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115 Marketing Strategies For Small Business

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:09:00 +0000

Its incredible. A long list but worth a read.

115 Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Internet Marketing - Think Differently. Blackhat Method

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:59:00 +0000

Blackhat marketing - This is a form of internet marketing which employs deceptive, less than truthful methods to drive web traffic to a website or affiliate marketing offer. This method sometimes includes spam, cloaking within search engine result pages, or routing users to pages they didn't initially request.
There is a lot of controversy about whether Black Hat SEO is really "bad" in the ethical sense.

Google makes it clear that it disapproves of certain SEO tactics, such as hiding keywords with invisible text, or showing one page to Google's spider and another to actual human visitors. (See what Google recommends and what they don't.) Methods that conform to what the search engines like are called White Hat SEO, and disapproved methods are called Black Hat SEO.
White Hatters say that Black Hatters are unfairly trying to manipulate the SERPs. Black Hatters counter, "What constitutes 'fair'? Isn't any change you make to your page for SEO purposes an attempt to influence rankings? Why is one method less pure than another when we're all just trying to get our pages to rank higher? Further, if an engine is ranking a bunch of irrelevant sites above mine, what's so wrong about using any method at my disposal to get my relevant site ranked above them? Doing so doesn't benefit just me, it benefits the searchers because it gives them what they're searching for. And it also benefits the engine, because searchers will think better of the engine for giving them more relevant results than it would have otherwise."
Adding to the controversy about Black Hat SEO is the fact Google does allow a certain select few sites to operate contrary to its own stated policies. Danny Sullivan complains that Google's cloaking policy is inconsistent (more on cloaking below), and that the policy wording should be updated. He further notes that the reason Google allows some cloaking is that it improves searching rather than hinders it, and that it's therefore inappropriate to think of cloaking as synonymous with "bad".

Whether you think Black Hat SEO is bad or not you should avoid it anway, because it can get you banned from the search engines, or at least reduce your ranking. Google has been known to remove sites it felt weren't playing fair. Granted, this isn't likely, but why take that risk? Also, much Black Hat SEO involves some fairly technical work. If this article is your introduction to SEO, you likely don't have the skills to be a successful Black Hatter anyway -- at least one who doesn't get caught.

If you want to stay on Google's good side, here are some things to avoid:
Invisible text. Don't put white text on a white background. In fact, don't put even very light yellow on a white background. The engines aren't stupid; just because the colors aren't exactly the same doesn't mean they can't figure out there's no contrast. Yes, there are clever ways to try to fool Google about what the background color actually is, but Google is probably aware of most of them anyway, and I won't cover them besides.
Cloaking. Google knows what's on your site because periodically its automated robot called Googlebot visits all the pages in its index, and grabs all the page content so it can analyze it later. Cloaking means showing one page to Googlebot and a completely different page to real human visitors. Google despises this aplenty.
Keyword Stuffing. The engines want your pages to be natural. Finding every place to cram your keywords onto your pages -- or worse, including a "paragraph" of nothing but keywords, especially if they're repeated ad nauseum -- is a big no-no. Do you consider pages with lists of keywords to be high quality? Neither does Google.
Doorway pages. A doorway page is a page built specifically for the purpose of ranking well in the search engines and without any real content of its own, and which then links to the "real" destination page, or automatically redirects there. Doorway pages are a popular choice of some SEO firms, although Google has cracked down on this and many webmasters saw their pages disappear from the index. Some SEO firms call their doorway pages something else, in an effort to fool potential customers who know enough to know that they should avoid doorway pages. But a doorway page is still a doorway page even if you call it something else. Some engines may decide that an orphaned page is a doorway page, and if so then the page or the site might suffer a penalty.
Spam. Spam has a special meaning with regards to SEO: worthless pages with no content, created specifically for the purpose of ranking well in the engines. You think they have what you're looking for, but when you get there it's just a bunch of ads or listings of other sites. The webmaster is either getting paid by the advertisers, or the page is a doorway page, with the webmaster hoping that you'll click over to the page s/he really wants you to go to.

Penalties:

It's important to distinguish between the two punishments from search engines since they're entirely different. Being banned means your site is removed from the index completely. This is pretty rare; most people who think they've been banned are actually still in the index. It's easy to tell whether you've been banned by Google. Assuming your site was in the index to begin with, search Google for site:yourdomain.com. If you get any results, your site hasn't been banned.
Being penalized means having your rank reduced. Unfortunately I know of no way to test for this. I do think that most of the time a webmaster thinks they've been penalized they're wrong. Rankings change, sites drop -- it's all part of the way the search engines work. But often many people take it personally and feel they're being victimized.

Source: Brian Whaley's list of 20 blackhat practices

Effective Link Building Strategy

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:43:00 +0000

An effective link building campaign requires one major ingredient: variation.

If your goal is to get organic, natural backlinks. The kind that both visitors and search engines love most. The kind that happen naturally on their own, but that you must also push along a bit for proper content marketing…!

Ideally you’ll want a variety of links, coming from a variety of source types – with variation in the anchor text of the links as well.
It’s unnatural, and therefore appears spammy, to get 100 new backlinks all from social bookmarking sites only, and all with the exact same anchor text. This is likely to send up a red flag, and do more harm than good to your seo strategy.
This is not effective link building. It’s similar to running for a political office, and visiting all of the voting booths yourself… to cast votes for yourself.
An effective link building campaign is one that appears more like a natural buzz. Google counts links to your site as ‘votes’ for your content, and they are most interested in what other sites/people have to say about it than what you say.
In order to create that natural appearance for your inbound links, you use variation. You’ll want to get links from blog posts, blog comments, social bookmarking sites, social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, web pages, press releases (if appropriate), article directories, niche directories, discussion forums, etc.
You’ll want a variety of anchor text in those links as well. This is best achieved by using longtail keyword phrases, or by using more than one keyword phrase that is relevant to the content on that page.
The advantage to using variation in your anchor text is that not only do your links appear more natural, which means they’ll carry more weight with the major search engines, but you can achieve top rankings for more than one search phrase.
For example, I have one web page that ranks in the Top 3 for three different keyword phrases. I make sales from that page every single week (and some weeks, every day). This is due to using the three different phrases as the anchor text, and switching it up each time I get a new link to that page.
You can create an effective link building campaign by kick-starting the buzz, and with great content you’ll end up with many more natural backlinks in addition to those you create yourself.
This is not something you want to do for every single web page or blog post, but it’s well worth it for those pillar articles – or those pages/post you most want to rank well in the major search engines.
An effective link building strategy might include:

Create internal links from related pages on your blog/site
Tweet the link and ask for feedback
Publish the link on your Facebook profile or page
If a blog post, create pingbacks to related blog posts
Comment on related blog posts, using your specific link in the URL field
Published a related YouTube video, include the hyperlink in the description field
Add the link to your niche discussion forum profiles
Include the link in your forum signature on niche forums
Submit relevant articles to article directories with the link in the byline
Submit a press release (if appropriate for your content piece)
Write guest blog posts on niche blogs, with the link in your signature
Engage in Cross Blog Conversations with other bloggers on the topic
Include the link with 5-10 other related links on a social bookmarking list
If the link is to the main page, add it to niche directories
If the link is to the main page of a blog, also add it to blog/RSS directories

If you have a really good piece of content, these strategies will kick-start a natural buzz and new unsolicited links from a variety of sources. People may find and like your content and then stumble, tweet, bookmark, or blog about your link. And that’s exactly what you want.
Sure, this is work – particularly in the beginning. But once you identify your best sources you’ll find that it becomes faster and easier with time. You’ll have a list of blogs in your RSS Reader, a list of niche forums you’re engaged with, etc. And you can also outsource the tasks once you get a working strategy in place.
The variation in anchor text and sources is incredibly important for effective link building. Never dismiss a linking opportunity due to PageRank, Nofollow attribute, lack of option to include anchor text, etc. You need these to offset your highly optimized links… to avoid the dreaded “over-optimization” (ie: search engine manipulation, spam).

