Money Shiok

Work From Home - It Works

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:46:00 +0000

Frank Bettger wrote in one of the best book on selling ever called How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling "Think in terms of others’ interests, Find out what your prospect wants. Show him or her how to get it."

WFHS program is an epitome of that statement in an online business context. WFHS shows you the potential in generating income from the internet and how anyone who has internet connection and who is keen enough to learn can achieve great success online.

I've discovered that there are may misconception about the concept of "online money making" as being "too good to be true and gimmicky". I think we are too used to the fact that hard work = $ as the norm these days not many people trust the potential of making money passively. I tend not to use the word passive but smart. I'd call it making money the smart way.
WFHS provides step by step formula and strategies to help members generate real results and money the smart way.

EmailCashPro

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:16:00 +0000

EmailCashPro is a Singaporean-based paid-to-read-email service.

EmailCashPro has been around for more than 3 years. Surely it would not be a scam in Singapore, which is known for its draconian policies and legal system. It was featured in the country’s newspaper as seen here as well.

How does EmailCashPro work?

Members register Free @ EmailCashPro.
Registered members select the categories of advertisements they are interested in.
Emails will be sent accordingly.
Emails are opened and members have to follow the links through to the advertisements
Advertisements need to be loaded for 30 seconds to be credited
Credits are converted based on a portion of the earnings of the EmailCashPro.
Referrals can also be made through EmailCashPro. The referral tree can be up to 5 levels!

Minimum payout level is @ $11 and can be made via paypal or cheque. Just not too long ago, EmailCashPro has just expanded to international status though the bulk of the members are still based in Asia.

If you are keen, do click on the banner below to register Free of Charge.

Get money online in 30 Mins- Guranteed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:54:00 +0000

Five Tips to Make Money With ClickBank

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:59:00 +0000

ClickBank not only allows you to accept credit cards on your web site without the need for a merchant account, it also provides other ways in which you can generate income - in this article, I'll highlight five different ways you can start making money with ClickBank by the end of today. 1. Become an affiliate for ClickBank products You can easily sign up as an affiliate via http://clickbank.com/ and then take a look through the full range of products in their marketplace for products you'd like to promote, for example by looking in the appropriate category you should find products that match up well with your existing business and that you'll be able to promote to your mailing list. To promote a product, you simply create a hoplink, which is of the following format: http://hop.clickbank.net/hop.cgi?nickname/merchant Just replace 'nickname' with your own ClickBank nickname, and 'merchant' with the nickname of the merchant. If you're not sure what the nickname of the merchant is, you can always go to their sales page and extract it from their sales link - it's likely to be in the following format: http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?Merchant/1/ProductName where 'Merchant' is the merchant's nickname. Or for an automatic way to generate hoplinks, try the following page: http://clickbanktoolkit.com/promoteaproduct.html 2. Sell your own product through ClickBank There's no surer way of making money online than selling your own product, and with ClickBank you can start doing this quickly and easily. You can sell up to 50 different downloadable products through ClickBank with a single account - and to become a merchant costs less than $50, rather than the hundreds of dollars it often takes to set up your own merchant account. And you won't be alone - thousands of web masters sell through ClickBank including people like Ben Prater, Joe Vitale and Jim Edwards. 3. Sign up your own ClickBank affiliates Just by signing up with ClickBank as a vendor, you can start recruiting affiliates to sell YOUR product almost immediately - and if affiliates are receiving commissions from selling your product, that means YOU are making money. You can define exactly what level of commission you want your affiliates to receive - personally I give my affiliates 50% so we're both on an equal footing. 4. Send ClickBank new clients You can earn cash just by promoting ClickBank itself, full details are available at http://nakayleng.reseller.hop.clickbank.net/ - it's not big bucks, but it's useful as an additional income stream with commissions ranging between $0.05 and $10.00. 5. Promote a ClickBank Storefront ClickBank's own MarketPlace is fairly limited in terms of functionality, but various companies offer a 'storefront' for all (or some) of the products listed in ClickBank's MarketPlace, and each one of which will have your ClickBank affiliate nickname attached. The idea is that you promote your own storefront, and get commissions from people who visit and go on to purchase products that are listed. The most powerful one I've seen is at http://www.cbgold.com/, but there's a couple others you can view for comparison at 1stPromotion.com and ClickbankAffiliates.com.

Bidvertiser

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:16:00 +0000

Bidvertiser

Shopping Ads ..Cool Ads and great earning potential

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:03:00 +0000

Are you happy with just Adsense ? Shopping ad proved to be as good if not better way of making money from your blogs.. The ads are cool..graphical and enticing to readers.. I strongly recommend it.. check them out...and there isn't any complicated requirements or TOS .. you can put as many ads as you want based on your keywords on multiple blogs!!

