For those of you that may be unaware, the keyword academy is a website setup by Courtney Tuttle and Mark Butler to help teach people how to make money online. These two do an excellent job of doing just that, and after being a member there for several months I figured a review was in order.

Getting Started with the Keyword Academy
When you first sign up for the website you are instructed to start with the core videos. These particular videos will walk you through everything from finding keywords, to creating content, to building links to the content and getting ranked in the search engines. You see the formula over at the TKA is pretty simple, make a website around a keyword that has potential and is not competitive, and then get the website ranked for the particular keyword. It is a largely simple concept, although do not mistake it for being easy, it will require a lot of hard work.

Moving Forward
After you have finished the core videos it is time to put the concept into action. So first you will do your keyword research, then you will purchase your domain name, then you will write the content for the website, and finally you will begin to build links to that particular website. Its so simple of a process that I may sound like a broken record in every post here at PeterFoti.com but if you want to be able to make money online it is necessary for success.

The program costs just $1 for the first 30 days and then $33 or $29 per month for every month afterwards, depending on your level. The only difference between the two is the forum so I would recommend that you purchase the $33 package for max benefit.

Their are many other features to the program, some of which I will not discuss here, and youll have to wait until you get over there. Though I can assure you that you will not be disappointed with your decision.

If you want a sure fire way of making money on the internet, and do not feel like wasting money on ebooks, or spending countless hours reading blogs across the internet, most of which wont get you very far, then do yourself and sign up for TKA. If your interested you may do so by clicking below.

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Organic SEO (search engine optimization) is the process by which a website publisher puts himself (or herself) in the best possible position to be found by the search engines and ranked for particular keywords. On PeterFoti.com I try to make sure that every post I make is targeting a particular keyword, so that if I do link building I will be found in Google for the keyword I am targeting and receive traffic/money because of it. Many companies (including Foti Networks) offer organic seo services, although unless you simply do not have the time or desire, I would recommend trying to teach yourself.

SEO is broken down into two sections. Off page optimization (Link Building) and On Page Optimization

On Page Optimization
I have discussed this on my blog here plenty of times, but in case you missed it here is the quick breakdown of what on page optimization requires.
1. Keyword in Post Title
2. Keyword in Head Title
3. Keyword as Tag
4. Keyword as Category
5. Keyword as well as Cousin Keywords integrated into blog posts
6. Cousin Keywords as Tags
7. Keyword in Meta Description

This is assuming that you are using word press and targeting keywords with every post, although its pretty much the same thing if you are targeting your whole site to one keyword.

Once you have setup the on page optimization, you are ready to begin the off page optimization.

Off Page Optimization
Natural Organic SEO will require you to obtain backlinks which will then get you ranked in the search engines. If you think of Google as a popularity contest, the site with the most backlinks (votes) will win the top spot, most of the time. However it is important to note that you must use the correct anchor text to make it work. For instance if I were to put a link to PeterFoti.com on another website the clickable text is my anchor text so in this case if I wanted to rank for the term Peter Foti in Google my link would like like this: Peter Foti. If I wanted to try and rank for widgets, my anchor text would be widgets and its variations. You need to make sure that you are constantly switching up your anchor text otherwise you run the risk of getting pinched for Google bombing which is never a good thing. Another thing to avoid is to many links to quickly, which will almost always get you sand boxed.

Getting Links
To me the safest way to get links is from articles. Use the directories available to you, most notably Ezine and Go Articles to submit articles with links back to your websites. Other positive methods include creating hub pages, info barrells, squidoo lenses etc. You can then use these to link to your websites. Another solid way is to request link exchanges with similar websites.

It will be tedious, and until you can afford to outsource it pretty much sucks, but making money online is hard work and should not be taken lightly. I will be posting more organic seo tips in the future, but thats all for now.

Please note that I respond to all comments, emails etc. so if you have a suggestion or a question youd like answered please contact me and I will arrange accordingly.

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If you search the internet long enough you will find a host of mlm and similar home based business offers to run your fingers through and they all look very promising. Unfortunately the programs are almost always filled with empty promises, and your left saying “Like my dad always said, if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.” For that reason, I dont havea list of legitimate home based businesses for you to pick from but I do know that their are more opportunities now than ever before.

