How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic

Before to make money online in your blog, you should have a good traffic, good ranking in search engine and have a relevant contents in your blog.

If your goal is to make money online by blogging, you need to obtain a great traffic. There are more that 100 millions of blogs in the blogosphere and that is the problem. Thus, how can you make your blog visible in that list of blogs. So, here are some tips to increase you blog traffic:

• Submit your blogs to the search engines to make sure that it is listed (that can take time so that it assembles the list).
• Get link to other blogs using blogroll. Owners of the blogs which you link to want most likely link back with you and with their visitors to make use the links to go to your blog.
• Often write and write well with quality and the significant contents to maintain readers interested.
• Employ the comments effectively. Increase your readers ‘fidelity by the answer and the interaction with your commentators. Leave pensive and suitable comments on others blogs to draw others to visit your blog.
• Syndicate your blog using a feed so that others can easily obtain updates with your blog. (keep updating and increase your subscribers or readers)
• Employ the links and the trackbacks. The links with your blogs are powerful vote of confidence which are counted by arranging your blog. You can create internal links of your posts to your other posts too much (of better work when you employ the good key words to link). Trackbacks are links in the comments of others blogs which linked again to your blog. They are created when you linked to these blogs ‘posts in your posts. Some blogs put or do not allow trackbacks to appear.
• Add the tags to your posts. The tags increase the possibility of others which find your contents in search engines.
• Submit your posts to the social Bookmarking sites (Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter, Reddit, etc). If your posts are excellent, others will vote for them as well and will make them more obvious to other million readers.
• Optimize you blog in Search Engine (SEO). Use the right and suitable keywords which the great number of the readers to your posts can draw. Using keywords which is not often required the visibility of your blogs in search engines will decrease.
• Use the images with the right keywords. Other people don’t just search for contents, they seek images too!
• Try to write posts in others blogs as a blogger of guest. The more popular these blogs is, the more the traffic which they will send to your blog.
• Take part in the forum and the social networking with people of suitable interest.
• Support your blog apart from the blogosphere. Add your URL of blog in your signature of email or professional calling cards of visit. Basically, known as of others about it.
• Nominate yourself (or others blogs) so that the rewards of blog obtain more attention with your blog.
• Make sure you will follow and do all the tips above.

The above tips are not explained in detail to give you more clear explanation of the overall strategy. It’s important that you understand them as a whole before you proceed to the specific details. After you’re done with these tips and you proved it with your own experience that it is effective ways to increase blog traffic then you can enjoy making money online.

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Make Money Through Drop Shipping

Each and every day more and more people are catching wind of the make money online phenomenon. The more people that start to get involved, the harder it gets. Not only that, but you will see a whole lot of other people trying to take advantage of those newcomers with scams and get rich quick schemes. Well, today you are going to learn an honest and true way to make money online with Drop Shipping.

What is Drop Shipping?

Drop shipping is a fairly easy concept to understand and there is nothing really too tricky about it. The process is simple. There are several dropship companies on the Internet, that offer a membership to their users. With this membership, the users are granted access to millions of wholesale products. Along with that, the dropship company also packages and ships all of the products sold. The goal is to take a handful of these wholesale products and sell them on the Internet. It is an excellent way to get started with making money online an honest and true way. You can get a good dropship membership for anywhere between $50 all the way to a few hundred.

How to Make Money Drop Shipping

The first step to making any sort of real money is to get yourself a dropship membership. It is a good idea to check out all of the different Dropship Companies. From there, you will have no problem finding what you need. Once you have a membership, you will need to start working on a small plan to have success with this process. You will need to figure out what you are going to sell and how you are going to sell it.

The key to making any amount of money with drop shipping is to pick a good niche. The last thing you want to do is start trying to sell anything and everything all over the Internet. You should pick a nice small market to start out that is not overly competitive. It also helps a lot to have some sort of interest or passion for the market. From there, you will want to build a website around your niche. Before that, you can start out on eBay and/or Amazon to test things out. If you are lucky, you might even be able to make some good money on the auction sites.

It truly is that simple. The hardest part is trying to get through the struggle. You will not just start making money over night. The only way you will have any real success if by working hard and sticking with it. If you build a website with a lot of good content and sell your products around that, then you will make money. Most people quite before they get to that point. Stick with it, and you will not regret it.

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Make more Money Online

The internet offers loads of free information nowadays and you can feed yourself with every bit of it the way you want it. But the question is “Do you know something?” As much as you know the answer, so it is as what other people think that you know. You might read a lot but it takes a lot to be “of knowledge of something.”

In making money online, both points are important to keep the balance and explicit marketing approaches. With right marketing and directed objectives you will lead your way to becoming a booming icon on internet marketing and making money.

The internet is one way to earn money. You can make known of your business worldwide if you bring it on the floors of internet marketing. Give big effort on your business. Gain your reputation and credibility by facing these simple tips to expand your own business.

Website is the main ingredient for you to make money online. This is the complete presentation package of your products so you need to present it the professional way. Quality website contains reliable information, easy navigation, proper orientation and effective communication.

