Traffic-Building

5 Article Marketing Secrets

2007-05-07T05:22:00.000-05:00

If you are new to Article Marketing to boost traffic to your website or blog, there are just 5 things you should do immediately. Best of all, these five things will not cost you a penny!

Article marketing is most probably the most effective link building strategy in existence. Article directories allow you to include a resource box for every article you submit. Inside this resource box, you include a link to your website. If you submit just one article to 100 article directories and it is approved for publication, you will immediately receive 100 back links to your website. There are thousands of article directories in the World Wide Web!

Now, if you submit, say, 5 articles to a hundred directories, you may get 500 back links easily! How? Again, by including the link to your website or blog in the Author Box at the end of your articles like I have done below. The best part about this strategy is that quite a number of article directories have high page ranks (PR). We’re talking about PR4, PR5, and on occasion, PR7 websites! Having a link to your own website in a website which has a high page rank would give a significant boost to your search engine standing!

There are many questions about this tactic of submitting articles to directories. Here are my answers to the the top 5 questions.

1. If I submit the same article to many article directories, will it violate a search engine’s policy against duplicate content?

The simple answer is - No - but see #2 (below) for a loophole. Since we’re dealing with high ranking websites, the search engines will assume that the submitted content is your original work. This is the reason why most article directory editors are pretty confident about the articles they display. The problem that they try to avoid, really, is with regards to the credibility of their services. They don’t want to be known as a repository of junk content, that’s why they have outlawed the posting of PLR (private label rights) articles as well as articles loaded with Affiliate links.

PLR articles are those you buy that were written by someone other than you. These are not a good way to go because the authors are selling the same articles to hundreds of other people. Using PLR articles will create a "duplicate content" problem for you with both the search engines and with the Directory editors.

2. Should I submit articles which I have already posted in my own web pages?

If the article was posted on your website or blog first, the answer is "Yes, absolutely!". If you submit your articles to directories first, the search engines may assume that where the articles first appeared, in the Article Directory, is the originator of the content. In that case, your articles could be distinguished as "duplicate content". This could lead to the de-indexing of your articles. It will not, however, get your website de-indexed. The key is, you want your articles to appear on your website or blog first and be indexed first as originating with you. Wait a few days and then submit them to directories.

3. Can I submit as many articles as I want to as many article directories as possible?

Absolutely, that's what I do and I do it often! This is very much advised as a fast way to build up your link popularity and secure a great page rank for your website or blog. I have only found one directory so far that only allows one submission per day. I have not found any others that have any limits whatsoever.

Bear in mind that search engines are quite wary of any website that suddenly experiences a great increase in the number of its back links. It is advised that when you submit articles to the article directories, wait a few days between each submission. There is one exception to this. When I began submitting articles I had 10 that I submitted on the same day to get caught up, so to speak. After that I limited my submissions to one a day to each directory.

4. My page views are are still quite low even after submitting my articles. Does article marketing really work?

Yes, article marketing does work! If your page views remain at low levels after submitting many articles, ask yourself, or someone you trust, the following:

a) Is the subject of your article interesting enough? Does it cater to a wide audience?

b) Is your title enticing enough to merit a reading of your entire work?

c) Is your article informative enough to merit recommendation to others?

d) Is your article readable enough to give your audience an easy time in digesting the information you are sharing?

I almost always ask my wife or my best friend for their advice on my writing. I have no ego to bruise. I want my articles to be readable and helpful. So ASK! If you get - "No" - to any of these, you have found the factors that contribute to your low page views. Doing some editing to correct the problems you have identified can dramatically increase the number of times your article is viewed.

I have some articles that were viewed more than 30 times in just a few days through just one Article Directory! Multiply that by about 300 and you can see the impact. Many of the readers clicked my Author Box link and visited my blogs for more Free Resources on a particular topic. I pride myself on providing lots of Free stuff on my blogs and you should too.

Remember, some article directories attract only a few visitors so viewing will also be low. If you are writing on a highly specialized topic, low page views would not be unusual.

The key is, your articles are published and your back link in your Author Box is pointing to your website or blog and that helps your page rank even on a low viewed directory.

5. Can I be sure that my articles will be kept intact by people who would use them in their own websites or eZines?

You can never be sure. This is why you have to run your own check from time to time. Search for unique phrases in your article and click on the results. Determine if the webmaster published your Author Box links. If he did not, you could ask him to include them. If you get no response, contact the article directory editors so that they themselves can act on the matter. Vigilance is the key. It is rare but it does happen.

A positive side of directories is the editors will recognize "duplicate content" when the thief tries to submit your article under their name. The article will be rejected. This leaves them with placing it on their own blog or wesbite and you can find that out by doing the search as described.

Do these 5 things and watch your traffic increase.

Lastly, finding Article Directories to submit to is simple - Google "Article Directories" and you will get a huge list. Or, do what I do. I use software that submits the articles with a few button clicks (see my blog). This has saved me hours upon hours of tedious hand-submission because the software has over 350 of the best directories built in so you do not have to search for them.

Keep in mind, submitting articles takes work, tons of work when submitting to one directory at a time. Check out various software like I did. The best software does cost a few bucks so do not expect to get off cheap. There is free or low cost software but "you get what you pay for".

Articles, written by you, are still the fastest and cheapest (Free!) way to get more traffic and higher search engine rankings.

Source: Jim DeSantis

Difference between buying backlinks

2007-05-03T21:12:00.000-05:00

I'm sure that some of you invest into buying one-way backlines to your website or blog. Along the way you will always notice prices with such a big range. You can get a link on some PR5 for $10 per month and on another PR5 site, it would cost $40 per month. Most people think that this second site is just an overpriced site and doesn't know the market too well. Well those who think that are totally wrong, that price fits exactly the package that is included when you get your link onto that webmasters site.

Difference

Many of you should know that the amount of traffic that you recieve to your site has to do nothing with your PageRank. PageRank is 100% decided from the quality of your backlinks, the more and better quality your backlinks are, the higher your PageRank would appear. When you pick that offer of $10, all your getting is a PR5 backlink, nothing else. This person will always most likely have very little traffic to his site, so your only paying the 10 bucks for a backlink.
Now, the webmaster that is offering to put a backlink up to your site for $40 per month will likely have alot better traffic then the one with the $10 price. So your not only getting a backlink, your also getting additional traffic from his site.

So either way you can look at it, I would always choose the sites that have traffic and a high PageRank.

PPI/PPC/Affiliate - Optimization

2007-05-03T20:06:00.000-05:00

When I'm browsing through websites, I commonly notice how a large number of webmasters chose to use their website as an extra income. That is great for them, but most of them share a common problem. The three most common programs that are used to generate revenue with their sites are :

PPI - Get paid for 1k impressions
PPC - Get paid for each click
Affiliate - Get paid for each sale made through your site

These three programs center around one thing. and that is the percentage of targeted visitors to your site. Target visitors consist of visitors that have interest in your niche. Non-Targeted traffic is traffic that consists of visitors that have no interest in your niche.

Problem

The problem is that most webmasters use the less efficient program depending on their targeted traffic percentage. Let me tell you a real life story, I know a person who receives a heavy 9k unique targeted visitors per day organically. It's all from the search engine, but he uses PPC program. PCC wouldn't be that bad, but if he would use an Affiliate program, his earning per day would increase by three or four times the amount. Since this traffic is so well targeted, his conversion rate would be extremely high.
Below is a scale that you should pay attention to when deciding which program to use:

Targeted /Visitors Program

0%-25% /PPI
26%-50% /CPC
51%-100% /Affiliate

By following that scale, you can optimize your earning for your website. Some webmasters even use all three of these programs, though this isn't always recommended since your site quality will decrease and it may cause some of your visitors to become irritated.

Changed!

2007-05-02T15:25:00.000-05:00

As some of my return visitors can notice, I have now changed my blog template completely due to the fact that the last one was dull and not that user friendly. This week I will be trying to put my effort into adding different links and information onto the template to make it more professional.

Thanks,
Martin

Using MyBlogLog could get you banned from Adsense

2007-05-01T17:32:00.000-05:00

I wrote yesterday about the sorry tale of the now Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog banning Jeremy Schoemaker following Jeremy’s exposure of serious security issues with the service, but from from Jeremy today: MyBlogLog Tracks Your Visitors Ad Clicks.

Shortform: MyBlogLog is not only tracking visits from other MyBlogLog members to your site (if you’re using the service) they are also tracking clicks on your ads, INCLUDING Adsense ads.

I can’t speak for other users, but certainly when I signed up for the service I don’t remember anything being clearly mentioned about MyBlogLog spying on the ad clicks on my site.

Certainly, other 3rd party trackers do track this sort of behavior. I use Adlogger on a number of sites to track my clicks and to protect against click fraud, but notably I choose to do so and I run my own copy locally so that only I have control over the data it gathers. Services such as Alexa, Google Toolbar (both of which I use via the searchstatus plugin) and Compete send data on my surfing habits back to their respective companies, but they send MY data back, not the data of visitors to my sites, and I OPT IN TO those services, knowing to well the implications of doing so. MyBlogLog on the other hand is spying on my visitors (which I accept) but also their activity on each site (ad clicks), which I don’t accept. Notably I’ve also read recently (don’t have the link at hand) that prior to Yahoo’s acquisition of the company, MyBlogLog were trying to shop these stats to the highest bidder, so privacy of the data is questionable as well.

Are you using Adsense and MyBlogLog together? Remember the rule about not being able to disclose the CTR rates to third parties? MyBlogLog is gathering this exact data on your site if you’re using the service. Using Adsense with MyBlogLog could get you banned from Adsense!

As of 5 minutes ago I’ve removed MyBlogLog from my own personal blog. My Adsense account is too valuable to risk, and I’m outraged that MyBlogLog was stealing this data from my site. If you haven’t done so yet, I’d encourage everyone using the service to take it down immediately. For all it’s benefits (it’s still a fun idea) the risks far outweigh the benefits.

By Duncan Riley on 02.23.07 | Syndicate 901am

Origins/Optimized of High Paying Keywords

2007-04-30T20:15:00.000-05:00

Many webmasters create a high paying niche but most of them don't understand why its a top paying keyword, and the other half aren't optimizing their high paying niche sites.

Reasons for high paying keywords

For webmasters that are in niches that are related to drawings, arcade games, music, etc;than your most probably your wondering why your CPC is so low. It's irritating when you read about those webmasters earning $2-$10 per click awhile your starring at your 2 cent average CPC. Anyone who you ask, gives that broad answer " It's because of the competition in that your niche". Well guess what, that's not the full answer, that answer cannot help you in anyway.

Let me show the example which reveals your problem:

Low CPC Keyword : " Injury"
High CPC Keyword : "Injury Lawyer"

Where does the difference lie? Let's say your typing the keyword "Injury", what are you mostly looking for, most probably pictures, stories, how to cure an injury; practically anything for your entertainment. Now lets head over the other keyword; "Injury Lawyer", why would you search for that keyword. Your most likely trying to find a lawyer to contact, there is no fun in searching "Injury Lawyer" unless you want to make a case. What does that mean, it means that the conversion rate for "Injury Lawyer" is high. That's the whole answer! The higher the rate of conversion on a specific keyword, the higher the CPC would be for that keyword.

Optimizing Your High Paying Keywords

This is exactly where the traffic tip of updated content on your site applies. The more pages of unique information you have which contains your keyword in the text, the more higher count of high CPC ads you would have on your site, since ( Increase in Pages = Increase in Ads). You want to make sure that you use terms at the end of your keywords inside your text so that it will generate a high conversion if your keyword plus that term appear as an ad. You also want to have a wide range of different high CPC ads on your site covering the same niche, only way by doing that is to keep posting on your site or blog, so new advertiser ads can appear on your site.

Social Bookmarking Networks are killing your CPC

2007-04-29T12:05:00.000-05:00

Social bookmarking is the new "thing" right now. Over 90% of webmasters use it to generate traffic to their site. Some even receive 80% of their total traffic from Social Bookmarking Networks. But none of them realize that they are harming their CPC ( Cost per Click) if their using Google Adsense on their website.

The Truth

If your one of those people with a low CPR(Click Through Rate)and low CPC, then take another look at your tracker to see from where your traffic is coming from. If your receiving heavy traffic from Social Bookmarking Networks and other Traffic Exchanges, then you've found your problem. Everyone knows that Social Bookmarking Networks provide a low CPR to your site, but what everyone doesn't know is that because of your low CPR, your CPC is getting reduced!

Google wants to give its high paying advertisers good service, they want to put the advertisers ads on publisher sites that have a high CPR so their advertiser can receive quality traffic quickly.If your CPR is under 1%, then I'm sure that your average CPC is 3 cents or less.

