and Reddit buttons right at the top and bottom of the web page. This allows you to collect votes from on-site visitors.
It contains a opt-in newsletter as well as offers of a free EBook. Collecting names and emails is a good long-term strategy that is particularly useful when you want to sell new products or market your services.
Business Services are prominently displayed on the sidebar so that the thousands of visitors are aware of it.
The page is ad-free and all emphasis is directly towards the content.
The content is media-intensive. Pictures are very effective linkbaits because they require very little mental focus and are easily digested by all types of visitors, regardless of language or cognitive levels.
There is a relevant link with an intriguing copy right at the bottom of the page. This leads to a related marketing article on another website.

The link at the bottom of the article leads to this post on Marketing Pilgrim, a search engine marketing blog by SEM expert Andy Beal.

One could speculate that this linkbait was created by Marketing Pilgrim or perhaps it was placed by the original webmaster out of his or her own freewill, which would make it very kind indeed.

This is a classic example which demonstrates how it is possible to send traffic to any type of website in any industry.

One just needs to deftly disengage the linkbait from the original website and re-connect it through relevant linkage. Very simple and absolutely effective.

Credit goes to doshdosh.com

Money Making Ways - The Most Popular - On Demand

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:16:00 +0000

In any case, just as a recap, 2006's biggest money-making ventures for me are the following (approximately from highest to lowest):

1) About.com
2) AdSense
3) Universal Class
4) MyHelpHub
6) Amazon.com
5) Chitika

Biggest Duds (so far anyway):

1) CrispAds (no returns at all)
2) Art.com (money's still stuck in the account)
3) Commission Junction and LinkShare (some money, but stick in the account)
4) ShareASale.com and clixGalore (still nothing)
5) CafePress (some cash, but stuck in the account too)

Credit goes to aboutweblogs

Money - 1000 VISITORS IN 24 HOURS - Using YouTube - Very Simple

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:42:00 +0000

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High Yield Investment Programs Reloaded

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:57:00 +0000

High Yield Investment Program (HYIP) is a investment program that anyone can join online and deposit fund, in return the member will earn high interest in short period of time. There are tons of HYIPs on the Internet and most of them are closely monitored by HYIP rating sites and HYIP forums.

HYIPs have different investment plans. The interest and return offered by HYIPs usually anyway between 0.3% to 100% daily, weekly or monthly. You can make fast and easy money investing HYIPs. However investing in HYIPs involve high degree of risks. HYIPs generally stay online anywhere between 1 day to 1.5 years so if the HYIP you invested closes down, you may lose all or part of your initial capital. One strategy you can use to minimize the risk is diversify your investment into several HYIPs equally and don’t leave any interest in your investment accounts for compounding, withdraw them to your e-gold account or other e-currency accounts immediately. HYIPs rank high on rating and monitor sites tend to last longer than those at lower rank and new HYIPs.

You can find HYIPs from those HYIP rating and monitor sites. HYIPinvestment.com is one of the biggest HYIP rating and monitor sites. They provide a long list of HYIPs with latest comments, rating and payment status on each HYIP. If you plan to join HYIPs, invest only the amount you afford to lose because your principle and profit aren’t guaranteed. Also you will need an e-gold a/c to deposit fund and receive interest & return. Below are steps that can help you get started to invest in HYIP:

Step 1
Open an e-gold a/c at http://www.e-gold.com. You will find detailed instructions on how to fund your e-gold a/c from e-gold.com.

Step 2
Visit HYIPinvestment.com and find the HYIPs that interest you. Read the comments and ratings of each HYIP to make sure they are paying to members before you deposit fund to the HYIPs programs you selected. To lower your risk you must diversify your investments into several HYIPs (you may start off with HYIPs).

Step 3
Most HYIPs pay daily. So you need to login to your HYIPs a/c daily to withdraw interests to your e-gold a/c. If a HYIP's website down, there could be 2 possiblility:
1) They are experiencing technical, IT problems or security issues which wil be back online later usually.
2) They have closed down and you lose money or you still earn some money overall.

Again high return means high risk. So only invest the amount you afford to lose.

Credit goes to blogger blog.

Request to include my PR3 blog to your directory - Interesting Story

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:47:00 +0000

I got my blogspot blog to PR3, I have checked it today. I have not submitted to more than some directories. Was feeling sooooo lazy.

If you can please add my blog to your directory with the following information. I can get it to PR5! :) Please do so and get a ..... big thanks from me! ;) and name of your directory in a blog post honouring you as a sponser. As soon as I recieve 20 directory links, I will make a post

Make My Day!