You can hire a professional to do it for you, pay the service and go update and check for your self. Do not handle many websites when you cannot maintain and control them. It is always better to stay focus even to a single site but is yielding and competitive.

Having your own social network helps in building your online business. This is a structure made of nodes tied to one or more specific types of interdependency over the net. It views social relationships among its members and individuals. Some of these are Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking site for business purposes.

Create your business profile separate from your personal one and build them up to your friends’ networks. Stay active for leading into a business world that will work on better relationships with them. Build better linkage and you’ll earn the rewards when you get more traffic and sales soon.

With loads of information available in the internet today and millions of people visiting and searching over it, there can be no room to miss advertising your website and products. Use articles to spread information about your website and products. This will build awareness of your online business.

Your articles can be in form of news release, blogs, forum updates, product reviews and sales letters. You can have your own article directory and book mark every sites you submit them for tracking and review.

Another form of it is the message board. Choose only boards that focus on your expertise and products for relevance. Be knowledgeable and truthful in what you post to keep customer’s loyalty and trust.

Writing will help you recognized to be an expert in your trade and to get your customers’ attention. Write, write and write more. Be content wise and every advice you give will lead your customers as well as keep them informed. Put in mind the importance of SEO in your articles for keywords purposes.

To become recognized as an expert in your trade, keep in mind these tips. These will help build your reputation and credibility to your customers. Win good relationships and grow your business dramatically profitable.

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Business Ideas

The Technology Resource Center (TRC) is inviting aspiring Filipino entrepreneurs to start making their dream business come true. Top on the list of promising business ideas opportunities are five lucrative ventures zealous entrepreneurs may successfully embark on with a capital of less than P100,000. TRC Group Manager Dr. Maria Rosalinda Lacsamana said these five courses are among TRC’s Hot Business Picks:

FOODCART BUSINESS

If you are serious on getting into the vastly profitable food business for the long haul, a food cart business is one of your best and least risky bet. You could start in the business with a simple but heavy-duty cart worth P5,000 to P15,000 depending on the material used and how beautiful you want it to look It is always wise to start on the street-level, while you are still perfecting your recipes and testing the market for the best price. Being ambulant, your business can safely penetrate some of the best locations in town without having to pay a centavo for rent. Foodcart franchise

DRINKING WATER BUSINESS

Some believe the profit potential in a water station business has already dried up with the mushrooming of water stations nearly everywhere. The truth, however, is that it is easier for a smart new comer to succeed than it is for an established old timer who resists competition. With more Water Stations to choose from these days, people naturally look for the best quality at a lower price. This leads unwise business owners to think they can cut on quality and offer a cheaper price. This never works. People will always put a premium on health over a few saved pesos. Setting-up a Water Refilling Station

LANDSCAPING BUSINESS

Anyone with the talent and proper training for landscaping could start his own home based landscaping business. TRC’s Practical Landscaping Course includes training in ornamental plant production, to give the entrepreneur a huge potential profit margin over the long term. Those just starting out can start it as a hobby. Later they can offer the service as a part-time business or on a freelance basis. Soon they can target large institutional contracts and that’s when the big money starts rolling in. Starting a Landscaping Business

HERBAL SOAP MANUFACTURING

The market maybe filled with too many soap products but that does not mean you have no chance of making it big. Indeed, despite the slippery competition in the presence of cosmetic manufacturing giants, the industry abounds with small soap makers who found a profitable niche. Anyone with a few thousand pesos can start this business. The challenge, however, is to come out with a high-quality and effective product not currently available to your target consumers. The Soapmaking Business

COMMERCIAL BREAD MAKING

Conventional entrepreneurs believe they must build a street corner bakery in order to start a commercial bread production. This is not so. They can always sell to exclusive clients like groceries, restaurants, canteens and similar establishments at a premium. If you still want to go into the bakery business though, you don’t have to set it up like everyone else. There are those who succeeded selling only high-quality pandesal. Others only produce hopia, or just cupcakes or large ensaymadas and did very well. These are just a few examples but the possibilities are endless. Starting a Bakery Business

Other Hot Business Picks are Fashion Accessories Making, Money Changing Business, Laundry Shop Operations, Restaurant Business Operations and Flower Shop Business.

Interested entrepreneurs may contact the TRC at telephone number 727-6205 locals 208 and 209 for more details. They may also visit its office located at #103 J. Abad Santos St., Little Baguio, San Juan, Metro Manila.

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How to Make Money Online

Don't let the stunning graphics and good looks of this blog fool ya'... if you want to know how to make money online... for free... without all the crap... do yourself a favor... and do a little reading..

If you are using Adsense on your site then you must update your privacy policy by April 8, 2009. This update is in relation to the new changes enacted on Adsense in March of 2009. The new changes effect how Google collects information on your surfing habits using third party advertising vendors who leave cookies on your browsers - notably the Doubleclick DART Cookie.

The basic changes to Adsense revolve around the addition of Interest Based Advertising as opposed to the previous Placement Targeted Advertising. You can visit Google for a description of what Interest Based Advertising entails.

