See my first post about step 1 of  Tutorial For Make Money Online here

In my last post I talked about setting up an affiliate blog targeting a product or service of your choice. I have chosen Brad Callen’s soon to be released website creation tool called Blinkweb. If you look at how I set up the blog called Blinkweb by Brad Callen you should be able to see which keywords I have optimized the posts and blog for.

In fact I am optimizing this post for the exact same keywords and I will explain why in a moment.

In step 1 I simply created a quick blog and posted a short article in order to get it live and indexed by Google. To speed up the indexing process I linked this blog to the new blog using the term Blinkweb in the anchor text of the link. Google crawls this blog frequently and follows all my do-follow links. The new blog showed up in the index on the same day. Now while it was in the index it wasn’t showing in the serp’s for any of the keywords I had optimized it for – most notably the term “Blinkweb”. The only term it did show up for was it’s URL name. http://callensblinkweb.blogspot.com/. (see image below)

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This confuses some of you still. You can be indexed and in the sandbox at the same time. The easiest way to understand this is to realize that while Google will acknowledge that it knows you exist – ie. indexing your URL – it won’t necessarily index you in the serp’s for related keywords – something known as being in Google’s sandbox. This means that you can find your blog on Google by searching for your URL but not by using keywords. If you are sandboxed Google will de-list your blog from any of the keyword serp listings while it may or may not list your URL.

When Google has determined that your blog is legitimate and offers relevant content for certain terms it will suddenly release you from the sandbox and your blog will begin to appear in the keyword listings. These are the listings that you would like to rank number 1 for.

My new blog showed up in the keyword serp’s on day two. It went from not-indexed for the term “Blinkweb” to number 3 in the serp’s. (see below)

Over the next two days it dropped back to 5th and then today it has disappeared from the listings altogether. Does this sound familiar to any of you. I get a lot of comments from readers asking why they show up on the serp’s and then suddenly disappear. The answer is that this has become the new normal with the current Google algorithm. I would love to give you an expert answer as to what is happening but I don’t know myself – I can only tell you what “seems” to be happening from my own observations.

What seems to be happening is that fresh content plays a larger roll in serp rankings – at least for “busy” keywords – topics that suddenly get a lot of keyword hits. This means that when something new like Blinkwebs comes along there is a sudden fleury of blogs using that keyword. When someone queries the term on Google, it proceeds to build the list. Since there are no old established authority sites for the term everyone gets to play on an even field – at least for a while. In this situation the bot has it easy and simply lists sites based on it’s on-page SEO (Is the keyword in the blog’s URL? – in the blog’s Title? – in the Post Title? – in the post’s Text?) This coupled with fresh relevant posts will get your site on top of the index – at least at first. When fresh content slows down and G begins collecting more and more data regarding the keyword other factors begin having an effect on the listings – PR and backlinks come into play. Within a short time Google begins to re-order the list and in time it will settle down to the point that the page 1 listings will remain fairly stable. The back page listings are rarely stable and rankings can bounce around constantly. At least this is how Google has behaved in the past.

At present I have noticed a prolonged shake up in the serp’s for old established niches like “Make Money Online” and the page 1 listings for these older niches have been in a state of constant change for several weeks now. This has all transpired at the same time as G introduced the “Personalized Results” serp’s which no doubt has some bearing on all this. The end result however, is that it has become normal to get indexed, rank well in the serp’s for your keywords, suddenly find yourself de-indexed, then a few days later suddenly appear back in the serp’s but usually not ranking as well as you did in the beginning.

I guess I am trying to tell you to not panic if this happens to you. As long as you have a legitimate site then you will re-appear in the serp’s but you may go through the disappearing act a few times before settling down. Just be patient and more importantly keep posting and securing backlinks.

Case in point.

This blog took 2nd spot in the serp’s for the term “Blinkweb” the day after I posted my last article. It hung around page 1 for the better part of two days and then disappeared back to page 3 or more. Today it is back on page 1 in 4th spot. Now that it is back on page 1 my new blog has left the index. When it returns I hope to get it back on the first page along with this blog and anything else pointing to my site that I can. What I am going to explain now is something that I never see others doing and often wonder why.

Who says you can only have 1 spot on page 1?

I have touched on this in the past – if you are targeting a term then why not increase your traffic by simply ranking as many sites as you can on page 1 – this is especially true for affiliate marketing and when collecting leads. In most of my niches I usually have 3-4 different sites pointing to my money site in the top 10 on the serp’s. I have had as many as 8 sites at once on the page and I have several with 6 sites. (Note: – don’t do this with Adsense sites)

The reason for doing this is obvious – you will increase your traffic and ultimately your sales.