My Blog Details

Blog URL: http://www.workers-place.blogspot.com

Title: Make Money Online with Many Things

Description: Make money online with easy money making strategies for free. Understand the concepts of search engine optimization. Use the latest SEO techniques with tips and tricks. Learn about getting regular traffic from internet. Be a blogger!

Keywords: Make Money Online, Search Engine Optimization, Make Money Fast on Internet

Prefered Categories:
Search Engine Optimization
Home Based Business
Making Money Online
Work at Home
Internet > Business > Blogs

Or Let me know the directory, I will submit and you accept :) - How'z that ;)

My sincere thanks buddy! :) You made my day!

Note: Please make a comment if you have added my blog, add your directory to my blog!

Social Networking: The Next Generation Of SEOptimization

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:35:00 +0000

Social optimization is the new hot SEO technique, but is it really white-hat SEO? As usual there is more than one answer to the search engine optimizers question. So I will help clarify each social SEO method and tactic.

Blogs and blogging

Blogs, almost anyone can write blogs. Nearly everyone has a blog. Most use blogs as an extension for their business, an easy way to spread news ideas and updates. Some abuse blogs simply blogging to spam links into the search engines and social networking websites. The absolute worst blog links links and more links. Using automated content and blog writing scripts they pull links from their website and blog them with no other content. With Wordpress blogs this cannot be stopped as each blogs owner has total control of the content. With Google Blogger and Blogspot blogs there is some measure of control. There are many other blogging platforms out available but Blogger and Wordpress make for the mass majority. So I will reference these.

In the event that you are a blatant blackhat SEO blogger or search engine blog spammer you will know this already. For the rest of you I will try to fill you in on what would be whitehat blackhat and in between.

A 100% white hat blog will be full of useful or informative content. The majority of the content for the blog will be associated with its main topic or niche. Linking to your own website will be minimal and only where appropriate. Linking to other blogs and websites will be natural and usually in reference to a specific subject such as articles products or work done by the blog or website being linked to.

Blackhat blogs will be full of links may or may not contain relevant content, are generally automated and more times than not tend to be useless. There are many methods used for this. Some use RSS feeds to automate the posting of their blog. Others use software or server based scripts to do the posting. The only real intent of this type of blog is to get search engines to find the links or generate revenue from the blog reader. Many of these blackhat spam blogs will contain nothing but keyword links.

Now in the middle you will find everyone else. Bloggers link to things all the time. Many companies have staff write blogs specifically to link back to products and information that are on their website. Internet marketers use blogs to help generate traffic for affiliate websites and niche websites. In the eyes of search engines this is actually spam. Yet since it tends to be informative or useful it is given a blind eye. So if you are not sure what kind of blogger you are or what type of blog you are reading this has hopefully helped you know.

Pings and Pinging

Pings are notices send to search engines and Social networking site to inform them of new content news or information on a blog or website. This can be done manually through blog pinging services such as Pingoat, Pingomatic and the like. It can also be automated from sites such as Autopinger or with automated pinging scripts. These scripts are built in with Word press and can be added to Blogger or Blogspot blogs.

Whitehat pings are for real updates and information changes. Generally are only to blogs and RSS feeds.

Blackhat spam pings are sent out for blogs and websites regardless of updates. Many people will ping a blog or website repeatedly in the hope of getting more traffic. There is a process called Blog and ping or blogging and pinging which is very common practice for spammers in the marketing world and blackhat SEO techniques.

So if you make an update to your blog and ping it you have done nothing wrong. This is what the ping services are for and would be considered whitehat. On the other side of the coin pinging just to do it or pings for the same post would be considered spam or blackhat SEO.

Tags and Tagging

Tags are special links used in social networking sites to label things. The act of tagging is done socially to group similar websites ideas and blogs for social informative searching. Search engines use tags to determine relevance to topics and help return better search engine results. Social networking site do this very heavily.

Tagging a blog or website is a normal social act. It helps to share your opinion or thought on what you tagged. Later other people can look for something by a tag and may find what you tagged as the topic. This is all natural and considered whitehat SEO. It provides natural information and data about topics. Websites and blogs may both be tagged as well as videos music or images.

On the blackhat or spammy side of this. The process is to use large amounts of tags and non relevant tags , again for more traffic. The tag and ping method is very popular for this. Spammers will make a blog post then tag it and ping it. This is done hoping to increase search engine ranking for more traffic.

I hope this has been informative and we will go into more detail on our main SEO website. A full Social optimization section is being developed to cover all aspects of blogging pinging and tagging. With data on most of the main social websites. Feel free to post your comments and questions.