This is a classic example of the phrase " The rich get richer and the poor get poorer". Google loves to send MFA ads, Click Bank ads, smart priced ads onto your low CPR sites. Google doesn't care at all for your service, you bring them such a low CPR that they have no use from you, they just bomb you with all the smart priced ads. Google wants to provide the high paying ads to publisher sites that have a high CPR, knowing that this publisher site can move ads very quickly. They want to please these high CPR sites with higher CPC ads, so the webmaster of the publisher site stays happy and loyal to Google Adsense.

How much traffic should you receive from Social Bookmarking Networks

It's always good to know how much traffic your allowed to have from Social Bookmarking Networks before it effects your CPC negatively.The percentage that you should be aiming for is 25%. The only time you should ever have a percentage of 50 is if your other 50% traffic is all Organic. Meaning that the other half has to be all from search engines. Traffic from search engines is always the best, the webmasters with high search engine ranking always have the best CPR and CPC.

How to trick the system

There is always a way around anything, well same thing applies here. Unfortunately you won't be able to apply this on your current website, you can make a new website to apply this. As some of you know, there are high paying keywords out there, most of them have a CPC of $1 as their lowest. Now what you can do is create a website that's in a high paying niche. So, even if you recieve a low CPR which results in the reduction of CPC, you will still be averaging a nice buck or so. You don't have to worry about using your high paying websites with Social Bookmarking Networks if your goals for it is low.

Optimizing your Pagerank!

2007-04-28T09:58:00.000-05:00

0.15 + (0.85 x ( a share of the PR of every webpage that it links to it)) = Your webpage PR

The "share of PR of every webpage that links to it" is calculated by taking the current Page Rank of the webpage and dividing it by the total number of links on the page...

So, by removing ALL unnecessary links on a page, you will be able to pass more Page Rank to the other pages that you link to... Why is this important? Remember, the higher the Page Rank a page has, the better it will rank.

So, what are unnecessary links? Unnecessary links could be when you link to another website (link partner) and they don't link back to you. By linking out to a "link partner", you're giving them a percentage of your Page Rank that you could be passing to other pages within YOUR website. If this "link partner" isn't linking back to your website, there is no need to ever link to them. You're just hurting your ranking by doing so!

I have seen websites move up hundreds of positions by simply looking at their links pages and making sure that their link partners are all linking back. If they're not, then you should ALWAYS remove them from your links page. In doing so, you are guaranteed to benefit from this.

Quality Marketing Blog

2007-04-27T20:18:00.000-05:00

Networkb4umarket

These days, it's been very difficult finding people that are able to actually write unique content that stats interesting and is informative. The webmaster of the blog (Dee), is really able to stay down to earth with her posts. Not only that, she covers so many topics involving marketing that there is always a good read on there. On her blog, you won't see any duplicated content, or dead phrases without elaboration, she really breaks down everything and can teach anyone something new. So what are you waiting for, click her preview image site above to check out her blog, you will be surprised with what it has in store for you.

Example Post:

When is just as important as What

"We all agree that email marketing is one of the most powerful methods of Internet marketing. And we all know that what's in your email is very important in order to get the results you desire, but did you know that when you send your email is just as important as what's in your email?

Tests have shown that there's one day of the week that gets high sales and another that gets the most clicks. Some tests have indicated that Wednesday was the best day to send out emails and get sales, but more tests have shown that it is the worst day that outperforms all other days by at least 23%.

The summarized results of the tests are:
- Emails sent on Friday results in at least 23% more sales.
- Emails sent out on Tuesday get the worst clicks or views.
- Emails sent on Wednesday get the worst sales.
- Thursday is the best day to send out emails to get raw clicks.
[Source of info is Marketing Manuscript by Mark Joyner (aff)]

I haven't personally tested this, but I have noticed that my blog gets the highest traffic on Tuesday (as opposed to emails which get the worst clicks)… maybe one thing has to do with the other? People would be too busy browsing to check their emails?! I say this with a funny tone but it might be right!

If you would like to test those results yourself, you can use a free ad tracking service like AdTracker.biz to track the clicks of your links on real time. Tracking ads is very important, it allows you to test which email is doing better than the other and it ends the thought of "is someone actually clicking on my links?" to end. "

Page Rank Formula!

2007-04-27T16:36:00.000-05:00

Forumla

0.15 + 0.85 x ( a share of the PR of every webpage that links to it) = Your Webpage PR

0.15 = The lowest PR a webpage could ever possibly have.

0.85 = A dampening factor... This is just the number that Google uses for their PR formula.

"share" = the PR of the page linking to you divided by the total number of links on that page.

Example:

Say we've created our website and it has 3 pages in total. For sake of making the math easy,
we'll start each webpage with a page rank of 1.

Page A

Page B

Page C

None of the pages link to each other. They're just pure content webpages with no links to any
other pages within our website. Let's quickly calculate the PR of our pages by using the formula
above.

0.15 + (0.85 x 0 ) = .15

Because no webpages link to our pages, there is no "share of PR"... hence it is 0.
So... If we do the math, we come up with a PR of .15 for each of our pages.

Now, let's see what happens if we link page A to page B.

Using our formula we get:

Page A : 0.15 + (.85 x 0) = .15
Page B : 0.15 + (.85 x 1/1) = 1
Page C : 0.15 + (.85 x 0) = .15

You can see that by just linking page A to page B, we've changed the PR of page B from .15
all the way up to 1. Big difference!
With our newly calculated Page Ranks for all of our pages, let's do the calculation again. By
doing so, we'll slowly get to the "true page rank" of all of our pages... The more iterations we
do, the more gradual the change will be between each iteration.

Page A : 0.15 + (.85 x 0) = .15
Page B : 0.15 + (.85 x .15/1) = .2775
Page C : 0.15 + (.85 x 0) = .15

You can see that after another iteration of our formula, the PR of page B dropped
significantly... This number is closer to the actual Page Rank that Google would give page B.

Now, let's try something different and link all pages to and from one another...

Page A : 0.15 + (.85 x 1/2) = 5.75
Page B : 0.15 + (.85 x 1/2) = 5.75
Page C : 0.15 + (.85 x 1/2) = 5.75

After 1 iteration the Page Rank of all pages is .575.
So, by linking ALL pages together we have maximized the page rank from within our website!
You can play around with your linking throughout your website and by doing so, you can send
more PR to pages you want to rank higher for, and lowering the PR of those pages you don't
care much about their ranking :-)
This can be extremely powerful.

Free Article Submitter! ( Fully Free )

2007-04-27T13:55:00.000-05:00

As some of you might have read from my last post concerning the free article submitter, and how I messed up and didn't know that it was a trial version. Well this time I have now is not a trial, it is the full version, but as it being free, it's not as quick as the free trial one. With this one, you must create your accounts on the article directories manually, and then when they open up the browser of the article directly, they fill in the information for the log in, and you must press on the log in then. Then it goes to the next page, and on the site you must then click on submit an article, and again this program will fill in all the article content you already added into it. So there is a lot of manual stuff you must do, but still it will speed you 2x faster. What I recommend is add the article directories that you know onto the program, like one's with a PR greater then 4, and stick with around 20-25, and just use those 20-25. The program already has around 100 article directories installed but the article directorie PR of those aren't that good. But anyway, just give it a try, Article-Submitter-Software

Google's Giant Sandbox

2007-04-26T20:52:00.000-05:00

What is the Sandbox?

Before we get too far into an explanation as to what Google's sandbox is, it must be noted that not everyone even agrees that the sandbox exists. The sandbox is actually nothing more than a theory developed to explain what many different SEO experts have witnessed with their listings. Whether or not the sandbox really exists is actually irrelevant when we know that the effects of the sandbox exist.

Google's sandbox is a relatively new filter that appeared to be put in place back in March of 2004. This happened after the widely publicized updates of Austin and Florida, and the implementation of what is known as the Austin update. If you are not sure what those are, there is no need to worry as those updates are now for the most part in the past. The sandbox filter seems to affect nearly all new websites placing them on an initial "probation" status. The effect of this is that new websites may get into Google's SERP's (search engine results pages) relatively quickly and may even perform well for a couple of weeks. When the filter is applied to the new website it is referred to as being put in the "sandbox". The new website will still show in the result pages, but it will not rank well regardless of how much original, well optimized content and regardless of how many quality inbound links the site may have. The filter restrains new websites from having immediate success in the search engine result pages.

The sandbox filter seems to affect almost all new websites, with very few exceptions. It is important to note that the filter is not a punishment for anything the webmaster did with their new website. The filter is merely an initiation period for new websites.

The sandbox filter also affects more competitive keyword driven sites more than sites that key in on less competitive keywords. If your website focuses on very competitive keywords, you are likely to remain in the sandbox for a longer period of time than if you focus on keywords that are relatively non-competitive keywords.

Why Does the Sandbox Exist?

There is a lot of debate as to whether the sandbox filter is a good thing for Google to implement or not. Obviously webmasters who are trying to get their sites well positioned in Google do not like the sandbox filter as it prevents them from receiving the huge levels of traffic that a top listing in Google can bring. The filter was not implemented at random, however, and there is some good reasoning for the filter existing.

As the SEO community figured out the basic elements of Google's ranking algorithm, inbound links, original content rich with keywords, and the proper use of anchor text, search engine spammers began to take advantage of these elements. Search engine spammers would setup websites that were in clear violation of Google's policies with the knowledge that eventually their website would be banned from the listings. This, however, did not matter. If a search engine spammer could get their website to rank well in Google for even one month, the profits they could make from that one month would justify the cost of building the site in the first place. All they needed to do in the future was to rebuild their spam websites with different domains and slightly different content. The idea for spammers was a simple one. Capitalize off of Google's traffic for as long as they can (before they get banned), then do it all over again with a new website. The method was extremely effective and easy to implement.

What made this all the more easy to accomplish was Google's extremely fast indexing. While other search engines would take several months to index a new website, Google could index a website in as little as one month (they are now indexing sites within a few days). Search engine spammers were living large off of Google's generosity.

To solve this problem, Google determined that it would compromise. They would still index websites quickly, attempting to get as much new, fresh content out to the general public as possible, but they would not trust new websites implicitly as they had in the past. All new websites that were launched would be put on probation. As time passed, and as the sites continued to pass any spam filters they ran, the website will not be held back from performing well in the rankings. Eventually, after quite a bit of time had passed, a site would be allowed to "leave" the sandbox and join the rest of the established websites.

How Does This Affect My Website?

If you have a new website, there is a good chance that you will be placed in the sandbox. This should be expected, but it should not change the way you build your website or market it. You should use the sandbox filter to your advantage.

Google still ranks websites in much the same way that they had in the past. Websites are judged on the quality of their inbound links and the quality of their content. Google will continue to change how they evaluate inbound links and content, but the basic elements of their rankings will remain the same.

While your website is in the sandbox, you should use this time to build your traffic using regular traffic building methods such as writing articles, building a strong community of visitors, and partnering with websites that offer some synergy to your visitors. During your time on probation, you have an excellent opportunity to build all the elements that cause websites to perform well in the search engines. When you finally do leave the sandbox, your website should be very well positioned within Google.

Is My Website in the Sandbox?

When webmasters learn about the sandbox filter, their first question is always whether or not their website has been placed in it. Determining whether or not you are in the sandbox is a relatively easy task to do. First, being placed in the sandbox is different than having your website banned.

If you do a search for your domain in Google and they return zero results for your website (and you had been previously listed in Google), there is a chance that you have been banned. One of the best ways to determine if you have been banned is to look at your log files to see if Google is visiting your website. Banned websites typically do not see Google visit their websites, regardless of who is linking to them.

If you have not been banned, but do not rank well with Google, you should look at the quality of your content and the quality of your inbound links. You should also see if you rank well for non- competitive keywords. Remember how the filter affects competitive keywords more than less competitive keywords? Well, you can use this to determine if you have been sandboxed. Finally, if you rank well in all the other major search engines, but do not show up at all in Google's rankings, you have probably been sandboxed.

Is There A Way to Get Out of the Sandbox?

The quick answer to this is yes, there is a way out of the sandbox, but you will not like the answer. The answer is to simply wait. The sandbox filter is not a permanent filter and is only intended to reduce search engine spam. It is not intended to hold people back from succeeding. So eventually, if you continue to build your site as it should be built, you will leave the sandbox and join the other established websites.