ShoppingAds allows you to make money by displaying relevant merchant ads on your website. When your visitors click on the ads you can make money on a CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per acquisition) basis. You simply tell us the relevant keywords of merchant ads you want displayed and we will display a matching ad

Google Adsense The Easiest Money To Make Online

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:03:00 +0000

Google Adsense - The Easiest Money To Make Online?

For the last couple of months, Google Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters all over the Internet. Already, there are tales of fabulous riches to be made and millions made by those who are just working from home. It seems that Google Adsense have already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the easiest way to making money online.

The key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on pages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords. The higher the cost-per-click to the advertiser, the more you will receive per click from your site. Obviously, it does not pay to target low cost-per-click keywords and place them on pages that do not receive hits.

With all the people getting online and clicking away everyday, it is no wonder why Google Adsense has become an instant hit.

For some who are just new to this market, it would be a blow to their pride knowing that their homepage is buried somewhere in the little ads promoting other people’s services. But then, when they get the idea that they are actually earning more money that way, all doubts and skepticism is laid to rest.

There are two major, and clever, factors that some successful webmaster and publishers are learning to blend together in order to make money easier using Adsense.

1. Targeting high traffic pages on your website. If you check on your logs, you will discover that many of your visitors are taking advantage of the free affiliate marketing resources and ebooks that you are offering on your site. In simple words, your ads are working effectively and are generating more clicks. It also means more money for you.

2. Placing Adsense links on pages that are producing little, or better yet, no profit. By placing Adsense on a free resources page, you will reduce the amount of potential customers being lost to other sites. Tricky, but effective nonetheless.

When learned to work effectively, these two factors are actually a good source of producing a minimal amount of revenue from a high traffic page. Many people are using this strategy to pick up some extra and cash with Adsense. This is also especially rewarding to informational sites that focus their efforts on delivering powerful affiliate link free content to their visitors. Now they can gain a monetary return on their services.

With the many techniques that people are now learning on how to make the easiest money by their Adsense, it is not surprising that Google is trying everything to update and polish their Adsense in order to maintain their good image.

The possibility of adding is 2nd tier in Adsense is not impossible. With all the people spending more time in their Adsense now and still more getting into this line of marketing, there is no doubt about the many new improvements yet to be made. Imagine the smiles on the faces of the webmasters and publishers all around the world if ever they sign up for sub-affiliates and double or even triple the amount that they are already earning.
The one particularly handy money-making feature that is available with Adsense now is the ability to filter out up to 200 urls. These gives webmasters the option to block out low value offers from their pages as well as competitors to their websites. Talk about taking only those that are advantageous and discarding the ones that seem “useless”.

With Google Adsense, the possibilities are limitless. Yet there is also the possibility of someone taking advantage of the easy money process that this internet marketing is doing. If you think more about it, these negative factors may force Google to break down and thrash Adsense in the process. If that happens, people would have to go back to the old ways of internet marketing that does not make money online as easy as Adsense.

For now, however, Google Adsense is here to stay. As long as there are people wanting to earn some easy cash online just using their talents, the future ahead is looking good. Besides with all the strict guidelines that Google is enforcing over Adsense, it will take awhile for the Adsense privileges to be spammed and even terminated.

5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:02:00 +0000

5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

3 Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:01:00 +0000

3 Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites

To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works.

The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click.

The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a time-consuming task in itself. It seems that there is never a shortage of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of information search engines are providing and are more focused in making cash from these search engines.

The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters. Together with its continuous progression is the appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout.

The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on. It can also appeal to the people visiting thus make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process.

The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Trends are also easily spotted.

With the real-time reporting at hand, the effectiveness of the changes made will be assessed quickly. There would be time to sort out the contents that people are making the most clicks on. The ever-changing demands would be met while generating cash for the webmasters and publishers. The more flexible tools are also allowing webmasters to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are performing best.

The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites. Thus increasing the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product and services. All because of the content and its constant maintenance. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites.

Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more target the search engines’ ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best.

There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most important factors that is taken quite seriously. It still is. With the allure of money, of course.

HOW I MADE OVER US$1200

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:35:00 +0000

HOW I MADE OVER US$1200 A MONTH

Ok, I know almost everyone is used to such catch phrases but this is NOT a catch phrase. It's simple math.

I will make this as short as possible: I am sure you have heard of Incentive based marketing, in
other words you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to earn money.