Credit goes to http://www.wmtips.com

10 Best Wordpress Spam Blocking Plugins

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:35:00 +0000

While the plugins mentioned in Jonathan Clarke’s top ten list are not what I’d chose as my own, I still think the list has merit, and is worth mentioning.

He mentions some little known plugins as well as some heavy hitters. The list is as follows:

Akismet
Challenge
Referrer Bouncer
WPBayes
Comment Timeout
Email Immunizer
ImgProtectr
Did You Pass Math?
AuthImage
WP-Hardened-Trackback

If you want links to these plugins as well as descriptions, please check out his post at Help Net Security.

Credit goes to http://www.bloggingpro.com

Blogger Blogs: Essential Tools To Rock Your Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:17:00 +0000

So you have decide to create your first blog on Blogger. It has a simple and fine interface that takes care of many things for you. This is my suggestion to you for your first free essential must haves for your blog.

1. Feedburner - It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you.

It can give you a cool feed count chicklet button to show how many readers are using your feed to read your blog. It also gives you a headline animator which you can attach to your blog to display the recent 5 posts in a nice animated fashion. You can get an authentic Creative Common license, get a browser friendly RSS feed, Splice photos and links and more…

2. Haloscan - Trackback is an essential component of blogging these days. Unfortunately Blogger does not have trackback. Haloscan provides you with a seamless way to integrate free trackback in your blog by adding a small code. You can also integrate their comments component if you like to replace the Blogger comments. Read about Haloscan or Blogger comments.

The benefits are that you can edit Haloscan comments, and open them in a pop up and keep them separate from your post (Blogger allows you to only delete comments and not edit them, also on the post page all comments will show whether you like it or not).

The main disadvantage is it will not email you these comments (like Blogger) for free and it is difficult to track where these comments were made. Another major benefit is that it allows you to send pings and trackback to other sites when you mention about them in your posts.

3. Imageshack - Dont you want to fill your blog with images without hassles of registration. Imageshack provides an excellent interface to take care of your free image hosting needs. Maybe it is this the fastest way to host an image on the web. Allows lots of image format, hotlinking, transloading from other sites. Its a good idea to register to keep track of all your images in one place. It is much convenient than the proposed Hello and Picassa options…

Update: Blogger enabled hosting of images on its own webspace making it easier to host images in your posts. But you cannot manage or edit / delete your blogger images in any way

4. Technorati - Create and add a technorati profile. It allows you to claim your blog in this huge blogosphere. It allows you to put an excellent technorati search on your blog. The best part is that whenever someone mentions or links to any page of your blog, technorati knows and a search for your blog on technorati shows exactly how many sites link to which pages of your blog and when they were added with a small description. See why you need a technorati account.

5 - Sitemeter - Just takes 5 minutes to get a free tracker which gives you realtime site traffic statistics to check the quantity and quality of your site traffic with detailed referrer and geographic data. I have checked out several other tracking sites, but this one seems the best. Although you need to keep a counter visible (as a logo, visitor counter) and the statistics can be made private too.

StatCounter gives much more detailed statistics and the counter is totally invisible and free totally till you start getting large traffic, when you need to pay. But the disadvantage is that both of these track the last 100 visitors only, while another free service Extreme Tracking tracks them all… but you statistics cannot be made private. More options I like are Google Analytics for deep traffic statistical analysis and it is hidden too.

6. Feedblitz - It quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters. Very good to keep your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also. Example for our blog.

7. My Blog Log - Tracks outgoing links to let you know where your traffic is going. The free limited version data is not in much detail, yet provides a good idea. You can also add a Top 5 Our Links module to your web site. Now they have a MyBlogLog community to get some extra site traffic too.

8 AudioBlogger- Audioblogger allows free unlimited audio posts from any phone to your Blogger blog. You call the number (Currently a US phone number), record a post, then your blog is updated with an audioblogger icon and a link to your recorded audio.

9. w.bloggar - It is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. It enables users to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. Helps to manage multiple blogs on Blogger very effectively.

10 Blogger Mobile - opens a new concept of Moblogging i.e. blogging by your mobile phone. When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com they’re automatically posted to your new blog page.

11. Blogexplosion - helps you get confirmed traffic to your blog. The principle is simple, you visit other peoples blogs and they visit yours. For every 2 blogs you visit, one visitor comes to you. This is very good if you are new blogger and have hardly any traffic. Definitely try the Rent a Blog advertising swap service.

12. Pingoat - Pinging lets dozens of blogging services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Just enter your blog name and blog home page, check the blogging services you want to ping, just click ‘Submit Pings’ and in one click it pings all of them. Pingoat offers a wide variety of such services and is fast too. See many more one click pinging services.

