Monday, August 29, 2011

Finding Hosting For Your Online Business

If you think you would like to begin making money online with affiliate marketing, ppc publishing, or product creation you will need to find a host. This is where your presence will be and what will decide how much traffic you can receive to your presence. Before finding a host you should decide on a topic for your new online business. The reason for this is you want to know the possible amount of traffic. If you decide to take on a popular niche with over a hundred thousand visitors monthly it would be best to use paid hosting to support the large amount of traffic. When trying to decide on a topic some things you should take into consideration include your passion for the topic and possible traffic. The reason passion is important is the majority of online businesses fail when the creators get bored. To avoid this happening to your online business make sure you choose a topic you have interest in and have had interest in for quite some time.

There are many types of hosting both free and paid on the web. If you are interested in free hosting then the three major types of hosting include regular hosting, blog hosting, and single page hosting. All of these will allow you to create a presence for free, give you a free domain name, and allow you to earn money for free. For regular hosting one of the most popular is 000webhost.com. This resource gives you 1.5 megs of storage and 100 gigs of bandwidth. To many this may not sound like a lot, but you can easily host a website with a few hundred pages and receive over thirty thousand monthly visitors while remaining within these limitations. A couple of the free blog hosts include blogger.com and wordpress.com. These resources will give you a free domain and hosting allowing you to make money free as well. For those wanting something smaller to perhaps test a niche or online business thought out you should check out hubpages.com or squidoo.com. These hosts are a bit different because they allow you to create unlimited single page presences.

When trying to decide on a hosting service to use one factor for the decision will be your knowledge of HTML and your want to learn the web language. If you do not want anything to do with HTML the blogging platforms and single page platforms have integrated what you see is what you get editors meaning you don’t need to know HTML to use these platforms. It is still a good idea to start learning HTML if you want to become a professional online business owner and if you are interested in learning the language visit w3schools.com for free tutorials. For those that are completely sure this is what they want to do you may want to go a step further and purchase a book from amazon.com. If you decided to use a regular host a couple other things you will need is an HTML editor and a ftp program. The editor I have used for years and recommend is the free coffee cup html editor which you can find by searching. For your file transfer needs one of the best is file zilla and can be found at filezilla-project.org.

Once you get your presence up and running if you are interested in monetization check out these paid surveys affiliate programs.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Meeting Organic Traffic Goals

Many people hope they will be able to earn money online free by ranking well in search engines which will bring targeted web traffic to their presence who are looking for the products or services the specific person is selling. To rank well in search engines for any given term you will need to learn search engine optimization. This is the process of using on site and off site techniques to improve search engine position. Before you can meet organic traffic goals you should create some organic traffic goals. When creating these goals the first should be the biggest. This will be your ending goal which means when you reach this goal all you need to do is maintain position rather than increase it. On a basic income scale one thousand unique visitors daily will earn you around one thousand dollars monthly. This is of course a very rough estimate and can change dramatically depending on how targeted the visitors coming to your presence are and what monetization techniques you are using.

Personally my end goal is around two thousand unique visitors daily which will bring in around two thousand dollars in monthly income. It is also important to set goals along the ways toward this final goal. Once you know your end goal which should correlate with your end income goal pick some simple goals that can be met in a couple months. These should be keywords that are exactly what you are promoting. If you are promoting get paid to take surveys affiliate programs then the first few goals you should be looking at include “get paid to take surveys”, “paid to take surveys”, and “high paying surveys”. Ranking in the top spot for these will start bringing in some extremely targeted traffic. The only people that would be typing these terms in to Google and the other major search engines are those who are actually wanting to begin making money by taking surveys. As you begin reaching your goals and ranking in the top spot for these targeted terms start moving onto other targeted keywords. Continuing with the example the next set of keywords that have higher volumes of traffic would be keywords such as “paying surveys” and “paid surveys”.

When wanting to rank well for keywords it will be important to begin optimization. The first step is placing the words you would like to rank well for on your presence. You should also make sure your navigation is optimized by replacing generic terms with keywords when they are interchangeable. Once you have your website optimized the next step is going off site and building keyword optimized links. This can be done from multiple resources, but when building links remember not all links carry the same authority. Look for links which are from high page rank sites, relevant to your topic, and willing to give you a one way link which means you do not need to place a link on your site. One of the major problems with link building is finding these three things is extremely difficult so you will need to be willing to build links with only one or two of these things. Some of the places you can begin building links includes article directories, forums, and free web directories.

Working From Home Full Time

Many people who are wanting to make money would like to do so from the comfort of their own home. The prospect of being your own boss or not having hours is quite nice. What few understand though is when you are trying to earn enough from home to make a full time income in the first few years you will be expected to work harder than any real job you have had. The hours of a new business owner are extremely long compared to the hours of someone working forty hours per week. I personally spend up to a hundred hours weekly on my online business constantly trying to increase income. This is of course my personal road to working at home full time you may not need to spend nearly as much time. If you are wanting to begin working from home full time one of the best ways is to begin an affiliate marketing business. This is when you create a presence, market the presence, and sale other peoples stuff for a commission. The reason this is better than many of the other monetization techniques out on the web is for a sole person actually creating a product may be a issue.

To begin you should create a website. There are many hosts out on the web that will host your site for free or for a small charge. The free hosts you should check out include 000webhost.com, wordpress.com, and blogger.com. To create the website on a regular host such as 000webhost.com you will need to learn HTML or by a what you see is what you get website creator. HTML is one of the easiest codes to learn and if you would like to do so I recommend heading over to w3schools and running through the free tutorials. It will also be important to pick a topic for your presence. This will decide the amount of income and traffic you can generate with a website. The more popular the topic the more traffic volume, but also higher traffic will mean higher competition. For a beginning business start with something small.

Once you have your website up you will need to monetize the traffic that comes. Like I said earlier affiliate marketing is one of the best monetization techniques a new webmaster can use. One of the best things about affiliate marketing is almost all major websites have affiliate programs. Some of the ones you may have already heard of and should check into include clickbank.com, walmart.com, and amazon.com. These are not all the affiliate programs possible and it is a good idea to also look for some of the smaller websites since they will offer higher commissions. My personal favorite type of affiliate marketing is paid to take surveys because they allow the visitor to join free and make money. You will actually be paid from the work that they do for the survey website.

How To Begin Working From Home

Many people attempt to make money online, but few will actually succeed. One of the main reasons for this is the amount of scams out across the web. Scams are everywhere and in the beginning it is extremely easy to fall victim. The absolute best way to avoid scams during the first year is not spending money on anything whatsoever. This will be difficult since the scammers are able to blend with legitimate websites flawlessly. When working from home there are two different ways to begin building an income. The first way to begin building an income from home is performing services for webmasters or websites. It is possible to earn a couple thousand monthly this way, but you will need to work consistently to do so. One of the most common ways to earn money this way is using paid surveys websites.

The second way to start building an income from home is starting an online business. This income source will be a bit more difficult, but the possible pay off is unlimited. There are millionaires all over the internet who made it big either through product creation, affiliate marketing, and ppc publishing. To begin you will need an idea and a host to begin building your online business. You can find free hosting at websites such as blogger.com, wordpress.com, and 000webhost.com. If these will not fill your needs then search Google for directory of free hosts or simply search for “free hosting”. Once you find a free host it will be time to think of an idea for your presence. Don’t think of anything besides what topic you want to create your site in. Online business can easily overwhelm a new webmaster when they begin if they start thinking about marketing, monetization, and other online business factors. In the beginning lock your idea down and then move onto these ideas. When picking a topic make sure that it has enough traffic to help you meet your online income goals. You can find the traffic of keywords by going to Google Adwords and using their keyword tool.