Since Blinkweb is a new program, page 1 on Google is up for grabs. The most relevant 10 sites will be chosen by relevancy, age, PR and most importantly who has the most relevant keyword anchored backlinks. You can assume the real Blinkweb site owned by the Callen’s will probably be one of the top 10 sites but don’t assume that they will be number 1. They should eventually as they will get the most anchored links in time but their site is new as well and can be outranked by older authority sites with better links – at least in the beginning.

Now what exactly am I babbling about? I am going to show you why backlinks are the key to everything when it comes to ranking well in the serp’s.


Let’s think about this logically. In time Google will run out of fresh content for a keyword like “Blinkweb”. This is because there is only so much that can be written about it. In fact most of the 400 pages already indexed for the term have pretty much the same content. Every post reads much like mine – this is because the program hasn’t been released yet and there has been no new info given about it from the designers. When Google runs out of fresh content it will start to rank the sites based on 1 factor – who are the authority sites? They determine this based on who has the most keyword authority which in turn is determined by who has the most links pointing to them with the keyword used in the link. Those who get links from higher PR sites will have an advantage over those who have low PR links but both will outrank all the other competitors that don’t have relevant backlinks.

Knowing that this “Niche” is new also tells me that I don’t need a lot of backlinks to rank well and even less if I was to procur high PR backlinks.

So…

I was fortunate to get 4 links to my last post in which 3 of the 4 links used the term “Blinkweb” in the link. One of the links came from a PR4 blog and another link came from a PR5 blog. Apparently 2 high PR links with keyword relevant links is enough for 4th spot at the moment.

The new blog Blinkweb by Brad Callen was fortunate to get 9 Blinkweb links. Several are from high PR blogs and all the links have keyword relevant anchor text. When it re-appears it should rank well. If you clicked the last link above you would have landed on the new blog’s Technorati page – currently a no-PR page. It now has a PR4 keyword relevant link pointing at it. If I was fortunate to get a few more high PR links pointing at it then there is a good chance that it might make page 1 of the serp’s as well. That makes 3 sites possible.




While we are at it – I mentioned that I have 4-5 high PR sites sending this blog and the new blog backlinks already. What if those blogs were to get a few high PR, keyword relevant backlinks of their own? They could conceivably make page 1 as well – hell that would make 9…

This isn’t likely to happen but what will happen is that I will have stronger backlinks all the way down the line which will increase the strength of the keyword authority for the 2 sites that are the ultimate recipients of all this strong link juice – this blog and the new blog. If you get both blogs double indexed then you can easily occupy 4 of the 10 spots on page 1. You will get more than your share of traffic.

This is how I mount a campaign for every niche I target if it is a new topic.

Yes – most of you are not “Fortunate” enough to get 4-5 high PR backlinks. I realize this but want to mention that very few of your competitors are that fortunate either. If you were to create hubpages and lenses and post several articles and send links from some of your existing blogs then you would find that 4-5 low PR links using the proper keyword in the anchor text would get you ranked well compared to most of your competitors who have few links and even less using the keyword.

I noticed a surge of hubpages and lenses created in the last few days for “Blinkweb”. I suspect a few of my readers have decided to jump on this niche and good for them. Most are using the hubs and lenses to send links back to their money site which is good but don’t forget to build links to those hubs and lenses as well. Don’t just get links for your main site – get them for all the sites linking to your main site – spend more time building keyword authority and you won’t need as many links to rank well. Your competition will be busy getting hundreds of PR0 non keyword relevant links from do-follow blogs and low link juice bookmarks.

Don’t panic if you aren’t on page 1 in a week. Be patient and build authority. This isn’t short term blogging. If your product or service is a winner it will produce sales for a while albeit usually more when new. If it takes a month to rank on top you will still have a decent run. If you keep building links you will hit page 1 – after an initial burst most of your competition will stop getting links – they either give up or they make page 1 and don’t think they need to do any more work.

I have yet to find a product that I couldn’t get on page 1 for. Some took longer but in the end every one made page 1 simply because I never stop getting backlinks and backlinks for my backlinks and backlinks for those backlinks as well. My main money site in any given niche may only have a dozen or so quality links but each one of those links has a dozen quality links of its own and so on. I hope you get the picture. If you build a hubpage to send link juice to your money site then build two more to send link juice to the first hubpage. Don’t be surprised to one day find all three hubs on page 1 for your keyword.

