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How To Make Money Blogging

Peter Lee — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:47:28 +0000

The following is a guest post by Michael Evans. If you would like to write for this blog, please checkout the guidelines here.

So, you have found your calling in blogging. It sounds really great, but in order to sustain, you need to master the art of how to make money blogging otherwise, all your passion, perfection and perseverance will wear away with time, and you will be seen trying to find solace in your day job once more. Though several lists can be found while Googling the term – ‘how to make money online’, you may find few of them truly informative. To ease your pain and to help you come closer to Money, here we are going to share some methods that worth a try:

PPC Advertising Networks: Getting subscribed to pay per click advertising network is the best and the easiest way to earn some hard cash from your blogging passion. Though Google AdSense rules the roost here, there are some other players too. It is fairly easy to set it up. All you need to do is to sign up to any network you like and paste the given code snippet to your website. Once the verification process is complete, the advertising network will then serve contextual ad based on the content types and other factors. Your earning is dependant on the number of clicks the ad manages to draw from your visitors. Revenue from this model largely depends on the volume of traffic, click through rate and cost per click. Other than Google Adsense, some other popular players are – Clicksor, BidVertiser, Chitika, Clicksor etc.

CPM Advertising Networks: This advertising network acts more or less the same way like PPC Advertising Networks, the only difference is in the metrics. Unlike in PPC Advertising Networks, where you get paid for the number of clicks, here you will be paid based on the number of impression. The acronym CPM stands for Cost per Mile where mile stands for 1000 impression. The earning from this network largely depends on the position of the ads, its format and obviously, the network you have chosen. Some popular Right Media, Tribal Fusion, Value Click, Advertising.com etc.

Direct Banner Advertising: This is my favorite option to make money from blogging. This is direct because there is no middleman here. But you need to find out a person who is interested give banner advertisement in your blog. Unless your blog have huge audience and great presence in different social media websites, you might it really hard convincing a prospective advertiser. oiopublisher.com is one such platform where you can get some leads about banner advertising.

Text Link Ads: This is a great way to monetize your blog quickly. You would not have to wait for months to increase subscriber base or the number of visitors to get your blog to be able to monetize your blogging passion. You can easily get the ball rolling by getting subscribed to an available scheme. Here revenue model vary greatly depending on PR of the website, backlinks etc. Text-Link-Ads, Text-Link-Brokers, TNX are some popular places to get advertiser for text link ads.

Affiliate Marketing: This is probably the most popular form of earning money on the web and opens up to lots of online business opportunities. Under this scheme, you will be able to sell other people’s product for a certain amount of commission. Commission is generally determined either via CPL (cost per lead) or CPA (cost per action) basis. Some popular affiliate marketplaces are Commission Junction, Link Share, ClickBank etc.

Sponsored Reviews: This is another easiest way to make money through blogging. However, the fact is that this tactic is mired with controversy due to the fact that these reviews are generally written by sponsored themselves and therefore, they are usually not so much useful and trustworthy from users’ perspective. However, you can earn some quick bucks from through it. Some popular sponsored reviews platforms are PayPerPost, BlogVertise, ReviewMe, Sponsored Reviews etc.

Author Bio
Michael Evans is a passionate writer and he has been writing for Site2You, which is the best small business website builder. He has written different article on web design, online marketing and SEO. He is equally enthusiastic about latest gadgets.

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Work From Home-Self Employment and Family Demands

Peter Lee — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:30:51 +0000

The following is a guest post by Patty Kleen. If you would like to write for this blog, please checkout the guidelines here.

Juggling Self-employment and Family Demands

There is something incredibly special about being able to work from home. There’s a sense of freedom – a sense of flexibility. At the end of the day, though, those of us who really do work from home know that freedom and flexibility can only occur if our schedules reflect just a little bit of structure. The hardest part about quitting my full-time job to become a full-time freelance writer was helping my friends and family members understand what it really means to work from home. Until that point, the only people I knew who “worked from home” were people who had office jobs and got to telecommute a couple of days per week – an altogether different animal.

Self-employed vs. Unemployed

Not long after I quit my full-time job, the phone calls started rolling in. Can you take your grandmother to the doctors? I need you to stop by the house and let the dog out for me. Do you want to go on a bus trip with us on Thursday? Can you pick your cousin up from school? All of the sudden, I was viewed as “available.” My family and friends didn’t think of me as self-employed. They knew nothing of working from home, looking for private clients, or setting their own schedules. They had a complete lack of regard and respect for my time and my work. They thought I didn’t work. They treated me like I was completely unemployed.