Ok what is the deal here we are looking at .. Typically US$0.01 for each click. Wait before you close this window and walk away I would like to bring your attention to how I've actually made $1200 a month.

Here's an outline of what I did:

1. I signed up for two incentive marketing accounts - each account serves about 10 ads per day with $0.01 for each link I click
(Immediately I made about US$0.4 total from the two service providers)

2. I start getting referrals under me, now for each click the referrals make I get $0.01 as well.
(By the second week I have about 40 referrals - honestly I could do better but I was busy)

At this point on a daily basis I make about US$16.40

3. Once I reached about 1 month into the programs I have consolidated about 100-200 referrals....

(So guess how much I can make a month? $1200 to $2400)

By now you can tell that the caveat is getting referrals....honestly it's easy ... just get people in line and everyone of us can make money.

So guys and girls - Click Away!

To sign up for your accounts :

Sign up here: Adbux , buxto

ANOTHER WAY to make MONEY!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:46:00 +0000

All talk about making money online via adsense and advertisement is all great but they are also a long term effort. In the meantime for those who is not willing to wait too long another option is by taking online surveys. Yes… Online surveys:
It’s a different experience as compared to writing articles, comments and designing your ad placements.
It is also great for those who do not own a website or a blog, or may not be good at typing or writing articles.
Yes I know, by now I am sure most if not all of the readers of this article is screaming – This is total BS, you can’t make money answering questionnaire! All I see are scams.
Now all we need are some logical sense, surveys are really important to organizations, as important as advertisements if not more essential. Secondly, amongst all the baddies out there, there bound to be some proven and honest ones that you can actually take surveys and get paid at.
One of the Paid survey company I have tried is called Survey Savvy.Survey Savvy is a totally legit company that offers all kinds of surveys online. SurveySavvy is pretty neat because you are paid a flat rate for every survey and there's absolutely no run around. Each of their survey takes between 5 - 15 minutes to complete and they will pay around $2 per survey.
What’s also good about Survey Savvy is that they will send you an email each time there is a new survey available including the details of the survey such as time required to complete. What if you are unable to complete the survey? Although you will not be paid but you're still entered into a monthly contest. The monthly sweepstakes drawing is for fifty $10 prizes. If you sign up now you may even receive your first survey today. Survey Savvy works via demographics, targeting various demographic groups according to criteria established by their clients. If your profile matches the criteria for a specific survey, they will invite you via email to participate. If you qualify for and complete the survey, they will credit your SurveySavvy account for the amount promised in your invitation.The part I like most is that there's absolutely no pay out minimum and you can request your earnings at any time. All Payments are made via check !!!

All about XML, HTML and XHTML

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:07:00 +0000

For those who went through the migration from the OLD Blogger to the NEW one, I believe we have had our share of XML coding issues...
Have you ever bumped into error messages while inserting widgets or codes into the Blogger template such as:
..code could not be parsed, was not well-formed, was broken, or that the elements were not closed properly..

Do not fret, these errors can be rectified but we need to understand the rules and requirements needed in XHTML documents.

The New Blogger uses XHTML 1.0 Strict Document Type.I will try to explain the jargons and also syntax rules so that we can correct errors when we are faced with one.

XML, HTML and XHTML
When you are viewing your Blog .. Go to View > Page Source (or Source) you willsee this document type declaration on the top of the source text.

What XML, HTML and XHTML refer to is the markup language that is used in creating the web pages. We are all familiar with HTML which stands for Hypertext Markup Language which was commonly used in the earlier days of the WWW. XML isExtensible Markup Language is classified as a Meta Language which are used to create other markup languages. The classical HTML was subsequently recast to use the XML rules and thus resulting in a new XML application which is known as XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) XHTML rules are strict unlike the HTML and error message will pop up when you do not conform to the requirements and rules.

Basic Rules of XHTML
1. The Codes Must be in Lower case
XML is case sensitive, thus all the element attribute names and keywords being used should be in the lowecase. As an example the template code should not be this:
<TITLE>MoneyShiok</TITLE>
But this:
<title>MoneyShiok</title>

The elements and attribute names in this case title between the < and > has to be lower case.. However, the value, which in this case is “Money Shiok”, can be in the uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case.