Again, if your website has been placed in the sandbox you should use this time to your advantage. It is a great opportunity to build your traffic sources outside of the search engines. If you have a website that does well in the search engines, you may be tempted to ignore other proven methods of traffic building such as building a community, or building strong inbound links through partnerships. However, if you establish traffic sources outside of search engines, when you finally leave the sandbox, you will see a welcome increase in your traffic levels.

Conclusion

Google has been going to great lengths to cut out on search engine spam. Some have faulted them on the lengths that they are going to claiming that it is effecting legitimate sites as well as the spam websites. While this is probably the case, as an owner of a website you need to place yourself in the position of Google and ask yourself what they are really looking for in a website. Google is looking for websites that offer quality content. Google still relies on the natural voting system that was first used to establish pagerank. They may change the way that they qualify content or inbound links, but the basic elements of a quality website will always remain the same.

No website owner in their right mind will "like" Google's sandbox. However, a smart website owner will use the sandbox as an opportunity to build a website that Google simply cannot refuse.

About the Author:
Mark Doust is the owner of Site-Reference.com, articles that focus on Internet Marketing, Website Development, and Search Engines .

Secret Exposed- How Google Ranks Website!

2007-04-26T20:35:00.001-05:00

Now you will be exposed to 7 types of variables that are used in ranking your website.

Links

Links have always been a huge role in determining citation value. The incoming links help judge the value of the website. The more citation and links, the more important and valuable it has to be. But Google adds some criteria to those citations.

In the past, the number of incoming were scored high, but the judgment on quality of the incoming link was added into this mix, causing the webmasters to also pay attention to the quality of the incoming links.If the linking page and site had a high page rank value itself, then clearly, it knew a good thing when it linked to it. Still, this link quality aspect became harder to define as so many sites were joining the web and the quality became diluted.

Historical factors now play an important roll in addition to the number and quality of the incoming links. It seems Google’s method includes counting the moment a new site is discovered and applying an “aging process” to the site. Google monitors the link as it changes over time, the speed at which the site adds incoming links, and the life span of the link. It isn’t about having thousands of sites that link to yours, but about building those thousands of links over time.

The “aging process” that monitors the history of the links and site helps to combat spam sites. Spam sites tend to come and go very quickly, building links fast through their spamming techniques, then closing down and moving on. Thus, the older the site and the links coming into it, the more “points” the site may get. The shorter the life of the site domain, no matter how many millions of links are coming in, the less Google is interested.

Google monitors the historical value and the slow building of value of incoming links, and they also monitor the changes in the link anchor text over time and throughout the site.

Consistent link anchor text scores low. This is considered “Anchor Spam”. What this means is that if you use the same text in a link, such as perfume sales consistently through your site, then it won’t score very high. If you vary the link anchor text, especially over time not just within the samepage , your odds will increase as Google monitors the changes in links over time. Generally, it is recommended to change the keywords in your anchor text around the top 5-10 keywords, to maintain consistency with keyword rankings and link rankings.

So the perfume sales might include link text such as:

cologne market
perfume market
cologne sales
fragrance sales
sales of fragrance

This changes the whole landscape. The idea of link exchanges and link spam as a method to attract Google’s search engine bots just doesn’t work. Age before linkage.

WordPress Blogroll Tip

The WordPress Links Manager allows you to set your blogroll links to change randomly with each page view. If you have a huge list of links in your blogroll, consider setting this to random so the links will change, appearing less like link exchange spam. Check out the other options in Links Manager for only showing updated links and other features. Also, getting links from documents that have no content, just links, also won’t work. Links without content won’t score high.

Now, does this mean that if you link to a page and they link back to you, your scores will go down and it might be considered link spam? No. The other criteria goes into effect to help offset this normal linking techniques. But it does impact the concept of the Blogrolls, which are sometimes considered link exchange lists. So choose your link exchanges wisely and avoid hundreds of links from your site to others, or being on a list of hundreds of links.

Domain Age

One of the other criteria is the age of the domain. Again, driven by spam sites which pop up and die off quickly, the age of the domain is usually a clue they tend to be in for the long haul.

This causes some problems. If you change your domain name, then are you back at the bottom of the barrel? Well, maybe not. If the rest of the criteria stays the same and your content maintains consistency, as does your traffic and incoming links, then this might just be a temporary drop and the rise will happen again soon.

Many hosts offer special rates for long term hosting and domain registration. Consider registering your domain for at least two years, five is better. This means you need to make sure that the domain name you choose is one you can live with for two to five years. You can change hosts, but the domain registration needs to stay the same, and stay in your name over the long haul to score points with Google.

Click Through Rates

The click through rate (CTR) of your site may play an important roll in adding up good points on your Google Search Engine score card. The CTR is the rate that people click “through” to your site. Referrer statistics are the numbers and methods visitors use to visit your site. This information tells the site administrator, and Google, from where did you arrive from to land on this site. Did you click through from a search engine (which one), directly, from another site (which site), or, as revealed in the patent, from the cache, temporary files, bookmarks, or favorites of your Internet browser.

The click through rate is also based on the CTR of the advertising on your site. The more ads which are clicked, the higher your score.

The CTR is also monitored for fresh or stale content - in other words, are they visiting new content on your site or old posts or articles? Trends and seasons are also taken into account as certain subject matter gains precedence with the time of the year and the current fad.

Trends, Fads, and Seasons

Built into the Google page ranking technique is the ability to track current and historical trends, fads and seasons. If your site deals with beach wear, the odds are that it will have more traffic during the beach wear season of summer than it will into the fall and winter. This seasonal traffic is taken into account and you may not loserank when the traffic dies down seasonally.

It also tracks whatever is hot in trends and fads. Right now, everything to do with Hurricane Katrina is hot, hot, hot, but a couple years ago, everything and anything to do with protecting you and your home from biological terrorism was top of the list. Paris Hilton was top of the charts for a long time, doing battle with Britney Spears, but now, both of them are old news.

This is an interesting aspect of page ranking. If your site continues to push keywords long past the fad’s life span, then this could be seen as keyword spamming. Yet, using trends and fads keywords as they come and go could attract attention. Luckily, the rest of the criteria in thepage ranking evaluation can help to clear out abusers of keywords related to the current fad or current event.

Posting Frequency

How often you update your pages and add content is monitored over time. It isn’t just how much but when. If you update or add hundreds of articles within a very short time, this is suspicious, but if you rarely update your site or add content over time, then your ranking will probably drop. Finding a happy medium is still a hit and miss angle, but the information seems to point to consistency not just random spurts of energy.

If you consistently add content once a week, and it stays steady, then it is seen as stable. If you add content consistently every day, and then it drops to nothing, then this change indicates an instability. If you do hit and miss content updating and additions over time, and then suddenly post a ton of activity, this can also be seen as instability and suspicious. Steady and consistent, no matter how frequently, adds weight to the score.

Many researchers say that frequent new or updated content carries more weight than infrequent changes to the site. I could find nothing in the patent that lent proof to that theory, but showing consistent activity does work.

A “stale” page is one that is old and rarely attracts interest. A “fresh” page is one that is new, and will be watched to see what kind of interest it may attract. By updating a stale page on your site, you may attract new interest by rewriting or structuring the information and keywords to attract more attention, breathing life back into thepage. Google monitors this “refreshing” of pages to show activity and an increase in interest, scoring high.

Not all “old” pages on your site need updating. If it is still attracting decent traffic, then leave it alone. It is working for you.

The patent also reveals that stable pages that are working which suddenly attract a “spike” in the number of incoming links or click throughs may be an indication of a change of site ownership or spamming. Google evaluates not only the content but the historical changes in the content of thepage and the site and if the changes are dramatic and sudden, then the site will rank lower. Stability over time scores higher.

Keywords Still Play a Roll

Keywords and keyword density still play an important roll in evaluating the content and content history. Putting keywords in titles, links, headings, tags, and throughout thepage is still critical to the success of your site’s page ranking and keyword ranking results.

Changes to keywords, by arrangement, closeness, and inside of links, titles and headings are also monitored, much like link anchor text. Consider reviewing and updating your keywords and checking their density and use throughout your site on a regular basis, if search enginepage ranking is important to you.

In upcoming posts, we’ll discuss how to maximize your keyword density in your blog posts.

Rank by Traffic, User Behavior, and You

Like other comparative search engines, Google’s patent also tells of how page rankings are compared across the board and monitored over time. The traffic is recorded and monitored. How much traffic each page gets as well as the overall site.

User behavior is checked. Google keeps track of how long visitors stay on your site and from what pages they exit your site. You also get points for bookmarking or adding to favorites.

Keyword search results are constantly monitored. What keywords brought the visitor to your site and what keywords they used to search once on your site.

But “you” also play a roll in determining the page ranking with Google. The domain registration information is checked and compared to the information on the site to make sure the two match. The address of the domain owner may help localize search results to that specific geographic area.

How you have your site hosted also is among the other administrative items checked off. Shared IP host addresses run a risk since they are shared. If someone else is using that server for spamming or other evils, you could also be punished. Dedicated hosting is very expensive, so make sure you choose a reputable host who is publicly and actively stopping spamming sites if you choose shared hosting.

The validity of the site’s code and structure plays a small part, but is still part of the criteria. Make sure your site’s code is validated, checked for errors, and friendly to search engines. Any errors in yourpage structure or code can easily thwart a search engine’s process through your site. Table designed sites rank low while CSS based designs are much more search engine friendly.

Spelling is still important. Not that Google’s patented page ranking process includes a spell checker - words that are not recognized get dumped. If misspelled keywords are among your missed spellings, then your site will be hurt in the rankings.

By my-last-shot

The Importance of valid HTML code!

2007-04-26T16:15:00.000-05:00

There are many webmasters out there that overlook a very important aspect of web site promotion; it’s the validity of the HTML code.

What is valid HTML code?

Most of the web pages are written in HTML. As for any other language, HTML has its own grammar, vocabulary and syntax, and ever document written in HTML us supposed to follow these rules. HTML is always constantly changing. As it has become a rather complex language, it’s easy to make a mistake. HTML code that does not follow the official rules is called invalid HTML code.

Why is valid HTML code important?

Search engines have to parse the HTML code of your website to find the relevant content. If you have errors in your HTML code, then search engines might not be able to find everything on the page. Search engine crawler programs obey the HTML standard. They will only be able to index your website if it complies correctly with the HTML standard. If there is a mistake in your web page code, then they might stop crawling your website, and they can also lose what they have collected already because of their encounter with this error. Even though most major search engines can deal with minor errors in the HTML code, a single bracket in your code can be the reason why you cannot find your website in the search engine. If you do not close some of your tags properly, of if there are some important tags missing, search engines might ignore the complete content of that page.

How can you check the validity of your HTML code?

Validator.w3 is a great website where you can verify if your HTML has any errors.

Adsense Alternatives

2007-04-25T20:31:00.000-05:00

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General optimization tips!

2007-04-25T16:49:00.000-05:00

1. Don't use frames

Many search engines have troubles with frames, making it very difficult to get a high search engine ranking for a website that is using frames.Google says about frames: "Reasons your site may not be included: Your page uses frames.Google supports frames to the extent that it can. Frames tend to cause problems with search engines, bookmarks, emailing links and so on, because frames don't fit the conceptual model of the web. If a user's query matches the site as a whole, Google returns the frame set. If a user's query matches an individual page on the site, Google returns that page. That individual page is not displayed in a frame -- because there may be no frame set corresponding to that page." Yahoo has a similar statement: "Yahoo! Slurp follows HREF links. It does not follow SRC links. This means that Yahoo! Slurp does not retrieve or index individual frames referred to by SRC links."Don't use frames on your web site if you want to have high search engine rankings!

2. Avoid Flash and other multimedia elements

Most search engines cannot index Flash pages. The normal text content on your web pages matters most to search engines. If you must use Flash on your web site, make sure that you also offer normal text for the search engines.

3. Don't use welcome pages

Some web pages use a "Welcome to our web site" image with a link to the actual site as the index page for the web site. Just don't do this. Some search engines might not follow the link on the welcome page. In addition, most web surfers don't like these welcome pages causing a loss of visitors.

4. Avoid dynamically created web pages

Databases and dynamically generated pages are great tools to manage the contents of big web
sites. Imagine having to manage the Web site contents of the New York Times without databases. Unfortunately, dynamically generated Web pages can be a horror for search engine spiders because the pages don't actually exist until they are requested. A search engine spider is not going to be able to select all necessary variables on the submit page.
Some search engines can index dynamically pages to a point, but even Google states that they have problems with dynamically created pages: "Reasons your site may not be included in Google: Your pages are dynamically generated. We are able to index dynamically generated pages. However, because our web crawler can easily overwhelm and crash sites serving dynamic content, we limit the amount of dynamic pages we index."