Making People Understand

This is where things get difficult for a lot of people who are self-employed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a writer, a graphic designer, an internet marketer, or in some other sort of business. Your biggest hurdle will involve making those around you understand your need for structure.

What does this mean?

It means not making yourself available to others 24/7. Set “office hours” for yourself and stick to them as much as possible. You obviously own the flexibility to change those hours as you see fit, but you’ll not only provide yourself with a little bit of structure but will help to draw boundaries that others aren’t welcome to cross. It will be a lot harder for your mother to call and ask you to run to the store if you don’t answer personal calls before noon; or if your friends know you are only free to go out to eat on Fridays.

It means learning to say no. It’s a tiny word with a lot of power, and you have the right to use it. Your lack of formal employment in the corporate world does not mean you have the time to run around and do things for others all day long. What many of my own family members and friends did not understand at first was that I no longer have paid vacation time or personal days. I have to plan the days or hours I take off because if I am not working, I will not get paid. Period. End of story.

It means you need to be patient. It is going to take time for those who love you to gain a firm understanding of what you do. Be calm and respectful and explain your new work situation as clearly as you can. Be consistent with your boundaries and with the times you say “no” to certain requests. Before long, those around you will start treating you as they would if you were working a regular 9-5 office job.

As a self-employed professional you have the obligation to put yourself first at all times. Your success – personal and financial – rests on your ability to get your work done daily. There will be an adjustment period and you may feel a bit overwhelmed at times but before long you will have a stable routine you can stray from occasionally if you really need.

About the Author: Patty Kleen is a full-time professional writer with a passion for education, careers, and personal finance. When she is not helping other new entrepreneurs make their way, she focuses primarily on credit repair, bad credit loans, and money saving tips for those with poor credit histories.Similar Posts:

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Case Study: Here’s What Google Looked For In My Last 5 Posts

Peter Lee — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:04:01 +0000

During the last Google PageRank update in June this year, one of the most noticeable changes I had observed was that there had been a remarkable increase in page ranking in many of my inner pages. I thought then that Google seemed a little too generous as I could see many of these pages were actually relatively new. But nevertheless, I was more than happy to see that.

Well fast forward to today, in my recent visits to many blogs doing commenting, I could see many other bloggers’ web pages getting at least a PR1. I thought this seems somewhat unusual as such rankings seemed to show up only after an official Google PageRank has taken place. So I thought I’ll do a quick case study on my own blog posts to see why this is so. Here’s what I found:

Case Study of last 5 Posts:

1. The 5 posts were published on Jul 31, Aug 4, Aug 10, Aug 14 and Aug 21 respectively.

2. Only 1 of the 5 posts had been given a PR1 while all others had PR0.

3. The post with PR1 followed some specific onpage SEO factors suggested by the SEO Jacking WP Plugin while all other 4 posts did not. The SEO onpage factors that I had diligently followed to the T were as follows:


	Use of Keyword in H1 Tag.
	Use of Keyword in H2 Tag.
	Use of Keyword in H3 Tag.
	Use of keyword in First Sentence.
	Use of keyword in Last Sentence.
	Use Of Image In Post.
	Keyword In Alt Tag Of Image.
	Link To An Internal Page.
	Outbound Link To An Authority Site.
	Keyword In The URL.
	More than 400 words Of Content.

4. No link building work was done on any of these 5 posts nor any promotion of these posts whatsoever.

Case Study Findings

Clearly, you can see how it is so simple to get Google PageRank by following some simple onpage SEO. Now obviously this means that Google places much importance on onpage SEO and its page rank algorithm includes some of these factors.

Final Thoughts

It looks like it is now relatively easy to get a PR1 for any web page and I like to think it’s because of the last Google Panda algorithm changes somehow. But this just helps to remind me to give Google what it wants in terms of onsite SEO.Similar Posts:

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Effective Internet Marketing Strategies To Augment Your Online Returns

Peter Lee — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:17:22 +0000

The following is a guest post by Steven Robart, a financial writer by profession who specializes in dealing with financial problems and their solutions.