Ok, a long post to tell you to work smarter and not harder. You don’t need thousands of links – you just need a small number of really good links. You can get them by building up several interlinking sites from different venues – hubpages, articles, squidoo, technorati, social sites etc. Any page that links to your money site should be strengthened with keyword relevant links of their own. This pays off by ensuring your main site makes top ranking and more often than not you will rank several of the support sites as well. I do this all the time and have seen the difference in traffic when I get 3-4 sites on page 1. Btw, once you get 1 authority site on page 1 it makes it easy to get other sites on the page as well. Use it to link to new sites.

Keywords

If you read the two blog posts on the new blog you will notice some of the keywords I used. Aside from “Blinkweb” I used the term “Review”, “News” and “Video” in the blog description and posts along with “Brad and Matt Callen”. Experience has shown me that the quickest way to get traffic is to use “Review”, “News” or “Video” in a blog post. When people can’t remember the product name they will use names they remember like “Brad Callen”. I don’t just want to rank well for the term “Blinkweb”. I also want to rank well for the term “Blinkweb Review”, “Blinkweb News” and “Blinkweb Video”. These are terms that will be searched for in addition to the main keyword.

In fact…

The screenshot above is from my statcounter stats and lists the keywords used to find my new blog. Notice what long tails were used?

I normally write really long posts in order to get as many long tails indexed as possible. In a case like Blinkweb I don’t have to. It is an affiliate product and as such there will be a limited variety of keywords used when searching for it. A term like making money online may have hundreds of related long tails used in queries but a term like “Blinkweb” is never going to be searched for using more than half a dozen terms. It doesn’t require a long post to optimize half a dozen keywords.

At the time my Blinkweb blog was ranked number 1 for “Blinkweb Review”, Number 2 for “Blinkweb News” and in the top 3 for “Blinkweb”. Not bad for a two day old blog.

The more keywords you rank for the more traffic so don’t just target the obvious main keyword.

There you have it. I told you internet marketing is a numbers game. The more traffic you get the more money you make. The best way to increase your traffic is to rank as many sites as you can on page 1 and target all the relevant keywords – not just the main one – with each site. Remember this is possible when dealing with a new product because there are no pre-established authority sites. You can become the authority site if you are fast, SEO properly and most of all build links faster and better than every one else. Yup – it is work but more importantly – it does work.


That’s enough for today. I will be adding some pure SEO posts over the next few days which won’t teach you a thing. I need a real “Blinkweb” post and a few other pages so just ignore them if you are a regular reader. I will continue this tutorial in a few days after the serp’s hopefully settle out a bit.

Till then,

Cheers

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Almost every time I write about having an email newsletter associated with my blog (as I did yesterday in sharing how I drastically increased subscriber numbers) I get people asking me why I use newsletters?

The questions on newsletters as a medium often include:

Isnt Email old fashioned?
Isnt RSS the new way forward?
What about Social Networking – isnt that more effective than email newsletters?
Arent Newsletters very one way and not very conversational?
Isnt building a list as a way of doing online marketing a thing of the past?
Doesnt the Blog replace the newsletter?
While I can see why people would ask these types of questions – if I had to name one technology or medium that has had the greatest impact upon building my blogs readership – newsletters would be right up there, particularly since moving services to Aweber.

Let me qualify that by saying it does vary a little from blog to blog depending upon the topic and the type of reader they attract.

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SEO Tips to Create a Yahoo Sitemap & Submit it

Yahoo Sitemaps is useful if you want your website to be completely indexed in Yahoo search and yahoo generally accepts sitemaps in text file formats which is in urllist.txt or urllist.txt.gz in case of a compressed files format.A text file containing a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line. The filename of the URL list file must be urllist.txt.

You can submit your website to Yahoo / Submit site feed using this link


Create a Yahoo Sitemap text file using Site Map Pro. You can either buy this software or go for evaluation version for generating your sitemap file which can be submitted to yahoo sitemap submit page.

Site Map Pro uses a wizard based method of creating a sitemap. There are 9 stages of the application. To create a quick standard sitemap:

Step 1: Select the first “Map a whole website option”
Step 2: Enter your website address or browse to your homepage.
Step 3: Press Finish
Your site map will be created and ready to preview.

What to show
By default the site map will show Title, Description and URL. This can be changed at step 4. You can choose to show a sample of text from each page too.

Groups


By default Site Map Pro will group links using the folder name:
http://www.example.com/products/page1.html > Products
http://www.example.com/company/about.html > Company
Defining and using groups will let you create user friendly professional sitemap layouts. Group information is saved in configuration files, so you don’t have to define it each time you want to create your sitemap.