4. Make sure that you allow search engine robots to index your site

Imagine you're an Internet marketing service company and you keep trying very hard to get top rankings in the search engines for your customer. Even after several weeks, the customer's web site hasn't been listed in any search engine. Then you start to realize that the search engine spiders and robot programs cannot access the web site because your customer blocks them because the robots.txt file is not properly configured. Details about the robots.txt file can be found here.

5. Make sure that search engine spiders can access your web site

Search engine spiders don't have the functionality of full-fledged Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox or Netscape Navigator. In fact, search engine robot programs look at your Web pages like a text browser does. They like text, text, and more text. They ignore information contained in graphic images but they can read text descriptions.
This means that search engine spider programs are not able to use Web browser technology to
access your site. If your Web pages require Flash, DHTML, cookies, JavaScript, Java or passwords to access the page, then search engine spiders might not be able to index your Web site.

6. Avoid special characters in your URL

Most search engines have problems indexing web pages when their URLs contain special
characters. The following special characters are known to be "search-engine-spider-stoppers":
* ampersand (&)
* dollar sign ($)
* equals sign (=)
* percent sign (%)
* question mark (?)
These characters are often found in dynamically generated Web pages. They signal the search
engine crawler program that there could be an infinite loop of possibilities for that page. That's why some search engines ignore web page URLs with the above characters.

7. Choose a reliable and fast hosting service

Your web page should be hosted by a reliable hosting service. Otherwise, it could happen that your web server is down when a search engine spider tries to index it. If your web site fails to respond when the search engine's index software program visits your site, your site will not be indexed. Even worse, if your web site is already indexed and the search engine spider finds that your site is down, you'll possibly be removed from the search engine database. It's essential to host your web site on servers that are very seldom down.

Search engine crawler programs that index Web pages don't have much time. There are
approximately 4-6 billion Web pages all over the world and search engines want to index all of them. So if the host server of your Web site has a slow connection to the Internet, you may experience that your Web site will not be indexed by the major search engines at all.

You may also want to limit the size of your homepage to less than 60K. It'd also benefit the still
numerous users that connect to the Internet with a slow modem. For even the casual Internet user, the performance of a Web site can make the difference between pleasure and frustration.

Return Visitors VS 1st-Time Visitors

2007-04-24T20:20:00.000-05:00

Many of you can view on your counters how many Return visitors and how many 1st-Time Visitors you have, well this plays a huge role if your earning an income from adsense ads or any other adsense alternate. Lots of webmasters don't understand why their earning are so low and also their CTR (Click Through Rate). Well, I'll be going over that.

Who's Infected

I'm sure that the one's who owns a forum has a hard time trying to understand why their CTR is so low, well I'll explain. On a forum, the plan is to get people to register and keep coming back to your forum to keep posting. That's exactly whats harming you. There aren't that many variation of ads out there for every niche, if you have so many Return Visitors, then after some time, then each person would have seen every single ad, so they have no interest in seeing your ads, and that person doesn't help your situation. The more return visitors you have in your forum, they lower the CTR, no matter how well you place your ads. Now I'm not saying that only forums are affected, there are many sites out there that have the same problem, they keep bringing back the same people day after day, and it ends up that 65% of their traffic is return visitors.

Solution

This may not be helping your situation totally, but you should be seeing some results. As many of you should know, there are millions of advertisers out there on the web, and they all are not attracted to the same adsense alternate you use. What you have to do is sign up with 2 more adsense alternate sites. You should have three at least, now spread these three or more different types of ads around your forum or site, so now there should be a larger variation in ads. This will increase your CTR if done correctly.

Don't get banned by Google!

2007-04-22T21:06:00.000-05:00

It's a simple question... Are you asking Google to penalize your website?

I'm sure you're probably thinking; Well, of course not! Yet daily I see new people complaining in search engine optimization forums that their websites have been banned by Google and they "have no idea why".

These people claim they've done nothing wrong and are absolutely clueless as to why their site is no longer in Google. The purpose of this lesson is to teach you one VERY important thing.

What NOT to do when optimizing your website, to make sure you don't get banned.

How do you know if you've been banned?

First let me show you how to see if you're clearly banned by Google. Often times people think they've been banned, when in reality they've just dropped in ranking and can't find their website.

There are a couple of things you can do.

1. Check Google's search results.
2. View the Google toolbar.

Check Google's search results?

Go to Google and enter your entire URL into Google's search box. In this example we'll use a made up domain name. (www.jkhljkhkjh.com). On a side note, I tried www.somerandomdomain.com and www.fakedomainname.com and both were already taken.

Anyway, we'll go to Google and enter our entire URL and click "search"
http://www.jkhljkhkjh.com

Notice that Google says there is no information available for this URL? This means that the URL is no longer in Google's database (a.k.a. index)

If you enter a brand new website into Google, you'll always get this message until the website has been indexed. But, in this case, the website we entered has been banned by Google for some reason is either banned or is brand new. If we know our website was once in Google and do the search I just showed you above, and Google says "Sorry, no information is available for URL [whatever your URL is]", then chances are... you're banned.

Another way you can quickly see if your website has been banned is by:

Viewing the Google Tool Bar

Download the Google Toolbar here: http://toolbar.google.com

Once it's installed, simply visit your website. If the Google toolbar is completely gray, this may meen that you have been banned by Google.

Banned:

* Note: Most SEOs call this "gray barred". (So if you hear that term in an SEO forum, that's what they're referring to)

Not Banned:

Ok, so now we know how to tell if our website has been banned.

What can cause your website to get banned?

There are many onpage ranking factors AND offpage ranking factors that can cause Google to ban your website. Today, we'll focus on only the onpage things that can cause your site to get banned.

Before I begin, I want you to know that many websites still get away with doing some of these things. They DO NOT help your rankings and are simply a waste of time, so don't try them. Sooner or later Google will catch up to these websites and will remove them.

It's just not worth the risk when doing them no longer helps your ranking to begin with.

Hidden Text

Hidden Text is simply text that users can't see when they visit your webpage. Some webmasters will do this so that they can add keywords throughout their webpage without it interferring with what the visitors actually see. Yet, the search engines can still see hidden text.

For example, let's say you have a white background on your website. If you wanted to hide text, you would simply make the color of your text white (#FFFFFF) and users couldn't see it.

I did a quick search in Google and quickly found an example of a website using hidden
text. Have a look below:

At first glance, you're probably wondering where the hidden text is...

Let me show you. I went to the website and clicked "ctrl + a" on my keyboard. This will highlight the entire webpage as shown below:

Now we can clearly see the hidden text at the very top left side of their website that says "fat loss body fat abs weight loss diets bodybuilding dieting tips abdominals"

These are keywords that they want to rank well for and want the search engines to see when they first visit their website. Yet, they don't want their visitors to see this text. So, they've made the text white, to blend in with the background.

This website used to be ranked #1 for "fat loss", but I just did another check to see where they're ranked, and they're no longer anywhere to be found... AND it looks like they also removed they're hidden text, but it's probably too late.

Alt image tag spamming

This is another way that people will try to cram keywords into their website, allowing search engines to see their keywords, but not allowing visitors to notice any difference in their website.

The following is a website that wanted to rank well for "cabbage soup diet". What they've done is inserted a graphic of a cabbage. They've then added an alt image tag to the graphic. When a visitors visits the website, and hovers their mouse over the cabbage soup graphic, a little popup will appear.

Notice how many times they've repeated the word "cabbage soup" and "cabbage"? Way too many! It serves no purpose other than to cram as many keywords as possible into their webpage.

The real purpose of an alt image tag is if a user visits your website and the graphic will not load, or is disabled by their web browser, text will appear instead of the graphic. This is often used for blind people.

Alt image spamming is something you want to stay clear of. Using alt image tags are good, but you can overdo it, as you can see above. A good alt image tag in this case would simply be: cabbage soup diet graphic

Meta Tag Surfing

What I'm referring to here is when people throw in thousands of the same exact keyword into their meta tags.

For example, the following website is trying to rank well for the keyword "tents".

< name="KEYWORDS" content="tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies, tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents">

This is obviously ridiculous. Google, and other search engines no longer use Meta Tags to rank websites.

Google WILL penalize it, and it WILL NOT help you... so, why would anyone do something like this?

Stay away from it.

Title Tag Surfing

The title is what appears in the top left hand corner of your webpage. Below is an example of Title Tag Stuffing.

Don't do it... You only need to include your keyword(s) one time in your title tag.

Anymore than 1 time will only dilute the effect, and if you overdo it as shown above, you may get severely penalized and drop in the rankings.

Those are just a few of the things that people are continuing to do online. These things WILL eventually get your website banned or penalized and WILL NOT help you rank well. It's just a waste of time and effort, plus it's just plain ignorant to waste your time on something that doesn't work and will get your website banned from the search engines anyway.

Resource: seoelite

been banned?

Magic with StumbleUpon

2007-04-22T18:59:00.000-05:00

Stumble Upon

You probably heard about it, but if you didn't, well then prepare to fill your afternoon up now. What you must first do is download its tool on your toolbar. You will have icons that will say "Stumble"; "Thumbs Up"; "Thumbs Down". Once you have registered and selected the categories that your interested in, you can click the "Stumble" icon. Now what you will see is a site appear, this site has been registered on stumbleupon, and this is how your site will be found by the visitors. Every time you click that icon, another site in the same category will appear. If you have unique content and interesting site, then you should be bringing in at least 200 unique visitors per day for about 3 days, after that the traffic will dry up unless many people voted "Thumbs Up" on your site. Now, your probably wondering why it only lasts for 3 days or so, well new sites are put into the rotation more frequently, once they have rotated for about 3 days they become like any other site. Now, the only way for you keep this type of traffic constant is if you get daily " Thumbs Up's" for your site. Which means the visitor was happy with what the saw regarding your website. If you can recieve around 25 "Thumbs Up" for your site, then you should still be seeing a good traffic count daily, though not as near as the starter 200. I know a person who recieves 2000 unique visitors per day from Stumbleupon, imagine if you could generate the same amount.

How to get people to stumble your site

When someone says " Stumble my site", it means to visit their site, and click on the "Thumbs Up" icon on your toolbar. So, you need ways to get people to stumble your site. Well the honest way, is for visitors to do that themselves without anyone asking them. But again, if your going to try it that method, not much traffic will appear. What you need is a site or forum, that acts as an exchange of stumbling. By that I mean, lets say you stumble someone's site, that person has to stumble your site. These work perfectly, and will help in increasing your traffic through stumbleupon.

Sites for exchange stumbles

My number one recommondation is forums.digitalpoint, this part of the forum is filled with topics on members stumbling each other. Your 2nd option is stumblexchange, you can register here and you will also be able to exchange stumbles.

Traffic Tip # 14

2007-04-22T18:45:00.000-05:00

Offer Something Free

Everyone loves free stuff. It's a great way to get your visitor's attention. One thing to keep in mind is that whatever your offering has a good value and ties in well with your visitor's interests.

It would not make sense to offer an e-book on improving typing skills on a site that instructs people on buying a car. People who visit that site are there because they need instructions on buying a car. A better offer to this type of audience would be a free e-book on what they should look for when buying a car.

Free Offer Ideas

Below are some items you can give away for free on your website:

Free Reports
Free ebooks
Free samples
Free trial downloads of your products
Buy one get one free offer

I would suggest to visit sitesell for good information on how a person sells his premier products by offering freebies.

Free Article Submitter!

2007-04-21T10:51:00.000-05:00

I cannot believe that I have finally found one that is FREE. Right at this moment it is registering my account information onto over 400 article directories!Not only that, but I don't even have to press the submit button on each site, its doing that itself! As soon as your done getting it all registered, you just pop in your article once, and it sends it to over without you doing a 400 article directories without you doing a single thing! All these directories have a PageRank of 3 or over.
You can find the link to download it, right here : Article Submitter

UPDATE: I've made a mistake, this article submitter is not free. They offer a free trial on submitting your article to 50 directories, after that you have to register the program to use it without limitations. The cost is $47, I am seriously looking into buying it because it was able to register me into article directories at a rate of 6x faster then a human, and was able to submit my articles at a rate of 4x faster of a human being. It's definitely worth the price, and listed as the most trusted one.

Traffic Tip # 13

2007-04-20T19:38:00.000-05:00

Hold a Contest

A contest can be a lot of work to manage, but the resulting traffic rewards may be worth it. Many webmasters hold several contests per year simply to draw in the repeat traffic from those looking to re-enter.

The great thing about contests is that you will be able to collect the email addresses of anyone that enters. This will provide you with multiple opportunities to communicate with your participants.