Recently, with the widespread use of the internet, every business has made a web presence and therefore it is necessary for each business to maintain the right internet marketing efforts so that there is no harm in the amount of traffic that is being generated to the website. Though there are many home-based businesses that are being operated online, thy too need to maintain a web space that can easily boost their visibility. Whether it is a home-based business or a small business organization, internet marketing has its own benefits for each section of the business. Have a look at the main strategies of internet marketing and how it may help a particular business in augmenting the profits.

Making an online research: Before you set up a business on your own, that too on the internet, you must make a comprehensive research about some particular things. As there is a tough competition in almost every field, you need to stay afloat by maintaining the right amount of internet marketing efforts. You have to assess the ins and outs of your competitors and check the products that they’re marketing and also their strengths and weaknesses. If you’re marketing some home-based product, you must initially know about the ways in which they’re marketing their products.

Careful analysis of data: If you’ve performed a thorough research online, you need to make a systematic search online. Make a complete search of the weaknesses of the competitors to check whether or not you have more than your competitors or less. You can work on all your weaknesses so that you may be able to boost your monthly income resources through the online venture.

Develop a particular strategy: As soon as you’re done with examining the strength and weaknesses of your competitors, you can easily start developing a particular strategy that will involve a little bit of planning. Check the marketing methods that you can afford according to the budget. You must always prioritize the web marketing tactics and find out what is going to bring back the positive ROI.

Monitoring performance in the market: When you have the right internet marketing plan, you must start monitoring the performance of your company in contrast with that of the other companies in the market. Check and see which keywords could bring the highest number of visitors and try to capitalize on them to boost your returns.

In other words, if you have your own home-based business or a home business blog, make sure you employ the right amount of internet marketing efforts so as to get best returns. Internet marketing is very important for a particular website and make sure you follow the steps mentioned above in order to get the desired returns.

Steven is a writer for various finance related Communities and has got immense knowledge on various financial topics. He is a financial writer by profession and has specialization in dealing with financial problems and its solutions. He is well equipped to write articles on savings, planning, frugality, internet marketing and other recent issues etc.Similar Posts:

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First Authority Website Launched|Enter My Web Content Studio

Peter Lee — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:30:52 +0000

Happy New Year 2011!! Here’s wishing everyone the best in your Internet Marketing and other online business opportunities lots of success. Beware long article!

Today Dec 31, 2010 is definitely a good day as it marked the day I launched my first Authority website. Yep, finally after a month of deliberating and doing some research as to how I should do this, I bought the necessary tools and blueprint, and I have today published my website and 4 “authority” pages.

The tools I used for Authority Website:

Part II of my Adsense journey Begins

For those of you who remembered about 15 months ago I started my adsense journey and bought myself the now famous Micro Niche Adsense Course from XFactor as well as XsitePro, a powerful web building software and launched more than 20 niche sites during this time.

Well guess what…looks like history is about to repeat itself. Part II of my adsense journey begins officially today and I’m turning 3 of these niche sites into authority websites as well as adding a brand new health niche authority website. I’m still following XFactor (John)’s method only this time he just released his latest blueprint for ‘Advanced Adsense Publisher Guide to Making More Money With less sites‘. That’s perfect for me as I’ve recently stopped adding more niche sites and a few months ago already had thoughts of making a few of my sites to authority sites. I guessed John must have read my mind.

Why Authority Websites?

I’ll be perfectly honest with you. For a long time I was living under a misconception of what an authority website really is and who is fit to create one. I once thought that only the “big guns” or the more established marketers should be the ones since they already have the “authority tag” accorded to them. Not quite really as I found out recently.

Now I know an authority website need not be another CNN or Yahoo News nor must it be the most beautifully designed site. In short you and I could well launch an authority website within the next 1 week – if we wanted to that is. I’ve experienced some success in building niche sites and now building a few authority sites is just putting that icing on the cake. I called it a natural progression. It’s also called focusing on the long term, creating passive income and generally working towards making more money online only this time using few sites

Some Information about XFactor’s Authority Site Adsense Guide

It would be impossible to give a meaningful review of this advanced adsense blueprint without giving away all his techniques and that would be unethical so I won’t even go near there. So if whatever little information I could share with you may seem somewhat hard to comprehend, please excuse me and you would know why this is so.