Source : Lynn Terry

Google Adds AdSense for Feeds, Feedburner Data to Analytics

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:53:00 +0000

If you use AdSense for Feeds or Google Feedburner to manage RSS feeds on your site - and you use Google Analytics - then you'll be glad to know Google is connecting the two.

You'll be able to view click data for your feeds services in Google Analytics .

Analytics will tag the Source as "Feedburner" and the Medium as either "feed" or "email" depending on how the feed item was sent out. Content will show the endpoint (i.e. Google Reader, Yahoo! Mail). Check for the data under "All Traffic Sources" and "Campaigns" views in Google Analytics.

Google Analytics gathers this data when item clicking is turned on in Feedburner. So you'll need to have that enabled for this to work - or not if you don't.

Advanced analytics users can also configure their Analytics tracking within their Feedburner settings.

Want to Spread your Idea - Try to Narrow your Message Focus

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:20:00 +0000

A persuasive blog post or sales letter argues one point and accentuates it thoroughly with analogies, metaphors, examples and references. Just one point, by trying too hard and quoting too many you’ll not only lose your own focus but the attention of your audience.
Yesterday, I visited my friend's place and noticed that she put a large piece of paper on her bedroom wall, next to where she slept.
On it was written some quotations and general life principles. She wanted to remind herself of these words when she woke up everyday and before she went to bed. It’s a self-improvement trick to overcome negativity and focus on the important things.
So I got curious and read what she wrote. After I came home, I tried recalling what I read but could only come up with two lines. The rest were a blur.
If it was up to me, I would split the large piece of paper into little post-it notes, each with one message and paste them all on the wall or different parts of her room, perhaps one in the closet, two on the bookshelf.
I think they’ll have more impact than a large piece of paper, crammed to the brink with powerful lines. Ideas spread when they are remembered. And they stick in the mind better when they stand alone, without competition from other opposing ideas.

A persuasive blog post or sales letter argues one point and accentuates it thoroughly with analogies, metaphors, examples and references. Just one point, because too many and you’ll not only lose your own focus but the attention of your audience. You don’t want to distract them from taking action.
Too many statements and important points can be an obstacle. When you want your audience to remember a message, make it clutter-free and uncomplicated.
Good marketing campaigns condense the entire event, website or product into one slogan, a few buzzwords and a tagline. And it works marvelously well.
If you can’t sum up your business in one sentence, if your visitors can’t figure out the purpose of your website in 10 seconds, you’re not communicating. You’re not sticking in their head. And that doesn’t help your ideas or brand to spread.

List of Free RSS directories

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:10:00 +0000

A list of Free RSS directories to submit your RSS feed and blog. Submitting to RSS directories can help you to increase traffic and readers. It is a long list below, so take some time to submit one-by-one.

You do not need to register. Can submit your blog for Free.
* BlogDigger.com
* Bloglisting.net
* BlogPulse.com

More RSS sites:
* DayTimeNews.com
* Feed24.com
* FeedBoy.com
* Feedest.com
* FeedFury.com
* Feedooyoo.com
* FeedPlex.com
* Feeds2read.net
* Jordomedia.com
* MillionRSS.com
* MoreNews.be
* MySpace.com News
* Octora.com
* Page2go2.com
* Plazoo.com
* RocketInfo.com
* RSSmicro.com
* RSSmotron.com
* Rss-Feeds-Submission.com
* WeBlogAlot.com
* Yahoo RSS Guide

All the Best :-)

Referential Messages: Create High-Impact Information

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Successful ideas and messages are shared when people are able to relate to it on their own terms, within their existing worldview. Data will remain cold, inert and impersonal unless it is framed in a concrete way that is relevant to the experiences of the recipient. You don’t want cold data. You want high-impact information that leaves a strong impression on your audience, so they’ll pass it on to others in their network, who’ll then do the same.

One way of doing that is to create a message using references which are not only easily understandable but inextricably entrenched in the day to day experiences of most people. A solid message with strong references lightens the burden of information consumption.

The use of concrete references contextualizes a message immediately: This is what happened, here is what’s going on. And soon enough the audience will complete the next step for you by asking what happens next and what they can do. They’ll seek out more information because they want to adjust to the new perspective they’ve obtained.

I came across a great example of this, in the form of an video creating greater awareness on the costs incurred by the U.S in the Iraq War. This video uses common referentials (cars/houses etc) to make information not only intimate but strikingly memorable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8y6zEc8x5w

When creating content or planning your ad or marketing campaign, don’t be afraid to use references to contextualize the information you’re sharing. They will work very well indeed.

Source:-Dosh-Dosh

Be an Authority - Lessons for Niche Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Why the emphasis on forerunners in a specific niche? Because being perceived as an authority on a topic or in an industry leads to many benefits for your blogging career, especially when it comes to monetization and the art of making serious money from your blog.

Being an authority in your niche will:

Increase your readership and audience. When you’re considered to be an expert on a specific topic, audiences with an interest in the niche will follow your blog as it provides them with relevant information as well as inspirational fodder for their own blogs, businesses or websites.
Make you inherently linkable. While not everything you write is link-worthy, the sheer amount of the people tracking your blog ensures that it naturally has a high link-attracting potential. Links will of course bring (a) new audiences, (b) SEO benefits and (c) long-term traffic.
Develop your Ad Selling potential. Your ability to negotiate for buying ad pricing and arrangements depend not only on your traffic levels, but also partly on your ability to influence opinion.
Naturally develop word-of-mouth recommendations. If an absolute newbie were to ask you to recommend one website about making money with blogs, would you suggest Problogger instead of other newer or less established blogs? Authority blogs dominate the playing field when it comes to beginners who need information on a specific topic.
Maximize your affiliate selling potential. Buyer consumption is heavily dependant on trust and and being regarded as one of the top dogs in a niche allows your personal recommendations to carry a lot of weight.
Create money making opportunities away from your blog. Consultations, networking conferences, paid writing gigs at other websites, product sales, blog collaborations and joint business ventures are just some of the options that come from being recognized as an expert in a niche.

Google PageRank: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:43:00 +0000

Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land has written a terrific introduction to Google PageRank that deserves to be read by anyone who’s interested in learning the details behind how Page Rank (PR) actually works as well its relevance to your blog or website.
With most webmasters eagerly anticipating the upcoming PR update, this article dispels several unfounded myths and situates the focus on PR within a balanced link building / SEO strategy.