13. Creative Commons - It offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. They are nonprofit and all tools are free and useful to highlight the way in which you want others to use you content.

14. Google Adsense and Search - When you take all effort to write for a blog, why not optimize it to make some money. Let users search for good posts in your blog. And now it even helps to monetize you feeds.

This is periodically updated. Happy Bloggering!

Credit goes to http://www.quickonlinetips.com

SEO Checklist: Advanced Search Engine Optimization

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:17:00 +0000

Search engine optimization is on every webmaster's mind these days. Achieving a favorable ranking for the right keywords can mean a steady stream of targeted traffic to your site, and all for free - that's hard to beat. The key to high search engine rankings is structuring your website correctly, including plenty of content that is relevant to your keywords, and making sure your website is spider-friendly. You can use this checklist to make sure all of your Web pages can be found, indexed and ranked correctly:

Your website is themed. Your site deals with an identifiable theme which is obvious from the text on the home page and reinforced by all the other pages on your site. In other words, all the individual Web pages relate to each other and deal with various aspects of some central theme. The text on your home page should state clearly what that theme is and what your website is about, and the other pages should reinforce that.

Your Web pages have enough high quality, relevant content. Spiders come to your website looking for content. If a page doesn't have much content, or the content doesn't appear closely related to the page's title and your website's theme, the page probably won't be indexed or if it is indexed it won't rank well. Search engines love quality content and lots of it - content is what Web searchers are looking for and search engines try to provide.

Your website's navigational structure is relatively flat. You don't want important pages to be too "deep" within your website, meaning it takes several clicks to get there from the home page. Search engines typically index the home page first, then gradually index other pages on a site over time. Many spiders are programmed to only go three layers deep - if some of your important content is buried deeper than that, it may never be found and indexed at all.

You've created a unique "Title" tag for each page. The title is one of the most important aspects of any Web page from an SEO standpoint, especially for Google (which is the most important search engine to optimize for). Don't use a generic title for all your pages, use the keywords your targeting for that page and keep it brief but descriptive.

You use the "Description" meta tag. Contains a highly descriptive sentence about the content and purpose of your page, and contains your most important keyword phrase early in the sentence. Not all of the search engines will display this "canned" description when they list the page in search results, but many of them will, so it's worth getting it right.

You use the "Keywords" meta tag. As with the meta tag description, not every search engine will use the keywords meta tag. But some will use it and none will penalize you for having it. Also, having a short list of the keywords you're targeting will help you write appropriate content for each page. The keyword tage should contain your targeted keyword phrase and common variations, common misspellings and related terms. Make sure your keywords relate closely to the page content and tie into the overall theme of your site.

Your keywords are included in the visible page content, preferably high up on the page. You have to achieve a balance here - you want to include keyword phrases (and variations) a number of times within your text, but not so many times that you appear to be guilty of "keyword stuffing". The trick is to work the keywords into the text so that it reads as naturally as possible for your site visitors. Remember, you can incorporate keywords into any Web page element that is potentially viewable by site visitors - header text, link text and titles, table captions, the "Alt" attribute of the image tag, the "title" attribute of the link tag, etc.

Every page of your website can be reached by search engine spiders. This is critical - if your pages can't be found, they can't be indexed and included in search results, let alone rank well. Search engines use spiders to explore your website and index the pages, so every page must be accessible by following text links. If pages require a password to view, are generated by a script in response to a query, or have a long and complicated URL, spiders may not be able to read them. You need to have simple text links to the pages you want indexed.

You've included a site map. Unless your site is very small, it's a good idea to create a site map with text links that you link to the site map from your home page. In addition to a link, include descriptive text for containing the relevant keywords for each page.

You link to your most important pages from other pages on your site. Internal links help determine page rank since they show which pages of your site are most important. The more links you have to have to a page, relative to other pages on your site, the more importance search engines will assign to it.

You use keywords in your link text. When you create a text link to another page on your site, use that page's targeted keywords as the text for the link (inside the anchor tags that create the link). Make it as descriptive as possible. For example, a link that says "Premium Customized Widgets" is much better than one that says simply "Product Page", and indicates to search engine spiders what that linked page is about.

Your site doesn't use frames. If possible, don't use frames on any page you want to get indexed by search engines. If you feel you simply must use frames for a page, then also make use of the "noframes" HTML tags to provide alternative text that spiders can read (and make that text descriptive rather than just a notice that "This site uses frames etc. etc.").