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Tips to make money with Commission Junction

Affiliate marketing is basically a method of promoting web business merchants, advertises etc. In this marketing the publisher i.e. affiliate is paid for every visitor visiting the website, or sale of any merchandise. It can be called Internet Marketing

in other words. Affiliate marketing has become a growing industry and many people who are into internet marketing are joining affiliate programs. Google Adsense, Commission Junction is the few companies. Due to such companies Affiliate Marketing is growing faster.

Let’s discuss about Commission Junction (CJ) now. Commission Junction, a Value Click company, is a global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search. CJ was founded in 1998 and it is based in Santa Barbara, California and has offices around the world. In 2001, CJ made a revolutionary move by publishing the performance metrics of all advertisers, publishers, and ads within their network, the CJ Marketplace. This approach provided both advertisers and publishers for the first time a way to gauge the value of their existing and potential relationships based on two key metrics, average earnings per 100 clicks (EPC) and network earnings – and fundamentally took affiliate marketing to the next level. Commission Junction has become one of the largest affiliate networks in North America. CJ has almost 1,500 customers including famous sites like eBay, Yahoo, Home Depot etc. In 2002, CJ abolishes individual tracking links per product and also redesigned their product catalog system. In Oct 2003 the company was purchased by ValuClick. In June 2006 CJ introduced LMI (Link Management Initiative).

Commission Junction also has provision of software tools that allow advertisers to identify, analyze, track and connect with the Web Publishers that provide best return for most of the advertisers. CJ has become one of the largest affiliate brokers on the internet and has many offices in UK due to which Webmasters using the service can pay in pounds. These commissions are all amassed together and placed in your main Commission Junction account which is better than signing up to individual affiliate programs and getting small amounts of money. This is especially true when a lot of affiliate programs will only pay you when your account has reached 20 pounds or so. CJ provide all the information on how to get started and you get tutorials for developing your website. The account and statistics page is excellent allowing you to see which banners are earning you the most money on your site. Users find it easy and user – friendly to work on the account page as they can get all the details without any difficulties. Visit www.cj.com and find all the details.

You can read my post about CJ here :  Make thousands of $$$ from Commission Junction Affiliate Programs

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Commission Junction is one of the biggest Affiliate Marketing website where you can find advertisers who need sales/clicks/leads for their business and you can earn commissions by getting their job done. Its not really as it looks the way it is. Getting advertisers is real easy because cj.com offers you with everything but the main problem comes when you are looking for real sales of the advertisers products.

The advertisers get their business conversions from the huge publishers base who promote their products using paid search bid management[SEM] , Organic Search Engine Optimization Traffic [SEO], paid Advertising, Shopping Feeds etc. Generally all the CJ advertisers are ranked based on their previous performance. You would be joining as a ‘Publisher’ to promote the advertisers products and will be paid a percentage of commission by the advertiser whenever a visitor whom you referred buys some product or fills out a form[leads] or subscribes to some services. A Impression is counted whenever a banner ad is viewed and whenever these ads are clicked, the number of clicks is a percentage to the total impressions made forming Click-Through-Rate.

You can signup for Cj.com for free here : Publisher Signup, once you signup and confirm your account you will be logged into the publisher Home section where you can find all the different links to Account Section, Get Links, Run Reports, Mail, Performance Level, Program Performance, Quick Stats, Trend Graphs & Advertisers & Links.

Click on the Get Links Tab in the top and you will shown with 4 sub-menu options – General Categories, Advertiser List, SmartZone Settings & By Relationship. Select the Category which you think you can promote and you will be shown with a full list of advertisers of the same category. In the whole list of advertisers you can select any/all of them to ‘Apply for Program’ to get started and promote their products. The affiliate managers at each of these Advertisers either Auto-Approve your accounts, or keep them in ‘Pending Application’ or ‘Declined Application’ status. Some of the advertisers check out your previous performace and then approve and some advertisers check out the country from which you are registered and then accept/deny your application, because a advertiser from Uk would not generally expect sales from a person who is from India, unless if your performance previously is very good with other products.

The ‘By Relationship’ Tab is a section where you can find the complete list of advertisers you are already tied up with and having a Active status and you can promote their products. Check out the following screenshot for getting a idea on how the advertisers appear in your account after approval and you need to click on the ‘View Links’ section to get affiliated banner/link ad codes.