2. Attribute values must be in quote marks " "
All the attribute values have to be enclosed either in single or double quotation marks. The following example is not accepted by XHTML:-

<div id=header-wrapper>
<a href=http://moneyshiok.blogspot.com>Text Link</a>
<img src=myphoto.jpg/>
<table width=200 border=0 cellpadding=2>

It should be written in this way:

<div id='header-wrapper'>
<a href="http://moneyshiok.blogspot.com">Text Link</a>
<img src="myphoto.jpg"/>
<table width="200" border="0" cellpadding="2">

3. Container elements must have closing tags
This will prompt an error

<p>Hello World...

For XHTML, there must be a closing tag with a forward slash (/) at the end:-

<p>Hello World...</p>

Examples of the many non-empty elements that have opening and corresponding closing tags are:-

<ul> ... </ul>
<li> ... </li>
<table> ... </table>
<h2> ... </h2>
<div> ... </div>
<span> ... </span>
<dt> ... </dt>
<dd> ... </dd>
<a href> ... </a>

4. Standalone elements must be closed
Not all elements need to be closed. Some of the elements that do not need a closing tags are:

<br>
<img>
<input>
<frame>
<hr>
<meta>
<link>

There are two ways to terminate these elements being used inXHTML: Method 1 is to put a forward slash

Alternatively you may add a corresponding closing tag like this:-

<br> ... </br>
<img> ... </img>
<input> ... </input>
<frame> ... </frame>
<hr> ... </hr>
<meta> ... </meta>
<link> ... </link>

5. Elements must be properly nested
Elements must be closed in the reverse order. As an example, this code is not accepted in XHTML:-

<form><table> ... </form></table>

It is improperly nested because the form was created first followed by the table. To close it in the correct order the table must be closed before the form.

<form><table> ... </table></form>

6. Document must have only one root element
Aside from the document type declaration we have seen earlier, ALL the codes are Nested between the HTML and / HTML. This is referred to as the root element and all other subelements are placed in between.

<html>
<head> ... </head>
<body> ... </body>
</html>

7. Attribute minimization is not allowed
In XHTML, all attributes should be in the form name="value". Even if the value is the same as the name, it cannot be minimized to one word. Hence, in our About Moneyshiok page, the textarea code cannot be this:

<textarea readonly>Hyperlink Code

but this:-

<textarea readonly="readonly">Hyperlink Code

XHTML Character Entities
Many readers who wanted to use blog templates and they were unable to display HTML codes in their blog and gets an error of not well parsed codes when they insert the codes into their blog template. If you realise the codes are wrapped in the < and > symbols. These will be interpreted as codes and will trigger an action by the browser. If you want to display these as part of a text use their character entities instead. I have added a HTML Parser here.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:07:00 +0000

Spice up your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:07:00 +0000

If you've just signed up for a Blogger or WordPress Blog you would probably start off with the standard template ... kinda boring most would say. Many of us wants our own nice designs and at no cost if possible.
The following are some WP template sources:
Codex
Alexking
Weblogtoolscollection
Themes
Emilyrobbins
Webdesignbook
BloggingPro

For Blogger users: (Note the NEW blogger uses XML)
Gecko and Fly
Finalsense
pannasmontata templates
Caz Templates
Bloggertemplates
Freedesigns
Tothepc
Blogandweb

Others:
Drupal
StyleBrowser

Create Contact Form for Blogger, MySpace, Typepad

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:03:00 +0000

For those using Blogger, usually the only way a reader can contact you is via email and the main drawback of putting your email address on your blog is that it draws in spams. A contact form will solve that problem but Blogger does not support email-form scripting, so we can't create a Email form directly using Blogger.
However there is a nice way of creating your own contact form in Blogger and the best part is that you can get is set up in 5 minutes!
Here's how:
A tool by WebForm Designer allows us to host any contact form externally and all we have to do is to put this contact form in your blog post or Html widget box.
1. First you need a Webform designer application to create your own personalized contact form. You can use your own software but modifications are needed, so I would recommend using the Free WebForm Designer Software.
2. Install the software and launch it. You should see a blank form.
3. Create your own E-mail form and personalize as you wish. Here's an example.

4. All you need to do now is register for a Free Email forwarding service offered by FreeWebform. It will redirect your responses to preferred email address.
5. Hit the Create Code button

6. You will see the Form Coding: Dialog box. Choose "I am using WebFormDesigner's form-to-email service" and enter your User ID sent to you from WebformDesigner during your registration.

7. Click continue and you will end up with a series of HTML form code. Copy the codes and paste it in the HTML elements anywhere in your blog.

As you can see I have created a contact form and added the form in my contact area.

Search Engine Optimization

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:17:00 +0000

What is SEO? We hear this acronym a lot. Well, it means Search Engine Optimization. Basically once you have your blog up and running (See Where do I Start) you would naturally want people to drop by and gain something from your blog.