You don't use automatic page redirects. Don't make any pages automatically redirect the visitor to another page (the exception is a page you've deleted for good - in which case you should use a "301 redirect", a permanent redirect which is acceptable to search engines).

Your important content is in plain text and not contained in images. Search engine spiders can't "read" content in JPEG, GIF, or PNG files. If you really feel that using an image rather than text is crucial to your design, at least put the same text in the image's "Alt" tag (or in the "title" tag if you're using the image as a hyperlink).

Your important content is not contained in Flash files. Flash is a wonderful technology, but unfortunately spiders don't have the required "plugin" to view Flash files. As a result, Flash content is mostly inaccessible to search engine spiders. Some can find and follow hyperlinks within the Flash file, but unless those links lead to pages with readable HTML content this won't help you much. Don't create all-Flash pages for any content you want to get indexed - instead, put that content in the HTML portion of the page.

Links and keywords are not hidden inside JavaScript code. If your links use JavaScript to direct the user to the appropriate page (for instance, a drop-down list) or important content is contained within JavaScript code (when it's displayed dynamically using DHTML, for instance) search engine spiders won't be able to "see" it. You can, however, use the "noscript" HTML tags to provide an alternative that can be read by spiders.

You've optimized every important page of your website individually. Don't stop at your home page. Take the trouble to optimize any page which has a reasonable chance of being indexed by the major search engines, targeting appropriate keywords for each. If you face a lot of competition it may be nearly impossible to get a top ranking for your home page, but you can still get a lot of search engine traffic to your site from other pages which are focused on very specific keyword phrases.

You didn't duplicate content. Each page of your site should have unique content that distinguishes it from every other page on your site. Duplicating content or having pages that are only slightly different might be seen as "search engine spamming" (trying to manipulate search engine results).

You provide linking instructions for those who want to link to your site. Somewhere on your site state your policies about other people linking to your site and provide the wording you'd like them to use in their link. You want to encourage other people to link to your site, preferably using link text and a description that reflect the keywords for that page. For their convenience provide the ready-made HTML code for the link - not everyone will use it, but most often they will use your preferred text as a courtesy as long as it is truly descriptive of your site and doesn't contain "marketing hype".

Important hyperlinks are plain text links and not image links or image maps. Text links are better from an SEO standpoint than image links, as spiders can't read text from an image file. If you feel you really must use a graphic as a link, at least include a text description which (including the relevant keywords) by using the "title" attribute of the link tag.

Your website is free of coding errors and broken links. HTML coding errors and non-working links can keep search engine spiders from correctly reading and indexing your pages. For that reason, it's a good idea to use a Web page validation utility to check your HTML code to make sure it's error-free.

Credit goes to http://www.eclaunchsite.com

Making Money With 10 Ways - Out of the Box Thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:57:00 +0000

If you're looking at ways to supplement your income, here are some options other than working behind a bar or stacking shelves at a supermarket.

1 Police ID parades
Taking part in identity parades is easy money - you just have to stand there - but work is irregular and may depend on your appearance. Many police forces now use video line-ups but you can still get a one-off fee of £10 for being filmed.

Average pay: £10 for the first hour, £5 for every hour after that.
More info: ask at your local police station.

2 TV/film extra
Production companies need people of all shapes and sizes and if you're over 18 but look younger you'll be especially popular, as you can save them the cost of a chaperone for a child actor. Don't expect to meet the stars, though.

Average pay: £80 a day, with bonuses for things like providing your own costume or doing a 'walk-on'. Overtime is paid at around £11 an hour.
More info: there's a list of extras agencies at UK Screen

3 Campus brand manager
All sorts of companies hire students to promote them on campus, from film distributors to sportswear firms. You'll get plenty of opportunities to demonstrate your business acumen, but the work can be time-consuming.

Average pay: £300 a term, though some firms only pay on a commission basis.
More info: look for notices on student job boards.

4 Trading on eBay
'The World's Online Marketplace' has one million registered users in the UK alone so there's bound to be someone who'll pay for anything you have to sell. Start with stuff you don't want (old CDs, clothes, toys) to get a feel for it.

Average pay: the sky's the limit - but unless you're selling something rare or valuable, don't expect to make a fortune.
More info: go to eBay and click on 'eBay explained'.

5 Pose as a life model
You don't have to be beautiful or in particularly great shape but you do have to patient, able to sit still and perhaps not wince at what an artist makes of you. But good models are in demand.

Average pay: from £6 or so an hour clothed, to £7 or so an hour unclothed outside London; a little more in the capital.
More info: contact art colleges and adult education colleges near you.