You can even send them an email thanking them for entering, and then when the contest is over, you can send them another email reporting the winner. Off-course these are great opportunities to promote your site.

You may want to create a separate mailing list for the participants so that you can contact them to announce future contests and promotions.

Don't be Cheap

Whatever you do, make sure that the prize has some kind of a value to your visitors. Don't insult them by offering something low in quality or products that can easily be obtained for free on their own.

Lets say if your website is related to webmasters, then a good prize would be a month free advertising on your homepage.

Make it easy

Don't draw up any complicated rules for your visitors, all they should know is the prize and submit their email address, name and web address.

Traffic Tip # 12

2007-04-19T20:40:00.000-05:00

Advertise in Pay Per Click Search Engines

There are many people that dislike that idea of paying for traffic, but in this world were getting in the top 10 search engine rankings is getting harder and harder to come by, PCC is really something you should consider.

Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the two most popular PPC programs, and also have the greatest traffic generation potential.

The nice things about PCC advertising is that you only have to pay for traffic that you receive. Now if you have a good idea on your CPC and CTR, then you should be able to decide if PCC is useful for you. Most likely with this additional traffic through PCC, the CPC and CTR will stay constant, which can help you understand if there is profit in here or not. Lets say that your CTR is 10% and CPC is 10 cents. So lets say that you paid for 1k visitors via PCC, and you are paying 5 cents a click. Well with a CTR of 10%, then around 100 visitors would click on the ad, with a CPC of 10 cents, that means you make a total of $10. But how much did you pay for the 1k visitors, well lets take the 1k visitors and multiply it by 5 cents, that gives us $50. We can now easily see from here that this isn't worth it. You must be able to tell from your own statistics if its worth it or not, lots of the times it is.

Back on topic now..

Even though many popular keywords are very expensive, you can still discover "lesser searched" terms that are much cheaper.Yes, you won't get as much traffic as you would with a popular keyword, but remember that you would pay alot less. Plus, if you can find hundreds of cheaper keywords phrases to bid on, then sooner or later the traffic with add up.

Both Google and Yahoo provide great reporting tools so you can analyze which keywords are converting best for you. This is really important because you do not want to be wasting money on terms that will don't result in clicks,sales, email subscriptions and so on.

The best way to begin with PCC advertising is to start out small. Set up an affordable monthly budget, and then test several different types of keyword phrases to see which ones work best for you.

Crazy amount of directories!

2007-04-18T18:40:00.000-05:00

Found a page were it lists over 6800 directories, I don't know about you, but that's ALOT. No doubt if you spent the next 200 hours on submitting to all of them you should see a good %15-%20 increase in traffic. Anyway, check it out echoarcade.

Would post them here but it would take 3 or 4 pages of the blog.

Great for proxy owners!

2007-04-18T18:24:00.000-05:00

Back again, after searching through forums and forums finally hit something that's worth the stay. This is only for proxy site owners, this will really help you.

The site is : Freeproxysubmit

This is a free tool that automatically submits your proxy site to 120 proxy top sites almost instantly. That's 120 backlinks with anchor text of your choice! All you have to do is:

1. Fill out the form.

2. Wait a minute or two for the submissions to process.

3. Copy & paste the generated code onto your website!

Like I said, an instant 120 backlinks, this will definitely boast your position on the search engines, PR and increase in traffic!

Making money/traffic with video blog.

2007-04-17T15:31:00.000-05:00

An Introduction to Video Websites
There’s a lot of them about, a lot. Apart from the old-timers like ebaumsworld, Google’s acquisition of YouTube has really seen them starting to eat up this market. The great thing is, that doesn’t matter, videos are a disposal media - people look at them once, show their mates and then it’s old news. You’re only as good as your last video! What we’re going to look at doing here is setting up a video website with minimal cost & time and maximising our profit.

Now, I’m not claiming this will make you a millionaire, but you can earn around £500 ($1000 to our American friends) per month without too much trouble. So it’s well worth it for the day or two it will take to set up!

Step #1: Monetization Strategy

Okay, for this site we are going to make our bucks from a couple of different sources. Our main income will be made from Google Adsense. If you haven’t got yourself a Google Adsense Publisher account, click the big button below and sign up. Adsense will display contextual adverts which you can neatly blend in with the design of your website, to make them non-intrusive, yet a natural click away. For this website we are aiming at generating a 25% click-through rate while staying well inside the Adsense Terms Of Service.

An important note: I’m going to give you some tips on optimising your Adsense placement and layout later, if you want to take the optimisation further, you may be pushing the limit on what Google does and doesn’t allow. The Adsense team can be merciless at times if they think you are breaking their ToS, which can be quite “grey” at times. So, stick to the guidelines and you’ll be fine, cross the line at your own risk!

So, if you haven’t already,
Get targeted ads on your site with Google AdSense

Step #2: Setting up the website with Wordpress
Yay for Wordpress and its many uses! Wordpress gives you an off the shelf platform for out video blog (vlog). It allows comments, pings, trackbacks, easy archiving, it’s SEO friendly and has loads of plugins. For this kind of mission, it’s definitely the number one choice.

There are two ways you can go about getting Wordpress up and running:

1) You can go to wordpress.com and sign up for a wordpress account, they will provide you with a hosted blog such as myvideoblog.wordpress.com

2) You can go wordpress.org and download Wordpress and install it on your server. This is really the preferred option as it will give you the power to use some neat features in the future, which will smooth out the money making process! If you haven’t got web hosting, I use Site5 (aff link) and they’ve always been good to me and are fairly priced.

Once you’ve uploaded Wordpress to your server, follow the installation guide (it’s pretty simple) to get your Wordpress installation and database up and running.

Step #3: Choosing a domain name
Probably the hardest part of building any website is finding a domain name! Don’t worry too much about getting keywords in there, organic SEO isn’t how we’ll be doing the bulk of our promotion, try and focus on getting something short, snappy and memorable. (That means no hyphens!). If you can get something with a keyword or two (funny, video, comedy, humour - reach for your thesaurus) all the better, but as I say - don’t sacrifice the name for it. Once that’s sorted, point it at your server so it will have resolved by the time you’re ready to launch.

Step #4: Plugins Galore
There are some great plugins for Wordpress that will save you a hell of a lot of time and coding. I’ve experimented with quite a few and whittled the list down to some essentials.

Viper’s Video Quicktags - This plugin will save you having to rip out all the embed code from videos on major sites like YouTube, all you need to do is paste in the video ID and this plugin will do all the rest of the code & alignment for you. It’s essential to make adding videos as quick as possible.

WP-Email - This plugin adds an “E-mail This To A Friend” option at the bottom of every post (which will be your videos). I’ve been using these for a while and although you don’t get loads of people use them, personally recommendation is the best kind of marketing your website could hope for.

WP-PostRatings - This will add the “rate this video” 0-5 stars function at the bottom of each post. It’s a nice add on to get people to try and interact with your site if the can’t be bothered to post comments. Interaction is good - it’s the first step in relation building with your visitors and ultimately trying to get them to come back.

Sociable - Adds a mini-bar of just about every popular social bookmarking site worth mentioning at the bottom of each post. Digg, Reddit, Bloglines, they’re all there. Optimisation Tip: From experimenting, I found it is best not just to select all the social sites going, choose a maximum of 5 major ones, then rotate to see what is most successful. Having a line of 20 social bookmarking icons looks a bit confusing and seems to ultimately put people off using them.

StumbleUpon It! - StumbleUpon is a really great way to promote sites with entertainment and disposable content. This plugin gives you a “stumble it” button at the bottom of each post, which will play a part in our future marketing strategy.

Did You Pass Math? - Did you? This is just a basic anti-spam measure that puts one of those sums before you’re allowed to comment. Spam is a major problem, so I’d recommend this one, just to save you some time.

Akismet - This should be present in your default Wordpress installation, you require a Wordpress API key - but this little gem has stopped more spam than anything else I’ve ever tried.

Step #5: Get Feedburnt
Okay, with further promotion in mind it’s time to sign up to Feedburner. RSS is going to be one of the main ways we keep in touch with our readers, letting them know we’ve put more videos on our site and Feedburner offers a load of other ways to let people subscribe to your content.

Step #6: Theme Design
There are loads of great Wordpress themes at themes.wordpress.net. Have a good look through them until you find something you like. I would generally recommend going for something fairly simplistic and neat with an either 2 or 3 column design. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, you could always design your own!

Once you’ve got your theme and uploaded it, I’d suggest tweaking some of the graphics to make it your own. Get your branding up there, design a logo and base your site around the domain name. This is why we wanted something easy to remember and relevant earlier, it’s no good calling your site “Video Hustler” then having www.my-funny-internet-videos.cc and hoping people will remember it.

Some Wordpress essentials
There are a couple of other tweaks you can do in Wordpress to make your job easier.

1) Add a few categories, I used “Funny Videos”, “Extreme Videos” and “Sexy Videos” just so I could tag my content as I add it.

2) Use custom permalinks! This will make your URLs easier to remember and will help various bots crawl your site. To do this go to the “Options” menu, then “Permalinks” and at the bottom check the “custom” radio button and put /%postname%/ in the field.

3) Change page titles.

What we want to do is to swap the position of “Post Title” with “Blog Name”. This is because:

* Search engines uses your Page Title as the linking text in its search engine results page (SERP).
* The search keywords are bolded for page titles in search engines
* It makes it easier for search engine users to know right away if what they are looking for is correct

Now, this will involve some editing to your template files, which is normally called “header.php”. Find this:

and replace with:

And you’re done!

I’m not going to tell you how to design your layout pixel by pixel, because one of the keys with maximising your profit is experimentation. Here are some guidelines:

Adsense Placement & Optimisation
This is how you’re going to make your money, so it’s pretty important! On your main index page you want to have an Adsense content unit at the very top, below your site header, but above the first video. This for me, is by far the highest click though, achieving around 30-40%, with the right keywords later on we can marry these adverts up with your content beautifully.

In your Adsense control console, under Adsense for content, go into your “Ad Units”. These will get you paid after 1 click, whereas link units require a click to bring you to a results page, then a click on the results to get paid. So select link unit and leave “text only” (default) selected. There is 468×60 pixel size which fits perfectly above your standard Google or YouTube Video.

You second biggest earner will be the ad unit which will create a gap between the first video and the rest of the videos on the site. Your first video will obviously be visible above the scroll, but being an average 10-30 second long funny clip, people will never be able to resist at least looking at the other videos on your front page. You must exploit this human curiosity! The 336×280px “large rectangle” unit fits the bill perfectly. Again it will fit in nicely below your video and will give a nice chunk of adverts. This ad unit must only be displayed below the first video as there are limits on the amount of ad units you are allowed on 1 page. You will however, want this ad unit again on the “single post” page. So, if somebody links directly to one of your videos, you still have max Adsense coverage.

I would recommend showing the first 5 videos on the first page. Having less, will reduce the chances of people looking at anything but the first video on your site and will effectively reduce the page size - minimising advert space. Having a lots of videos will distract people from using other parts of your site navigation (well, by this I mean will keep people too amused to click on your ads!). It’s a fine line between wetting their appetite but then keeping them hungry for more.

It’s also worth having a vertical unit (skyscraper) near your navigation. You want both of these units clearly visible without scrolling down, so you’ve got the top of the page and the central part covered in lovely adverts, which is where people’s mousey clicks tend to go!

It is important to blend your Adsense into your site and there are two schools of thought on this. The default “blue” hyperlinks on websites will get the most clicks, always. This colour has been drilled into our head since the dawn of the www and your brain just says “click”, so if any of your other links on your site use this colour, you will need to use this colour for your Adsense titles. I however, think this colour is ugly, so I refrained from using it anywhere on my site at all. If you follow this approach as well, then you simply want to make your Adsense units the same colour as your standard hyperlinks. If you’re using Firefox there is a great Colour Picker addon, which gives you the hex code for any colour, live on a web page. Since you’re allowed a link unit on the page as well, I tend to put one of these in the footer, just because it looks okay and it does earn a few pennies every now and again.

Beating Adsense Smart Pricing
“Smart Pricing” is Google’s way of trying to keep its advertisers happy by lowering the cost of junk traffic. Unfortunately, they do this at your expense. Having poor advertisers on your site, will lead to you users clicking the adverts, then leaving the horrible site they land on almost instantly. When people do this, Google will think you’re sending out junky traffic, when actually it’s the advertiser’s site that is at fault. This will lead to the money you get per click, going down.

Fortunately, Google offer a “competitive ad filter”, which allows you to block certain advertisers from showing ads on your site. Login to your Google Adsense account and go to “Adsense Setup” and you’ll see a “Competitive Ad Filter” tab. Click this and you’ll be given a box of URLs to block.