Once you Click on the Get Links option you will be shown with a page with different types of banner ads & text ads, out of which you need to select the one you want to promote. They are generally ranked based on performance as i mentioned above which means that the highest converting banner ads will be shown in the top. Its always recommended to use these high converting ones only but it again depends on the way of promotions you are going to make. Click on the ‘Get HTML’ link which is placed on the right most section of these banner ads.

There are some optional settings if you want to tweak with your banner ad in the Get HTML section which are – Encrypt link?, For use in email?, Set link to open a new browser window?, & Hide tracking code in link. These are optional settings which would help you in adding more features to your banner ads. You can select them if you would like to hide the affiliate URL from the status bar of the browser, if you want the link to be opened in a new window rather than the same window and if you would like to hide the tracking code within the link itself.

Just use the Code given on these pages on your websites/landing pages and start promoting them to make money easily with these high paying affiliate programs. On the homepage of your Publisher Account in the top section you have a section where you can find the total revenue you have made from these affiliates and thats the amount which is unpaid and all your transactions are verified and then approved in order to make sure that you get the payments paid on time.

The Performance charts, tracking stats are all excellent tools to help you in tracking your CTR, conversion rates, amount of sales approved, extended etc. CJ generally makes the payment via Check’s and for this you need to click on the ‘Payment Status’ which is on the top right section of your Publisher Home page. It shows you the Payment Status, Last Payment Details etc.

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Thirty useful ways to make money online with blog

Looking for ways to make money with your blog can be frustrating.  Either you don’t have enough traffic or you are not sure what to do.  That is why I have put together this list of 30 Real Ways to Make Money with a Blog“.

This post isn’t your average directory of money making tips either, it has summaries for what each element is, how to use it, and where to find resources.  The blog earning tips are also divided into Beginner, Novice, and Problogger based on the differing qualifications and needs of each.

make money online

Making money online is mostly about customizing a monetizing formula for your blog.  Depending on your skill level, network, and current traffic levels your blog has a variety of options.  So find your blog’s formula below to maximize your earnings.

Beginner

You know who you are… Low levels of traffic, relatively new blog, little or no internet experience, no design or seo skills, and probably a sense frustration over the lack of earnings.

Some of the options in this section are better then others and matter of fact all of them can be used no matter what level you are currently at.  Novices can use any beginner level monetization methods and Probloggers have the luck of using everything and anything they see fit.

PPC – Pay Per Click is an advertising program in which ads are placed on your blog and you are paid whenever your visitors click on the ads.  It is the most common method bloggers use to make money online.  It involves almost no effort and is so incredibly easy that many blogs have too much advertising on them.   Money is maximized as traffic levels increase.

Resources: Google Adsense Chitika Yahoo! Bidvertiser Adbrite

CPM - Cost Per Thousand (“m” is roman numeral for thousand) is an impression based advertising system.  This means advertisers place ads on your blog and you are paid based on how many times the ad shows up.  This can be profitable for blogs with big traffic, and can start to bring money to even the smallest blogs.  All you need is pageviews to increase this monetization method.

Resources: Value Click Tribal Fusion

Money Widgets -A very simple advertising system is easily integrated into your blog’s sidebar with widget advertising.  Just embed the widget into your sidebar and watch the ads begin.

Resources: The Newsroom WidgetBucks ScratchBack SmartLinks

In-Text Ads – You know what these ads are.  You have probably seen them all over small blogs and websites on the internet.  They are links with double-lines below them.  While sometimes useful for blog owners pockets, they eventually irritate and annoy most readers into leaving the blog and not returning/subscribing.  In-text ads should be used with caution.

Resources: Kontera Vibrant Media

Parked Domains – Have a few domains you are planning on using soon but are not ready to start?  Parked domains serve the purpose as advertisement and traffic redirection.  This is perhaps the easiest way to make money, although in small doses, online.  Just get a domain name and use the very easy parked domain programs.

Resources: Parked Google Parked

Donations – We have probably all seen the little button that says “donate” in someones sidebar.  It is an easy and perhaps out-of-date way to try and earn some revenue. Many programmers use this still, but very little revenue is earned through the donation feature.  For example have you ever donated?  But still it is simple and if you don’t mind the button then go ahead and try.

Resources: Paypal – it really is the only major ‘donate’ resource around!


Affiliate Marketing – Perhaps the most lucrative process for earning money online is by using your blog to recommend useful and relevant products to your readers.  The best examples are seen by the many bloggers linking to different themes, ebooks and other products.  The best thing about affiliate marketing is that you are only marketing the product and not selling it.  Just make sure the product is relevant and not over-used.  Read more.