6 In-store demonstrator
There's lots of work for confident, personable people in supermarkets and department stores. You might be required to show off your ironing skills, hold a food tasting or demonstrate a new kitchen gadget, for example. Hours are often in the evenings or during weekends so can fit around your studies.

Average pay: varies, but can be up to £10 an hour.
More info: search for 'field marketing agencies' on the Internet.

7 Event stewarding
Concerts and sports fixtures employ a small army to help with organisation. The necessary training will be provided on the day but don't view the job as a free ticket. Stewards at football matches, for example, are expected to face the crowd, not watch the game.

Average pay: rates start at £5 an hour; with training you can earn up to £15 an hour.
More info: try Recruit Event Services.

8 Online surveys
To make money completing surveys, all you need is a computer and some opinions. You'll be asked what you think of various products and services, and sometimes be sent things to try out. However, there are scam survey websites so do some research.

Average pay: £3-£50 for each survey, depending on how long it takes. However, you'll have to pay a registration fee (around £20) up front.
More info: UK Paid Surveys rates and reviews the best sites.

9 Mystery shopping
Some men would pay good money not to go shopping, but 'mystery shoppers', on the other hand, get paid instead. It's not just about going to shops but perhaps to restaurants, bars or to stay in a hotel and report on how the customer's being treated. You'll get all the money for your meals, drinks or bills repaid and you may get to keep the shopping, too - unless, of course, it's diamonds.

Average pay: from £6 a visit, but could be as much as £100 a day.
More info: try the Mystery Shopping Agency on 020 8325 8974 or Retail Eyes

10 Internet researcher
You may have grown up taking the Internet for granted but there are plenty of people who aren't familiar with it or are too busy to spend time on it. So if you're skilled at extracting information from a web search, you can hire yourself out as a researcher for people like lawyers and writers.

Average pay: £10 an hour
More info: look for notices on student job boards or contact likely clients in your area.

Credit goes to http://www.personal.barclays.co.uk

Web 2.0: Top 20 Wordpress Blog Designs For 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:57:00 +0000

After stormy discussion CSSBloom team has chosen the best 20 blog designs.

Veerle’s blog 2.0

Avalonstar

Matt Brett

Joshuaink

Whalesalad

The Big Noob

Bloklantis

Jason Santa Maria

Rob Goodlatte

O.L.Design

PR Blogger

Bartelme Design

Cameron Moll

Stopdesign

SimpleBits

ShaunInman

LeliaThomas

If..Else Log

Ordered List

5ThirtyOne

Credit goes to http://silentbits.com

YouTube All The Way - Hold First Video Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:57:00 +0000

The video-sharing Web site announced Monday that it will hold the first YouTube Video Awards to recognize the best-user created videos of 2006. The awards will be handed out in seven categories: most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary and "most adorable video ever."

User Voting

The nominees, picked by YouTube, are compiled in an online gallery. YouTube community members can vote on their favorites beginning Monday and concluding on Friday. The winners, as chosen by the community, will be announced March 25. Each will be prominently featured on YouTube and receive a trophy, the design of which will be revealed later.

Success on the site has previously been defined largely by rankings of the most-viewed or most-discussed videos.

"We wanted to call out some of the most popular videos and let the users choose which ones deserve some additional recognition," said Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing at YouTube.

The vast and varied world of online video has gradually formed styles all its own, which figured into the formation of the categories.

"We looked at the genres of content that were the most popular last year," Byrne said. "We've seen and continue to see exciting new developments in the online video space where genres are being created."

Among the nominees are noted "vloggers" Paul Robinett ("Renetto") and Peter Oakley ("Geriatric1927"). The comedy of Barats and Bereta, and Smosh, is also nominated, as are series such as Lonelygirl15's and "Ask a Ninja." The power pop band OK Go is perhaps the most professional of the nominees; it's nominated for the famous treadmill-choreographed music video, "Here It Goes Again."

Future Plans

Whether the YouTube Video Awards becomes a permanent, annual affair is likely, Byrne said, but it will depend on how the first awards are received.

"We want to see how the community responds to it, but we can see this being something that grows as we continue to grow and becomes a bigger and more exciting event in the future," Byrne said. An in-person ceremony is possible in the future.

Google-owned, San Bruno, Calif.-based YouTube was founded in February 2005. Last week, media conglomerate Viacom (NYSE: VIAb) sued YouTube for $1 billion, claiming the site infringes on copyrights on a "huge scale." Several other media companies have reached agreements to supply YouTube with clips.

According to comScore Media Metrix, YouTube attracted 133.5 million visitors worldwide in January.