The final steps are placing monetization links on your presence and internet marketing. When trying to decide what types of monetization you should use the main online income sources include ppc publishing, affiliate marketing, selling adspace, and selling your own products. I recommend trying different techniques when monetizing. Internet marketing can’t be learned with an article or even a hundred articles. This is something that takes months to learn and is impossible to master since internet marketing is in a constant state of change. Personally I have found the best place to learn internet marketing is v7n.com/forums. You can also search Google for free Search Engine Optimization Tutorial. The basics on all of these tutorials are the same.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Understanding Google and Search Engine Optimization

For those who are trying to make money online by ranking their presence well in Google there are a few things you should understand. First and foremost not everyone can rank in the top ten for a given keyword or term. The only way you will ever rank in the top ten for a competitive keyterm is if you actually take the years to learn everything you can about search engine optimization. Not only will it take years to learn, but also years to implement an internet marketing campaign which will see these high results. The most important rule of internet marketing is persistence. You will need persistence both when learning about search engine optimization and implementing search engine optimization. No one gets it right on their first try so expect to fail the first few times you attempt to rank for any keyword. After the first failed attempt many think earning money online is impossible and abandon their online dreams. Don’t give up on yourself or online business because of one failed attempt.

To begin ranking well for major keyterms you will need to first optimize your website for the terms. This means placing the terms densely on your presence making sure not to overdo it. If you place the terms too many times on your presence Google will think you are trying to manipulate the search and drop you down deep in the serps (search engine ranking pages). When implementing keywords on your site the density you should shoot for is around 5 percent repetition. If you think you are going over that then try using other words that mean the same thing. One good example is if you are ranking your presence for “make money online” a keyword that you could use instead is “earn money online”. These two keywords are very close so they will help push you presence up for both. You should also be making sure every internal link on your presence uses keywords rather than generic terms. Get rid of the word home and use your website title instead.

The final step of search engine optimization you should be working on is building external links. This will be the most difficult part of running an online business so learn everything you can about this subject. One of the very best places you can go if interested in learning more about link building is v7n.com/forums or Digital Point Forums. It is here you can ask thousands of helpful webmasters for the link building lists they use. Some of the link building techniques you should be using for a new online business includes link exchanges, article marketing, blog posting, blog commenting, and free directory submission. Whenever I create a new presence the first link building resource I utilize is the thousands of free directories over at directory critic. Just be sure you use the keywords you would like to rank well for in the “site name” input box.


Taking Part In Your Online Businesses Niche

The majority of people out across the web that are trying to make money online will usually see their competitors as those who are trying to beat them by out ranking them in the major search engines. They will also see people who are taking their targeted audience away which usually leads to unpleasant feelings towards other businesses within ones niche. If you remember one online business rule which is you can’t make it online by yourself then you may see these other businesses in a different perspective. Remember that no matter what niche you created your business in links and other promotions on external sources will be necessary for success. The best promotions and links come from relevant websites within your niche. What this means is when you see a competitor to your online business try thinking about them as a cross promotional partner.

There are many different ways two websites in a single niche can promote each other. If you are running a static website then you should pay close attention to websites that are dynamic in your niche such as blogs and forums. These websites will not have the same marketing techniques or monetization links which means you will not be direct competitors even though you may be targeting the same audience. With these websites try thinking of ways you could promote each other. A few ideas include the basic link exchange on the top pages of each site. You may want to consider doing something like direct banner advertisements for each other. Usually these banner advertisements are sold, but if you are targeting the same traffic and are both doing well in the major search engines then it would be worth the extra traffic to switch banner space.

Even though you may be attempting to market with other websites in your niche there will be some who see you has the competition and would sacrifice their own potential to hurt yours. Skip these websites and webmasters moving onto marketing with others. Working with a few competitors will produce decent results, but you should not forget about other free internet marketing techniques. Some of the techniques I use consistently and have placed my websites at the top of Google for extremely competitive keyterms includes article marketing, forum posting, link exchanges, free web directories, and forms of marketing which you find while surfing. What I mean by that last statement is internet marketing has not been perfected which means there are still forms of marketing even an expert internet marketer has not heard of. You will not find these forms of marketing in the blogosphere or forums, but rather on those pages across the web not widely read. These different forms of marketing will also come to you rather than you learning them from some source.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Try Out Affiliate Marketing

With everyone out on the web trying to make money online it is important from the very beginning that you use effective legitimate techniques when you attempt to open up an online business. One of the techniques which has made people millionaires over the course of the internet has been affiliate marketing. Simply put affiliate marketing is when you market someone elses product or service on your presence for a commission of each sale. Affiliate marketing is one of the highest paying monetization techniques online second only to product creation and promotion. If you think that you would like to begin an online business using affiliate marketing there are ways to test whether or not affiliate marketing is right for you. Before I explain how to begin an affiliate marketing try out business make sure when looking for a quality affiliate program you never spend anything. There are major websites all over the web that have thousands of products in every niche imaginable so don’t pay to start your affiliate business.

Some of the affiliate businesses you should be looking at when wanting to start an online business include amazon.com, walmart.com, and clickbank.com. All of these websites have been around for years and years so you know that they are a good company to work with when creating an online business. The next step is picking products that you feel will make you money. When trying to decide on products a good thing to think about is the product need and your expertise. If both of these factors are high then you have found a good product to work with. Don’t place to much importance on the commission percentage or amount since these are usually misleading. What you want is a solid product that people will be happy to get and the best way to sale that product is to know something about it. If you create an affiliate business and know nothing of what you are selling it will show greatly in the content you write for your site and your inability to answer questions about the certain products or programs.

Now that you have a few choice products it is time to begin trying them out to see what type of income they will bring in. For the beginning part of this business I recommend using squidoo.com. Place the affiliate link to the product then write an article about the product. The next step is using internet marketing to rank the lenses well in Google and the other major search engines. The first keywords you should rank your lens for is the most relevant keywords. One good example is if you are selling an internet marketing ebook the first keyword you should rank your website well for is “internet marketing ebook”. Once you find out which products and niche work best it is time to develop a full website dedicated to your new affiliate marketing business. You can find quality free hosting at blogger.com, wordpress.com, or 000webhost.com.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Increasing Your Home Based Business

For those who have a small online business and are attempting to make money online one way to do so is increasing whatever you are doing. If you are running an online blogging business then you may want to play around with different monetization techniques. When I surf the blogosphere the most common monetization technique I run across is simple PPC publishing which is great. The problem with ppc publishing is the online business owner could potentially be missing out on hundreds of not thousands in monthly income. There are many other forms of monetization you should be looking at and some of these include affiliate marketing, product creation, and selling ad space. These three forms of monetization could potentially double your monthly income. Selling ad space should definitely be looked at for those who are receiving large numbers in monthly traffic, but not seeing much income.

Trying out new monetization techniques is not the only way to increase your online business. If you have one presence then you should consider creating completely new presences in new niches with different forms of content and monetization. This will grow your online business experience and allow you to find out which types of businesses will make you the most if you stick with them. When creating new online businesses I recommend using free hosting and not purchasing domain names. Doing this will ensure you will not go in debt because of these new online businesses. One form of business I recommend everyone trying out is using amazon or clickbank. You simply sign up for the affiliate program and pick a product. Once you have your product head over to blogger, hubpages, or squidoo and develop a small presence dedicated to selling the product. Rank well in the search engines for the terms that directly relate to the product. When someone goes to Google or the other major search engines looking for the product you are selling they will find and purchase the product off your site making you money.

When increasing your business be sure you have one main presence that you work on consistently. For this main presence you will want to pick keywords that have high volumes of search traffic. During marketing you should pay more attention to this site rather than your new ones. Only when you have extra time to devote to your internet marketing should you work on promoting the newer websites in your online business. You want one site that is generating the majority of your income an make sure that the site does not start sinking in the search engines because you are spending too much time on other projects. This can be one problem with starting multiple blogs. I personally only keep one blog in my online business network because the time it takes to write daily for a blog.