Written for both internet searchers and webmasters, Danny uses a large variety of official documents from Google to come up with various explanations which define PageRank and examine it’s relationship with search rankings.
The article also highlights the key differences between the actual internal PR and the “Toolbar” PR, which is what you see if you use Google Toolbar or the brilliant SearchStatus Firefox extension, a extraordinarily helpful SEO tool which I highly recommend.

Here is a excerpt from the article, on the difference between internal and toolbar PR:

Internal PageRank are the PageRank scores that Google uses as part of its ranking algorithm. Those scores are constantly being updated. In contrast, the PageRank scores that Google allows the world to see — Toolbar PageRank — is a snapshot of internal PageRank taken every few months.

The conclusion to Danny’s excellent writeup is also noteworthy because he brings out an important point that can be overlooked when building links for your website:

If you really want to know what are the most important, relevant pages to get links from, forget PageRank. Think search rank. Search for the words you’d like to rank for.
See what pages come up tops in Google. Those are the most important and relevant pages you want to seek links from. That’s because Google is explicitly telling you that on the topic you searched for, these are the best.

So if you’re trying to rank well for those lucrative keywords that help you make money, remember to not only buy relevant ads that send you strong referral traffic but also search optimized keyword links from similar websites in your niche.
While an attractive Page Rank will help you make more money from link selling, a more important long term strategy is to ensure that your website consistently receives organic search traffic, which you can monetize through on-site ads or affiliate recommendations.

An Introduction to NICHE Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Simply put, niche blogs are blogs which exclusively focus on a specific subsection of a general and usually popular topic.
For example, gadgets and technology is a general topic field and a blog entirely about robotic pets can be called a niche blog.
Here’s another example: Japanese food is the general topic and a blog that focuses exclusively on bento box designs or Japanese set lunches is a niche blog.

Five Characteristics of a Successful Niche Blog

Laser-focused Content. The niche blog has a very tight content focus and all of its blog posts must be strongly related to the niche while only occasionally including material in the general field from which it is drawn.
Small Scope. The niche blog has a small content scope, which allows it to easily go in depth on the chosen topic and dominate it.
Unique Material. While niche blogs can be created through feed-based aggregation of content via search engines or other blogs, they have more longterm value for visitors if they offer content that is unique and currently unpublished on other websites.
Monetization-friendly Blog Template. Basically, you’ll need a fairly unique blog template that is easily customizable and flexible enough to accommodate heavy monetization.
Has an audience. It is important to choose a niche that actually has an audience, no matter how small. Ideally, the niche should be one that will naturally receive search engine visitors over time.

How do I Make Money with a Niche Blog?

Let it be known from the onset that the monetization strength of a niche blog lies in its exclusive and ever deepening focus on one topic and nothing else.
Niche blogs are remarkably easy to monetize and they can be very profitable in terms of ad earnings. For example, a niche product blog will do well with product and action-orientated advertising networks like Auction Ads and Chitika.
This tight focus on a specific topic also opens up a lot of doors to relevant affiliate programs, which can provide recursive income.
These ad networks can and usually are accompanied by Google Adsense, a popular contextual advertising solution that complements the keyword/phrase heavy content that are found in all niche blogs.
Google Adsense is a remarkably fuss-free way to make money from any website and niche blogs are no exception. Some reasons why Adsense and Niche blogs fit together:

Relevancy. In most cases, Adsense provides targeted advertising that fits your content well, especially if your blog posts are keyword dense and doesn’t stray from the general blog topic.
Effectiveness. Depending on your ad placement and blending, Adsense is one of the best ways to make money from search traffic. Visitors arriving at your blog are looking for specific information and Adsense tends to fill that need quite well.
Passive Income. Adsense is more or less a set-and-forget system which allows you to concentrate on producing more content that attracts and retains visitors to your blog. It provides a basic monetization level that can be supplemented by other ad programs.

Source:- Dosh-Dosh

How to Monetize your Blog with BIDVERTISER

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

If you’re looking for another option to pay per click advertising, Bidvertiser is a great solution. You earn money from your blog each time someone clicks on a Bidvertiser ad. Best of all, you don’t have to pay for advertising to use Bidvertiser and the payout rate is only 10 bucks.
Read: Alternative To Adsense
Read: Make Money Using Bidvertiser Blackhat Method

How to Monetize your blog with BIDVERTISER in 8 easy steps? Read on..

# Step 1
Set up a free blog on the Internet that is in a specific niche topic. It’s easier to maintain a money earning blog if you have just one topic and the Bidvertiser ads will match better.

# Step 2
Visit the Bidvertiser website and set up an account as a publisher. This only takes a few minutes.

# Step 3
Go to the publisher’s section of Bidvertiser console.

# Step 4
Click the Add New BidVertiser. Click Add Bidvertiser under new domain and type in the URL of your money making blog. Then click finish.

# Step 5
Click Templates Design and pick out a style you’d like your Bidvertiser ads to appear on your money making blog for visitors to view.

# Step 6
Click Bidvertiser Center and then get ad code. A new window will pop up with your ad code in it. Copy the ad code.

# Step 7
Go to your money making blog and paste the ad code into your blog template (Or/Alternatively) Go to your blog and click the "customize" button at the top of your blog. You will be taken to your blog customization page. Click on the "add a gadget" option. Click on the HTML/Javascript option and paste the bidvertiser code. Save the settings.

# Step 8
Lastly, you should now see the bidvertiser PPC ads on your blog. If not, refresh your browser and they should appear. You can add as many bidvertiser PPC ads that you want to your blog and get paid every time a blog visitor clicks on the bidvertiser ad. Check your bidvertiser account each week to watch your earnings grow from your blog.

The Adsense Formula for Making Money

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:31:00 +0000

I often get asked what the secret is to making money with Google’s AdSense program. This often comes from people who are dreaming of setting up websites chock full of high-paying keywords for particular niche subjects and then sitting back and watching the money roll in. "What’s the magic formula?" they ask me. If they’re non-technical, I point them straight to my first AdSense book, make easy money with Google, and assure them that they’ll learn everything they need from it. They may think it’s hard, but it’s not.

But what about the technical people? By this I mean the people who’ve already set up a blog or website, who have registered domain names, who are comfortable with basic Internet terminology and concepts. What is the "AdSense formula?"

The only AdSense formula that you need to know is this:

earnings = number of clicks * average price per click

This is what I call the Fundamental AdSense Formula because you can derive almost every AdSense "secret" directly or indirectly from this formula. Do you want to earn more with AdSense? You have two ways of doing it:

* Increase the number of clicks, and/or
* Increase the average price per click

Your earnings will only go up if you do one or the other, and ideally both. It’s an obvious formula, yes, but it’s amazing how many people lose sight of it in their quest for increased AdSense earnings.