Copy & paste this list into your competitive ad filter and this should help you keep a strong amount per click.

Google Coop
Google Coop is a custom search engine (CSE) which basically allows you to click a few buttons and make a custom search engine. The great thing is, you can tie this in with your current Adsense account and it will pay out when somebody clicks on a sponsored result from your custom search engine. So, rather than leave in the standard Wordpress search, you might as well make some money from it!

Find the bit of code in your theme that shows the default Wordpress search box and comment it out. Create a Google Coop account and you will be presented with if you would like your search engine to search the entire web, with preference to selected sites, or simply search specific sites. Choose the option to select specific sites and just add your own URL. Don’t forget to enter your Adsense Publisher ID!. Google will then generate a chunk of code for you, which you can paste in place of your current Wordpress search. Voila! Monetized search! My search box generates around an extra 30% of my site revenue.

Get Feedburner on there
Login to your Feedburner account and get it to give you the code for an e-mail subscribe box. I’ve found I get more e-mail subscribers than RSS readers. I believe this is because RSS is really only embraced by the more “web savvy” user and they will be fully capable of finding videos on Digg, YouTube, Google and are more likely to be aware of the bigger sites. So for your regular Joe Blogs (heh), e-mail a nice, easy to understand way to get them to sign up to updates. If you can squeeze your Feedburner RSS subscribe button in above the scroll, all the better - but I have found people that want an RSS feed will find it.

Feedburner also offer “chicklets” which is a little button that shows the world how many subscribed readers you have. Generally, I’d advise not to install this until you have 100 or so readers, there’s no point showing people how unpopular your site is to begin with! Leave it for bragging rights later. It is quite possible to achieve 500-1000 readers within 6-12 months.

Here’s one I made earlier:

In Green: Our main above the scroll adsense
In Yellow: CPM advertising (we’ll talk about this later, but save some banner space!)
In Red: Our monetized Google Coop box
In Brown: The feedburner subscribe bits

That’s most of the design info covered.

Step #7: Sourcing and adding video content to your website

Okay, so how do we go about getting videos onto your site? Well there’s a quick and profitable way and a longer but more profitable away.

The quick and profitable way
I don’t recommend this method to begin with, even though it’s quicker, this is only something you should be doing after your site is established, or if you are very short on time.

Go to digg.com/videos and see what other people find funny. Follow the link through to the video site, grab the video ID and pop it in a post.

When you are post a video, make sure every 2-3 videos you have the words “funny” and/or “video” in the post title. Wordpress uses header tags for these titles and it will help make your Adsense adverts more relevant. Below the video, type a couple of lines explaining the video (without giving too much away!). Be as funny/sarcastic as you like, but keep it short and interesting - and write your own descriptions!

The longer but more profitable way
Okay, this takes a bit more work, but will really, really help you promote your site. One neat thing about Google Video is that they allow you to download the videos. So, go have a search around Google Video and download 20-30 videos that you think are funny. Download them in “PSP” format which will give you a .mp4 format file.

If you have some decent video editing software that can handle mp4 files you can skip this step:

If you’re stuck using Windows Movie Editor you’ll have to convert the file before you can edit it. Now, if you can find a free program, let me know. I’ve been using Riverpast Video Cleaner, which will convert the mp4 files to avi without any real quality loss. It’s $30 but it will be your only expense in this operation. Riverpast will be able to convert all your videos in batch, so go make yourself a cuppa.

Once you’ve got your video in .avi format, create yourself a bitmap image with your site logo and site URL on it. Use your video editing software to show your logo for 5 seconds at the beginning and end of your video, so it’s all branded to you now!

Get your branded videos out there!
Once you’ve got branded videos, you’re really onto a winner. I pull in around 500-800 visitors per day from YouTube alone. Google have a batch video uploader, so your first port of all is to re-upload your newly edited videos onto Google Video.

Once they are uploaded you can add the video information. Generally in the title I again try and get the words “funny video”, “extreme video” or similar in. These help pick up a bunch of generic searches. I’ve found the description doesn’t make a huge difference to whether the video is viewed, as long as the title is good. If you’re uploading to Google, using the batch uploader there is a separate field to link to your website, which becomes an active link, so you may as well type a description. Keep it short and snappy to try and get as many views as possible. For tags, I use a set of standard: funny, video, humour, humor, comedy, laugh, lol, cool, extreme, stupid, insane, accident - then add a couple of video specific keywords on the end.

Repeat this process with YouTube. The only difference with YouTube is that there is no separate field for your own site URL. If you just pop your URL into the description, this will automatically become a clickable link. YouTube is a bit more of a pain because you can only upload 1 video at a time, but you can always do other stuff at the same time! The sheer amount of traffic that YouTube gets makes it worthwhile doing this.

Once you have a “base” of around 30 videos, you don’t need to keep finding new ones. You just create a new YouTube account under a hotmail address every week or so, since you’re a new user and uploading new content, your videos will more often or not appear on the front page briefly which will get you spurts of traffic.

Using your imagination, there are loads of places that accept video uploads that you can use. MySpace anyone? MySpace Video is taking off big-time at the moment, so if you have access to some large MySpace accounts, this can be a great way to get traffic. One other technique is taking a screenshot of your video at 00:00 then posting this picture on a MySpace profile or bulletin, so it looks like an embedded video, but will take people through to your site with the video on. Hey, that’s pretty scrappy - but it works. Make sure you use the border=”0″ attribute on such images so you don’t get a blue border around them!

Step #8: Kick Starting Promotion
Following this recipe so far, you’ll probably make $5-$10 per day. If you want to get up to the $40 per day mark to make your $1,000 a month, you’ll need to give your site a kick up the backside. Here’s how:

Go to www.stumbleupon.com and register yourself with an account and install their browser toolbar.

Once you’re all ready to rock with StumbleUpon, make your way over to www.stumblexchange.com. Stumblexchange is a system where you sign up, stumble a whole list of other people’s sites, then in return they stumble you back. StumbleUpon is fairly simple - the more stumbles your site gets, the more traffic they send you. StumbleUpon has a ton of users and this step will get you 200 more uniques a day for months to come. So login, register your account details and stumble everyone’s site. (If your so inclined, you could script this). Well done, you just added another $200 a month onto your earnings! There’s also a diggxchange and deliciousxchange in this network, however I haven’t experimented with them to comment on this.

Get some links
Everybody loves links, especially Google. There’s a massive list at RSSTop55 of directories and blog aggregators. I would start with these:

Next Steps
Now you’ve got some readers and some regular traffic, you can sign up for a CPA advertiser. Burst Media is quite easy to get into and has a large inventory. Having CPA ads will earn you money for page views, without clicks and makes for an excellent secondary income.

Above all, experiment, experiment, experiment! Let me know how you get on! for allowing me to use your article

Many thanks to digeratimarketing for allowing us to use his article.

Traffic Tip #11

2007-04-16T19:59:00.000-05:00

Contribute to Other People's Newletters

If you have a website, then surely you have subscribed yourself to at least one that relates to your site's niche. If you haven't, then you newsletterdefinitely should. You can get many great ideas from other webmasters and gain lots of tips and tricks.

Lets say you have a website related to skin care, you can are providing tips to people on how they can cleanse and maintain their skin. One day you discover a home remedy that helps minimize wrinkles. You could write an article about this and contact other webmasters that have websites on skin care. Ask them if they could feature your article in their newsletter.

Make sure that the owner of the newsletter publishes your website address with the article. If they archive the newsletters, then you could have a permanent link on their site. Just remember that the more links to your site, the better it is.

Now, search the net for websites related to your site's topic. See if the webmasters publish a newsletter. Subscribe to the ones that interest you the most and see what it has to offer. Last step is to ask the webmasters if they take contributions.

Traffic Tip # 10

2007-04-15T20:35:00.000-05:00

Publish reviews of products and services

This traffic method is not a common one, not many think of this one. But, it can really give you target visitors.

Go on to the site epinions, it a very well known site. Not only do people on there return often to post reviews for items they brought, but many of the consumers will use it as a guild before they make a purchase.

A smart way to get people coming to your site is to review products and services that relate to your website's theme.

Reviews are also a very good way on earning credibility and also building it. Lets say that you helped someone save money or refer someone to a product that solves their problem, will guess what, you just created a loyal visitor.

People that can see you as a credible source, are more likely to purchase products and services recommend from your site and are twice as likely to tell other about it.

You can also encourage participation from your website visitors by allowing them to post or comment on your reviews as well.

Traffic Tip # 9

2007-04-15T19:57:00.000-05:00

Creating a E-book

An E-book is a electronic version of a text document that can easily be downloaded from the internet or sent via email.

If you have any information that is helpful for the audience, then why shouldn't you put it in eBook form. You can either sell it for profit or offer it for free.

Make it into a traffic magnet

E-book are commonly only created to provide information to the reader. Your main goal is to include your website during the E-book, but not just include use it as a tool to help the reader. Your website should have a section devoted towards your E-book content, when your explaining something in your e-book, you may want to provide a external link to another site, include your link instead, so the reader can get to your site, and then click on the link. Maybe even offer a video on that section, for the people that need a better interpretation. Just use your brain and develop ways in which your able to drive your reader to your site constantly awhile they are reading through your e-book.
Make sure your E-book contain original material, and can grab the attetion on the reader. You want the reader to pass this E-book to others, so your website can get distributed between many of people.

Buying E-book Software

Cybershare is a great site which can help you develop your E-book.

Optimizing Your Articles!

2007-04-14T17:36:00.000-05:00

Many people are submitting articles to article directories, which is a great way to gain traffic. But none of them realize that there is a way to really optimize the results of writing an article.

The Mistake

When your submitting an article, do you paste your full article, I'm pretty sure that you do. There are two problems with this:

1) Provoking your reader to visit your site decreases
2) Google may read it as a supplement if you also posted the article on your blog/site also.

Explanations

1) When your reader finishes reading your article, and their satisfied, what would their normal behavior be, clicking on your web address or visit other articles to learn even more. It would be visiting other articles, but you don't want that to happen. So there is a way to solve this. When posting your article, only post the first half on the article directories and the full article on your site or blog. Get the idea? So what would happen now, if your article was well composed and your reader is interested, then they would gladly visit your blog or site to continue on their read. It's a great way to get all your happy readers to your site.

2) As many people do, they submit their articles to directories and also post them on their site/blog. Now what happens, well Google greatly dislikes copied information. They call it a supplement, and if your article on the article directories gets indexed by Google, then the page on your blog or site will not be indexed by Google if you submit your full article on to the directories and onto your site or blog. So, just submit half your article on the directories and the full article on your site or blog.

Making it effective

Let's say that your teaching your reader something or exposing something that can greatly benefit them. Well you have to know when to exploit it, so you can get your reader to your site. On the first half of your article that you will submit to the article directories, go over the points on what you can offer and how it can benefit the reader, keep teasing the reader on what they could find out from reading the article, get the drift? By this point your reader should be jumping off the walls waiting for you to finally tell them, so what do you do, just finish the article right there. Just add a little nice message saying that the full version of this article can be found at http://www.xxxx.com/ ( Your website).
;P Most likely they will click on your web address.

Traffic Tip # 8

2007-04-14T15:18:00.000-05:00

Create a Custom Screensaver

This is a great marketing tactic not used by many, imagine if thousand of people have your website address scrolling on their monitors.

What to do? Create a screen saver that displays pictures of something related to your niche, offer it as a free download on your site. To promote your site, add in a picture that displays the address of your website. So awhile the other screen saver images are rotating, or whatever you want them to do, every so often the users would see your website address of your website also.

How to make it work

It's very important that you create a screen saver that appeals to your users. No one wants to download a screen saver that has nothing interesting but your website address.You must add something that will interest your visitors.
Brainstorm and think of ways you can apply this kind of marketing to your own site

Luckily I can provide you with websites that can help you build a screen saver:

Traffic Tip # 7

2007-04-13T15:55:00.000-05:00

Often, people underestimate the power of message forums, as a webmaster, you can benefit greatly from them in two different ways:

1) Posting to forums in your niche.
2) Creating a fourm for your site.

Posting to Message Forums

To really be able to drive traffic to your site and make it interested for the reader is by you to become an expert in your field or topic. You gain credibility by offering advice and also finding solutions to problems people may have.

One of the great things about forums is that you can add a signature to your profile, so that everyime you post, a link of your website would appear.

What you have to do first is find a forum in your site's niche and become a regular member. Make sure to visit frequently and give good advice. Othertime you will build crediblilty and people will be more likely to visit your website, and take your advice.