Your updated Privacy Policy should inform your users about the use of third party cookies on your sites and provide them with information regarding their opt out options should they wish to not have cookies placed on their browsers. See Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising

As an Adsense publisher you also have the option not to use Internet Based Advertising and may Opt out by following the instructions posted in Google Adsense Help. I do not recommend that you opt out but the choice is yours. These changes should help increase your CTR and CPC in the long run as you will become less susceptable to being smart priced. (ie. Conversions should increase as users are presented more advertisements based on their interests)

Update: I have discussed why I think Interest Based Ads should be tested before opting out in the following post on my other blog; Google's Interest Based Advertising.

It is still too early to give any conclusive feedback on how successful Internet Based Ads are but early results seem to be positive. Unfortunately March was a bit rocky for publishers as all the new changes to Adsense caused a number of glitches - several days saw CTR under-reported which Google admitted was an error on their part as they were not showing relevant ads. They maintained that it was only for a few hours but it lasted several days. You may have also experienced higher than normal pageviews for a few days.

Personally I have seen and am still experiencing strange CPC highs and lows as recently as yesterday. I'm not too concerned as I think it will take a little while to iron out all the bugs and caution everyone to just wait things out for the month of April before making any major changes to your Adsense sites. (ie. Don't concern yourself with smart price tweaking for the time being)

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Make Money from Blogging

Advertising Programs - Perhaps the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google - Adsense. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads.

Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click (to name just some of the options) and there is a smorgasbord of options. Of course there is more to come with MSN Adcenter and YPN both in beta testing and with a variety of other advertising system currently in development (YPN is only available to US publishers).

Lastly there’s BlogAds - one of the first blog specific ad networks.

RSS Advertising - The past 12 months have seen some advances in RSS Advertising also. I’m yet to hear of any bloggers making big money blogging through it to this point - but as improvements are made to the ad programs exploring this I’m sure we’ll start to see examples of it being profitable.

Sponsorship - In addition to the array of advertising programs that are available to join there is a growing awareness in the business of the value and opportunity that exists for them to advertise directly on blogs. I’m hearing more and more examples of this and have been fortunately to have a couple of ad campaigns of my own in the past month - one with Adobe a couple of weeks ago and another just completed with Ricoh for a new digicam over at my Digital Camera Blog. These are not isolated cases - as I say I know of many blogs exploring sponsorship with advertisers at present and suspect we’ll see more of it in the year ahead. Sponsorship is also happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies - either in one off or a regular fashion - and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.

Affiliate Programs - There are larger affiliate programs like Amazon, Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction but also literally thousands of others from the large to the very small.

Digital Assets - Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. By this I mean that I’m increasingly seeing e-books, courses and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. My recent foray into this with the first series of the six figure blogging course that Andy and I ran a few weeks ago and have just released the study version of. This type of activity will only increase in future - in fact this week I’ve seen numerous examples of bloggers running courses.

Blog Network Opportunities - with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks - bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging - by writing for and with others. While it might be difficult to get a writing gig with one of the bigger networks - there are plenty who are always asking for new bloggers to join and who are willing to pay bloggers using a variety of payment models. While there are distinct advantages of blogging for yourself - blogging for an established network who will handle a lot of the set up/promotion/admin/SEO etc has it’s advantages also. More and more bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.

Business Blog Writing Opportunities - as blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties - but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. I know of a number of bloggers who in the past month or two have been approached for such paid work. Check out Bloggers for Hire if you’re looking for this type of work.

Non Blogging Writing Opportunities - Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums. Manolo’s recent coup of a column in the Washington Post is just one example of this as bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites. Along side this is the rise of bloggers as published book authors - this is to the extent that one blogger I spoke with this week complained to me that they were one of the few bloggers than they knew who didn’t have a book deal!

Donations - Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fund raising drives. Perhaps the most high profile of these was Jason Kottke of kottke.org who through the generosity of his readership was able to quit his job and become a full time blogger.

Flipping Blogs - Also more common in 2005 was the practice of ‘Blog Flipping’ - or selling of blogs. This has happened both on an individual blog level (I can think of about 20 blogs that sold this year) but also on a network level (the most obvious of these being the 8 figure sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL).

Merchandising - My recent attempt to sell ProBlogger.net T-shirts wasn’t a raging success, but it is an example of how an increasing number of bloggers are attempting to make a few extra dollars from their blogs by selling branded products through programs like Cafepress. While I didn’t have a lot of success with merchandising - quite a few larger blogs are seeing significant sales - especially blogs with a cult following. I’m not at liberty to discuss details - but I know of one largish blog which will see sales over $20,000 in merchandise for the calendar year of 2005.

Consulting and Speaking - While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios BECAUSE of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert. I spoke to one blogger last month who charges himself out at over $200 an hour for speaking and consulting work - his area of expertise was something that he knew little about 18 months ago - but through his blog he’s become a leader in his field and a minor celebrity in his industry.

As time rolls on there are more and more ways that bloggers make money from their blogs opening up. Feel free to suggest your own ideas and experiences in comments below.

Update: Looking for more information on how to make money blogging? Here’s a post I wrote talking about my own experience - particularly looking at the top ways that I make money from blogs.

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