People discover sites using search engines; personally I am a Google person. You may be a Yahoo person,
whatever it is, Search engines are very critical in getting your blog out in the wind. And it would be especially useful if your site pops up on relevant keyword searches.

I have to say the blog world is a really crowded world. You would want to stand out and be heard. You can follow these tips to make your fruit of labor stand out from the crowd.

Now for the Tips:

1. Make use of Long Tailed Keywords

We know what keywords are but Long Tailed Keywords? Well, they are keywords formed in a string of words typed in by search engine users when they are scouting for information.
For example if you want to search for “Blogs that makes money” you would tend to key in the entire string of words.

What does this mean? To get good hits you’d need to use as much of these strings as possible and there are tools on the web that allows you to look at popular keywords and how current readers finds
your page.

I am using Sitemeter: It is a counter and also allows you to check visitors by referral which shows you were your users come from. If they’ve come to your site via a search attempt then you can see what Long Tailed Keywords they used.

Mybloglog has a feature that tracks where readers came from (Under the search section)
Google Analytics has a similar feature as well.

So what do you do with these keywords? Try to repeat or mention these keyphrases every now and then so that you get constant ranking in those searches. If you note a particular key phrases that brings people to your site, try to talk about it more- maybe worth an entire post on the topic..

2. Outgoing and Incoming Links!

Traffic comes from someplace and the doorways to traffic are links. How do you build links? There are many ways you can do this. Try to write “Link worthy” posts (often these are “DIYs” How-To’s, Strong opinions, controversial discussions, Tips, 101 list which has to be relevant to your blog. Drop some breadcrumbs, drop some quick-links in comments on other blogs with have similar topics. You can write reviews to get backlinks. ReviewMe is offering solutions for these aspects. Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page and usually search engines crawl for these backlinks to determine your popularity. Try to exchange links with relevant blogs by writing to the blog author and request a link exchange.

3. Enrich your blog titles and URL’s with keywords.

Blog titles are very important, the more it contains searchable keywords, phrases that summarize the post’s content the more likely your blog will turn up on searches. So what keywords should I use? Try these free keyword suggestion tools:
Overture
WordTracker
Brandon Hopkins showed how the Wordpress Post Slug can be used to get the some great SEO results

4. Use and Optimize Images

For the past 3 months one of my sister site (http://fishforfood.blogspot.com/) has been getting 60% of it’s traffic from images.

Besides making your blog look cool and arty images can also be used to help you in your optimization efforts.
Here’s how you can optimize your images:

If you are using Wordpress maximize the title tag feature when you upload images. Keyword suggestion tools
can also help you what descriptive keywords to use in labeling your images.

When you upload your images, most people tend to use free hosting sites and usually these sites will change the
image name to some nonsensical codes. That’s not a good thing. If you’ve uploaded an image of Me and Paris Hilton.jpg you want to keep that file name so it pops up on the Search Results Page when someone searches for Paris Hilton... get the drift?

Don’t upload posts that are too huge that it becomes a drag to download your blog which has them. It will annoy readers.

If the images you use are your own, learn how to get credits and traffic by using some simple image editing
skills.

Google also suggests one way to get your images optimized well for their search engine, opt-in to their enhanced image search.

I hope the above will help you quickly get your site out there to the masses. Good luck. Money Shiok let’s make money.

UPDATE: If you want to check your Google ranking try this Google Positioning tool!

Technorati Favorites Exchange

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:31:00 +0000

This is my Technorati Favourites Exchange post and the goal is simply to increase traffic and try to break into the Top 100 favourite blogs on Technorati. More exposure is always welcomed.
Getting into the Most Favorited list doesn’t depend on any other variables like the link count over time, only the number of favorites each blog receives.

This in turn can be used as a social proof on your blog's popularity and hence increase the attractiveness of your site to blog readers and of course advertisers.

It also expands your blog readership. You’re more likely to receive visitors from Technorati if you’re listed in the Top 100 Most Favorited list. The visitors are bloggers, and potential subscribers if you have good quality content.

The Moneyshiok Favourites Exchange is open to ALL Bloggers regardless of your country, blog topic or language.

I WILL exchange favourites will all of the interested parties in this simple project.
SO Why wait? Come and join in the project.

Here's how to participate:

You'll need to have a Technorati Account. If you do not already have one, please sign up here for free.
Favourite Moneyshiok by clicking here to add me to your Technorati Favourites.
Leave your Technorati Username and a link to Favourite your blog in the comments page.
I will reciprocate and add your blog to my Technorati Favourites when I see the link in the comments.
My username is Gonefishing
Provide a "Link Back" to this Blog post within your blog (You can create a similar post to this) about this Technorati Favourites exchange project.