Marketing To Your Audience

When people begin internet marketing with the attempt to make money online one mistake many people make is they market to anyone rather than their specific audience. If you market to anyone then when you begin receiving free web traffic it will be untargeted which means you won’t make money from the traffic. To avoid this the first step is learning search engine optimization and also doing research on your target audience. For many marketers across the web especially those who are just starting out any traffic is better than no traffic. Usually the idea of targeted traffic does not come until a website begins receiving untargeted traffic and learns not all traffic is the same. When marketing avoid techniques that are not targeted towards your audience. These types of internet marketing techniques include posting ads on sites that are not relevant to your own, social bookmarking, and random link exchanges. You may see traffic from these types if internet marketing techniques, but will notice a very low conversion.

To begin increasing targeted traffic to your presence start with finding the keywords that relate to your presence and have high traffic volumes. One of the best places to do this is Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Type a couple of terms into this tool such as your websites title and look through the list it will generate with relating traffic. The first terms you should begin optimizing your website for is the terms which are the closest to your business. One good example of this is if you are selling red shoes you want to rank well for the term “buy red shoes” rather than “buy shoes”. Focus on these keywords in the beginning rather than general terms. Once you have the first position for all your super high targeted terms it will be time to move onto more general terms. This is when you should begin building links for terms such as “buy shoes” or just the term “shoes”.

The final step is building links which will help increase search engine position for the terms you build links for. When building links make sure you place the keywords you would like to rank well for between the anchor tags. If you want to rank well for the term “buy red shoes” then you want that to be the text your link displays. To begin building keyword optimized link one of the best places especially for new websites is directorycritic.com. It is here you will find thousands of free web directories all of which will allow you to place keywords in the title box which will help you begin ranking well in the search engines for those specific terms. You should also spend time with article marketing since this is the way which you can generate unlimited links from one article.

If you would like to monetize the traffic coming to your presence I recommend checking out the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

Learn Online Marketing From Real World Marketers

The methods of real world marketing may be different, but the purpose is the same as online marketing. For those who would like to make money online you want to get people to your presence who are looking for what you are selling. In the real world marketers want to get people in the doors who want to purchase their products. One of the main differences between these two types of marketing is real world marketing has been around much longer than internet marketing. This means that real world marketing has been much more tested and tried so when possible take the ideas from real world marketing and place it into your business. When marketing online make sure you remember it can take up to a year before you begin seeing results so don’t give up if you don’t see success within the first few months. This is the time you build your marketing foundation catching up to all the competition within your niche.

To learn from real world marketing you will need to begin actually watching and looking at the marketing you are accustomed to passing by without noticing. This means when the commercials come up on your favorite show focus on how they promote their product or business. Usually these commercials will have many hours of research and just by watching you can see what the research came up with. Notice how the commercial makes you feel and if you would really like to buy what they are selling. If the commercial works and you would like to purchase their product use the promotional techniques when marketing your presence or products. Commercials are not the only form of real world marketing you should also be looking at magazines, newspapers, an billboards. All of these are full of great marketing ideas and techniques so use them when they will work with your marketing campaign.

To implement real world marketing you should understand the different types of internet marketing. First off the internet marketing technique you should focus on the most is search engine optimization. This is how you will let the people who are looking for you find you. When you ran for a term which is truly relevant to your online business the people coming to your presence will actually be looking for you. To rank well in the search engines you should first focus on what keywords you would like to rank well for. To determine the keywords you would like to rank well for head over to Google Adwords Keyword Tool. This tool will tell you the traffic for any given keyword. Choose keywords that are both relevant to your presence and have a decent amount of traffic then place them on your site. Make sure you place the keywords in the URL, titles, and headings.

Ranking Well In Search Engines For Competitive Keyterms

Those who want to make money online should consider learning search engine optimization and ranking for a highly competitive term. Highly competitive terms are usually somewhat short and general. Good examples of highly competitive terms include “business”, “internet marketing”, and “blogging”. If you rank in the top three for one of these terms expect to see a minimum of five hundred unique visitors daily. It is more likely you will see traffic in the thousands daily which will usually make you thousands monthly if you work hard to monetize the traffic. To rank well for these terms you must understand the foundation of search engine optimization then push past the basics into areas that are unknown by the masses.

The basics of search engine optimization include both on site and off site optimization. On site optimization is the process of placing terms you would like to rank well for throughout your websites content taking special notice of the main places search engines look including the URL, headings, and the first few lines of content. On site optimization also has to do with making sure your navigation is helping your one way keyword optimized link generation. To do this you should replace generic links in your navigation such as home, page 1, ect with the keywords you would like to optimize the page for. Another important on site optimization technique that should be used especially by those wanting to rank well for competitive phrases is making sure you optimize each pages meta tags for the keywords you would like that page to rank for. The reason you should be doing this is ranking your home page for certain keywords can only bring in the traffic for those keywords. If you optimize each page of your site they have the chance of ranking well and increasing your traffic dramatically.

Ranking for competitive terms will require link building which surpasses the ordinary. You can start by building a foundation of links using the old methods such as free web directories, article marketing, link exchanges, and forum posting. These all work really well to an extent, but you should expect your competition to be using the same marketing techniques. To rank well for highly competitive terms you should be thinking of internet marketing techniques not widely used. One of the best techniques I have seen around the web which has not been overly used is creating something useful and requiring anyone who uses it to place a link on their site. Some of the things that can be used in this way include web site templates, pictures, and videos. Another important part of ranking well in the major search engines for competitive terms is making cross promotional partnerships with powerful people in your niche. Spend time contacting the major websites checking to see if they would like to work with you.

Once you reach the top of Google if you would like to monetize check out the affiliate programs on this get paid to take surveys website.

Internet Marketing For New Webmasters

If you are interested in being able to make money online or are just trying to increase free traffic the basics of internet marketing can help you reach your goals. The first thing you should know about free internet marketing is there are two different types. The first is search engine optimization and is what you should spend the majority of your time with. Search engine optimization is the process of ranking your presences well in Google and the other major search engines for keywords that represent your web presence. If your website is about internet marketing then you should be ranking your presence for the term “internet marketing” as well as “online marketing”, “website marketing”, and other related terms. The second type of internet marketing and a process that can bring thousands of visitors to your presence is social marketing. Social marketing is using social bookmarking and social networking websites to increase traffic and awareness of your presence.

After your presence is created the next step if you would like to start bringing traffic is getting indexed in the major search engines. The simplest way to do this is building links from authoritative websites. One that I have used to get my websites indexed quickly is ezinearticles.com. This article directory is in the alexa top hundred and is scanned by Google regularly. You should also sign up for the major webmaster forums and place your link in the signatures. For new webmasters it is also important to sign up for Google Webmaster Tools. This set of tools will allow you to gain access to information on how your websites are performing in Google and Google crawler stats.

I highly recommend that new webmasters get a link building routine. You should be building links each and every day. One good resource for consistent link building is directorycritic.com. Here you will have access to thousands upon thousands of free directories. Try building between fifty and a hundred links daily by submitting your presence to these free directories. Once you have submitted to the entire list make sure you come back weekly so you can submit to the new directories listed. After finishing the free directory list you should begin writing content daily and submitting it to a list of top article directories as well as freetrafficsystem.com.

The final step of marketing you should be using is social marketing. There are two forms of social marketing the first being social networking. Use social networking websites such as facebook and twitter to build relationships with your readers and audience rather than promote your web presence. It is here you will actually be able to talk with your audience to see what they like and don’t like. Social bookmarking is your chance to promote your content. When you write a new article or create a new video submit it to the top social bookmarking websites such as digg.com and stumbleupon.com.

If you would like to monetize the traffic that comes to your presence check out the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

Clickbank Online Business Idea

There are many online businesses out on the web trying to make money online. If you want to be one of the few that actually succeed you will need to work with programs that are not scams. Clickbank has been around the web for years and upholds the highest integrity when it comes to online business. To earn with click bank you will need a presence and traffic to that presence. One your presence whether blog or website you will need to place the affiliate link to whatever product you decide to sale. When creating an online business selling clickbank products you will want to stick with certain principles. The first thing to remember is all rules of online business and search engine optimization apply. You need to become familiar with these making sure to learn everything you can about both.