It’s a very comprehensive book and John goes into great length to make his 217 pages book so easy to understand. It’s not an extension of his earlier book which I bought 15 months ago; it’s his second book. There are many tips that he gave but to me the most important thing I learned from him was how he makes creating authority websites so simple.He made it look simple because he teaches how to theme our articles as a part of his technique. He uses Web Content Studio to help find all the theme words for any articles we plan to write, articles that Google loves.

If you do not know what “theming an article is”, think LSI and long tail keywords to give you an idea. It’s also about how it will get you lots of traffic even if the keywords are highly competitive. So if you’ve been trained to believe you should only do keyword research and focusing on choosing keywords that have more traffic and less competition, that’s old school and a lot more difficult to do, I might add since everyone does that. With theming, it’s about less traffic as far as all the keyword tools tell you, insane competition but you still get lots of traffic all the same. It sounds a little hard to understand but the ebook will go into every great detail. It’s worth the $39 I paid for (first timer to his course pays $97).

I have just learned the proper way of ”siloing” my sites and that is not only good site structure for easy navigation on your site by your visitors, I’ve learned long ago it’s good for SEO too. Well that’s just a small part of what his Adsense Guilde teaches, the same techniques he uses to now make over $1000 per day.

How I Use Web Content Studio To Write Articles For My Authority Sites

This strategy is simple yet very powerful. When I first read about it, naturally I was simply amazed at this technique. I was hoping I could save some money not buying the tool and tried to do the work manually. The result – it’s too tedious and time consuming and at the end left me frustrated because I couldn’t check how well or badly I had done the “theming” process myself. And I can’t possibly do this for every article that I write. Well enter Dr Andy Williams’ Web Content Studio that cuts down 3 hours of research work to a mere few minutes. I relented, paid for this tool and now think this is the best tool I’ve ever come across.

With theme keywords strategy,I write my article relatively long – about 1000 words but with this tool, it’s really quite easy but you just follow a “process”.

What is Web Content Studio?

It contains a set of tools in a suite all under one big software application. This explains the name “studio” and all the tools are located on conveniently placed tabs that you can click to easily go to. So you have a scratchpad that has an auto “grabber” feature that copies whatever research work you choose from any website that you conveniently placed in your “bookmarks”, another tab in this software suite. Other tabs include ‘Editor”, ‘Researcher’, ‘Keywords’ and ‘Notes’.

These tools are cleverly thought of by Dr Andy Williams to help you research the keywords that Google expect from authority sites whenever you write your contents. So if you are planning to write an article on say “affiliate marketing”, this tool will query Google for the phrase “affiliate marketing”, and visit all the relevant pages listed at the top 10 (you select how many) sites and extract for you all the theme words like “affiliate”, “network”, “advertising”, “commission:, “merchant” and theme phrases like “contextual advertising”, “revenue sharing”, “cost per action”, “compensation methods” used by these top 10 sites Google ranked.

Once you have these keywords presented in a report (again all shown in this “Studio”) the objective is to write your article (Editor tab) that includes all these theme words and theme phrases. How many and what words you used are really up to you (you just put a ’tick’ on these words) but in the manual that comes with your purchase of Web Content Studio, Andy explains and provides suggestions based on not just his theory but showing you his real live cases and the results achieved. The result is that you will learn just what it takes to write your best article with these theme words and phrases that Google expects to see.

Here is a quick summary of the process flow when I write each of my well themed articles (in WCS):

1. Create a blank article page
2. Do keyword research.
3. Clean the list using the compare against top 10 so you only get the most popular words in your final list of theme words.
4. Write your article.
5. Check theme of article.

There are quite a few videos that Andy provides to make you understand completely how to do it but I’ll just let you see one video on using the keyword spider to find the most important theme words:

http://webcontentstudio.com/
tutorials/web-content-studio-
tutorial-keyword-spider/

Is Web Content Studio for you?

I guess only you will have the answer. For me, because I write articles everyday either researching for my clients when writing their articles or I write for my top niche sites especially the 3 sites that I decided to make them authority sites. This software is saving me lots of tedious time in my article research. The best part of using this tool for me is that I actually look forward to the next article that I write. I have to say both this and writing 1000 word articles 2 weeks ago would have been an insane thought.