Resources: ClickBank Commission Junction Azoogle Ads Link Share

Text Link Ads – As your blog builds reputation and traffic your posts/pages become great places for links.  Many people will even pay you to put their link on your website or page.  While it has earning potential, be leery of this form of revenue as it may be detrimental to your blog in Google’s algorithm.  So study it out before you make your decision.

Resources: Text-Link-Ads Text-Link-Brokers

Feed Ads – An easy way to increase the advertisement on your blog is by adding them to your rss feeds.  The simplest way is to get Feedburner and set it up for your blog.  Once you have done that then click on the monetize tab and Google Adsense will be added to your feeds in almost one-click!

Resources: Feedburner BidVertiser Pheedo

Paid Surveys and Polls – It is just what it says it is.  You fill out surveys and polls or place them on your blog for others to fill out and earn money.  In doing this option be careful to find survey or poll companies that have credible backgrounds as this is a source for scammers.

Resources: VizuAnswers

Pop-up Ads – These pesky and annoying advertisements may be great for some of your niche blogs or sub-domains.  Not worth putting on blogs you actually want to build a community on, pop-up ads offer decent revenue to blogs looking to exist but not grow significantly.  But be aware that it is annoying to the reader.

Resources: Adbrite Tribal Fusion PayPopup PopupAd Adversal

Audio Ads – “You are a winner”, “You may have just won a free Ipod”, etc. These audio ads can be very targeted to your traffic and very successful or completely useless.  For instance, many surfers do not even have their sound on while they surf to avoid such advertisements.  I would recommend not using this sort of advertisement for long-term projects.

Resources: NetAudio

Article Marketing – A two-edged sword.  You get both quality backlinks to your blog and its posts while also creating earning potential.  I use Squidoo and Associated Content personally and earn enough money to support my blogging efforts and some advertising.  It’s also very easy through the simple resources available to you.  Using this blogging income source is both potentially lucrative and excellent marketing.

Resources: Squidoo Hubpages Associate Content

Novice

Now that you are novice you have more experience and a lot more traffic.  Because of the increase in visitors the potential to earn more is also greater.  Here is a few extra things you can include into your earning formula from the beginning level.  Again, make sure to find what is right for your blog.

Direct Banner – With ppc and cpm advertising there is potential to make money, but direct banner ads bring advertising on your blog to a new level.  It takes a little more work but you can find yourself making much more money and doing it pretty quickly.  I use OIOPublisher and it is a premium plug-in that completely rocks.  It even offers affiliate incomes to others who will try to get advertisers for your blog.  Read more.

Resources:   OIOPublisher , Ad Rotator Plug-in

Premium Content – Great example of premium content is SeoMoz.  They have lots of great content on seo for free, but to get the ultimate seo resources you have to pay a monthly fee.  To make premium content on your blog just creat a post or page usign Wordpress.  Then in the publish toolbox click on “edit” on the “visibility” option.  Then choose “password protected”.  Set your password and publish.  The only to do then is create a lead page that explains the premium content and allows people to pay, using paypal or another source to get the password emailed to them.

Resources: Wordpress, Paypal

Sponsored Reviews – These are reviews of products through direct contact by the product owner or through a review site.  A good example of a product review is WP Content Robot.  It is easy and you usually get to try out some pretty cool products for free.

Resources: ReviewMe Sponsored Reviews

Sponsored Post -  Like a sponsored review these are posts paid for by others.  What this usually looks like is a post created about a specific website or allowing the post to link to another blog with very specific and targeted keyword links.

Resources: PayPerPost

Theme or Template Sales – To get this money making product going you first need some serious design skills or the money to pay for someone to develop it.  Once a unique design is created premium themes can go from $19 -$200.  There is great earning potential in creating themes and another very advantageous bonus.  When you create your theme a link is put into the footer of the theme with your blog’s url.  So the more themes that are used the more backlinks to your blog.

Resources: StudioPress DIY Themes

Private Forums – Creating a private forum is a great way for bloggers to capitalize on their contacts and build a tight-knit and motivated community.  Some of these communities can be used for social media manipulation and many other “secret” and “exclusive” means.  You can make the fee yearly or monthly if you wish and start to build a steady income through member participation.

Resources: vBulletin Simple Machines Forum phpBB Vanilla

Site Flipping -  The process of site flipping usually involves the creation of design, content, and some traffic to then go and sell the blog.  The easiest way to do this is by forming a partnership and getting someone to design the blog while the other writes content and markets it.  For more about Site-Flipping.