Increasing the Number of AdSense Clicks

Increasing the number of times the ads on your site or blog are clicked is the most obvious strategy. There are two general strategies you can follow:

* Increase the traffic to the site, and/or
* Adjust the ads to make them more "clickable"

Getting traffic is hard and takes time, so don’t look at it as a quick fix. The best way to get traffic is to provide useful, unique content and to rank highly in search engine rankings for keywords related to that content. In other words, use standard search engine optimization techniques. DO NOT "buy" traffic or use "link farms" or other dubious techniques. Other tips for getting traffic:

1. Publish articles, even free ones, with links back to your site.
2. Include a link to your site in the signature at the bottom of your emails or in any forum postings you make (if the forum allows it).
3. Participate in forums/groups related to the content of your site or blog. The key is to participate, not lurk, and don’t just post messages promoting your site.
4. Add comments (relevant ones only, please) to other blogs, you can usually link back to yours. (This won’t help your search engine rankings, but it may allow others who are reading those comments to find your own site.)
5. Syndicate your content (trivial if you have a blog) and make sure that the content is registered with syndication aggregators.
6. List your site in relevant directories.

Adjusting the ads is something you can do almost immediately:

1. Position the ads on the page in order to make them more noticeable. Google even publishes a helpful heat map for AdSense publishers.
2. Choose the best AdSense ad format that works for your site.
3. Change the ad colors either to make the ads blend in with your site or to make them stand out. Again, it varies depending on the site.

Whatever you do, DO NOT ENTICE VISITORS TO CLICK THE ADS. Google is very strict about this, see the AdSense program policies for the details.

Increasing the Average AdSense Price Per Click

Increasing the average price per click you receive from AdSense is the other strategy for increasing your overall AdSense earnings. You can do this by:

* Carefully targeting your content, and/or
* Filtering out and avoiding low-paying ads

Content targeting isn’t just about creating relevant, unique content. It’s also making sure that that content is written to target the higher-paying keywords associated with a given topic. This means:

* Figuring out which keyword variations for that topic pay more. Often the more specialized variations and phrases pay more than the “generic” terms.
* Ensuring that the keyword density of the content favors the higher-paying keyword variations.

And to reduce the occurrence of lower-paying ads, consider these two strategies:

1. Use AdSense’s competitive filter mechanism to screen out the ads that you don’t want.
2. Show fewer ads on a page. The fewer ads you show, the more the higher-paying ads get displayed and clicked.

Many publishers also report that their earnings increase if they remove ads completely from pages with few or no clicks. Again, the “less is more” strategy favors the higher-paying ads.

There’s No Magic

As you can see, there’s no magic involved to increasing your AdSense earnings. The Fundamental AdSense Formula is easy to understand, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to apply the formula. It takes time and effort to do it, just like most things.

Copyright 2005 by Eric Giguere. Permission is granted to reproduce the article in electronic newsletters or on websites provided that the complete article text is included, unchanged, and that neither the copyright declaration nor this license are removed.

(Source : http://googleasens.blogspot.com)

5 tips to boost your adsense CTR

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:13:00 +0000

I've been an Adsense publisher for some time now, and I would like to share 5 Adsense techniques that helped me increase my monthly Adsense income.
Hopefully these tips will work for you, too.

1. Blend your Ad background with your content. Nothing turns off a visitor more than a page that's full of loud ads. Take a calmer approach to your advertising, and make your Adsense ads look like relevant, helpful content instead of instant money makers.

2. Stay away from the Default Adsense Template. As web surfers, we all have become oblivious to the default Google Adsense layout. Alter your palette, and bring an original look to your site's Adsense units.

3. Use Blue Links. Ever since the internet was born, visitors clicked on blue links. Everyone's used to it. So stick with the blue links, and test lighter/darker versions of them.

4. Use fewer Adsense Units. When I switched from 3 adsense units to 2, I experienced a quick boost in CTR. Many of your Adsense units go unnoticed, which hurts CTR and CPM. Experiment with few Adsense units, and see if it helps your CTR or not.

5. Test, Test, Test. This is the most important concept of all. Never get too complacent with your CTR. You can probably always do better. Always use channel tracking to follow your changes. Keep testing and tweaking, and so enough you will find the best Adsense recipe for your websites.

Try out these 5 Adsense tips, and develop your own action plan when adding Adsense to your web pages. Believe me: small changes can translate into huge gains in incomes. So stick at it, stay positive, and never give up.

How to Increase Targeted Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:35:00 +0000

After your created your website (or blog) and optimized your Adsense, the next and perhaps the most important thing is to attract targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors who come to your site because of genuine interest in the content you provide, not merely by accident. Such kind of visitors will probably search further and are more likely to click on your ads.

So you need to make your site visible to the people who are looking for the content you provide. Some of the common ways people find your site are:

- By search by keywords on search engines such as Google and Yahoo: If you optimized your site properly, Search Engine Traffic can be fairly targeted and can produce good value for Adsense publishers. As they are searching for your content, these visitors can spend time on your site and explore further by clicking on related Ads.
- Links on similar sites: If you manage to have your site linked from other websites that provide similar content as that of yours, these links can directly produce a highly targeted traffic. More over such links can increase your Page Rank, and increase the sites popularity on search results. So this helps in two ways.

Things to do for increasing Traffic:
So you should be doing the following to have your site visible to the users.
- Keyword Optimization: Keyword optimization is an important task you have to do to make your content searchable for your keywords on search engines. For more information about keyword optimization see the article: Optimizing Keywords for Adsense.
- Building Links with similar sites: More people are likely to find you more easily on other sites and such links can increase your Page Rank, and increase the sites popularity on search results. So this helps in two ways.

Some techniques to get Targeted Traffic:
Not only that you have to get visitors to your site, you should also have to keep them there if you want some clicks.
- Provide good, relevant content that keeps your visitor interested. Maintaining high targeted traffic means not adding just anything to your web site, but focus on your particular niche of interest. Update frequently, give readers reasons to come back.
- Promoting your site by means of a Pay-Per-Click is probably the most effective way to increase targeted traffic. Visitors coming from PPC Ads are usually highly targeted. But this must be done very carfully and scientifically. You should not pay more per click to Google than a visitor is worth. See our article Using Adwords for Adsense.
- Focus on clean and appealing site design. You should organize your content and make is easy for users to find the content they need. This is a great way to increase the number of impressions.
- One other good way is to write articles for Article Sites such as ArticleCity, eZineArticles etc. This is a good way to get one-way links to your site.
- Spread the word about your site. Participate in related groups and forums. Show to the community that you are indeed an expert in the niche of your site. This gives credibility.

Source : http://www.adsensehowto.net/google_adsense/how_to_increase_traffic.php

4 QUICK AND EASY WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR SITE

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:12:00 +0000

1. Find and Fix Broken Links and Other Errors
There are a number of online services that can check your site for problems. You can set these to run automatically on a schedule, and to send you a report. The checkers can do various things, from checking links to spell checking and HTML checking. Most of these services provide free demo reports, by the way—they’ll check a few pages, maybe even 100, on your site and send you the report so you can see what you’ll get when you sign up.
LinkAlarm: http://LinkAlarm.com/
Doctor HTML and RxHTMLPro: http://www2.imagiware.com/
NetMechanic: http://www.NetMechanic.com/
Web Site Garage: http://websitegarage.netscape.com/
Tucows Library: http://www.tucows.com/
Dr. Watson: http://watson.addy.com/
And more ...
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Data_Formats/HTML/Validation_and_Checkers/

2. Make Sure Your Site Looks Good in All Browsers
One of the biggest frustrations for anyone creating Web pages is the fact that what looks fine in one browser may look terrible in another. It’s an unfortunate fact that not all browsers are equal. How, then, do you avoid problems? Really the only way to be sure is to check your work in different browsers. Which? Well, there’s the problem. There are so many different browsers, versions of browsers, and operating systems, that there’s no way you’ll be able to check all the possibilities.
NetMechanic at http://www.NetMechanic.com/ has set up a service called Browser Photo. This service tests your pages on 14 different browser/operating system combinations, a combination of AOL, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, WebTV, and Opera (including 11 different Explorer and Navigator versions), a variety of different screen sizes, and three different operating systems: PC, iMac, and WebTV.