One rule of online business you should stick with is never going outside your niche on your presence. This means when you pick a topic for your site make sure you don’t promote programs, products, or write articles that are off the topic or too far away from the topic. If you generalize your website to much people will not know what your presence is about. They will come thinking you are an expert of one thing only to find you promoting products that are way off topic. If this is your first online business then you will want to stick with free hosting. Do not invest money into hosting, a domain, and other commodities until you know that you can become successful with your online business. Websites such as blogger, wordpress, and 000webhost will allow you to create a fully functioning online business that you can use to begin building an income. When you create a presence choose a topic which you truly love. This will ensure you won’t grow bored or tired of working online business which will end up increasing your chances of success online.

The next step for your online business will be driving free web traffic to your new presence. When setting up the presence if you are mainly going to be marketing click bank affiliate products you should place on product per page. You can then optimize each page for the most direct keywords that represent the products. This will allow you to rank each page well for specific keywords which will increase conversion. To optimize your presence place the keywords you would like to rank well for in the URL, titles, and headings. The next step will be building links to your presence with the terms you would like to rank well for between the anchor tags. One link building technique which should make up the majority of your marketing campaign is article marketing. When you submit an article to an article directory not only will you get the link directly from the article directory, but also from the publishers that come take your article and publish it on their site.

If you would like to monetize with something besides clickbank I recommend the products on this paid surveys website.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Creating An Online Business Routine

One of the biggest reasons people are not able to make money online is they don’t consistently work on their business. If they do work on their business consistently then it may be quite a bit of work one day and nothing the next. For an online business to succeed you will need to work the same amount each and every day. For those that do work quite a bit in one day then you will want to spend the majority of the time creating content. Do not publish all this content the same day you write it, but rather publish one post a day and spread it out. After you publish an article on your presence you can then move onto the major article directories which will allow you to build links. Creating a routine is especially important for bloggers. A static websites audience does not expect major updates all the time, but a bloggers audience will expect updates to your blog daily. This means if you want to make money with a blog pleasing the readers should be your main goal meaning you need to write everyday or at least publish a blog post every day.

I understand many online business professionals are unable to spend more than a couple hours daily if they have a real world job. Hopefully you will have a day or two per week which you can spend over six hours and write all your content for the week. Blogger and the other major blog hosting platforms have a delayed publish feature allowing you to upload your post and decide on the date and time it will get published. For those with a static web presence marketing should be done on the days that you can spend more than an hour or two working. For those who do not have a job and can devote many hours each day to your online business one thing I strongly advise is to not overdo it. One of my biggest personal mistakes was working on a my presence ten hours daily every single day. After a while you will begin to hate your presence and online business if you spend this much time working on it. The best option is spending four to five hours each day on your presence. This will give you enough time to create content each day and market your presence.

Those new to online business or being a webmaster may struggle with many internet marketing and search engine optimization techniques and ideas. For these people it will be necessary to spend the majority of time online during the first year learning everything you can about these two subjects. You can begin learning over at v7n.com/forums. This is where I learned pretty much everything I know today about search engine optimization. Finding blogs with these topics will also be helpful just be sure you follow people who promote ethical e-marketing behavior.

Monday, August 22, 2011

How To Create A Blogging Internet Business

Simply stated the only difference between a blog and a website is a blog has frequently updated content in the form of posts or articles. Blogs have become one of the most prevalent ways for a sole person to earn money online. The major blogging platforms blogger.com and wordpress.com let users create a blog, host the blog, and earn from the blog absolutely free. Anyone can go to either of these websites and have a business up and going within hours. To become successful with a blog you must write well and write frequently. It is also important that you begin learning internet marketing. This is what will separate you from the rest of the blogs in your niche. Marketing a blog is quite similar to marketing a static website the only difference is when marketing a blog you should focus more on the social aspects of marketing such as networking and bookmarking. You will also find that marketing techniques such as guest posting will be much more beneficial to blog marketing compared to website marketing.

To begin your blogging business you will need to pick a topic. The most important thing to think about when trying to choose a topic for your blog is how much interest you have. The hardest part about blogging is writing about the same topic every single day. If you truly love what you write about it will be much easier to product content regularly. Once you have the topic chosen for your first blog I recommend using free services such as blogger or wordpress. The reason for this is even if you have the highest ambition most online businesses including blogs fail. Do not dump a bunch of money into hosting, a domain, and other services to end up with less money then when you started. It is possible to start an online blogging business without spending any money and start making real money.

For a successful blog you need to write content each day on your topic. This will be one of the most difficult parts of your blogging business, but will give you plenty of material to market. When trying to think of ideas for posts you should visit forums that are relevant to your niche. Here you can find the latest news and what people are wanting to know in your niche. It is also important to check out the blogs in your niche. Do not steal the posts, but write about the same topics making sure to use your own words and thoughts. One of the best parts of blogging is you will have plenty of content to market. The two ways you should market your content include social bookmarking and article marketing. Submit your blog posts as soon as you publish them on your blog to the major social bookmarking websites. Once the posts are indexed in Google you can begin submitting them to the major article directories which will help build links towards your blog ranking it better in the major search engines.

If you would like to monetize your blog check out the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

Earning Money Without Money

One of the most common questions asked online is how to make money online free. Simply put if someone is wanting to make money online then they usually don’t have much if any to spend. It is possible to begin earning money without spending a dime. There are a few ways to earn money free. The first way to begin earning is the get paid to take surveys websites, get paid to read email websites, and get paid to write articles websites. You can also hit the major webmaster forums and offer webmasters services such as link building and content creation. These are the basic ways to begin earning money, but the money you earn will probably not be enough to work from home full time. If you are wanting to earn thousands each month the best option would be creating, marketing, and monetizing a web presence which is also known as creating an online business.

To create an online business the first couple of things needed is an idea and a presence. When you begin thinking of an idea one important consideration is your interest. Don’t pick a topic only because you think it will bring traffic and earn money. Pick a topic because you have a true interest in it. This will convey through your content and you will not grow bored after a couple of months working. Finding a host and creating a website is much easier than what most people think. There are many hosts out on the web and if you have no money there are plenty of free hosts. For those without the money to purchase hosting I recommend using 000webhost.com. This host is completely free and will not place banner ads all over your web presence. The only problem with running a free host is it will have bandwidth and storage restrictions so be prepared to create multiple free presences on multiple free hosts.

When creating a presence you should place monetization links and ads on your presence so you can begin earning money. There are many ways to begin earning money which include ppc publishing, affiliate marketing, selling ad space, and selling your own products. PPC publishing can be done by signing up with websites such as etology.com or Google Adsense. Once you sign up for the ppc program create an ad and place the HTML on your presence. When visitors come to your site and click the ads you will make money. Affiliate marketing is a bit more intensive, but allows you to earn more and sale products that are extremely targeted to your traffic. Some of the quality affiliate marketing programs you should be looking at include walmart.com, amazon.com, and clickbank.com. You will find thousands of products in every niche imaginable. Selling ad space can be done after you reach the top of Google for competitive keyterms. You can create simple 125x125 boxes and sale them from twenty dollars monthly to a couple hundred depending on the amount of traffic you are getting to your presence.

Using Search Engines To Increase Web Traffic

The only way to earn money online with an online business is to get traffic to your presence. When trying to get traffic there are two types you should be concerned with which are free web traffic and paid traffic. In most cases the best traffic is free web traffic though when you begin earning money if you really want to explode your online business paying for traffic is not a terrible idea. When you begin an online business some of the basic things you should begin doing is learning everything you can about search engine optimization, link building, and internet marketing. This will be the deciding factor for your online success. Those who understand how to drive traffic to their presence will be the ones who will not have difficulty earning money.