Resources: Digital Point Sitepoint (both are great for selling your site)

Plug-in Sales – Warning: programming required!  If you can develop or know someone who can develop a plug-in for wordpress then you have the potential to make and sell premium plug-ins.  The first step is to find something extremely useful and unique.  Then create an affordable plug-in to assist bloggers in their task to rule the blogosphere.

Resources: How to Create a Wordpress Plug-in

Email Newsletters – These are becoming extremely popular.  The purpose of the email newsletter is to build up a mailing list of email addresses and then use the emails you send to drive traffic, sales, or income in a variety of ways.  Creativity is the best way to use this revenue source.  Additionally it is important to start building your email list as soon as possible.  But be warned that most newsletter services of any value cost money (but not a lot).

Resources: AWeber PHP Autoresponder MailChimp

Ebook Sales – Writing an ebook is a great way to establish credibility and expertise in your niche while also providing a handsome income.  The way it works is that you provide a very useful resource – like an electronic book and then others buy it.  The best way to understand the process is by learning how to write an ebook and then how to sell it.

Resources: E-Junkie WP E-Commerce (2 great ways to sell your book)

Freelance Work – Once you have established yourself you can start consulting, writing, designing, and offering other services through your blog.  I have had a lot of experience with consulting and it is a great income and a lot of fun. So use your blog to showcase your skills.  Blogs are the ultimate portfolio.

Resources: Paypal WP E-Commerce (ways to sell your services)

Membership Site – If you have the drive to make great lessons, tutorials, classes, or other content worthy of a membership site then you should definitely do it.  They are all the rage right now and show a great way to earn a regular income.  With new products online, the set-up has never been easier.  I would definitely check out the resource if you have ever thought about a membership site.

Resources: Wishlist

Problogger

So you are an expert at getting traffic and building your blog.  The next thing you need to do is apply all the right things from the list above and use your traffic to leverage the new moneymakers below.  You’re the expert so get started!

Job Boards – Big blogs and bloggers have realized that there is great money in job boards.  A great example of this is Problogger’s job board.  He gets a monthly fee just to post the job opportunity and creates a lot of buzz for his blog with it too.  When you become the place for people in your niche to come to, start a job board.

Resources: JobThread Web Scribe Job Board SimplyHired Job-o-matic Jobbex

Event Sponsors – Having events on your blog is a great way to get more traffic and revenue.  For example hold a blogathon (blogging marathon), contests, featured story, giveaways and other events to bring traffic and get sponsors to pay you for.  A good example would be to have a webinar that is extremely publicized and then to get a relevant company to sponsor the event.  Thus you are getting more traffic and money in one big hit.

Selling or Renting a Single Page – Doing this is difficult but far to under-utilized.  The process invovles building a great blog with good traffic and especially good pagerank and then selling internal pages/posts to anyone willing to pay.  They get a sales page or whatever on a great blog and you get an income.  A good example of this is Pagerank10

Marketplaces – Sitepoint is the best example of a marketplace.  It is just like it sounds, a place for everyone to sell products, sites, domain names, services, etc. on your site.  You get the traffic and links along with commission in many cases while the user gets to buy or sell.  Traffic or a very unique niche is a must to succeed with this income earner.


Hardcover Book - After you have established yourself in your niche as a leading authority you can now publish a book on your topic of choice.  Some publishers even go from blog to book with almost no effort.  So if you are interested in seeing your book in the flesh (paper flesh) then look into these resources.

Resources: Blurb Lulu Self Publishing iUniverse WordClay

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6) Know’em (http://knowem.com/) – KnowEm checks the availability of your brand name, user name or vanity URL on 120 popular Social Media websites.

• Pros: Check brand‐name availability for 120 social networks, Very quick and easy!
• Critiques: Occasional network error when pinging site(s)
• Cool: Promote brand cohesiveness, Monitor brand/identity theft, Can automatically register your username for extra$$
• Cost: FREE
  
  
  
  

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7) SpyFu (http://www.spyfu.com/) – Spy on your online competitors and download competitors keywords and adwords.

• Pros: Great competitive insight on PPC & Organic, Works in browser, quick & thorough, Free stuff is good – though you can subscribe for more
• Critiques: Busy interface, Not intuitive as to what a particular button/tool does
• Cool: Dashboard: charts and data mash‐ups
• Cost: FREE plus subscription options
  

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Backlink Checker Tool (http://www.smartpagerank.com/pagerank-backlinks.php) – Enables webmasters to check their pagerank, monitor the PR of competitor’s backlinks, estimate a value of their site, and more.