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How You Can Easily Get 2500 Backlinks Here

Peter Lee — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:10:11 +0000

Here is another quick post but not without the usual goody stuff that you know I try to give my readers. How to get 2500 free backlinks while you sip your best wine and watch the days go by. (sorry I can’t resist that..I get emails bombarded with all such talk day in and day out from anyone trying to make a quick buck from me)

Ok, jokes aside….

This IMT Website Submitter lets you submit your website to 2500+ places for FREE! All of them are the usual websites that provide the “who is”, “about us”, “website statistics” services.

I have actually used some of these websites each time I have a new site to quickly get Google index and I have to say, they worked for me to get indexed real fast. I did it manually then though submitting to about 20 such sites each time. So I guess having a script that automatically submits for your site and allowing you to put your keyword, takes all the work away. That’s called working smart.

Most of these websites have been around for some time and are both dofollow or nofollow sites. Because they are established sites you can be sure that they get crawled by the search engines regularly including Google and other SE like Yahoo and Bing. The new pages being created for your websites will be quickly found and you will get them indexed and some backlinks too.

A word of caution

Personally I think this is a great tool to use but you should bear in mind a few things. Don’t expect to receive 2500 backlinks although the post title may have suggested this. You will get some backlinks but not all of them but then again these links are probably not the most sought after or highly valued ones as well. Then again you might say a link is still a link.

For me I used this tool mostly for my many free web 2.0 sites that I’ve created to boost my search engine rankings for all my money making sites. You could use this tool if you have just set up a new website and wish to get it to a decent SERP ranking. This way there is practically no risk using this free automated too.

Incidentally I learned about this tool from Warrior Forum and read very good reviews from people who have used it. You can read it here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/260075-2500-free-backlinks-click-mouse.html

Here is the link again to this tool

IMT Website Submitter

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A Neat Trick To Twitter Tweet Your Blog

Peter Lee — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:00:59 +0000

If you are using Twitter for your work from home business, you probably belong to 2 categories of bloggers. The first one opens up to many people following others as they follow you and tweet just about anything under the sun. The second group using Twitter is involved for a shorter time but use it for Internet Home Business Networking and not social purposes. Whichever group you belong to, how about learning a neat trick to use on your Twitter account?

The Basics:

What is Twitter

OK, let’s get it started, but just before that and so as to make some sense of what Twitter is all about for those not in the know, you should read up the following so as to get yourself up to speed:

How To Use Twitter-Tips for Bloggers

The Intermediate:

Tweet My Blog Plugin

This page tells you everything you need to know about this excellent plugin and can be summarized as:

Combine the power of Twitter and WordPress to create viral traffic to your blog
Automate your new blog posts to update your Twitter page
Grow your home business blog traffic exponentially
Generate an Income Stream-link contains your unique affiliate ID

Read up a post ‘I’ve Just Added The Tweet My Blog Plugin‘ from my good friend Sire of WassupBlog.

The Advanced:

A Neat Trick for home business blog

For those of you who are not yet following me on Twitter you can easily do so by clicking this link, and for other bloggers who for any reasons have yet to join, ~~where have you been~~ this is a good time as any to do so as Twitter is a great way to let your followers know what you are doing besides getting more traffic to your blog.

Here’s the deal. Your Twitter plugin allows configuration to a maximum of 20 tweets. You could use it to start a “sidenotes” section at your sidebar along with the twitter feed text. I’ve made a screenshot of mine so you can have an idea. Simply go to your Twitter page and type your text and it will automatically show on your blog sidebar. It’s that simple. Doesn’t this make Twitter more interesting?

What to put on your sidenotes:

your blog posts that are not so visible to your readers e.g. those you liked but didn’t make it to your popular posts.

blog promotions, special offers, seasonal ads, contests

news headlines

your rants, any digression

your shameless advertisements

Compelling titles like ‘How To Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in 2 Easy Steps‘

Tip: Make your text as short as possible using TinyUrl. This way it stands out and looks more appealing while not interfering with your blog theme’s codes.

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Some Myths About Linking To Lower Page Rank Websites

Peter Lee — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:05:30 +0000

Link management is a key component of a successful online internet home business. There are many different ways that you can accomplish this not just getting quality links but very relevant links to your work at home business. Getting such links do take time although with the present pace in which new technology has been dishing out more advanced software, people have grown smarter in getting this job done. Learning and mastering SEO, [tag-tec]buying links[/tag-tec], 3-way linking, reciprocal linking, getting [tag-tec]backlinks[/tag-tec] from quality sites like .edu and .gov sites are just some routine jobs in which the average internet marketer goes about doing today. All for the sake of improving their current [tag-tec]search engine ranking[/tag-tec].