Here are some ideas to get you started and perhaps you can turn one of them into a full fledged business someday.

Make Money with Pay Per Click
Perhaps you have heard of Google Adsense, or perhaps you have not, either way its a simple program that many people make money with. The concept is that you as a publisher setup a website and display relevant ads which Google provides about the content on your page. Every time somebody clicks on one of those relevant ads, you are paid. For this to work you are going to have to perform proper keyword research before you get started, and make sure you put up enough websites to do some data analysis when the time comes.

Become an Adwords Affiliate
Or any affiliate for that matter, I simply used adwords because Google is the biggest and the baddest. A pay per click affiliate is someone who buys advertisements for $X from a certain price with hopes of making a return on that initial investment from an affiliate company (such as Peer Fly. Their have been kids who have started in the PPC affiliate marketing business with $100 on a parents credit card who are now multi millionaires, and their are also those who have lost quite a bit because they did not know what they were doing. My advice before jumping into PPC affiliate marketing is to read as much as possible to educate yourself and get a mentor, though it can be tough as the market becomes more and more competitive.

When it comes down to it, their is a legitimate home based business opportunity at every step, and its up to you to fight through the noise and pick what is best for you.

If I were going to recommend you something to start out with, I would buy a domain name with GoDaddy.com – The World’s No.1 Domain Name Registrar first. Pick something with a keyword in it that you think you can rank for. I would search for terms that do not have any sites above PR 3 in the top five search results in Google. .com will be best then .org (IMO) then .net if you cannot get one of these three, do not buy it and find something different. You want something with your keyword in it.

Next youll need some web hosting (I use Hostgator and recommend that you do as well)

Once you have your hosting setup, youll need to setup wordpress and the all in one seo plugin to get started. This will outfit you with the basics and allow you to get started. You may also put your advertisements on right away or wait until you are receiving search engine traffic, many say to wait, I say it does not matter, but it does depend on what form of monetization you are using. If your using Adsense, wait, Amazon or affiliate links, put em on right away.

From there, you should create 4-5 500 word articles that are related to your KW.

Once that is done, its all about back links until your ranked #1, but be careful because to many back links to early will get your site sand boxed.

I know I just sort of threw all that at you, I will break some stuff down in the future, but to get your home based business started, that will work.

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One thing that I realized I have never posted about on PeterFoti.com is how to start an internet business, or at least how I started mine a while ago, so here it is. I started my first company at the age of 14 which you can read about Here with a better picture of me in those days Here. It was a ton of fun for me to be able to be driven by my parents to peoples houses and fix their computers for fifty bucks a pop. I thought I was on top of the world at that point, but as I got older and learned more and more about the internet I knew I wanted to start an internet business.

I originally toyed around with a bunch of ideas and even launched a few of them. Pretty basic stuff such as web design, web hosting, etc. The sad truth was that I was a horrid web designer, and I did not have a dedicated server to host clients so I was working on a reseller plan which to me was simply not worth it. I quickly scrapped those ideas and began to toy around with other money making ideas, and eventually stumbled upon search engine optimization. Im not sure how or why, but some how some way I began to teach myself the ins and outs of SEO. At that point I was also registering domains at a rate of 5-10 per day, and on occasion I would sell them for a quick profit, other times I would develop and monetize.

Around the age of 16 I launched Foti Networks to act as an umbrella company which would basically act as the controlling factor for all of my domains and websites. A short while later, I began to contact clients for private seo services and even mixed in a few domain brokerage/acquisition deals in there as well. I have been doing that for the past (almost) 4 years now, and do not see myself stopping any time soon. My long term goal however is to become an angel investor with small tech start ups which is something that I believe I could succeed in.

Steps to Starting an Internet Business
So you want to know the steps to starting an internet business? Well for me their were no “steps” only true trial and error. No one taught me how to fix a computer at age five (when we got our first family computer) and no one sat next to me and taught me SEO, domain valuation, and the countless other skills that I have picked up across the way. My advice to anyone looking to start an internet business would be to try something that your good at, and just go for it. For me, it did not matter, if I owned a company building motorcycles, I just love business, and for me the internet is my gateway.