Here are the procedures:Create a post on your blog announcing that you’re exchanging Technorati Favorites. Prominently include a link to this post to indicate that there is a Technorati Favorites and link exchange going on here. Leave the URL of your post in the comment page and I’ll do a link exchange to your blog.
By linking here, you’ll send your readers to participate in this experiment and when I link back to you, the readers of this blog can visit your blog to trade favorites with you as well.
This is a mutual arrangement that allows us to share traffic and readers with each other, and really boost your Technorati rankings!
If you feel uneasy leaving links in the comment page, you can email me anytime .

These are the Blogs I have added to my favourites: (Do Fav them and get a return fav)
1. http://vocino.com/
2. http://elgiganteverdoso.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.cymru66.com/
4. http://pointlessbanter.net/
5. http://sfhuang.com
6. http://bloodycomputer.blogspot.com
7. http://ashish028.tblog.com
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AdSense in YouTube?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:14:00 +0000

There is an interesting "rumor" going around about Adsense in Youtube videos according to this page on YouTube, certain sites can now embed YouTube players that contain an AdSense unit above the clip. Which means you could soon make money by embedding YouTube clips in your site.
The page, spotted by ProBlogger today, doesn’t yet provide a way to sign up for this, and I can’t find any mention in my AdSense account. However, it does display a new type of embedded player that’s long enough to accommodate the ad unit. It also mentions that the player is customizable.
The results could be interesting: if these are the typical Pay Per Click ads (probably a safe assumption), revenues will be low. If they are pay-per-view, however (click the banner to view a video ad in the player), the results could be better.
They also seem to be dodging a bullet: putting these ads on just any old videos would lead to YouTube paying publishers for distributing potentially copyrighted content. That doesn’t appear to be the case; instead, they’ve signed up a number of premium content providers who are happy to have their content shared in this way.
Has anyone seen these players exsist in nature?

WHERE DO I START?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:15:00 +0000

Initially this site is made to focus on AdSense optimization and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) However, I have been receiving emails asking me how does one even get started with a site that can generate income. Hence my topic of "How to get started?"

Let's not even go into Ad affiliates or Tips to get sites ranked or listen when you do not even own a site yet.So here's how to get started. What is a BLOG? A blog is an abbreviated word that stands for weblog. A weblog is a web-based journal in which people can publish their opinions and thoughts on the Internet. Almost anyone can create or start a blog. It's not only easy but in most cases with no cost!
The first question you should ask yourself is which tool to use? There are many blogging services available with a variety of different features. Most of them are free, available as an open source, others require some from of programming, configuration, HTML knowledge to get them up andrunning.

For new bloggers who are not 100% sure it's going to work for them or if you are just trying out blogging then Blogger is the tool for you. It costs absolutely nothing, very stable, extremely easy to use. To use this free service, just sign up and you will be guided with the options available.

If you've had a few blogger blogs and wanted to do up a blog with more features but still do not want to invest heavily in technology- go to Typepad. It provides a little more options than blogger- specifically track backs and categories. It costs more than Blogger.

The Steps to get started..

Decide which tool to use for blogging. Here are some service providers: Blogger.com, MuseCrafters.com, Livejournal.com, JournalHome.com, WordPress.com, TheDiary.org, Mindsay.com, Blog.com, Diaryland.com, Blogdrive.com, or Xanga.com. Most of these sites have ready-made tools and templates so just pick one and sign up.

Once you have signed up, you'll be prompted to select from a range of ready-made templates, pick one that is suitable. However note that templates can be changed later on and there are many free templates for download. Then personalize your blog by adding name, images, interests etc.

Now that you've got your blog framework up, you can start adding nice freebies and widgets on your blog. E.g Images (Note copyright issues), Tagboards, Shoutbox, imoods,guestmaps, guestbooks, site counter, and comment boxes.

Decide on whether or not you want your blog to be private or personal: do you want any anyone on the internet to be able to read your blog, or do you just want to limit access to friends and family ? Many blogging sites allow you to set password to your blog so only authorized visitors can read your blog. If you want to monetize your blog later, this may not be something you want to do.

Most often the pre-defined templates work nice, but once you've started to meddle with the internals of the blog you want to change certain things. Blogger allows you to modify the color schemes and layout of your blog really easily.