However one thing that really puzzles me is that many legitimate home internet business owners do not wish to link to websites which have a lower [tag-tec]page rank[/tag-tec] status. I have personally experienced this myself on a few occasions in the process of completing reciprocal link exchanges with other marketers. I was politely told ‘ we only exchange links with PR3 sites.’ Thankfully I didn’t suffer any disappointment as my site met this requirement for those link exchanges. I have always wanted to find out why people would not want to link to sites with lower page rank and whether their fears were well founded. That led to my mini survey.

I posted this question “Would You Link To A Lower Page Rank Website?” to two of my favorite forums – Warrior Forum and Conquer Your Niche Forum. I wanted to get as many views as I can from internet marketers, veterans as well as newbies to get a sense of how they felt about this topic. Well here is what some of them have to say about this.

I asked ….“Would You Link To A Lower Page Rank Website?”

They answered….

“I would if it was something that was useful and relevant to my visitors. I don’t really exchange links anymore though as I prefer to get one way links e.g. through article writing etc as these are more valuable and in my opinion are easier to get.

The most natural thing is linking to sites in the body of your content rather than in a separate directory, which nobody ever visits unless they want to exchange links anyway.

I wouldn’t personally link to completely unrelated sites though e.g. a site on dog care from my legitimate home internet business site, or a site on work at home business from my wedding site.”

Suzanne Morrison
homebiz-direct.com

“I say stick to sites that are at least somewhat relevant to yours and are quality sites. I know quality is hard to really judge but you can usually tell if a site is complete crap or if it is a good site. If you do that then I wouldn’t worry about PR too much. If it’s a quality site and they are actually trying to grow it then it will eventually have PR.

But after having said that, I usually don’t link to a site unless it has at least a PR1 because that way I know Google at least somewhat likes them, they have been around long enough to get some PR, and they will probably keep going up.One more thing to add…

You have probably heard this a million times before but the PR you see on your toolbar doesn’t mean anything.

To give an example…

I have a website that ranks highly on Google for just about every internet home based business and work at home business related search you can think of. It only has a PR3. It used to have a PR5 a couple years ago but it didn’t have even close to the rankings back then that it has now. It dropped to a PR4 for some reason but the rankings got better. Now it’s only a PR3 but it has not lost any rankings. If anything it has gained them.

That just shows you that a sites quality and rankings can’t be judged simply by looking at the PR.”

Trent Brownrigg
home-business-team.com

“Don’t worry that much on PR. I would look at it at another angle – “would the users of my site benefit from this link?”

This is one good reason why I would certainly link to a lower PR site that has good, useful and unique quality content.”

MrCat
submit.mixcat.com

“There are a lot of myths about SEO. I read the other day at Jonathan Leger’s blog a simple statement: Backlinks are backlinks...period.

I don’t think that backlinks from sites with a lower PR can hurt. Until Google releases an SEO guide for online marketers, we can’t be sure.”

Josip Barbaric
heaven4affiliates.com

“PR is only a number. If you got high PR and traffic is not so good daily, then why have the PR? it’s a showoff number. I’d link to a lower PR site if it was somewhat related to the niche i am in. We can’t stop thousands of folks putting our website links on there site now can’t we?

If the site in question, has a decent design, looks like the owner updates the site weekly then I’ll be happy to link to them. The lower PR site is most likely still newish and still improving. Could be a great idea to link them early.”

Snakeair
freetoadvertise.biz

I like to think I have uncovered some myths of linking to lower [tag-tec]page rank[/tag-tec] work at home business websites. To me these fears are totally unfounded. It is based on hearsay and not factual statements from Google or other reputable sources. If people follow good linking and [tag-tec]seo techniques[/tag-tec], refrain from any [tag-tec]black hat techniques[/tag-tec] and follow good practices of successful marketers, nothing can possibly go wrong. But what do you think. Perhaps there is something some of my forum buddies may have missed out? Or you may have had some experiences which differ from what have been said here. We like to hear them. Do share with us so that we can learn from you too. Your comments are very much appreciated

If you have a question for me, do send it to me and I will be most happy to answer you. My contact details can be found on the right at ‘peter answers’ or you can also use this link to contact me.