Credit goes to http://www.technewsworld.com

What Is a Blog - Blogging - Weblog

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:23:00 +0000

According to wikipedia.org, A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of most early blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

The term "blog" is a portmanteau, or, in other words, a blend of the words web and log (Web log). "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

In November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 57 million blogs

The numbers of blogs are increasing daily in thousands and becoming the best trend ever.

Wordpress Plugins - Tried And Tested - Top Ten Loved Plugins

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:57:00 +0000

If you run a blog from your own website, most likely you’re using WordPress. While WordPress is great by itself, the majority of WordPress’ usefulness comes from its plugins. Some of the best and most creative features come from plugins, and because plugins are so easy to create and install, there are literally hundreds of WordPress plugins.

If you’re new to WordPress, finding the perfect plugin is often a difficult task. Sometimes there are eight plugins that do the same thing, which makes it difficult to find the plugin which works the best. Or, you just simply don’t know that a plugin exists. That’s why I’m here to help.

I’ve been a WordPress user since the 1.0 days. During that time, I’ve seen my share of WordPress plugins. Some have failed, while others have evolved into essential features. From my experience, I hope that when you’re done reading this list, you’ll have some plugins that will not only make your life as blogger easier, but that your visitors will find your site more useful.

10. Permalink Redirect

One of the fatal flaws of WordPress is that URLs with a trailing slash are the same as URLs without. This is bad for your stats since one page can show up under multiple URLs, and it’s also bad for search engines who may duplicate your pages in their results. That’s why there’s Permalink Redirect. Permalink Redirect will issue a 301, permanently moved, redirection to anyone accessing your page via the non-permalink URL. This insures that it won’t happen again, and that your web stats will remain clean.

9. Time Zone

If you run your blog in a time zone that observes Daylight Savings Time, you’ll quickly learn WordPress doesn’t like DST. While Daylight Savings Time only occurs twice a year, it’s still a pain to remember to set your GMT offset when DST takes effect. Time Zone solves this problem of forgetful DST switching. Instead of basing your blog time off of an offset from GMT, Time Zone enables WordPress to use your actual time zone, thus allowing WordPress to observe Daylight Savings Time. A must for any DST-bound blogger.

8. WordPress Database Backup / WP-Cron

Backing up your WordPress database is just as important as backing up your computer. You never know when you’ll do something stupid to your database. Unfortunately backing up a database can be an annoying task. That’s why WordPress Database Backup was created. It allows for one-click backups via download, server directory, or email, all straight from your WordPress administration interface.

Since WordPress 2.0, the WordPress creators have acknowledged that database backup is important, and now include WordPress Database Backup by default. However, you can still make the plugin more useful. WP-Cron, a plugin by the same author, gives WordPress Database Backup a new option, automatic backups. With WP-Cron installed you can schedule backups of your database to be made every 24 hours; perfect if you have a Gmail account just hungry for something to store.

7. Popularity Contest

Wouldn’t it be great to know just how popular your entries are? Popularity Contest does just that. By tracking page views, feed views, comments, and trackbacks, Popularity Contest assigns each post a rating based off of your most popular post. After it has a post rating, you can display the popularity in a number of ways. You can put the percent popularity in each post, display your top X posts somewhere on your site, or just keep the statistics to yourself by viewing the detailed popularity page which is added to your WordPress administration interface. Popularity Contest is perfect for new visitors, helping them get up to speed by viewing what’s popular on your site.

6. Gravatars

One of the most popular ways to identify users on forums is by avatars. The Gravatars plugin brings that same personalization to WordPress comments. By using the power of the Gravatar service, the Gravatars plugin is able to display an avatar next to users’ comments. Many of your visitors probably already have a Gravatar, so why not make your visitors’ comments a little more personal by letting them display it.

5. WP-ContactForm

Don’t want to give away your email but still want your visitors to contact you? An email form added by WP-ContactForm is the perfect solution. Instead of messing around creating one yourself, WP-ContactForm does all the hard work for you, allowing you to just drop a contact form on any post or page throughout your WordPress site. Your visitors will thank you when then realize how easy is to contact you.

4. Subscribe to Comments

Often on blogs, visitors will leave comments on which they want to track. Unfortunately, they often forget to check back, or choose not to because they don’t have an easy way. Subscribe to Comments solves this problem. By placing a checkbox next to your comment form, visitors can easily check that box to receive email updates as comments are added to the post. This not only makes it easier on your visitors to follow conversations, but increases the chances that the visitor will check back on your site. A win-win situation!