After you've set up your blog, create a few posts to test it out, and make any fine adjustments to the color scheme or layout as you deem fit. At first, it will seem tough to figure out what to write, but once you get into a routine of daily blogging, you will find it addictive. If you notice there are different kinds of blogs out there, some are generic where like a journal people blog about their daily lives- some can be interesting especially when you are a public figure but otherwise blogging about what you had for breakfast may not entice readers. You may blog about current affairs, a niche topic focusing on a niche market like Auto modification, Sports, Fishing, Health, something which you have passion for really works.

Even if you may have 2-3 posts, it's never too early to START building a blogging circle. visit other similar blog and leave comments. when you leave comments, add your blogging address so they can visit you too.

If you want to make your blog look more attractive, there are some sites up that have many "skins" and templates that might make it look better. One example is blogskins.com, which also comes with Photoshop and HTML tutorials.

Market your blog by forwarding the URL to your friends or publish the URL on your othre websites. Add the URL to posts you make on other blogs. Join Blogging directories, submit to Google serach. (There are more topics relating to Site optimization and SEOs). You are Done with the First STEP.

Notes...

Content is King- and frequency of posts too.If you update your blog frequently, more people will return on a regular basis to read it. By establishing a returning reader base will give you more motivation to work on you blog.

Integrate Blogging into your lives, look at things and think about how you can "Blog-it"

Look at other blogs- pretty blogs always catches the eye.. learn from other bloggers.

Google for similar blogs, get interacted with these bloggers and share thoughts and comments. E.g. if you are blogging about Sports fishing- google for "Fishing Blogs"
Just like anything- it has to be interesting to pull in crowds. As I have mentioned, not many people would want to know that today you saw Jimmy eating an apple in class. Write about your views, suggestions, or even share Tips.

Always spell check your writing before posting.

DO NOT be discouraged if your blog does not receive too many hits or visitors, it often takes some time before your blog gets noticed and start attracting more visitors.

If you want a broad (international) readership, do not use too many abbreviations or slang terms that might not be easily understood by people who are not from your country/area. In my case I'm using the word SHIOK in the title and I took the effort to explain themeaning of this word.

Get interesting news from Yahoo Oddly Enough..., other Yahoo stories, Crayon.net and other websites that you frequently read.

I find Niche is always best. So remember to pick one topic that you are really passionate about. Note that if you want to monetize your site soon you do not want to create a blog that has offensive contents

Making Money Online is not a myth

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:56:00 +0000

Many people I know tend to dismiss money making opportunities on the web as hog wash. I do not blame them a bit due to the amount of scammers online. Let's not mix both of them up for a while. I myself have been a skeptic! I have been duped with get-rich-quick scams... So I spent considerable amount of time researching. Ad networking and affiliates seems to be the most reliable way of making money online. It's like any magazine you'll find out there and if your readership is high, you'll be getting good money for pixel real estate. As an example here's my second cheque from AdSense, due to the TOS I am not able to disclose the amount, let's just say it's enough to fuel my ride for 3 months. For people who want to know more about how you can start making some cash - contact me or hang around this blog.... Good luck!

Monetize with Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Ever thought of sharing your videos or some other videos you come across and make money at the same time?
Well, Revver is basically a YouTube with monetization

When viewers watch the video you are sharing (and also the embedded ad), you get paid 20% of what the advertiser pays to Revver.
If users click on the Revver link at the end, you split the proceeds 50/50.

Secret ways to enhance traffic...FREE!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:28:00 +0000

Okay, Now that i got you in here... noticed how i got you to this post in the first place? Work your Titles smart...(e.g Post titles, or Title Tags)
1. Use enticing keywords like FREE!, Secrets or Wow in your title -- it sure does attract traffic
2. Use an indication of cost : FREE, 50% cheaper ...
3. It's okay to use one word that's capitalized ...

Widget Bucks (New Advertising Network)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:33:00 +0000

In this site, we have introduced several ways of monetizing your site, be it through networking or pure advertisement space. Recently we have noticed a new player in the market ... called WidgetBucks .

What's great about this is that unlike GIF animated banner, we have more enticing animation and buttons a widget would have in it's advertising.
Just like any other widgets they are available in different ranges and colors can be customized to match your site. They will also alow you to target 13 different categories (Sub categories are available for each category) you have a choice to manually decide on the category or let it run in contectual mode just like AdSense. They call it MerchSense.

Show me the money

So how does one make money from WidgetBucks ? Well you earn money each time someone clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget on your site, also called pay-per-click, or PPC. You can also earn money by referring people to WidgetBucks . According to them a number of publishers have successfully making $3-$6 CPM. Payment is via Check but you need to hit $50 before you trigger your first payment.

