Guide to increase website visitors

So my previous article about getting your site worth the stop was more general. Now i'll post step by step guide what you need to do in order to optimize your blog. Yes this is only for blogs, though it can be useful for website also. This is to generally optimize your blog and make it better looking, increase traffic and optimize your earning and i'm telling you this free, for this kind of information and guides you usually need to pay hundred of dollars!
If you have already published blog skip the first few steps!

Step 1
Before you publish your blog make it nice and content rich. No one wants to see 3-4 articles blog with nothing on it and they surely won't even think of clicking your ads.

Step 2
Add at least 5 quality articles on your blog before you publish, all articles must contain at least 500 words in them.

Step 3
Add widgets and useful script on your blog.
- add RSS/ATOM subscription button
- add blog archive
- add bookmark and Digg, Delicious, Reddit and similar buttons or just use "add me bookmark" button
- put a search script for your blog
- put related site links
- add a counter(this is also useful for keeping track with your traffic)
- add your slogan or logo at the top of your blog
-add your ads

Step 4
Go on through your keywords again and make sure all of the keywords are 100% related to your article content. Use Google keyword tool to help you choose keywords

Step 5
Publish your blog

Step 6
As soon as you publish your blog submit it to search engines and web directories.
Read my "submit to search engines" and "get your website through the ranks" articles to optimize your submission  text and keywords.

Step 7
Submit your articles to: Digg, Del.ic.io, Reddit, stumbleupon, spurl, Google bookmarks, yahoo myweb and feedmelinks.

Step 8
Your 6th or 7th etc... article should have 2-3 images or streaming video in it so it differentiates from your other articles.

Step 9
It will pass around 10 days until your blog is indexed by Google and up to 30 days to get indexed by Yahoo and MSN search engines so you don't really need to post in your blog every day but you also need to post a new article 5 days until your last.
So posting fresh articles on a 3 day scale would be perfect for starters, after your blog gets indexed you'll need to post articles at least on a 2 day scale

Step 10
Link exchange. This is a very important part in order to get a better page rank for your blog. Page rank is not crucial but it really helps in the later stages.
Make sure you exchange links with blogs that have similar content as your blog. You can make an exception if you have a link exchange offer from a pagerank 4 or 5 blog.

Step 11
Sometimes you need to refer your visitors to older articles you've posted in case they've heaven't seen them or just skipped them for some reason. So include a link to some older article you've made but make sure it is related to the new one you are posting!

Step 12
Always do little experiments, even if your traffic is high and you have nice earnings still experiment a little. Put a different blog template, change the text color, move your ads to a new place, add some other widgets and/or script and so on...

SEO tools collection

Page Rank
Rank Checker - Get a overview of your website's ranking
PageRank Lookup - check the PageRank for a website
Google PageRank Prediction - check predicted PR of a site
Multi-Rank Checker - View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk
PageRank Checker - View your Google PageRank on differnet Google serversLinks related
Bookmark & Blog Search Check - Find your backlinks in the major bookmarking sites and blog search engines
Reciprocal Link Check - check whether your link partners are linking back to your website
Link Popularity Checker - a popularity score given to a website based on inbound links
LinkPrice Lookup - check the price of your link
Link Price Calculator - another tool for checking the price of links
Link Checker - check your links to see if it's still valid or not
Link Popularity - checks the total number of web pages which link to a website
Link Price Calculator - help to determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website
Site Link Analyzer - analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text
URL Rewriting - convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs
Link Extractor - Extract links from a specific web page
Link Shortener - shorten a web address
Back Links Finder - Build relevant website back links
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer - check link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbiteKeyword related
Keyword Verification - checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
Keyword Density Analyser - another SEO tools for keywords
Keyword Cloud - a visual representation of keywords used on a website
Keyword Density - another SEO tool for checking keyword density
Keyword Difficulty Check - see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases
Keyword Optimizer - optimizer your keywords with this tool
Keyword Typo Generator - generate a list of suggestions for likely human misspellings and typos
Keyword Suggestion - Find related keywords matching your search
Free Keyword Research Tool - analyze the meta keywords of your competitionSitemap
XML-Sitemaps - Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)
Gsitecrawler - Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows
Validate XML Sitemap - Search Engine Optimizion Tool for validating your xml sitemapsSearch Engines
Google Analytics - tells you everything about your visitors
Google Backlinks Check - Check Google and 9 data centers for backward link updates
Google Banned Checker - check whether a site is banned by Google or not
Search Engine Bot Simulator - SEO Tool to simulate search engine parsing of webpages and display discovered links.
Indexed pages - check the no. of indexed pages for your blog
Spider Simulator - simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a web page
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker - checks the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with an HTTP response.
Search Engine Position - Locate your search listings on Google and Yahoo!
Search Listings Preview - Preview your website on Google, MSN and Yahoo! SearchHTML related
HTML Encrypt - Hide your HTML source code
HTML Optimizer - Optimize and clean your HTML source code
HTTP Headers - Extract the HTTP Headers of a web page
HTTP Headers Viewer - check HTTP headers for any specific URL
Meta-tags Extractor - Extract meta-tags information from a web page
Meta-tags Generator - Generate and configure your meta-tags
META Analyzer - analyze a website's meta tags
Meta Tag Generator - help you to generate meta tags
Meta Tag Optimization - Check your Title and Meta Tags for keyword optimization
Source Code Viewer - View the source code of a pageDomain related
Alexa Traffic Rank - View and compare Alexa Ranking graphs
Domain Age Tool - find out the age of your competitor's domains
Domain Stats Tool - get all kind of statistics of your competitor's domains
Domain Availability - Check the availability of domains
Domain Look-up - Retrieve a range of information about a domain
Domain Whois - Retrieve domain whois information
Instant Domain Checker - Check the availability of domains instantly
Ping Test - Check the presence of an active connection
Reverse IP/Look-up - Resolve a host to an IP address
Server Status - Check if your website is online or offline
Website Speed Test - Find out how fast your website loads
What Is My IP Address - shows your ip address
Class C Checker - check if some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range
IP to City - determine the Country, City, Latitude and Longitude of an IP Address
Website to Country - determine the Country in which the specified website is HostedWeb stats
Statcounter - famous free web tracker
HiStats - Free, real time updated web stats service
Addfreestats - provide free website statisticsMiscellaneous
FEED Validator - for Atom and RSS
W3C Markup Validation Service - check for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards
Kontera Ads Preview - preview Kontera Ads on your website
Online spell checker - simple online spell checking tools
Browser Screen Resolution Checker - shows what your site looks like with different screen resolutions
Your Browser Details - View your IP address and your browser details
Anonymous Emailer - Send e-mails to users anonymously
md5 Encrypt - Encrypt text to MD5
Online Calculator - A simple online calculator