• Pros: Quickly oversee a site’s backlinks, Show which links have the ‘nofollow’ tag, List anchor text for incoming links as well as their PageRank
• Critiques: Don’t forget the ‘http://’ or it returns no results
• Cool: Smartpagerank.com also has other useful tools
• Cost: FREE
  

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9) GSiteCrawler (http://www.gsitecrawler.com) - Windows Generator for Google SiteMap Files.

• Pros: Crawl simulation provides detailed spidey‐vision, View canonical and duplicate content issues, aborted URLs, page, file sizes and more, Automatic XML sitemap creation
• Critiques: Large sites may take a few hours and need to be run overnight, Crawlers will get stuck in a loop on sites with dynamic URLs
• Cool: One‐stop audit shop, Exports multiple reports
• Cost: FREE
  

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10) Google Insights for Search (http://www.google.com/insights/search/#) - With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.

• Pros: Identify phrases by topic/brand/category you want to rank on, Geo‐target where to sell your products, Identify product seasonality, Identify if news stories relate to spikes in searches
• Critiques: No “real” search frequency number only relative comparison
• Cool: Breakout tool identifies phrases rising in search frequencies
• Cost: FREE
  

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11) Epiar Negative Keywords Lists (http://www.epiar.com/ppc-negative-keyword-lists/) - Negative keyword targeting is becoming increasingly popular to weed out worthless impressions and clicks in pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns.

• Pros: Save 5% to 40% on PPC spend! And maintain/increase sales, Quick! Set of 14 or 19 online questions, Premium NKL custom keyword research per PPC campaig, Instantly generates list of top 2500 or 5000 negative keywords
• Critiques: Not free
• Cool: Premium NKL prioritized: Top 250 for Yahoo! or Top 65 for MSN
• Cost: One time fee; no subscription

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In the case you have a plan to building backlinks for your website and you have not any tools to tracking your backlinks increase or decrease everyday. Or in the case all of that tools is not free and you must paid a bucks purchase it ? Should or should not ?


In this post i just want to let’s you know a way to using Google Alert to track it ? How can it possible ?

I thought I should share this with you.

- You want to be informed as soon as your site gets a new backlink?
- You want to be informed as soon as your site’s new page is indexed by google?
- You want to keep an eye on your competitor’s site from where he is getting backlink?

The solution is http://www.google.com/alerts

Go there and enter this

Search Term: link:www.yourdomain.com
Type: Web
How often: as it happens
Deliver to: <your email ID>

Now as soon as your site gets a new backlink Google will send you email and inform you about it.

Similarly you can type ( site:www.yourdomain.com ) if you want to know when a new page of your site is indexed.

You can also use it to keep track of your competitor’s site from where he is getting backlinks, as soon as his site gets new backlink google will inform you and if you like you can follow the same site and try to get your backlink from there too.

Isn’t it cool trick ?

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Make Money With Twitter – Sponsored Tweets by Ad.ly

Look around and sometimes you will be surprised that how many people have thousands and thousands of twitter followers. Since using twitter we can constantly updating our status, more and more companies are trying to convince Twitter users and advertisers with in-stream advertising options, where instead of updating a “true” status the user will tweet an advertisement and will get paid. Simple but it works.

Now, we know how the “sponsored Tweets” work, let’s look into one of the how you can get paid doing sponsored Tweets.  At the early stage of Sponsored Tweeting, this type of service started off targeting all the celebrity Twitter users and then was available to everyone. And Ad.ly is one of the startup based on this business model. Started in Q4 of 2009 and quickly backed by a $500,000 investment, they already books a bunch of celebrities (look below).

http://ghosts-it.com/

Ad.ly offers pretty much the same service but its offering a little more $$$$ per tweet since its platform is better to target the audience thus delivers a better results for any ad campaign.  Take a look at the examples below from Shoe Money’s and John Chow’s Ad.ly account and how much they are getting paid per tweet.

http://ghosts-it.com

I am not saying that you will earn that much right away (unless you have  tens of thousands of follower) but still it can be a great revenue source for any tweeter user.  On top you tweets Ad.ly is now offering referral bonus on 12% of whatever they make/earn. Imagine you refer only 10 people then you will make roughly 100% of what they are making.  Also, they even simplified the sign up and/or the referral process.  All you have to do is go to Ad.ly and sign up.

http://ghosts-it.com

So, is you have a tweeter account (I assume that you do) go to ad.ly and start making some money.

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