3. Related Posts

When a visitor finds your website via a search engine or other website, they’re often there for a reason. They want to find out about a particular topic of interest. Related Posts makes life easier on your visitors by showing them other posts you’ve written on the subject. This greatly increases the chance that a visitor will stick around browsing your blog, and is perfect for existing visitors to find out your past thoughts on a particular subject.

2. Ultimate Tag Warrior

Web 2.0 has brought a lot of interesting ideas to websites, tags being one of them. Ultimate Tag Warrior allows you to starting following the fad and tag your posts. There are a lot of great reason to tag. It helps narrow down what the post is about, it provides an easy form of navigating your site, and it allows Technorati to do a better job indexing your posts. The Technorati factor alone is a great reason to start tagging because your posts become easier to find at Technorati, thus driving more traffic to your website.

1. Akismet

Spam is a big problem with WordPress based blogs. It seems that as soon as your site is indexed in a search engine, the spam comments start flooding in. Stop the spam now with Akismet. Akismet, is a spam killing plugin created by Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, so you know it’s good. Akismet is tightly integrated with WordPress itself, allowing for easy comment management. Every comment you get is sent through Akismet’s spam-detecting servers for community-based spam analysis. The result? Ridiculously low false-positives, and an almost nonexistent false-negatives.

Don’t like the idea of all your visitors’ comments going through someone else’s server? Check out Spam Karma 2. It’s just as good as Akismet and deserves the rating along side Akismet as the number one WordPress plugin.

Credit goes to http://cavemonkey50.com

Google Adsense Wordpress Plugins - Quantity is 10 - Quality is Best

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:57:00 +0000

Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program. Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins. Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

Adsense Deluxe - offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Adsense Deluxe+ claims to have a an improved ad limiting algorithm.
Adsense Injection - inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog.
Adsense Inline - inserts Google adsense in blog posts
Adsense Beautifier - makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings.
AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar - Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
MightyAdsense - allows you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Ads are displayed in post item and you can specify how many blocks its going to show up in a page.
AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin - displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
WP-AdsenseProfit - shows your profit from the adsense program to the public by adding a simple call to the function in your template.
AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System - allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
Author Adsense Wordpress Plugin - allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author’s ads to admin ads.

Tips & Tricks For Money Making Tags

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:38:00 +0000

I'll keep this post very short and informative.

Most of the users are operating tags for technorati, to get traffic from there. I personally use technorati and may be you are from there!

To make the most money out of tags see the tips & tricks below.

Search technorati top tags and top searches for your blog posts, article or whatever. Make sure the keywords or tags you choose are listed here and it matches your needs.

Just write an article and keep the tags density to around 3-4% in whole of the article, ping the blog and you are on your way to recieve good targetted and fast traffic. Remember that technorati tags also works for other sites as almost the trend is the same.

So that was the Tips & Tricks For Money Making Tags, Hope that helps! :)

Myspace - The Best Website Promoter In Real Life

noreply@blogger.com (Addies) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:12:00 +0000

I am not a fan of MySpace to be perfectly honest with everyone. I think it’s a place where people to go stalk other people, and get spammed out of existence. This being said, I have finally decided to join MySpace:). Yes I just said I don’t like MySpace but just joined. I just cannot deny the fact that it is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and one of the best ways to get free promotion.

I signed up for MySpace for one reason only: because my new site (mygamingspace.com) is built for putting flash games on people’s MySpace page and how can I not have a MySpace page to promote this site? The only way to show people what my new site is all about is to actually demonstrate what can be done with these games. So I created a simple MySpace profile at myspace.com/mygamingspacedotcom. Unfortunately myspace.com/mygamingspace and myspace.com/gamingspace were both already taken.

I have not “pimped” out my MySpace page yet so it’s still the simple original layout. I will eventually need to really customize the MySpace page so more and more people go there and add me to their firends. The larger the network of friends I have, the more chance I will reach a new person to come to my site. There are ways to gain friends on a MySpace page that requires a lot of spamming and annoyances, but that’s not the method I wanted to take. The first thing I had to do was get a few people to my page. To do this I asked all my friends to add my new profile to their friends list and to even put a game on their page to show off what my site is about.

This was not going to be enough to get the MySpace profile off the ground. I added a “add to MySpace friends” button to mygamingspace. Hopefully when the site takes off a little more, people will want to add the profile to their MySpace page.

Yes I know how ugly the button is, I am going to change it soon. I believe that if your site has the right demographic (the MySpace demographic), that adding a MySpace profile for your website is priceless. It’s free, easy, and will promote your site to new audiences. If you have any questions on how to set this up, including setting up the button on your website, please feel free to comment or email me and ill help as best I can.

Credit goes to http://internetbusinessdaily.net/