Starting up an Internet Business will not be easy, in the beginning especially but if your persistent with your efforts and you outwork your competitors you will find yourself in a favorable situation in the long run.

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So I have been talking a lot about link building in the past few posts and want to get into some additional link building techniques for long term seo. You will often see that I do not incorporate a wide array of link building tools, and I like sticking to the simple ones that work time and time again, although if you search around hard enough your going to found some shady tools that build massive amounts of links that may or may not be safe. In any event, here are the basics of my link building.

Ezine Article Submission
This one is by far the most important to any successful link building campaign. The website at EzineArticles.com is (I believe) a PR 7, and has millions of pages indexed within Google. They keep their articles high quality by screening all of them to ensure quality which is great as a webmaster, knowing that your sites links and articles are not on 2nd tier farms but rather on a high quality platform. Ezine allows you two links per article, and I sometimes will only put one link on the article, to maximize the link juice, but two is still fine. Make sure your using quality anchored text and switching it up constantly.

Go Article Submissions
This is another top notch article directory that I like to submit to with my unique articles. Your getting quality one way back links and although not as solid as Ezine, they are still pretty solid. Not much more to say about go article, but if you are not using them currently I would recommend that you start.

Unique Article Wizard
Once you have an older (aged) website you may want to consider doing some mass article submission for link building. Unique article wizard has you spin your own article content and then it distributes it to thousands of article directories for inclusion. These links are generally much lower quality and I would recommend that you go about this process slowly and not submit more than 5-10 articles per day.

Link Vana, and Other Link Building Networks
Link Vana and other similar networks are rather powerful although they can be a bit spammy as well. I like to use these links on my web 2.0 properties such as hub pages and ezines to boost their link juice, although from time to time I will use it on a money site, its truly up to you. The cost of these services is generally in the hundreds of dollars per month so its not recommended for a newbie, and you do not need it to make money online. If you are going to hard niches and understand the game a bit better and are equipped with a bankroll they are good tools to have.

Web 2.0 Properties
HubPages, InfoBarrell, Squidoo etc are all examples of web 2.0 properties which allow users to create content and link out from it. With these particular sites their is a revenue sharing model in place as well which is nice for residual income, even though the reason you are building them comes from back links.

Their are plenty of link building techniques out there. Some black hat, some white, but whats important is not the tactic itself, but rather the consistency that you show with that tactic. If your posting 1 ezine article a week or a month, you should not expect great results. If you are submitting 1 per day however, you can expect to see your rankings shift.

Work hard and make money, thats the model.

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Anyone who has at least done some reading into what it takes to make money on the internet understands the fact that link building is crucial to the success of any website. Even if your hoping to make it big as a Gary Vaynerchuk style blogger, back links and seo can still help your site succeed. Id like to break down some (but not all) of what I do for link building seo to make my sites rank in the search engines.

On Page Optimization
Although this is not part of the link building step with seo, on page optimization is an important factor and you will find it very difficult if not impossible to rank without it. On page optimization essentially means that you want to make sure your keywords are spread throughout the page that you are trying to rank for. I make sure to put my keyword in my post title, page title, and URL. These are the three places that the search engines will most often check to see if your site is optimized for their search engines. As a side note, if you are doing keyword research and find that one of your competitors sites does not have the keyword you are targeting in their title, it usually means that the site should be easy to beat. Though make sure your checking PR as well however, considering the fact that if the PR on the particular page is to high it will be very difficult to beat.

Off Page Optimization
The off page optimization of a website is where the link building seo part comes in. Their are many seo link building services out there, however if you can teach yourself, you will be much better off in the long run. The process here is simple, your goal is to get one way anchored back links to your website for the reason of ranking your site higher in the search engine. Think of Google as one big popularity contest, and whichever site receives the most votes (links) will rank the highest, assuming it is optimized for the search engines. SEO and Link Building go hand in hand, and I would say that link building is seo, considering the fact that without links you dont have much of anything.