Make your website worth the stop

Increasing your website or blog's traffic is one of the key things to monetize, either by publishing ads, selling services or selling products. But one-way traffic is not what you need.
So before you publish your website make sure it's done properly. These are the things you should do before even publishing.

1.Make it functional
This means you need to have clean and properly done coding. As your page title put the best describing thing and then your own website name!
For example: lets say i'm selling shoes and i want to put a title on my page which contains woman shoes, so you do this - "Title: Woman shoes : yoursitename"
If it's a page with specific woman shoes you need your title to describe that. Title: Nike red snickers : yoursitename.
Other thing is that you need to have every link working and referring to where it's supposed to.

2. Make your website/blog look good
Yeah, instead of using one table or border use couple. In one you'll put latest news, in other field your latest product, in other filed you put your cheapest product or special promotion or similar.
So basically you need to display various things all sorted in a nice matter and all with your website content.

3. Make sure you've got the right keywords/tags
Add general keywords that have high search values but you need to have specific low traffic keywords.
For example lets say your site is about shoes so here are couple of keywords: shoes, boots, sports shoes, woman shoes, casual shoes (these are all high search keywords); red shoes, blue shoes, formal shoes, military boots, apex shoes (these are all medium search keywords); Nike red shoes, apex blue shoes, Nedi winter shoes (this are all low search keywords). Because your website is new you can't expect to be listed on the high search keywords so you need to put very specific keywords in order to get visitors!
Use Google keywords tools to help you choosing keywords for your site or other keyword tool.

4.Add some interesting widgets on your site
Add some useful and interesting widgets/scripts on your website such as calendar, guestbook, chat and so on... If you have for example music website add online music player, you can do this easily with ready flash scripts, add some downloadable demo songs and so on...
If you have for example news website make sure you put search button, add RSS feeds and so on...

Also read my older posts to find out how to submit your website to search engines and web directories, to increase your website, blog or forum traffic, how to advertise your website and more.

What are interstitial ads?

Interstitial ads are full-page ads in between the pages.
- They can be configured to show up in different ways and times, meaning you can display 1 interstitial ad to a visitor for example once every 24 hours or 5 times in 24 hours. You can also have interstitial ads placed on any page you like to show as many times as you'd like.

Interstitial ads come in the form of:
• Popup Advertisements
The advertisement is shown in a new window, which opens automatically. It is a kind weakened circuit breaker advertisement.
A variation on the pop-up window is the pop-under advertisement, which opens a new browser window hidden under the active window. Pop-unders do not interrupt the user immediately and are not seen until the covering window is closed, making it more difficult to determine which web site opened them.

• E-mercials
Represent likewise a special interstitial variant. They appear as Full screen advertising spots between play sections (e.g. after a answered question).

• Superstitials
Its further developed Popup, which can merge large Multimedia elements (HTML, GIF, JPEG, Flash) without long waiting periods. The Spot loads in the background and appears by clicks, as soon as it is completely loaded.

• Easy Ads
Those are Flash Interstitials, which motivate in the context of a banner campaign to Clicks. They contain usually a music/video library, an active Chat Community and offer to the user of profit plays, Shops and interesting left. Their special attention is thus on the maintenance. Easy Ads are arranged in the market Design and transport so the mark image and offer at the same time user Benefits on-line.