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Top Rated Home Business – The SFI Marketing System

Peter Lee — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:18:17 +0000

If you are someone who is serious in affiliate marketing network, and looking for a profitable small home business, offering passive income which has the greatest growth potential, I highly recommend The SFI Marketing System.

About SFI

1. [tag-tec]SFI[/tag-tec] stands for Strong Future International, launched 10 years ago is believed to have the largest affiliate marketing network in the world with hundreds of thousands of affiliates in over 200 countries. It is a member of the Better Business Bureau, which provides an independent assessment of the program.

2. It has a highly reputable and respected program, which can be found in internet forums, bulletin boards, small home business as well as established legitimate home internet business websites.

3. The SFI Marketing System program has a large range of over 600 products and services.

Why You Should Join This Fast Start Program

1. The #1 Home business opportunity for the last few years

2. It is free to join at no obligation or commitment to stay. Perfect for newbies too.

3. It’s simple and flexible and provides a step-by-step training to help you in your small home business. You also have 4 up-line members including your Team Leader who will help you in your business including at times sending your way some new affiliate sign-ups. After all, [tag-tec]SFI[/tag-tec] practices what it preaches and that is “if you don’t succeed, we don’t succeed”.

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SFI System Presentation

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Testimonial

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What Can You Expect To Earn from This SFI Home Business Opportunity program

Affiliate (free membership)

1) 30% commission on all retail sales.

Executive Affiliate (EA)
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Click here to find how SFI is more beneficial than other Network Marketing / MLM, Affiliate, Franchises and Direct Sales programs.

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The fact is that many people are already earning a full-time passive income with SFI. If you are looking for a small home business and not a get rich scheme, you ought to take a decision today. It does take you some time to grow this online business, but if you choose to start now, it will be a start to your financial independence. Think about how you want to see yourself a few years from now. ACT TODAY!

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12 Killer SEO Tips|Home Business Ideas| Make Money Now

Peter Lee — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:55:19 +0000

What is SEO?

Before you can even think about [tag-ice]making money[/tag-ice] now for your best home business ideas , you have something more important, more intriguing to learn to master if you really want to succeed in your business. It’s called SEO or [tag-ice]Search Engine Optimization[/tag-ice]

We all know from our own experience, we are more likely to visit the sites of the first page of the search engine result than we are on the 10th page. People are usually searching for something in particular, either a single keyword, a keyword phrase or both. Thus to optimize our site, we need to know how people do searches in search engines and how we can affect our own site’s results. Quite simply put, [tag-ice]SEO[/tag-ice] is the act of altering a website so that it does well in the organic listings of search engines.

In this article, I will mostly focus and describe some SEO on-page optimization factors in which you can very quickly make on your site to improve your search engine ranking. This will give you a boost to your best home business ideas you promote in your website and start to make money online now.

SEO Tip 1-Home Business Ideas -The Power of Anchor Text

One of the most basic principles of SEO is that the words that other sites use within the text of their links to you (called the anchor text) have an impact upon how your site ranks for those words. For example – if you want to rank well in Google for the words ‘best home business ideas’ then it would benefit you greatly for another site to link to you with the words ‘best home business ideas’ than any other words.

SEO Tip 2-Home Business Ideas – Interlink Your Own Pages

The way Search Engines index your blog is to send little robot crawlers to it to track what you’ve written and follow the links. Make it easier for them to get around your blog by using internal linking wisely. If you are writing on a topic you’ve previously written about, you should link to what you’ve written before or use ‘other relevant posts feature’ at the bottom of the post. Having a site map is therefore useful as it means every page on your site is just a link or two away from each other.

SEO Tip 3-Home Business Ideas – Build Links From Trusted Sites

Search engines put great weight on links that came from related websites catering to a similar niche, such as home business ideas.The spiders also favor sites with at least PR3 which are doing link building with other sites which are more trusted or has more authority e..g. .edu and .gov sites doing link building. If I have convinced you to get a link or two from .edu or .govt sites, how would you find these sites to begin with. Well I have found out a quick way to search for such sites. A basic Google search using the following search criteria will show you the blogs you will be looking for :
Search for .edu domains with a blog relative to your website’s keywords
site:.edu inurl:blog “your keyword(s)”
Search for .gov domains with a blog relative to your website keywords
site:.gov inurl:blog “your keyword(s)”

Please be aware that .edu and .gov domains usually have quite strict policies regarding comments left on their blogs, so please, as with any blog, DO NOT SPAM for the sake of a backlink or you will find your efforts futile.