To begin search engine optimization you need to choose the niche for your online business. The niche you decide on will be what decides the keywords you can use. When choosing a niche you should take a few things into consideration. The first thing you should think about is your interest in the topic. Most websites die when webmasters or bloggers get bored with their presence. To avoid this choose a topic that you have interest in and have been interested in for years. This will ensure you will not grow bored of the presence which will really help you succeed. Another important consideration when choosing the topic is how popular the topic is online. To see this go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool and type in a few terms to see how popular the topic is. Make sure there are a few keywords that have over 10k monthly searches. Ranking well for these keywords will ensure your online businesses ability to earn money.

Search engine optimization should start with placing keywords you would like to rank well for on your presence. Place them a couple times and make sure you use alternatives. If you are trying to rank well for a term such as “make money online” you will not want to repeat the term over and over, but rather use the alternates such as “earn money”, “earn money online”, “make money free”, and others. This will ensure you do not get de-indexed or dropped within the serps for keyword stuffing. Link building will also play an important role when trying to rank your presence. Google determines a websites topic by looking at the words on the site. They will determine a websites popularity by the amount and quality of links pointing to the site. To begin link building use resources such as article directories and free web directories. You can find both of these by searching Google for a list.

Once you begin receiving free traffic from Google if you would like to monetize check out the affiliate programs on this paid surveys site.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Realistic Goals For An Online Business

For those out on the web trying to earn money online one thing you should create is reachable goals. Going after the major keywords should not be the a goal for those just getting online. The first goal you should set for an online business is getting ranked for some minor keywords and making your first dollar. Both of these goals are realistic and can be done within a reasonable amount of time. Do not create goals that will take over months to accomplish. Setting goals with large time frames will cause you to lose sight of the goals or become frustrated that your online business is taking to long. These are the goals to stay away from if you want to stay focused and not get frustrated. One goal you should have for yourself is setting and sticking to a routine. There are many things that need to be done daily which include content creation, checking earning statistics, and checking traffic sources and statistics.

When starting out you will need to create your business. During the creation it will be important to decide on which keywords you would like to monetize your website for. This will determine the amount of possible traffic and possible income your business can receive. It is ok to pick a few high competition and high traffic volume keywords. You should also choose some lower traffic keywords that are easier to rank well for. The reason for this is you want to see success as you are working. If you go after the more competitive keywords you won’t see the payoff for your efforts. When you write a few articles and market them then spend a few hours submitting your presence to free web directories you will not see any free web traffic coming from the keywords. These high competition keywords take many months if not years to rank well for and only if you are building links for them regularly.

The next set of goals you should have is income goals. How much money will you earn online today, next money, next year, these are the questions you should be asking yourself. The problem with most online business owners is they place such high numbers quickly and they dont put in the work to meet the numbers. The first goal you should set in the first six months is bringing your online income to a hundred dollars monthly. This is reasonable and possible at the end of six months working online. After a year it would be possible to make five hundred monthly if you are working on your business each day. The final goal for your online business should be making enough to stay home full time if you want. Usually this income is around four thousand monthly and requires three to five years to meet. All of these income projections are possible, but only if you put in the work and learn everything you can about monetization and internet marketing.

Article Marketing Tips

There are many forms of internet marketing that can help build traffic. Article marketing is different because when you submit an article to one of the major article directories not only will you get an immediate pay off from the article directory itself, but also a long term pay off because publishers will come read your article and publish the article with the resource box on their presence. This will lead to an unlimited amount of direct traffic from the one article and an unlimited amount of backlinks. The key to successful article marketing is publishing content that is unique and helpful to readers. Another important article marketing tip you should consider is making sure to publish the article first on your own presence. This will ensure Google will find the article on your presence first which means you will be the one to rank well in search engines rather than the article directories.

Before you begin article marketing it is important to have your websites up and running. Make sure you have monetization links so you will be able to make money online when traffic begins hitting your presence. Once you have all of this ready to go begin writing articles frequently. If you write one article and submit it to a few search engines dont expect to receive much traffic. The first article you write will probably not be very good. Successful article marketing takes a lot of practice. The more you write the better your articles will be and the more success you will see from each article. Personally I recommend writing one article every single day. This will ensure you have a good supply of fresh content to market which will really help your presence and you become a better writer.

When writing articles it is good to not only place the title and content, but also have the keywords for the article and a good summary. These are things that the article directories will ask for and will allow you to easily copy and paste everything you need to the article directory. Finding the right article directories to submit to will also be somewhat tricky. When looking for article directories the quickest way is by searching Google for “list of article directories”. This is a good first step to get a bunch right away, but for the main article directories you should submit to article directories that will be found by publishers. You can find these article directories by searching Google for such terms as “free content”, “free articles”, “articles”, and other terms you think publishers would use to find content for their presences. Some of the important article directories you should be submitting all articles to include ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, articlesbase.com, and upublish.com. All of these have high page rank and do quite well in the search engines.

Once you begin receiving traffic from your article marketing efforts I recommend using the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

Selling Clickbank Products Online As An Affiliate Marketer

There are millions of websites across the web and just as many ways to make money online. One of the best ways is selling digital products from clickbank.com. These guys automate the process of affiliate marketing and bridge the gap between affiliate marketer and product producer. You will not need to keep track of anything since clickbank will keep track and pay you directly. The selection that clickbank has is also quite amazing. This resource only deals in digital products so there is never any problems with shipping or worrying about the product getting broke on the way to its destination. If you would like to begin working as an affilaite marketer your main goal should be becoming an expert at internet marketing. This and design of your own personal presence is the only things an affilaite marketer has to worry about. Affiliate marketing is the absolute best way for a single person to earn an income online.

To begin a business selling clickbank products you should sign up for a clickbank affiliate account and pick a few products to begin selling. In the beginning it would be best to stick with one niche rather than trying to rank for multiple niches. You will also need a host or multiple hosts depending on what your online business plan is. There are many free hosts out on the web which are free and will let you market clickbank products directly. Some of more common websites which will allow you to sale clickbank products are 000webhost.com, blogger.com, and squidoo.com. All of these are free and each allows you to create a different type of free presence. 000webhost.com has the most versatility, but requires users to know HTML since it is a basic web host. Squidoo and Blogger are wysiwyg editors which allow you to create your presence and begin making money without having to know anything about web languages.

When you create the presence I recommend taking the product and placing it center stage on your site. This means the product should be in the middle and towards the top to ensure your audience will see it. The content on the page should have plenty of information on the product or on the niche most directly relevant to the product your selling. Make sure when trying to decide titles and the URL you go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Type in the “product name” and then type in “buy product name”. This tool will show you the traffic searching monthly for the product your thinking about selling. Now that you know the keywords that are getting traffic place them in your URL, titles, and heading. This will tell Google and the other major search engines to rank you well for the term. To get traffic to your presence learning internet marketing will also be crucial. V7n.com/forums is one of the best places to begin learning internet marketing.

If clickbank doesn’t work out you may want to check this paid surveys website for some different affiliate programs.

How To Increase Website Traffic

Internet marketing is one of the most difficult parts of online business. You must be willing to spend hours each day marketing your website making sure you are marketing more than your competition. The most valued commodity of an internet marketer is the ability to learn new internet marketing methods and ideas. This is what will keep you ahead of the rest of online business owners within your niche. If one hour of your marketing is better than ten hours of your competition then you will only need to market a tenth as much as your competitor. To begin learning internet marketing I recommend the major webmaster forums. The two forums that I have found very useful when attempting to learn internet marketing include v7n.com/forums and digital point. When you begin learning internet marketing the two primary methods you should be concerned with include social marketing and search engine optimization.