3. Add a Heading or Tag Line to Your Name Plate
The name of a product or a company is rarely in itself a compelling marketing message. Therefore you should hardly ever head a Web page with the name of the product or company. Instead, craft a compelling statement of the benefit someone gets out of buying the product or doing business with the firm. After that hook you can introduce the identity of the Web page’s sponsor.

4. Include a Guarantee and a Privacy Statement
If you’re selling something on your site, a guarantee will help take away the feeling of risk. If you’re a smaller, relatively unknown company you need to establish credibility fast. Offering a guarantee will increase orders more than it will cost in returned items. You also should include a privacy statement when asking visitors to provide information, namely their e-mail address.

20 RULES FOR BETTER WEB SITE DESIGN

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000

1. Make Sure the Visual Elements Reinforce Your Company or Brand Identity
The essence of your company can most likely be summarized using words; but your identity is also accompanied by many intangible qualities. Brands are as much about attitudes, feelings, and emotions as they are about factual information. The overall look of your Web site must support these defining factors. Is your brand identity best served by hard edges or softer, rounded shapes? Do primary colors capture the company philosophy or would earth tones be a better match? Experiment
and find the right fit before settling on a design scheme.

2. Forget Cool, Think Useful
You can’t compete with TV, you can’t compete with movies, you can’t even compete with entertainment Web sites. Luckily there’s no need to compete, though, because what really counts is making your site useful, not cool.

3. Lead Visitors Where You Want Them to Go
While your content may fulfill the needs of your visitors, your site design should guide them naturally to the places you want them to go. For instance, before visitors can download a sample chapter of a book, they might be shown a page that makes them aware of the full-length version and how to order it. Determine your goals and find a way to deliver value to your visitors while also getting what you want.

4. Offer Clear, Limited Choices
Some Web sites are so cluttered with navigation bars, banner ads, links, promotional blurbs, image maps, and the like, it’s difficult to choose what to do first. Make it too hard for your visitors and they may decide to go elsewhere. Decide what information is most important for your visitors, particularly on your home page, and resist the urge to add more information.

5. Let Visitors Know What Your Site is About
The worst thing you can do is promote your Web site, get curious people to take a first look, and confuse the heck out of them when they arrive. View your home page through the eyes of a new visitor. Does it spell out exactly what you offer and what your brand stands for? If not, redesign it so it does. Also, remember that many people will arrive at your site through a secondary page, especially if they hear about it through a search engine or recommendation. Therefore, every page needs to explain what your site is about.

6. Avoid Long, Scrolling Pages
Sites overdo page length on both sides of the issue. Some sites make visitors scroll through endless reams of announcements, news items, articles, and more—all on a single page. The solution is to break things up. As a general rule, design with one item or concept per page. Provide a menu to related pages. On the other hand, don’t break things up too much. Some experts contend that Web pages shouldn’t be any longer than one screen length. As a result, many Web sites force readers to hit a Next button and wait for a new page to load before they can continue reading a relatively short article. If the content on a single page takes up only two or three screens, it’s easier to do a little scrolling than to keep hyperlinking to more pages.

7. Use Simple, Clean Layouts
Basic is better when it comes to Web site design. That doesn’t mean your site has to be boring. Your goal is to keep your pages clutter free, using lots of white space to allow visual breathing room. Have fun with your page layout; but make sure every design choice you make helps you communicate your brand identity.

8. Keep a Consistent Theme Throughout
Most designers start by creating the home page, since that’s the page most people see first. That’s a smart move as long as you carry the home page’s look and feel throughout the rest of your site. Wherever the navigation menu is positioned on your home page, make sure the menu is in that same spot on every other page. If you use a fuchsia-colored border under the logo on one page, use fuchsia on all pages. Got it?

9. Think Big—Type, That Is
Along with creating a simple, clean design, you also want a site that is easy to read. Don’t make surfers squint to absorb your information. Make it as easy as possible for people to get the details they want. Avoid putting small text on colored or busy backgrounds.

10. Use Color Tastefully and Sparingly
Color is a funny thing. Used properly, color can have a good impact. Used irresponsibly, it can look ugly, scream “amateur site, run for your life,” and cause thousands to get queasy instantly. Make sure your Web site color choices lean more toward the former.

11. Provide Navigation Along the Top, Left Side, and Bottom
When people surf the Web, they love to slip and slide from site to site and page to page. Make sure each of your pages has easy-to-find navigation options along the top and bottom of the page. When visitors come to the end of an article, don’t make them scroll all the way back up to the top to get to their next destination. Most well designed pages also have menu options in a left column. In this column, you can either duplicate the navigation options you offer at the top and bottom or create a separate set of links to pages directly related to the content on that page.

12. Adhere to the Three-Click Rule
Many experts advise that any piece of information on your site should be no further than three clicks away from your home page. I suggest you go further and limit the rule to two clicks. Think of your home page as the first level. All pages you provide a link to from the home page would be considered the second level. Any additional pages you direct people to from the second level would be considered the third level. Third-level pages are two clicks away from the home page. Don’t create
pages that go any deeper than the third level, if you can help it.

13. Stay Away From Autoplay Sounds
For some reason, many Web site owners love heaping musical ditties on visitors the minute they arrive. It may seem like a good idea; but autoplay sounds take extra time to load. They can also come blaring out of someone’s speakers when he or she least expects it, for example, at work near the boss’s office or at home when the baby is sleeping.

14. Check for Browser Compatibility
The most common Web browsers display pages in pretty much the same way; but there are variations. The last time I checked statistics; close to 80 percent of Internet users listed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as their browser of choice. You definitely want to make sure your site is designed to accommodate Bill Gates’ favorite browser. However, Netscape Navigator is still used by a significant number of people, as are many other, lesser-known browsers. Try to view your Web pages
using different browsers to make sure everything displays correctly. Three sites that can help you determine the browser-friendliness of your pages are Net Mechanic
(http://www.netmechanic.com/maintain.htm), Web Site Garage (http://websitegarage.netscape.com/), and AnyBrowser.com (http://www.anybrowser.com/).

15. Update Your Site Often
While your goal should be to make your site appealing to first-time visitors, you also need to give visitors good reasons to return. Keep your site fresh by adding new content on a regular basis. That doesn’t mean you should make radical changes to your design all the time, but you can add new articles, products, giveaways, and so on.

16. Go Easy on the Gizmos.
Though the free-enterprise system is trying hard to make it one, the Web is not currently set up to be a multimedia entertainment center. I once heard morning radio jock Howard Stern joke about how he waited an hour to download a movie clip that eventually played in a grainy frame about two inches wide. He suddenly realized that in the next room was a life-size TV hooked up to 120 clear channel cable stations. Why do people continue to squeeze basketball-size media files through a connection the size of a garden hose? Your visitors will reward you if you chill out on the special effects and don’t force them to download dozens of plug-ins to view your pages.