One more great thing about posting message boards is that many of them are spidered by the search engines. The more posts you have on a forum, the more places your link will appear.

Finding Forums

The best way of finding a forum for your niche is just to simply use a search engine and type your keywords followed by the words "forums" or "message boards".

Create Your Own Message Forum

The benefits of having an active forum on a website provides many benefits to a webmaster:

Another venue to post ads
Build creditbility by posting helpful information
Creates more traffic because people will return to read and respond to posts
Many forums allow you to email your forum members, which can be used to your advantage for promation oppotunities with products.

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To wrap this up, never ever create a forum without first getting a good amount of traffic per day. Many people start one without enough visitors , and it just sits there. An empty forum makes your site look unpopular and inactive.

Traffic Tip #6

2007-04-13T15:16:00.000-05:00

Creating RSS Feeds

RSS stands for " really simple syndication", this is the new way to allow people to access your site's content using other channels.

For an example, lets say that everyday you like to log into USAToday.com and CNN.com to catch up on the latest health news. Well instead of visiting these sites individually , you can subscribe to these feeds with your RSS reader to recieve this content all at once through your reader.

As the owner of your site, your able to create your own content feeds, so that your visitors would be able to subscribe to them. Resulting in so everytime the person opens up their reader, your updated content will be listed.

To make it easier for everyone, I was able to retrieve a site that can create a reader for you : Reader.

Comments

2007-04-13T15:10:00.000-05:00

I'd appreciate if the readers of this blog could spend an extra minute on commenting some of the posts on here. This would give a good idea to myself on whether I'm helping other's and what the readers really want. So please, if you found something useful, then type up a nice comment regarding it.

Thanks again readers.

Example's of what updating content can do.

2007-04-12T15:28:00.000-05:00

April 11 I was finally able to get listed on Google Search, after 3 days of waiting. Here are my results in one day:

Two of these keywords had me listed TOP 7 from over 25 million searches, and one of them had me listed Number 9 out of 2 million searches. Click on the pictures to enlarge them. The great thing is that my blog has only been indexed with Google for 14 hours, and already I've hit top 10 on 3 keywords that aren't uncommon. You can do the same thing, I've put to work the pointers that I have written, and I had a quick results. Though the main reason why I got top 10 spots was because I update my content every SINGLE DAY. That's what everyone has to understand, Google loves it when you update your content, updating and adding in new information ever 5 hours will always keep your rank boasting. Not only that, but make sure that the content is original, otherwise you'll still be against the rivals that you've copied information from.
My goal right now stands at getting Number One spot in those three keywords.

Great tools just pop up everything!

2007-04-11T19:55:00.000-05:00

This cannot get any better. I couldn't believe that I actually was able to find a site with this type of detail. It provides how many back links are linked to your choice of site, and what are those sites that listed the back link. Not only that, but it also lists the PR of those sites also. It's just a great tool for anyone, especially if your buying yourself a placement in a high PR site, or need to find a site to place yourself on. Just type in a site that is related to your niche that is #1, look at the sites that it is back linked to and click on those sites. Usually those sites have a PR of 6 and 7, which is great, but not all the time are those sites related to the niche originally chosen, so you have to do some clicking back and forth. But then again, if you want to find out how many back links you have, just enter your URL and magic.
Oops, almost forgot to include the site :P ; Back link

Checking on the PR.

2007-04-11T19:23:00.000-05:00

As many are aware and have read from my posts, backlinks is 95% of what effects your placing on search engines. Most of you should be aware from my previous post that buying yourself a placement on a high PR site is a very good way to build huge traffic fast. Almost any site you contact will have a standard price for what they'll ask you for listing your link on their site. The problems occurs that sometimes you have no idea what their page rank is. Now, they might tell you their page rank, but that doesn't mean their being honest. So, after digging and digging, I came upon this page : Digpagerank
It doesn't get better this this, you just type in the web page at the bottom and it provides you with the page rank of that page. Defintley something that you should bookmark.

Traffic Tip#5

2007-04-11T15:53:00.000-05:00

Plublishing blogs is always very useful for promoting your main site. Blogs are not only free and easy to create, but they can be awesome traffic generating tools if you use and promote them properly.

If you haven't learned by now, the key to building free search engine traffic is to get as many related, high-quality sites to point back to yours. As I mentioned, search engines like Google take that as a big consideration when ranking your website.

Your blog can act as a "related website" to point to your own, and in the long run it will begin to attract its own traffic and build visits to your main site.

Buying Traffic

2007-04-11T05:15:00.000-05:00

Awhile lurking through the forums today, I stopped upon a post where someone brought two backlink placements for his site on a PR3 and PR4 site. He provided us graphs and charts and showed us that in 10 days his income from Adsense tripled!. Went from $5 per day to $15 per day. His graphs also showed us that his traffic tripled. Putting my mind to work, and searching over the internet, I realized how effect this would be, even if I need to pay, as long as I make more then I spend, it's all good. I stumbled upon this site Text-Link Broker. and also Textlinkbrokers.
Both sites appear high on the search engine seach for buying links, and they are both trusted. Wouldn't hurt for you to take a look, and see if anything interests you. Again, the positives of getting your link on a high PR site is:

Boost your Linkpopularity
Get higher search engine rankings
Boost Google-Page Rank
Increase your website-traffic

All four results above will increase your traffic, and if your one of those people with a daily amount of 20 unique visitors then you should give this a try, actually anyone should give this a try as it will work.

Seem's so...

2007-04-11T04:42:00.000-05:00

After digging and digging, I'm still left with the option of onetruemedia. I will most probably get a 3 month membership and try them out. I liked what they offered in the free version, and you can easily take your video when you've created on onetruemedia and send to youtube, Google video and so on. Probably by Friday I will be submitting my first video, I will then be tracking down my results. Expected traffic would be 300 Unique Visitors Daily for One week.

You also have as always, the option of created a powerpoint slideshow, and then just video taking it and then uploading it to the internet. Though if that's too much of a hassle, then I recommended using onetruemedia.

Got something for video making.

2007-04-10T18:40:00.000-05:00

Make an on-line slide show at onetruemedia.com

I was able to find this site. It's not that made pretty good put together. The only bummer is that lots of the great features require a subscription . Anyway, I'm still out there to find something else that we can work with.

Video sites you can submit your video's

2007-04-10T15:20:00.000-05:00

As I promised, I'm following up with a good amount of links to sites that accept video's. Remember the more websites that are hosting your video in which your adverstising your website with, the better the traffic.

1. Blinkx
2. Blip
3. Bolt
4. Dailymotion
5. Dave.tv
6. DropShots
7. Esnips
8. eVideoShare
9. Eyespot
10. GoFish
11. GrindTV
12. GUBA
13. IFilm
14. Jumpcut
15. LiveVideo
16. Motionbox
17. Myspace
18. Netscape
19. Photobucket
20. Putfile
21. Sharkle
22. Stickam
23. Veoh
24. Video.google
25. Video.yahoo
26. Video123
27. Vidilife
28. Vimeo
29. vMix
30. vSocial
31. YouTube
32. ZippyVideos
33. StupidVideos

Still trying to find tools on created a video easier. :)

Use video's for traffic.

2007-04-10T10:35:00.000-05:00

Awhile browsing through youtube.com and Google videos today I noticed how great it would be for marketing your site. Do you have any idea how many people visit these two video sites per day, your video will get distributed to the eye's of millions and millions. Now, that doesn't mean that they all would be interested in your niche, but still, there are a good plenty that are. How long should the video be you ask? It's best to keep the video between 3-4 minutes, you don't want for the viewer to get bored or not have enough information on your idea. With Google video, inside the video include before the start of the video the address to your site, and at the end of the video, include your website. And for the description mention your website twice. You've got a good guarantee of getting 300-500 unique visitors in a total of a week to your site if your video is created correctly only on google video. Same goes for youtube, stick the same video in and see the results.

There are a few things that you should pay attention to awhile created the video. If it is something related to making money, like lets say build traffic. Well we know very well that these video hosting sites are filled with teenagers. In your video mention how you can generate good sum of money by signing up with Adsense once you they have a website. Spend those 40 seconds of the video directing this message towards the teenagers, get them interested, every teenager wants to make big bucks, explain to them in your video that if they follow your steps and visit your website, they will find out more. So generally speaking, look at your website once again, can it attain the attention of a 15 year old, if it can then this method can really boast up your traffic.

Please stay tuned for the next post concerning this, links on how to create a good video will be posted.

Increase your site traffic by at least 100 Unique Visitors

2007-04-09T20:26:00.000-05:00

Don’t you just hate it when you’re browsing through the forums and you see people posting their unique visitors per day that’s over the 1k count and even their Adsense earnings for the day that averages $500 daily. And then when you look at your site, all you see is the daily 9 or 10 unique visitors per day and pennies in your Adsense earnings. Well forgot about ever being stuck in that position ever again. I will be taking you step by step on increasing your daily traffic to over 100 more unique visitors per day. This article is mostly targeted towards the audience with new sites and in deficient of traffic.

Now, you may be asking, how much time will this actually take you for you to be able to grow so rapidly in visitors. I’m ready to answer that, it will take you about 4-6 hours of work, as soon as you’ve dedicated those 4-6 hours; you’ll soon be seeing the results. How soon you ask? Don’t expect to see a huge turnover in the day or the day after. It will take between 15-20 days to see a result. I’ll explain why later on. Now if your site is registered with Google Adsense, and you’d like to see your revenue increase, well then get ready to see your daily amount increase by $5-$6 daily for the first month. Those dedicated 4-6 hours, will carry over for months and months and your traffic and earning will keep increasing. The great thing is, the more hours you put in, the greater the results will be.

Step One:

Now, before you start going and increasing your traffic or your Adsense earning you must have at least 3 pages of content on your site. The more the content the better this will be, but 3 pages full pages of content are a good way to start. Big suggestion is for the website to be based on something that you know very well, not a keyword that will earn you more money, but something that you’re interested in and have some experience in.

Step Two:

If you haven’t already, create a blog on your site or for your site. This will be very important. Now, get ready to put 6 hours aside, as this is were the full dedication of yourself must go. Open up Microsoft Word and began writing an Article on your website topic. Pick a specific question about it or something that can be eye-catching to the reader. It should only take you 40 minutes to write the 500 word article. Make sure the article is filled with rich content, and original. Don’t go on a site and copy and paste everything and think this will all work properly. Once you have written that article, you now have to send the article to sites that accept article submissions and are well known. Fortunately I have a list for you ready below:

1) Goarticles
2) Ezinearticles
3) Articlecity
4) Certificate
5) Amazines
6) Articledashboard
7) Article-directory
8) Submityourarticle
9) Magportal
10) Isnare
11) Pubs.acs.
12) A rticle-hangout
13) Webarticles
14) Articlecube
15) ArticleBiz
16) Article-buzz
17) Free-articles-zone
18) Newarticlesonline
19) Articletogo
20) Findarticles
21) Impactarticles
22) Articlealley
23) Directorygold
24) Dir.salon
25) Articlefever
26) Content-articles
27) Softwaremarketingresource
28) Niche-article-directory
29) Jogena
30) Collectors
31) Article-niche
32) Blogtelecast
33) Superpublisher
34) Articlecentral
35) Article-directory
36) Article-emporium
37) Ebooksnbytes
38) Ideamarketers
39) Internethomebusinessarticles
40) Site-reference
41) Stickysauce

These is 41 well known sites. Make sure to submit that article to every single one of them. Now, take that article you’ve written and paste it on your blog and your website. Make sure your blog contains a link to your website, and that your website contain a link for your blog. But, before you press that submit button, at the end of the article, add the url of your site. Wouldn’t hurt to refer to your site multiple times in your article. Now once you have that done, get ready for some more typing. You must write a total of 5 articles, I know this might sound tedious, but your efforts will follow for many months to come. Once you’ve completed the same steps for these 4 more articles as told for your first article, then you’re almost done.

Step Three:

This step becomes as effective depending on the popularity of your topic. Google in your website niche and then add the word “forum” at the end of the word. Now you should be able to see some forums related to your niche. One the first page of this Google page, join 5 of the forum sites. Spend the next 7 days dedicating a total amount of 30 minutes per day posting on all 5 of these forums. Make sure to run up a post count of at least 25 posts for each forum. Now inject your website in the signature, and hopefully you’ve developed a name of yourself in the forum already and make a topic concerning your website. But, never mention that it’s your own website, you don’t want them thinking your promoting anything. Act as a good buddy on the forums, as though you’re only wanted to help them. Now trust me, you should see the improvement within a day or so.