To start optimizing a website you will need to learn about keywords. Keywords are what your audience will type into Google when looking for something. If you rank your website or blog well in Google for keywords which directly relate to your site the traffic that comes will be targeted which means they will want what you are selling making it much easier to make money online. You need to figure out which keywords are best for your site. Go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool and type in your websites title and some related keywords. This tool will bring up the traffic for each keyword and the traffic they generate monthly. The tool will also give you a list of related keywords and the amount of traffic they get. Look through the related keywords to find which ones are bringing in the most traffic. These are the keywords you should be optimizing your website for.

To begin optimizing your website you should place the keywords in the main places which search engines look closely at when trying to find what a website is about. These places include the URL, title, and all the headings. Place the keywords in these areas to let the search engines know what your site is about and what keywords to rank your website well for. Next it will be time to begin external search engine optimization. This is when you use external resources to increase link popularity. Some of the basic places you should be using include free web directories, article directories, and link exchanges. For link exchanges check out linkmarket.net this is a free resource full of websites which would like to exchange links. Article marketing should take up the majority of your internet marketing campaign. To find article directories you can search Google for terms like “free content”, “article directory”, and “free articles”. These are the directories that will be most beneficial to submit content to.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Building An Online Income

There are many ways you can begin increasing an income. One of the ways which can potentially result in an income large enough to allow you to work from home full time is creating an online business. This is done by first creating a presence that you can market. Setting up a presence is actually a lot simpler than what most people think. If you are wanting to create a website then I recommend learning HTML. You can learn HTML for free at w3schools.com. Once you learn HTML or at least enough to get started download a free HTML editor. This will allow you to code your site and view it after each piece of code. The editor I use is coffee cup and it is available for free. You will also need a FTP protocol which will allow you to upload and download files from the server. If all of this sounds too complicated there are alternatives which will take care of all this for you. The only problem with the alternatives is they will restrict access to the websites code. Some of the alternatives include blogger.com, hubpages.com, wordpress.com, and squidoo.com.

Setting up a website or blog will not make you money unless you market the presence and earn money from the free web traffic. To do this you will need to rank well in search engines and have monetization links to ppc publishing ads or affiliate links. Marketing should begin with simple link building and one of the best places to begin especially for a new presence is directorycritic.com. There are thousands of free directories at the resource that will allow you to build a nice link foundation. This of course will only be a start to ranking well in the search engines and increasing traffic. You should also take advantage of the other free marketing methods such as forum posting, article marketing, and blog commenting. One important thing to understand about internet marketing is you will never know everything there is to know. Internet marketing is in a constant state of change and favors those who can change with it.

The final step of earning money online with a business is making money from the traffic that comes to your site. This can be done in several ways including ppc publishing, affiliate marketing, or product creation. For those new to online business ppc publishing and affiliate marketing will be the easiest ways to earn money. For ppc publishing you can sign up with Google Adsense or the other major search ppc publishing websites. They will create the ads for you. The only thing you will have to do is place the code on your site. Affiliate marketing is a bit more intensive, but it will also allow you to target your visitors. Some of the best affiliate marketing programs include the ones on this paid surveys website.

Creating An Internet Marketing Campaign

Setting up a simple presence so you can make money online is quite easy. The difficulty is out marketing the rest of your niche which can number anywhere from a few thousand to millions. The fastest way to learn internet marketing is to purchase an internet marketing ebook. This of course is not the only way to learn marketing if you have the time to go through forums, blogs, and articles online. Learning internet marketing will be only half the battle. You must implement what you learned and to an extent to out market your competitors. They will usually be working hard to keep or improve search engine position and social traffic. These are the two main forms of internet marketing and should be focused on when you create your campaign. The reason I use the word campaign is because when you dive into internet marketing it will be intensive so be prepared to work everyday with an attempt to improve your traffic generation.

The first form of internet marketing I would like to discus and the most beneficial for the majority of online businesses is search engine optimization. When you rank well in the search engines the traffic that comes to your site will actually be looking for what you have to offer. This leaves you at a huge advantage taking the need to sale yourself or products out of the picture. You will only need to present what you have and the visitor can take it or leave it. To rank well in the search engines you will need to become familiar with keywords. These are what your audience enters into Google and the other major search engines when looking for your site. Once you know the keywords you should try to implement them into your website especially in the main places such as the URL, headings, and first few lines of content.

Successful search engine optimization will also require building links with the keywords between the anchor tags. This will help your web presence rank better for the terms. When building keyword anchored links it is important not to build all links for one term. This will make it look like you are building all the links rather than the links looking like they are coming naturally to your presence. When link building you should also not build over 50 links daily. The reason for this is if huge numbers of links hit your site all at once it will look like you purchased links to rank well in Google which they look down upon. To start building links go to directorycritic.com where you will find thousands of free web directories. Submitting to these directories will give you a great link foundation for any keyword you are trying to rank well for. Next start writing content and submitting it to the major article directories such as ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, and buzzle.com. For a more complete list of article directories go to Google and search for list of article directories.

Once you begin receiving traffic if you are looking for ways to monetize it check out the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

Search Engine Optimization Tips

The main reason for people to optimize a website for search engines is so they can make money online. If you are creating websites or are blogging for fun then you should not be concerned about optimization as much. Search engine optimization begins during the creation of a new website or blog. When you choose the URL it is important to know what terms you would like to rank well for. Place the main term you would like to rank well for in the URL. This will tell Google that your web presence is relevant for the term. If you are not sure what terms carry the most traffic in your niche I recommend going to Google Adwords Keyword Tool and searching for some keywords in your niche. If you are wanting to start a presence teaching others about cooking then go the the tool and type in terms such as “cooking”, “how to cook”, and “learn cooking”. This tool will tell you the amount of monthly traffic searching for the term you inputed and give you a list of related terms with the amount of traffic for each. The reason it is important to pay attention to traffic when trying to pick keywords is it will determine the amount of money you can make. The more traffic a term has the more money you will make if and when you rank well for the term.

Once you have decided on a few terms you would like to rank well for it will be time to implement them on your site. This means you should place the terms throughout the content and headings. There are a few things that you should be aware of before you begin keyword implementation on your site. First and foremost never sacrifice the readability, visibility, or usability of your website to rank well in the search engines. The main goal for any online business professional is visitor satisfaction rather than search engine satisfaction. Also when optimizing your site never use sneaky tactics. The reason for this is if Google and the other major search engines think that you are trying to trick them into giving you better search position you will be de-indexed which means no organic traffic. Place the terms you would like to rank well for naturally throughout your presence and this will not be a problem.

The final steps of search engine optimization are going off site. To rank well in search engines you will need keyword optimized links. These are links with the keywords you would like to rank well for between the anchor tags. If you don’t know about HTML or what anchor tags are go to w3schools.com and go through the link tutorials. When link building focus on links that allow you to choose what text is displayed for your links. Some good places to begin building links include article directories, forums, blog commenting, guest posting, article marketing and link exchanges. Most of these will allow you to place your keywords in the link text.

Once you begin ranking well if you would like to monetize I recommend the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

How To Create An Online Business

Many people think that creating an online business takes money, advanced computer skills, or more than one person. The truth about online business is with such things as affiliate marketing a single person with a simple website and e-marketing knowledge can earn an income large enough to support them. This is the goal of most webmasters and online business professionals, but rarely does this occur. The majority of people who start an online business decide that the workload is too much and give up. To begin an online business it is important to first pick a topic for your presence. This will be one of the deciding factors for how much traffic you get and the potential income of your presence.

If this is your first website and online business the topic is not nearly as important as the experience of setting up a presence. In most cases a website or blog only takes one day to set up. The first few websites will usually be for learning purposes and as you become more experienced with online business you can create more permanent presences in niches that are extremely competitive and have huge volumes of traffic. Creating your first presence should be done using free hosting. There are many to choose from if you need help finding a free host check out blogger, wordpress, or search for free hosting directory. Creating the presence will require knowing HTML for regular hosts. For those needing to learn HTML I recommend going to w3schools.com and taking the free tutorials.