17. Make Good Use of Page Titles
This is a simple but often-overlooked design tip. The words you put between the and tags show up at the top of your visitor’s browser. Those words are also indexed by many search engines. Make sure they describe the specific page, your name, and some reference to your brand image. Commercial HTML editing programs generally provide an easy way to insert page titles.

18. Stick With Standard Link Colors
Certain standards have developed on the Web. One of those standards concerns the colors given to various types of hyperlinks. Blue is used for unvisited links, red for an active link as it is being clicked, and purple for links that have been recently visited. With all the skepticism that exists on the Internet, your brand will benefit by providing your visitors with some surfing standards they can count on.

19. Use Hyperlinks, Especially Within Your Site
One of the most appealing aspects of the Web is its interconnectivity. Some of the best sites encourage visitors to bounce around from page to page within the site—or even section to section on the same page. One article can reference a topic covered in another article. Instead of plainly stating, You’ll find more information on Labradors in my FAQ on hunting dogs, make the words FAQ on hunting dogs an active hyperlink that takes the reader straight to that page.

20. Conduct Informal Usability Research
Once you’ve come up with a site design plan you’re happy with, invite a few friends over who know little about your planned site. Have them visit your home page. Ask them to tell you what the site is about; then ask them to browse around and click what interests them. Observe the pges they go to and which navigation links they use to get there. Next, give them specific tasks: Place an order; subscribe to the newsletter, and so on. Note which steps come easily and which ones reveal obstacles.
This isn’t rocket science; but this kind of casual research will help you find your site’s strengths and weaknesses quickly.

Top ranking with Google??

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:36:00 +0000

One of my readers left this comment on one of my recent blog posts :

"With an estimated 2 Billion websites now what is the real chance of SEO marketing companies really ranking anyone on page 1 of Google consistently with organic marketing?"

That’s a great question...

(But I think when the reader said " billion websites," he was actually providing a ballpark estimate of the number of web pages on the ‘Net. The most recent stats we found said the number of websites was just over 182 million. But one website can have hundreds or even thousands of different pages to it.)

Despite the huge number of web pages out there, the answer is, yes — you CAN get a top ranking with Google through purely organic SEO. But your success at hitting the top position depends on which keywords you’re trying to rank for.

For example, say you want to build a site selling natural health products… If you’re just starting out, how easy do you think it would be to get top ranking for the term, "natural health products?" Well, with 705 million web pages competing for that term, your chances aren’t so hot.

...But if you drill down into your area of interest and find more specific keywords such as,
"herbal remedies sinus," which has 198,000 competing results — or "psoriasis herbal remedies," which has 165,000 competing results, your chances of getting a decent ranking just got a whole lot better.

But how do you discover the best keywords to rank for?

That one’s easy: keyword research.

(Yes, we’re going on about keywords again! But they really are the "KEY" to a successful business.)

Even if you plan on outsourcing your SEO work, we strongly urge you to become familiar with the principles of keyword research.

That way you’ll have the basic knowledge you need to discover whether the SEO company you’re thinking about hiring actually knows what they’re doing — or whether they’re just out to drain your bank account and leave you with nothing to show for it.

How to reduce Adsense Blindness?

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:21:00 +0000

What is Ad Blindness?
Ad Blindness is an ability of the website’s visitors to ignore the ads displayed on a webpage they are reading.
Visitors who are ad blind mostly are webmasters, bloggers, tech savvy users, other online money maker and those users who frequently visit different websites. Most of the users who are ad blind tend to ignore advertisement just because they knew that those are advertisement and not natural links of your website.

- There are users who became ad blind because of trauma they suffered after visiting a website which was being advertised. Maybe he was scammed. Or he might found useless thing on the ads he visited.
- They are bloggers and webmasters who are also displaying those ads on their blogs and website. When they visit their own blogs or website, they tend to ignore the ads especially the Google Adsense ads because clicking them is against the Google Adsense policies. So, ignoring those ads at their own website or blog made them acquire the ability to ignore ads even if they are already at the websites or blogs of the other webmasters or bloggers.
- Users who understand how advertisement works usually ignore ads on the website or blog they visit because they don’t want the owner of that certain website or blog earns money from his visit.
- However, there are also ad blind users who tend to ignore the ads just because those are ads. They simply don’t want to visit any advertised website or product without any reasons.

Reduce Ad Blindness
So, since you want to increase your Adsense income by simply increasing the CTR of Google Adsense, then you need to try to reduce the Ad Blindness of your blog’s visitors. And here’s how:

1) Clean up your blog from Ad clutter.
Decrease the number of ad units displayed on your blog.
Some say that having a maximum number of Adsense ad units displayed on your blog increases the CTR of your Adsense. However, this is not always true because it sometimes lead to the ad blindness of your visitors.

Now, try displaying two Adsense units: One Adsense unit that will be displayed before the content and one after the content.
Then try stripping off those ads of the other network so that all the attention of your visitors will be focused to your content and to the Adsense ads.But if you think, you’re earning much not from Adsense but from other network, then don’t strip off those ads. Just take away those ads that convert less.

2) Blend the Adsense Ads to your content.
Configure the Adsense ads so that they will look like regular links of your blog. Blending Adsense ads into your content can be done by (1) changing the color or the text and the links of the adsense into the color of the content, and (2) changing the fonts of the content into the fonts used by Google Adsense.

It might be considered a deception, deceiving the visitors so that they couldn’t identify the ads. However, this kind of deception is acceptable according to the Adsense policies.

3) Adsense Placement.
Place the Adsense units in your blog’s section where it can blend much.
However, it would be better if your blog has the ability to place Adsense ad units differently in every webpages.

For example, in one webpage, the Adsense ad unit is placed at the middle of the content, then in another webpage, the Adsense ad unit is found almost at the bottom part of the content. But I am still wondering if there are plugins for Wordpress blogs available that can be used for this trick.

4) Entice visitors to read the ads.
I am not telling you here that you need to tell your visitors to visit or click the ads. We all know that it’s against to the TOS of every PPC ad network.

What I really mean is that do something in your Adsense ads so that it will attrack the visitors. For example, you can place a picture beside the ad unit. However, it is against the Adsense TOS if you’ll use a picture or photo which is not related to Adsense. So, to do this, just use the Adsense image ads and display it at the side of the Adsense text ads.

5) Make your ads more relevant.
And the most important thing is that your Adsense ads should be relevant so that the suggested steps above would become effective. Read my article, “Increase the Adsense Relevance” for some tips on how to increase the relevance of Adsense ads.

Read: Alternative to Adsense !!
Read: Tips for avoiding your Adsense A/c

Alternative to Adsense !!