How much you earn depends largely on your site's traffic and content.

You'll also be making money by referring publisers to WidgetBucks... you get $5 but that's when they have hit their first $50 payout. .

Great News!
It's giving out $25.00 as a signup bonus. How do you get the money into your pocket? Well make the rest of the $25.00 to reach $50 and your cash register will be ringing.

Overall, I like the concept, the design, amout of customization allowed, it's very clean reporting and how can I not mention the attractive grapics!

I just got mine and I am already loving it... why wait... Go get your own WidgetBucks

Improve Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:08:00 +0000

Ultimately without traffic to your sites, you won't be making anything out of the different campaigns and advertisement you have on your site. Here we will try to list out all possible avenues to increase and improve traffic to your blogs. This will be updated constantly.

Hub Pages
I noticed that hub pages tend to get pretty high ranking in google search results. Thus logically by creating your own Hub Pages it will draw more traffic to your blog.
Go to Hub Pages and sign up for an account. Create your own hub pages, and soon you will see it brining in more customers to your site and hopefully pushing up your page rank.

Yahoo Answers
As they always say ... Help others and you will be blessed. Now, here's a method that allows you to help others and simultaneously increase the traffic to your blog. Go to Yahoo Answers, log into your Yahoo account and search for an appropriate category related to your blog. Using advanced search tools you can search for users looking for answers. Once you answerd their query, put a link on that post. If you have been providing pertinent answers, and people find your blog relevant, they will tend to go back to your blog and you can get repeat visits and loyal readers. In this way you can build up a readership. Please note that Spamming will get you out the door sooner.

Set Pings to YES
One simple way to help build traffic to your blog is to ping blog update notification services to inform them that your blog has been updated. This is done so that they will crawl and update you blog. It used to be done manually however the new blogger has a feature of pinging updates automatically.
Go to blogger SETTINGS > PUBLISHING and set "Send Pings" to YES

Addthis Bookmarking Widget
Addthis has a bookmarking widget that will help your visitors bookmark your website or blog, and promote it to the social bookmarking services, sending you back more traffic.

Get Listed on search engines (Google Sitemap)
The Sitemaps Protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol, and complement robots.txt a URL exclusion protocol.
Learn more here

Get Good Quality Linkbacks
In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. So search for relavant websites, forum, blogs etc that has good content and ranking. Contact the webmasters and ask for link exchanges.

Submit URL to search engines
You can also submit your URL to search engines, but I hear they may not help much. Anyway, here are the links to the sites where you can submit your URL to search engines:
Submit your URL to Google
ExactSeek - Add your URl
Submit URL to Yahoo
MSN URL Submission

Submit site to Directories
We talked about getting and generating inbound links from good websites with good ranking and one of the quickest was is via directories.
Since submission to all sites are relatively similar it would help if you carefully prepare in advance, a title and a short description about your blog which you can then use for all the directories. The best directory to get listed on is the Open Directory.

Google, and many other search engines, uses the data of the Open Directory Project. In fact, Google's Directory is taken from DMOZ, that means if you get listed in DMOZ, your site will also be listed in Google Directory. This also translates to 2 high PageRank and authoritative sites.

I must stress that is is very very difficult to get listed in Open Directories. Try your best to get listed in DMOZ.
However alternatively, start getting listed in blog directories :
Blog Catalog
Blogarama
Blogwise
Globe of Blogs
Bloggernity
Bloghop
Bloghub
Blog Universe

Get Noticed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:52:00 +0000

Get Noticed! Get Listed...
Now that you have made your blog and things are in order ...How do you attract more readers and visitors to your Blog ? To increase the visibility of your blog usually the first thing you wanna do is to submit your Blog URL or RSS Feed to as many good Blog directories as possible. There are hundreds of websites touting themselves as blog search engines, blog directory hosts, traffic exchanges, and feed aggregators. We all knoe there are a few of those website creators that are out to make a quick buck, selling their sites and member database on eBay the moment they attract sufficient traffic.

Blog Directories
Blog Digger
ReadABlog
Blogarama
Globe of Blogs
Kmax Blog Links
BlogDex
BlogUniverse
BlogSearchEngine
BlogHop
BlogWise
EatonWeb
PopDex
Blizg
Blo.gs
BlogCensus
BlogTree
BlogStreet
BritBlog
BlogLines
Bloogz
Australian BlogDirectory
BoingBoing
RootBlog
WeblogDirectory
BlogoSphere EcoSystems
BogMatcher

Blog Syndication
BlogRush Syndication