The next steps will include creating content for your business, internet marketing, and monetizing the traffic that comes to your presence. Content creation should be the primary routine for any online business owner. Writing niche articles and publishing them on your presence and the article directories out across the web will allow you to build direct traffic, help rank your presence in the search engines, and become an expert of your field. You will also need to do some traditional internet marketing such as submitting to web directories, forum posting, blog commenting, and link exchanges. The best way to learn marketing is to join a major webmaster forum such as v7n.com/forums.

When creating content the first hundred or so articles will usually be poor quality. This is normal for anyone who is just getting into online business so do not get disappointed if your article marketing campaign is not super successful. To become a successful internet marketer the main attribute you will need is persistence. If you are willing to keep trying and keep learning there is no reason for you not to succeed.

To monetize your presence I recommend using the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website.

Creating Time For Your Home Business

One of the main reasons that people really struggle with becoming successful with a home business is they are unable to manage time. With my personal online business I notice the correlation between time spend working and income generated. Usually with significant increases when I spend quite a bit of time working. One of the really nice things about an online business is when you spend time marketing or creating content the time spent never dies. This means it will always be their helping your business in the search engines and helping you increase income. To find time you must be willing to cut down on some of the different side activites you are doing. In the beginning of your business I highly recommend not quitting your job. The reason for this is you will not know if your business will be successful in the first few months.

Some people think that they will not have the time because of work or family. This may be the case and if it is then home business is probably not for you. To succeed with your business there will usually be necessary adjustments for you to make. Personally I worked with my real job in order to cut one day per week from the schedule allowing me 8 more hours weekly to work online. The only reason I made this adjustment is I began making more money online than what that day of work would have got me. If your online business is new then you may not need to free up much time as long as you have a few hours per week. The reason for this is during the first year or so of your business income will be quite low. Usually this is the time that you build links slowly and let time pass with your website indexed in Google. This is what builds trust between your presence and Google.

For those who are needing to make time for their business one way is creating a schedule and making working on your business a routine. If you are use to working from 6pm-9pm everyday and it becomes part of your routine then stick with it. When trying to find how much time per day you need to work content creation and internet marketing will both need to be taken into account. For those running a blog one article per day or seven articles per week need to be written. Static websites will require less content creation, but to rank well you will need more internet marketing. For most businesses I recommend spending 2-3 hours per day. The great thing about working from home is the work does not need to be done daily. Since you need to spend around 3 hours daily this can be done when you have the time as long as it comes out to around 21 hours weekly. If you can spend 10 hours on your day off working online then half your week is done.

If you are looking for ways to monetize your online business I recommend the affiliate programs on these paid surveys websites.

How To Brand An Online Business

One of the best ways to make money online is becoming well known on the internet especially within your niche. When someone comes to your niche and wants to learn if you are one of the leading experts they will come to your presence which will earn you money. Before you begin branding anything you will need a presence which has plenty of quality content. During the creation of your presence branding should be a consideration. You need to choose what you will be branding your presence or yourself. When trying to decide if you plan on having multiple presences on different platforms marketing yourself would be the best option. If you are going to have one main presence which has content updated frequently such as a blog or forum then you should brand the presence.

Branding begins with the URL. You want a URL which accurately represents whatever your branding. This means if you are branding your name then use your name in the URL. If you are branding the presence name then place the websites name in your URL. Once you have the URL it will be time to begin creation. Pick a host such as 000webhost.com, blogger.com, or wordpress.com. All of these will allow you to create a presence and host it for free. When creating your website or blog make sure you choose the title and headings carefully. You want people to either remember your name or your presences name. When creating your presence it is also important you also think about search engine optimization. These two important online business techniques will usually clash. When possible place the keywords you would like to rank well for and the name you want people to remember. One good example of this is my business blog. I wanted to brand my name, but also optimize for the term online business. In my titles I have “Online Business With Kris Beus”. Using this allows me to brand my name while optimizing for my main term.

Branding is not all done on your presence. You will also need to brand when you are internet marketing. The first thing you should rank well for in the search engines is the term you want to brand for. It is important to rank number one for this term first so be sure to build plenty of links for the term. The reason for this is when you successfully brand people will remember the name you branded for any search Google for it. You want people to find your presence on top before anyone else. This will ensure people will be able to find you when they search. Another important step when branding while marketing is using social medias correctly. Be sure your using all the major social networking and bookmarking websites across the web. These are great when trying to become well known.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Increasing Income From Affiliate Programs

If you are wanting to learn how to make money online and you don’t have the capability or want to create a product then affiliate marketing will be your best option. Simply stated affiliate marketing is when you market someone else’s product or program for a commission. Even the major websites and real word businesses such as Amazon and Walmart have caught on to the power of affiliate marketing and created affiliate programs. With these businesses allowing marketers to earn money by marketing their products it opens the door to affiliate marketing in every single niche. You can truly find products that will fit any presences topic. One important thing to remember about affiliate marketing is you need to put in time before you will start seeing income generation. You will need to usually wait up to a year before you begin seeing a payoff. This time frame can be brought down with an incredible amount of marketing and promotion.

When starting an online business with affiliate marketing you should first pick a topic. This is what will decide the products you will be marketing. In affiliate marketing it is important to market products which are closely relevant to your presence. To begin create a web presence where you can create content relevant to your niche and publish your affiliate links. If this is your first attempt at online business remember that 97% of online businesses fail. This usually happens when someone finds out the amount of work needed before success. The majority of people in the real world think that online business is easy, fun, and makes you rich quick while you do nothing. The truth about online business is you will work harder and for less pay than any real world job during the first few years. Once you learn everything there is to know about internet marketing and online business you will be able to start earning quite a bit with less work.

Marketing will be a crucial for any business online. To make money with affiliate marketing you will need targeted traffic to your presence. The best way to get targeted traffic is by ranking your presence well in Google for key terms that directly represent your affiliate product or program. If you are going to sale internet marketing ebooks then you will want to rank well for the keywords “internet marketing ebook”, “internet marketing ebooks”, “buy internet marketing ebook”, and “buy internet marketing ebooks”. The people that come to your presence by typing these keywords will be the most likely out of all traffic to purchase your products and therefore make you money. To rank well for keywords you will need to first place the keywords on your presence then build links for the terms. Some good places to start building links include article directories, free web directories, forums, blog commenting, and press releases.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Working With Search Engines

With the amount of online businesses across the web all trying to earn money online one of the biggest determining factors for success is how well a webmaster works with the major search engines. Working with the search engines really comes down to the how much a webmaster knows about search engine optimization or the process of ranking well in the search engines for competitive keyterms. Many online business owners and webmasters confuse search engine optimization as telling the major search engines where to rank their presence. In some cases you will be lucky and be ranked well for the keywords you had hoped for, but far more often you will need to evaluate your presence and search engine position to determine what keywords you should focus on. The reason I named this article working with the search engines is if you find out what keywords you are ranking well for already and begin placing those keywords in links it will be much easier to rank well for the keywords.

To even have a chance at ranking well in the search engines you will need a presence. The best type of presence to optimize is one that you have complete control over what keywords will be placed in all areas. There are some good free web hosts such as blogger, squidoo, and others. These are fine for those who don’t know HTML and who are not planning on learning the code. The problem with these free hosts is they do all the coding for you which means you will not be able to change key optimization elements on your site. These are the parts of the code directly for search engines and are looked at the most when search engines come to your presence and determine what keywords they should rank your presence for. I recommend using a regular web host such as 000webhost.com which gives you complete control over what you will be displaying and what will be displayed in the areas which squidoo, blogger, and wordpress will not let you change.