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:40:00 +0000

If your adsense account gets frozen and/or if you are dis-allowed to participate in adsense program, don't give up because there are a few reputed alternate marketing sites which allows to display their ads through your site or blog.
Read: Tips to Avoiding your Adsense A/c Banned
The list of programs is as follows:
ADBRITE:
The best ad marketing program after google is adbrite. It allows to display customised ads . With some experiences (it doesn't give ecpm as higher as google) one can earn good amount of money on pay per click system.
CHITIKA:
Chitika is also one of the leading ad marketing agency in USA and canada. Ads are visible through chitika only when traffic reaches to your site through search engines only from USA and canada. It provides good ecpm depending on the users coming from the typical part of USA and canada.
BIDVERTISER:
Bidvertiser is also considered as one of the best marketing agency around the globe but what my experience says that it provide good ecpm only when site has a huge traffic. NOTE: PERSONALLY, I EARN WELL WITH BIDVERTISER.
Read: Make Money Using Bidvertiser Blackhat Method
NUFFNANG:
Nuffnang is the emerging ad marketing Co. It is the first asian blog advertising company provides advertising option for asian bloggers. It allows to earn money through both affiates and ads on blogs. It works for sites having low traffic too.
TEXT LINK ADS:
Text link ads is considered as the good ad serving agency with inline ads (means ads will appear over particular word of content when cursor is kept over it). It provides satisfactory e-cpm. Initialy earnings are expected to be quite low but as the traffic goes on increasing the revenue per click increases . One just needs to signup and paste the html/javascript code somewhere in page.
CONTENT LINK:
Content link is the in text advertising provided by kontera.com . Content link ads is becoming the most famous in text advertising. It provides a high pay per click rating comparable to other services but the traffic reaches should be legit inorder to get more revenue per click.
Simply sign up with kontera.com and place the javascript code on webpage to get textlink ads. generaly good payment depends on the traffic coming from which continent. If it is from countries like USA, Canada, UK and jermany the e-cpm will be high.

Pros & Cons of selling on eBay

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:47:00 +0000

Are you interested in becoming an eBay seller? If you are, you are definitely not alone, as eBay has become a relatively quick and easy way to make money online. Each day, a large number of individuals use eBay to make extra money from home and a few lucky ones are even able to make enough money to support themselves or their families. Before you jump on the eBay selling bandwagon, you are advised to take a few minutes and examine the pros and cons of selling on eBay.

One of the many pros, or plus sides, to selling on eBay is the fact that is it is relatively easy to do. Once you create an eBay account, you can start listing items that you have in your possession for sale right away. When doing so, it is also easy to do. eBay has a step-by-step process for listing items for sale, in traditional auction formats or buy it now formats. In fact, eBay also has a program that lets you compile your auctions, with pictures and descriptions, when you aren’t even connected to the internet. As soon as you connect to the internet, you can begin to upload your listings and have them start right away.

Another one of the many pros to selling on eBay is that just about anyone can do it. You don’t have to have big fancy, expensive items to sell on eBay. In fact, a large number of those selling on eBay are just selling items that are taking up space in their homes; items they don’t want anymore. If you are interesting in becoming an eBay seller, but you aren’t sure as to how much you can depend on eBay for income, you may want to think about testing the waters. You can do this by listing the items have you have around your home for sale. Items that tend to sell relatively well are lots, or groups, of toys and infant clothing.

While there are a number of pros, or plus sides, to selling on eBay, there are also a number of cons, or downsides, to doing so as well. One of the biggest cons or downsides to selling on eBay is the competition. As it was previously mentioned, a large number of internet users have started using eBay to make extra money or even make a living. This is what leads to multiple auction listings for the exact same items. While this is nice for the eBay buyers, it can hurt you as a seller. When the supplier is higher than the demand, you may not make as much money off of your items as you had originally hoped to, if they even sell at all.

Another downside to selling on eBay is the fees associated with doing so. In recent years, eBay has redone their fee structure, often to raise their fees. Although these fees are still considered relatively low, they could put a damper on your profits, which alone are sometimes hard to come by. Of course, there are ways that you can the most out of eBay fees. For instance, if you have a “hot seller,” you could start your auction out at a low price, as the fees are less for doing so; however, you are taking a gamble, as you never have any guarantees as for how much your items will sell for. Perhaps, the unknown is one of the biggest downsides to selling on eBay; you never really know if you are going to make money or even if you will end up losing money.

As you likely already know, the decision as to whether or not you want to become an eBay seller is yours to make, but, when making your decision, you are advised to keep the above mentioned points in mind. With a relatively equal amount of pros and cons, you may be wondering what your best option is. For more accurate information, you may want to think about testing the eBay seller waters, as you are able to sell whenever you want, with no minimum auction requirements.

Read: How to increase your e-bay response

5 Ways For Teens To Make Money Online

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Teenagers are always looking for extra cash to buy clothes, gas, video games and other things that appeal to them. In order to buy these things and put money in their wallet. Teens need money. Here are 5 ways teens can make some extra cash online.

1. Blogging - Blogging can be a great way for teens to make money because teens usually have lots of hobbies. Why not blog about them. Blogging requires a lot of work at the start but eventually gets easier. People earn money with blogs mostly through ads so in order to be successful you will need to have a blog with a good amount of traffic.

2. Writing Articles – Teens can make money with article directories like Ehow and Associated Content. Whenever you write an article with these sites, you get paid based on the number of times that article is viewed.

3. Mechanical Turk – This site was created by Amazon and pays you to complete tasks that computers can’t do. These include finding information about businesses and writing short essays. Teens are usually pretty good at surfing the web for info so this is a great opportunity for them.

4. Affiliate Marketing – Teens can make money promoting other people’s products. Sites like ClickBank will pay you a commission when someone buys a product using your link. Another thing is that teens have lots of experience with social networking sites which gives them a way to promote and be successful.

5. Paid Surveys – There are sites out there that need teens opinions on products. They are willing to pay them for their opinions. Teens can make a good amount of money with survey sites. They are easy to do and most sites usually send the earnings by check which is great for teenagers under 18.
Read: Surveys that pays !

If you’re a teen and want to make money then I recommend CashCrate for starters. It is a paid survey site that is very easy for teens to make money with. They send money with checks which is great.
Read: Review of CashCrate (5 star)

How Does ClixSense.com Works?

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:56:00 +0000

The System:-

ClixSense is a medium for advertisers and consumers to connect. Advertisers pay a fee to ClixSense to have their advertisements featured, and consumers earn money by viewing the ads; advertisers gain exposure, consumers earn money and ClixSense generates revenue. Consumers earn money for every 30 seconds of ads viewed. ClixSense monitors each consumer account to ensure that each ad is being view by a human and not an automated "bot." Using software to click ads on your behalf results in account suspension. Join!!

Earnings:-
Once registered, ClixSense allows you to browse through ads and start making money. On the "Browse Ads" page, ClixSense organizes a list of available ads along with how much you will earn by viewing each ad. When you choose an ad to view, ClixSense opens a separate window for viewing the ad along with a timer to ensure that you view the ad for at least 30 seconds. Join clixSense.com Now!

Payment:-
Unlike many of ClixSense's contemporaries, the site does not offer Paypal as an option to send payments out; payments are mailed to your address. A minimum of $10 must be accumulated before your check will be disbursed. If you don't accumulate the $10 minimum for a given month, the money rolls over to the next month. Payments are sent out on the tenth of every month for work done in the previous month.

Premium Accounts:-
Consumers who use a credit or debit card online may be eligible for a premium account. Because advertisers target users who use debit or credit cards, premium account holders are offered more ads than standard account users, since advertisers are interested in consumers with more purchasing power.