Where To Get Links
When you are link building for seo it is important to get high quality one way back links. If you are trying to rank your golf site for the term “Callaway Golf Clubs” then your best case scenario is to a link from the callaway golf company to your site with no link back. Googles views the callaway site as an authority and thus it will pass a large amount of link juice back to your site and help you to climb the rankings. Now, its most often not going to be possible to obtain a link from such a site. For this reason many internet marketers utilize article marketing as their main form of link building. Sites such as ezine and go articles allow users to submit 250+ word articles, and in return get a link (or two) back to their website. Sites such as these are high quality authority websites that are beloved by Google and thus will help to get you ranked quickly. Their are many other link building services out there, some of which I use, but for now I will not delve into the topic, I will post that at a later date.

In the end I would recommend starting out by getting links from article directories, and link trades with other websites, as that will give you the best bang for your buck while getting started. I hope you enjoyed these seo link building tips, and I will be back tomorrow with even more for you.

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So its been a slow couple of days here for me and my websites. Yesterday morning I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed. Its not a painful a process as most people make it out to be, I was asleep in about five seconds, and was given novacane before I went home to mask most of the pain. After that, I began taking the prescription medication that they give you, so their is not a whole lot of pain to speak of. However I will say that I am much more tired than usual, and its from the meds, so it has been hard to get anything done, although I am getting back into the swing of things.

Backlinking
I have been backlinking my affiliate snipers like crazy in recent weeks. Using a variety of link building tools (all 100% white hat), mainly article submissions, and I am already seeing some results. Ive got about 15 new sites setup that I would consider “money” sites, and they are all doing the first page google dance, so its only a matter of time before they hit that number one spot and start to churn some real cash.

New Sites
I have been buying domains like a mad man as of late, most of which I plan to put sites up on later, some of which though hold resale value right off the bat, and all of which get type in traffic. I only hand register domains, but I take advantage of the expired lists that come out daily to help pad my portfolio.

60 Day Challenge
Im moving along in the sixty day challenge, and once I have all of the current sites properly backlinked I am going to move towards building more amazon sniper sites. To me these are the coolest because so many products have such little competition in Google, that its easy to snipe your way to the top. The sites will only end up making 50 cents to a dollar a day on average (I would assume) but with 50 to 100 sites, it can make a pretty big difference.

Thats all for now, ill chat with you all later.

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As part of my 60 day challenge I have decided that I will be writing a total of one hundred and twenty posts over the next sixty days. The purpose of these posts will be to target a keyword and is related to this blog that I think I can rank myself for in Google after I do some minor backlinking. I am not looking to write about the term “money” and get ranked for it, rather I am going to be targeting long tails of keywords such as “how to make money with a blog online.” These keywords are all going to be more than three words long, and just about every single one of them will have less than one hundred google searches per month. However when you do what I do, you have to look at the big picture. 100 posts with 100 searches per months is 10,000 and if 5,000 people come to the site, then I have done my job. From there the money making aspect all depends on who clicks on an ad, how much that ad pays etc. but never count your chickens before they are hatched. Get the visitors to your site and let the advertisements take care of themselves.
Back to the task at hand. I will be making a spread sheet of all of my blogging keywords (which I have not come up with yet). The keyword will allow me to record the keywords, its URL, and the number of backlinks that I have sent to it as well as where they are from. You want to make sure that you are effectively recording everything that you are doing to make money online. If you dont you might find yourself backlinking with the same keyword over and over which might get you in trouble in Google. You want to continually mix it up over the long haul to make sure you have a diverse link profile.
Beyond that I dont have much more to report. I have created about 20 new sites since I started my challenge. I have bought WP robot which I will use for my support blogs and such. The one thing I have not even begun to work on is the Foti Sports show, but I will work to get those done as soon as possible. I just want everyone to know, that regardless of what some douche bag blog commenter says here, I work very hard. I dont talk about making money and not actually make it myself. The key to making money online is hardwork and persistence, so dont be fooled by a get rich quick scheme or any other scheme for that matter.

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