Once you have a presence it will be time to work on improving your search engine position or for those who are just starting out getting indexed by the search engines. It is impossible to receive web traffic from the search engines if you are not indexed. You need to let the search engines know you exist and you can do this by building links to your presence on well respected and trusted websites. Such places includes major webmaster forums such as v7n.com/forums or Digital point. You will sometimes have to post a few times before they let you add your links to the signature. Another few great places to be found are ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, and buzzle.com. All three of these article directories are ranked very well in the major search engines and if you publish a few articles on each your website will get indexed. To find out the keywords you are being ranked well for I recommend signing up for a Google Webmaster Tools Account. Google webmaster tools does a great job keeping track of all the keywords that your website is ranking well for.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Starting A Profitable Blog

In recent years blogging has become one of the best ways a single online business owner can begin earning money. To begin earning money you will need some monetization links. One common way to monetize a blog is by placing Google Adsense ads or other forms of ppc publishing. Affiliate marketing is also a great way to monetize your blog and you will find affiliate marketing is much more targeted than ppc publishing. Some quality resources when trying to find products to market include Walmart and Amazon. You may also want to check out the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website. It is a good idea to pick a few products which are in your area of expertise. The reason for this is you will want to place the monetization links during the developing of your blog and before the first post.

When you begin a blog it is important to decide if you want to use one of the free services on the net or pay for hosting. Those who are new to the online business world should probably use free services for the first year or so. During this time you will be able to decide whether or not online business is for you. Blogger and Wordpress both allow users to create and earn from a blog. The topic will be important to the possible amount of traffic and income. Pick to write about something that you have experience with and have been interested in for quite some time. This will ensure your writings will be read and respected by your audience and you will not grow bored of writing on the topic. You should also be concerned about the amount of possible traffic for the topic you choose. Go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool and type in a few keywords that you think relate closely to the topic you have chosen. This tool will bring up the amount of monthly traffic that the keywords generate and also bring up related keywords and show you their traffic.

Once you have your presence up with keyword implemented into the title, URL, and headings to improve the amount of traffic it will be time to begin internet marketing. This is the process of using all possible traffic methods in an attempt to bring targeted visitors to your new blog. There are several types of internet marketing and some should be used more heavily than others by bloggers. One of the best ways to market a blog is by using social marketing. This type of marketing includes both social networking and social bookmarking. You should be using social networking to build relationships with your readers and be submitting each new post to the major social bookmarking websites which you can find by searching Google. Another type of marketing which will be beneficial for anyone who starts a blog is search engine optimization and you can learn SEO from the webmaster forum v7n.com/forums.

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Monday, August 15, 2011

A Content Filled Internet Business

There are many ways to start an online business, but for those who are wanting to rank well in the search engines and really start making money online creating a business which is based in text content will be the way to go. The reason that text content is the best for an online business is even though search engines may be advanced they can only read text. Search engines can’t watch a video or listen to an audio clip and rank the piece accordingly. With text the major search engines can come to your presence go through all your text content and find the keywords most prevalent and rank your presence for those keywords. Filling your presence with content can potentially lead to social traffic if you are making the presence easy to share. One of the most common forms of text filled online businesses is blogs. With a blog you can add social bookmarking and social networking buttons which can lead to extra traffic.

To begin a business online you will need to find hosting and if this is your first business the best option will be free hosting. For those able to write quality content consistently the hosts you should go with is blogger or wordpress. These are blogging platforms so your audience will expect a consistent flow of textual content. You need to write your fingers off if you want to succeed with a blog. The first step when starting a blog is choosing a topic. This will severely impact the amount of traffic and income you can receive with your blog. Pick a topic that is popular and has been popular for a while. If you need help with finding popular topics search the major social websites or go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool and type in a few terms you think would be popular. Once you have your topic begin creation by writing your first post and filling out an about me page.

In the beginning you should be writing at least one article daily. If there are days you can’t write for your blog try writing a couple posts one day and posting them on the days you don’t have the time to write. One basic way for blogs to get indexed in Google and the other major search engines is pinging systems. These are websites which will tell the major blog networks and search engines that you have posted a new post. Pingler.com is one of the best free pinging services. You will also need to market your new blog and since you will have plenty of old posts article marketing will be one of the best methods. Search for a list of article directories and find 10 or so of the most popular ones. Everytime you write a new post first publish it on your blog then submit it to the list of directories you have. This will help increase link popularity and awareness of your blog. Bloggers should also take advantage of the social bookmarking systems out on the web. Submit your new posts to websites such as digg.com and delicious.com for extra promotion.

Monetization will also be important for your business success and one of the best methods is affiliate marketing. Some high paying affiliate marketing programs include the ones on this paid to take surveys website.

A Legitimate Home Based Business

When you begin looking for ways to make money online there will be scams everywhere you look. Millions of people end up paying money for programs they see online or on tv only to find out a real home based business needs no income to start. To begin a business you will need to start out with a plan. This plan will first need a topic. When trying to find a topic there are a few things you should think about such as the amount of traffic and your interest. When trying to find the amount of traffic check out both Google webmaster tools and Google adwords keyword tool. Google webmaster tools will tell you what you are already ranking well for and the amount of impressions. Google adwords keyword tool will let you know how much traffic any keyword you input has. Your interest needs to be intense if you start a presence on a particular topic. The reason for this is the way to succeed online is to keep going year after year. Working online is much easier when you are actually interested in the topic your writing about.

Once you have your idea it will be time to create a presence. There are many places out on the web that will allow you to host a presence for free. A couple of the most basic include blogger and wordpress. These are blogging platforms which means if you choose to use them content updating consistently will be mandatory. Blog platforms are really good for those who don’t know HTML or other web languages since they create the presence for you without any coding. For those that are looking for a more serious home based business a hosting company will be necessary. There are both free and paid hosting companies all across the web. For those new to online business free hosting would probably be your best option. One of the best free hosts is 000webhost.com. For a larger selection search google for list or directory of free web hosts.

The next step is beginning internet marketing. This is a long process and during the first year you should attempt to learn all you can about search engine optimization and social marketing. Both of these will benefit your online business in the long run. For the majority of my online businesses I focus mainly on ranking well in search engines. To do this you will need to first place the keywords on your presence to let Google know that your presence should rank for the keywords. You will also need to increase the link popularity of your website by increasing backlinks. The absolute best way to increase your link count is creating link bait. This is creating some form of content which has enough quality that when webmasters and bloggers read it they post links to it on their presence which drives your site and the page where the content is up in the search engines.

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Using Squidoo To Make Money Online

There are many different ways you can earn money online and one of the easiest is with squidoo. Squidoo.com is a free hosting service which helps you with set up and publishing. For those who do not know HTML squidoo offers a great way to create a single static page rank it well and begin earning money. When wanting to make money with squidoo you have two ways to do so. The first way to earn money with squidoo is directly through their shared income program. When your lens generates income for squidoo they will pay you a percentage. If you create massive amounts of lenses and use quality internet marketing on them it would be possible to create a sizable monthly income. One thing you must remember when using this system to make money with squidoo is traffic will determine the amount of income. This means if you are not making enough you will either need to market harder or create more lenses to help increase income generation.

The ad revenue sharing program is not the only way to earn money with squidoo. When you create a lens it is possible to rank the lens for specific keywords. You can rank your website for the keywords which relates to items you sale. If you need some programs or products you may want to try click bank, amazon, or the affiliate programs on this paid surveys website. With squidoo you can create as many lenses as you want on any topic you would like. This means you can promote many different products and programs in many different niches then keep the lenses that make you money. This is much different compared with a website or blog. With websites and blogs you need to stick with you niche making sure to promote products that closely relate.

When you begin marketing your lenses they should be marketed like any other website or blog. During creation keyword selection will be key. You are allowed to choose your URL, titles, and keywords. If the lens is one that you plan on marketing a product place keywords that represent the product in these three locations. Really it doesn’t matter what way you would like to earn with squidoo content will be crucial to your marketing and success. Do not create a lens and only have a product promotion and a link to the product. It is important to have quality content related to whatever the page is about. This will give your lens quality helping it both in squidoos ranking system and within the major search engines. When adding content squidoo has several features that will really help out. During creation you should be looking through all of the different modules which allow you to add different things. Some of the most common modules include adding a rss feed, youtube videos, and a guest book.