Clixsense.com is a genuine site. It pays. To join Clixsense, click the link.

Review of "CashCrate" (5 Star)

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:30:00 +0000

CASHCRATE is a Get-Paid-To (GPT) site that allows you to earn money by completing offers. This site stands out from many other GPT sites because CashCrate is the real deal. This site is totally legit, and people having been making hundreds of dollars from this site. CashCrate is a proven website that has been around. Don't believe me? Check out these payment proofs on the Cash Crate Forums (You will have to sign-up for the CashCrate forum to view the 118 page thread, don't worry registration to the forums is free and easy). As you can see, people really do receive the money that they earn.

The best part about this site is that there is NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED. If you want, you can stick with the 100% Free offers, which require no credit card. This is perfectly alright, and you can make good money doing it. However, if you so choose, you can also complete free trials or trials that may require you to pay a small fee or a shipping and handling charge. The price you pay, however, is MUCH less than what you will get paid from CashCrate. There are many opportunities for everyone on CashCrate, including daily surveys, and point offers. Try out the site and see if you like it; there's nothing to lose! With the help offered in this blog, you could be making hundreds of dollars per month. Sign up today!

Getting referrals is another great way to make money on CashCrate. CashCrate has one of the best referral systems out there. They have a 2 tier system. You earn 20% of what your referrals make and 10% of what their referrals make. So lets say for example you refer someone to CashCrate and they make $100 during a month. You just made $20 by telling that person about CashCrate! You also get a $3 bonus once any of your referrals makes it over the $10 mark during a month.

Tips on Getting Referrals

1. Tell your friends and family. I'm sure there's people you know that could use a little extra cash.

2. Put your link in your signatures for forums that you post in. Make sure advertising is allowed before adding your link to your signature.

3. Post flyers containing your referral link. Flyers are a great form of advertisement. You can post them at local colleges, grocery stores, etc.

4. Online advertising- Their are plenty of website out there where you can advertise your CashCrate link.

JOIN CASHCRATE FOR FREE< TODAY !!

Review: How To Make Money With "Bux.to"

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:25:00 +0000

Making money with Buxto is simple. Once you register with Buxto, you simply go to the ‘Surf Ads’ page and begin clicking each advertisements. Each advertisements last for 30seconds. You can only view the same ads once in 24 hrs.
Read the REVIEW for more details.

I’ve got to admit that Buxto will not make you rich but it can help you supplement your income. You can earn a few hundreds a month and help out with the bill and gas. And if you are better you are able to earn thousands. There are people who made this amount of money. If you don’t believe me, check out Buxto’s forum. And the best part is you don’t even have to fork out a cent to earn money. Of course if you invest a little more to get more referrals, the higher the chance you get to earn more. There are lots of free ways to get referral though.

Earnings example (based on current averages)
» You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
» 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
» Your daily earnings = $2.10
» Your weekly earnings = $14.70
» Your monthly earnings = $63.00

Buxto however do not guarantee that you earn this amount of money. It makes sense because even if you have lots of referrals, only active referrals count.

Take note: Buxto is not a “get rich quick” scheme or a pyramid scheme.

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One fact we have to accept regarding Buxto is that you are not going to earn much if you just stick to clicking the ads yourself without getting any referrals. Since Buxto does not have any limitation on how many referrals we can have, we should use this as our advantage. Get as many active referrals as you can. Active referrals are referrals that will keep on clicking ads everday.

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There are so many paid to click programs out there, some that are legitimate and some that do not pay which fall under the scam category. Let compare a few things between PTC sites that are legitimate. Payment per click, minimum credits you need to have before you can request for payment, method of payments, referrals and how long it has been running. Let’s compare Buxto and the other PTC sites.

I will not list all of the PTC sites of course, just the more popular ones will be mentioned here. Comparison between Buxto and the best of each category.

Let’s start of with payment per click. Buxto pays $0.01 a click for standard members and $0.0125 for premium members. Most of the other PTC sites pays an average of $0.01 a click but the highest paid site I’ve came across was Hits4Pay. They pay $0.02 a click.

Next will be the minimum credits you need to have before you are able to request for payment. Buxto have a minimum of $50 for standard members and $10 for premium members if you request to be paid via Alertpay, $20 if you request via YourBuxCard.

Method of payments. Buxto no longer supports Paypal. AlertPay and YourBuxCard ($49 to apply for the card) are the only methods of payments.

Referrals. Buxto members only earn from their direct referrals what their direct referrals earn per click. For example if the member has 10 direct referrals and each referral clicks on 10 ads, the Buxto member earns $1.00($0.01 multiply by 100 ads) from his referrals. Buxto members are allowed unlimited number of referrals and it is the easiest PTC site to get referrals. Unlike many other PTC sites, Buxto allows members to purchase un-referred referrals. Other PTC sites do not have this advantage but they pay you 25%-75% of the total revenue your referrals earn depending on the level of referrals.

Buxto has been running since 2007 and it is one of the longest running PTC sites. Other PTC site cannot be compared to Buxto with regards to this. Having said that, Buxto is also one of the slowest to issue payments after being requested due to the complex verification process. Most of the other PTC site issue payments 24 hrs after being requested.

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How to Increase Your E-Bay Response

noreply@blogger.com (A.B) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Only a successful sale generates profits. You can encourage visitors to your auction, you can alsvo get them to read it, but the most important thing is to get them to bid on it. Below are some tips that can help you increase response on your e-bay listing and make more money on each sale:

1) A lot depends upon how you design your auction. You have to attempt to put information on it in a manner that it gives the much required incentive to the casual or interested visitors to actually bid for your item. For example some people do not give enough importance to the accompanying picture they have posted on eBay. A professionally shot picture with proper lighting and un-intrusive background is as vital as the description of your item.

2) Most of the bidders are apprehensive about disputes and the hassles that they might get into after they pay up. To allay such fears the best policy is to sign up at SquareTrade and get permission to display their logo on your auctions which will assure the bidders that they will be not be shortchanged in any eventuality. It gives a professional look to your auction and you will always see it on PowerSellers auctions. To further your professional image and build confidence, put up all business practices in a visible place giving details, including shipping, time schedules, and refunds.

3) Nothing boosts confidence more than good feedback. Include all positive feed back comments prominently and in the event that you have 100% positive feedback, make sure that it is mentioned on all auctions. If you have a reserve price it is likely to discourage bidders. Displaying a NR (no reserve) along with your item’s name should take care of that.

4) Benefits not features: Make sure your description emphasizes on the benefits that your item can give to the customer, not just its features. This is a classic sales technique. If you have trouble with this, remember: 'cheap' is a feature, 'save money' is a benefit.

5) You can never be sure of which payment method a particular bidder might be comfortable with. Try to include unusual payment methods such as checks, which most of the sellers try to avoid. Also keep just two or three auctions going on for an item you have more than one of in stock rather than choosing the Dutch-auction route.

6) Remember that much depends upon the search results when it comes to categories that are crowded. To ensure that your product comes up in the first ten results and you get the maximum hits you need to upgrade regularly. The best upgrades may be expensive but they may be worth the money you spend for them.