SEO Tip 4-Home Business Ideas – Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is considered to be one of the quickest ways to get themed links to your home business site. All that you need to do is simply leave a comment on related blogs and include some anchored text linking back to your site. It should be something you do it routinely, daily, as part of your link building. There are people who even buy links from others with high PR but if you have a choice, do you want to get one way links for free? Of course you would and it’s so easy to learn how you can do this.

SEO Tip 5-Home Business Ideas – Keywords Meta Tag

Try to keep your keywords and phrases not exceedingly long, perhaps not more than a dozen. A mistake some marketers make is putting popular keywords here but why would people want to do that. Would you put a popular keyword like diet if you are promoting best home business ideas? The tip here is to use keywords that are actually found in your website content. In reality, a lot of search engines ignore keywords meta tag and some marketers remove this tag completely and focus just on the content page. But there is really no harm putting them, as there are many search engines which still index this tag. You also do not know when search engines change their strategies.

SEO Tip 6-Home Business Ideas – Content Is King

If you consistently write good content and update it regularly, chances are, you will have more people visiting your site and looking at your interesting home business ideas. If you own a blog, always write not only unique content but update it regularly too. It is no different from the brick and mortar world. If you have a small store in which you do not have many things to sell, people are not going to patronize it, let alone buy from you. Just remember if you were the one looking at a website. If you’ve found one with good content, with keywords evenly spread out, a catchy title, you would probably be interested to read further. If you think about it, and apply this easy concept, making money online now is really within your reach.

SEO Tip 7-Home Business Ideas – Using Keywords In The Headline

Document title is what users see at the top of the browser. It is very important to put most of your main keywords in here. It would also help to remove any prepositions like “and” and substitute them with a “|” key. I would also go as far as to say, besides the content of the document such as your article, the title is the second most important factor which determines your SEO ranking.

SEO Tip 8-Home Business Ideas – Using Keyword Phrases

Don’t focus on single keyword but rather keyword phrases. There are five million pages on the web that contain the word “cat”, so a search for just that term produces meaningless results. If your page is actually about cat care, then that’s the keyword phrase you want to have on your home business ideas page. Similarly, make money and make money now produce very different results too.

SEO Tip 9-Home Business Ideas – Make Use of alt image tags

Include an image tag on every image or graphic and put your relevant keywords there. An example would be “weight loss picture graphic” or “safe weight loss image” using both words of graphic or image so that search engines do not view them as spam.

SEO Tip 10-Home Business Ideas – Add header tags (h1 and h2)

Add one header tag (h1) and place our most important keyword there. The header tag should be as far towards the top of your best home business ideas homepage. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page. So, it’s best to place your (h1) header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an (h1) header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page. Similarly put your secondary keywords in h2 header.

SEO Tip 11-Home Business Ideas – Page Optimization Is A Skill

When a user enters terms into a search engine, the engine starts to scan the web looking for those words. If the engine finds the words on a page, it will count how many times the words appear and also determine whether the words appear in conjunction or on their own. If the words are grouped together, it’s more likely that the page is a good result. So, how can you associate your page with certain keywords? It’s simple really. Put them on your page. Put the keywords in the title element, the headings, the file name, and the text of the home business ideas homepage.

SEO Tip 12-Home Business Ideas – Keywords In Domain Name

A website with keywords in the domain name often ranked higher. So if you have not chosen your domain name, you have a great online business opportunity now to take advantage of this well known secret. Another tip is to register your domain for a longer period, say 3 – 5 years.

SEO is the process of optimizing a website as to obtain a high rank in search engine results pages. Search engine positioning and increased traffic essentially comes down to 3 basic elements. Keyword and keyword phrase selection, search engine friendly SEO, and good off-page SEO which includes your backlink management and strategy. Additionally, writing and posting articles, press releases and even videos can substantially help SEO placement and ultimately make money online now for your best home business ideas

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If you have a question for me, do send it to me and I will be most happy to answer you. My contact details can be found on the right at ‘peter answers’

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