Guess What:

You’ve completed everything. These three simple steps will now greatly increase your unique visitors plus your Adsense revenue. I’m not into making people waste their time, but to actually show them a way, to get out of the newbie ditch quickly and legally. The reason why it will take around 2-3 weeks to see results is that many article submission sites require around a week for them to review your article and paste it on their site. So that is time you’re losing. I’ll explain how it works:

When a person reads through your ad, and is interested they will want to post this great content on their website, and they will be doing so with adding your site with the article to their website. Now the greatest way in increasing your rank standing with Google is to have as many backlines to your site as possible. The more sites that have a link on their websites, the higher you’ll appear on Google. Not only will that but people be able to get to your site through the kind people who posted your site and article on their website. With 41 sites multiplied by 5 articles, that’s 205 articles and 205 + links of your site floating on the internet. So each site article submission site already has 5 back links to your site, that’s a plus. Now, if you’ve written a quality article, then 90% of the people who fully read your article will click on your site url and get to your site. There you go another way you’re increasing your site. The only thing that you need now is that one person per 30 articles to include your article on their site with your site url. 205 divided by 30 equals Roughly 7 people with back links to your site. That’s pretty much only from the 10 days of the article being active, that number should keep improving. Now as long as the sites that have backlinked you are good quality sites with around 150 + unique visitors per day, you’ll be getting good traffic.

Conclusion:

If your reading this article today and will get started on this today, then you can get those articles written up by the time you’ll go to sleep. Another 30 minutes of submitting to article submission sites, and your on the roll. Awhile waiting for the articles to get reviewed, spend time on the forums, get your link out there once they get to know you well. I give you a guarantee that your unique visitors will hop by at least 100 in 30 days. That number will keep improving. The main key comes from writing those articles, the more you write, the greater the results.

List of the most popular article directories you can manually submit your website to.

2007-04-09T15:04:00.000-05:00

Here's a list of the most popular article directories you can manually submit your website to.

1) Goarticles
2) Ezinearticles
3) Articlecity
4) Certificate
5) Amazines
6) Articledashboard
7) Article-directory
8) Submityourarticle
9) Magportal
10) Isnare
11) Pubs.acs.
12) A rticle-hangout
13) Webarticles
14) Articlecube
15) Articles4content
16) Article-buzz
17) Free-articles-zone
18) Newarticlesonline
19) Articletogo
20) Articleworld
21) Impactarticles
22) Articlealley
23) Directorygold
24) Dir.salon
25) Articlefever
26) Content-articles
27) Softwaremarketingresource
28) Niche-article-directory
29) Jogena
30) Collectors
31) Article-niche
32) Blogtelecast
33) Superpublisher
34) Articlecentral
35) Article-directory
36) Article-emporium
37) Ebooksnbytes
38) Ideamarketers
39) Internethomebusinessarticles
40) Site-reference
41) Stickysauce

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"The Secret To Getting Listed In Google In Google in Under 48 hours"

2007-04-09T14:37:00.000-05:00

You may or may not have heard people claim they can get listed in Google in only 1-2 days. It seems that nearly 100% of the people you run across in forums act like in order to get indexed by Google within 48 hours it's some miracle feat that can only be accomplished by doing some "top secret" marketing tactic or advanced optimization strategy.

Well, the truth of the matter is...

Getting listed in Google in under 2 days is incredibly easy!

First let's talk about what NOT to do. This drives me absolutely crazy when I see people doing this, talking about this, or anything related to what I'm going to show you below. It's actually what I did at one time as well. After you read this lesson, DO NOT waste your time doing this. I repeat... DO NOT waste your time doing what I'm about to tell you.

The following URL may or may not look familiar to you:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html

This is Google's actual website submission form. They state that you can use this form to submit your website to their index of websites and it can take up to 6 weeks for your website to be placed into their index.

I don't know about you, but 6 weeks is a heck of a long time to just wait to be placed in their index rotation, let alone get a top ranking!

Never Use The Google Submission Form. NEVER.

You should never use this form, or any other of the top search engine's submission forms. These search engines include Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Alltheweb.

And, on top of that, you should stay miles away from any software program or service that states that they'll "submit your website to the search engines". Just take my word for it. Using software that submit your sites to the search engines is a 100% complete waste of time, effort, AND money. That, I can promise you.

So, how do you get your website indexed within 48 hours?

There are many methods, but for someone that has a new website and doesn't have tons of older websites already indexed by Google, there are 2 main ways I would suggest to get indexed into Google quickly. Note, when I say "Google", I'm basically referring to Google, Yahoo, and MSN... but you'll notice that I tend to say Google. This is because Google has such a large share of the search engine market.

Method #1

First thing's first, before I can teach you how to get indexed quickly, you need to know how search engines find websites. It's very simple.

The way that search engines find new websites is they'll visit 1 website that is already in their index (i.e. a website they already know exists), then from that site, they'll follow all of the links on that site, to visit the next site. Then they'll visit that website and visit all of the links on that page and so on... This is called "crawling". Search engines will "crawl" your website to find new information and place it into their index of search results.

Ok, so let's think about this for a minute... Let's say that you have a new website (www.MyCoolWebsite.com) and you just created it. It's not indexed by any of the search engines. Meaning, the search engines don't know this website exists yet.

So, how would the search engines find out about this site? Easy... They need to find your site by following links on websites that are already in their index. Make sense?

Alright... now, once we know this, all we need to do is find websites that are already indexed by the search engines and get them to link to us. That's all fine and dandy, but it can be a little tricky getting others to link to your site, if they have no incentive to do so...

No problem, that's why we'll use this method I'm about to teach you, to get TONS of websites to link to your site quickly.

Write an article and submit is to the many article directories that the
search engines already know about.

All you'll need to do is write 1 article based on the topic of your website. Because our website is called www.MyCoolWebsite.com, we'll write an article related to our website and call it, "10 steps to becoming the coolest guy on the block". At the bottom of our article, we'll include a link to our website (http://www.MyCoolWebsite.com)

Once we've done this, we'll visit many of the popular article directories on the web, and we'll simply submit our article to those directories. Once they've added our article AND link to their site, the search engines will visit their website, and then follow all the links on their site. 1 of those links will be a link to our site, and BAM! We're indexed by the search engines.

Method #2

Let's go back to our weight loss website from the previous lesson for now. First...

* Go to Google and enter the broadest keyword you can think of that's related to your website. In our example, it will be "weight loss". Once you've done this, you'll see a list of Google results.

* Browse through each website and pay particluar attention to the Google Page Rank of the website.

* So, as you're looking at these top ranked websites for the search term "weight loss", you should try to find websites with a Page Rank of 6 or higher.

* Once you've found several websites like this, you should search their website for their contact information.

* Once you find their contact information you should send them an email asking if they will link to your website in return for you linking back to their website. If you do this correctly and professionally, they will respond and will place a link on their website to yours.

Note: Obviously, in order to persuade someone to add your link to their website, you must give them a good reason to do this. So, always contact sites that are highly related to yours AND always think of a way that you can offer them something their visitors would benefit from if they add your link.

If you can manage to get 1 PR6 website to link to your website, you should be indexed by Google in under 3 days. If you can get 1 PR7 website to link to you, then, in most cases, you will be in Google's index in under 24 hours!

So, there you have it. 2 SIMPLE ways to get indexed by Google extremely fast. Now, when someone mentions in a forum, bragging about how they've gotten indexed by Google in under 48 hours... you can laugh to yourself and know that it's really not rocket science :-)

Source: SEOELITE

Traffic Tip #4 - Thanks 2createawebsite

2007-04-07T13:15:00.000-05:00

Link popularity is probably the most important criteria engines use for ranking your site. They would like to see how many different websites go back to you.

But it's not only the number of links as it was before, but mostly the quality of the links. SE don't care if you have 20,000 websites linking back to you if 19000 of them have nothing in common with your theme.

It's very important to seek out link partnerships with sites that are related to your website theme.

Check out : Partner Exchange ; to come in contact with people in your niche that are willing to exchange links. Exchange

Traffic Tip #3

2007-04-07T11:39:00.000-05:00

Getting your site into directory's and search engines are one of the best things that you can do for your website. Below I have taken from (Strongest Links) the most visited search engines, links below are the free search engines.

DMOZ

Chiff.com

SoMuch

Gimpsy

BusyBits Web Dir.

InfoListings Directory

Sphericom

Anthony Parsons

ExactSeek

SearchSight

AbiLogic

World Site Index

Web World

Add URL-Free

01Web Directory

IllumiRate

Add Your Site Free

AbiFind

MavicaNet

Able2know

Portal IT

Tygo

NetInsert

SiteInclusion

Klik Klik

CyborgInfo

Arakne Links

SeekZap

List My Niche

Yeandi

Network-Room Links

Clickey

TopSites

Find Good Sites

Re-Quest dot Net

Web Directory Page Index

GMDir

Websavvy

Internet-Web

Click4Choice

All Dot Net

Objects Directory

Link Lasso

LdmStudio

The SEO King

UU Directory

1 Link Directory

Free Website Directory

King of the Web

KingBloom

Dare Directory

Blue Daffodil

SearchWIZ

SearchWorth Dir.

WebSitesPromotionDirectory

Human Ranked Dir.

Nintra

Josh's Sanctum

Free Advertising Directory

Infowebworld

Go To Web Guide

WebiDirectory

WeboDirectory

Wamchu

Perfext.com

Aeoma

Directory Station

eSearchLogic

Maki Search

Established Websites Dir.

SmartLinks.org

Dr Mom

Directory Hound

OnLooks

BDC Concepts

Explode Search

Web Hot Link

Best Site Directory

Paranabis

One Best Link

InnerSeek

OneDir.Biz

KnowBe

The Internet Directory

Forgematrix Web Dir.

FourFind

JumpOn.Info

Webcat Directory

Seek-n-Pick Dir.

Electronic Directory Network

ZeroRed

Search-O-Rama

Itzalist

Abot Directory

BigAll

Speedy Directory

Primo Directory

All The Bizz

GoKoDo

Kazan City

Weblink Directory

HomepageSeek

Enjoy :)

Traffic Tip #2 - Thanks 2createawebsite

2007-04-06T16:34:00.000-05:00

It's best to consist your site with clean HTML. Flash, javascript and other fancey languages may look nice, but it just makes it harder for Google Spider to pick up words. Visit Validate to validate your HTML Code.

Frame

Search Engines cannot read content inside frames. So if you use them, your are harming your search engine rankings.

Use Keywords in Hyperlinks

When linking to pages within your site, be sure to use the keywords to describe the page, this will help a bit in ranking that page higher for that phrase. Instead of " Click Here ", it should be " Golf Swings ".

Traffic Tip #1

2007-04-06T16:26:00.000-05:00

There are three HTML tages that every page should have at the top of the page, right below the opening "head" tag and they are :

1) Title Tage
2) Meta Description Tag
3) Meta Keyword Tag

Many search engines pay attention to what is inside the header tages. The most important headline on your page should be inside the "h1" tag, the second most important under the "h2", and so on.

Adverstising your site

2007-04-06T16:13:00.000-05:00

When listing your site on search engines, firstly visit : Good Keywords . A free program that you can download which can help you select good key words for your site, so you would appear higher on the search engine list.

Number of pages increases results.

2007-04-06T15:59:00.000-05:00

When developing the website, best to include as many pages possible. Remembering to also type the adword as frequently as possible through out the pages so Google can pick it up. Google lists your sites higher if you have many pages, and constantly mention your topic (adword). With more pages, more ads can be added on to your site, which may result in several people clicking on multiple ads on your site. Always keep your site updated, Google doesn't like when site become outdated and become stagnant. Changing something every two or three days can really help your results.

Adwords

2007-04-06T15:47:00.000-05:00

It's always best to know which adwords are top paying adwords. Your commission on each click comes directly from how much the advertiser was willing to make each click cost. So, it's always base your site upon a keyword that is most paid. If you go to: Top Adwords; it offers a list of the highest paid adwords and the average cost paid. Look over the list and try to find any topic that you may have any experince in, and try to use it as your site's topic.

Introduction

2007-04-06T15:33:00.000-05:00

Making money of Google Adsense relies on the matter of being able to drive a steady flow of traffic to your site. How Adsense works is, adversiters need to advertise their websites, they use Google's Adword to do so. They pay Google for every visitor to their site, Google spreads the advertisers ads on websites signed up with Adsense that contain the same content. Everytime a person goes through the site and clicks on a Google Ad, you can paid a portion of what the adversiters paid per to Google. The problems that arise is that, you must get people onto your site and provoke them to click on the ads. I will be covering these matters and helping you get started on producing an income through Google Adsense.