All advertising and publishing networks

Find out who are the best publisher networks
Judged by:

• highest Payouts ad network
• easy of use and instalation ad network
• best customization ad network
• best support ad network
• most advertisers ad network

The results are:
1. Google AdSense
2. Clicksor
3. Clickbooth

Additional ad networks:
Primarily CPM Based Ad Networks
24/7 RealMedia
Accelerator-Media
Ad Solutions Network
Ad World Network
AdAgency1
AdBonus
AdDynamix / Pennyweb Networks
AdOrigin
AdPepper
AdSmart
Adtegrity
AdZuba
Ampira Media
Bannerconnect
BannerSpace
BlueLithium
BURST! Media
Casale Media
Claxon Media
Click Agents
CPX Interactive (Formerly Buds Media)
EuroClick
Experclick
FastClick/ValueClick
Federated Media
Gold Group
Gorilla Nation Media
Hurricane Digital Media
ImpressionUp
InterClick
Interevco (Interactive Revenue Company Ltd.)
Joetec
Mamma Media / FocusIn
MaxOnline
Oridian
Premium Network
Quake Marketing
Quin Street
RealCastMedia
RealTechNetwork
Revenue.net
Right Media
Rydium
The Robert Sherman Company
TMP
Tribal Fusion
Valuead.com
Yes Advertising
HyperBidder

Primarily CPA/CPL Ad Networks
Advertising.com
Amazon.com
Axill
Azoogle Ads
ClickBank
ClickBooth
ClickXChange
Commission Junction / BeFree
CoverClicks
DarkBlue
DrivePM
emarketmakers
Linkshare
Maxbounty
Meta Reward
ProfitCenter
Revenue.Net
ShareASale
Strategic Affiliates
WebSponsors

Primarily CPC AND/OR Text Based/Contextual Ad Networks
Google AdSense
Yahoo! Publisher Network
AdHearUs
AdKnowledge
AdSonar
Bidvertiser
CBprosense
Clicksor
IndustryBrains
Mirago
Miva
TextWise
Text Link Ads
Vibrant Media
AdBright

Shopping/Comparison
Networks
TTZ Media
PriceGrabber
Chitika
Shopping.com
CNet Shopper

“Non-Standard” Ad Networks (PopUps, Expandables, Pay Per Post, etc.)
7AdPower
Opt-Media
PayPopUp
PointRoll
PopUpTraffic
Tremor Network
WhenU
PayPerPost
ReviewMe
CreamAid

Specific Demographic Ad Networks
Absolute Agency
AVN Ads (*****WARNING: ADULT NETWORK*****)
BlogAds
CrispAds Blog Advertising Network
HerAgency
HispanoClick
Pheedo RSS & Weblog Marketing Solutions
Qumana Adgenta Blog Ads
WayPointCash

NON-US Primarily CPM Based Ad Networks
ClickHype
DMO Global

NON-US Primarily CPC AND/OR Text Based/Contextual Ad Networks
PeakClick

NON-US Primarily CPA/CPL Ad Networks
TradeDoubler
Commission Monster
Affiliate Future
AdLink

Learn how to make money online

Because of high interest and visits to my "Guide to making money online" guides I've decided to refine and extend it.

There are 4 ways to make money online:
1. Sell products or services on a website
2. Sell products or services by email
3. Make money on other people's sales.
4. Make money selling ad space, or largely known as making money with your website or blog

The fastest way is by becoming affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is a widespread method of promoting a website, in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber or customer provided through his efforts. It is a modern variation of the practice of paying finder's-fees to individuals who introduce new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (Pay-per-click), registrant (Pay-per-lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay-per-Sale).

Another way is by signing up with an advertising network such as AdSense, AdBrite, Bidvertiser, Advertise.com, ClickBooth and so on…

Depending on your traffic you may need to invest a little in your website or forum by buying a good webhost, doing link exchanges and advertising your website. Once your traffic is on the desired level you can become an affiliate and/or publisher.

This is the first step and you need to decide where you stand. Do you sell online services or maybe you are just planning so, do you own a website and want to make it profitable or you are just planning on doing so…
If you are like most out there who own a website and want to make money from it these are some basic requirements you need to make in order to monetize your website or blog:

1. Develop an interesting and user friendly website
2. Optimize your website
3. Increase your website traffic with SEO
4. Maintain and post fresh content on your site as often as you can

1. Developing and interesting and user friendly website

If you are planning on monetizing a website it needs to be interesting and user friendly for visitors. This motivates the visitor to return back to your site. You need at least intermediate HTML knowledge to create a website. If you do not have the proper knowledge I suggest you get professional developer to build it for you.

2. Optimizing your website

This is basically a part of the developing procedure. Main thing you should consider is having more than 70% text on your website and the other 30% being various codes (html, php, flash etc…).

Putting Meta tags is also very important, although Google search engine doesn’t need the Meta description tag it still helps at least in explaining your website content to a possible visitor.
Title tag: Here is where you put your website name

Keywords tag: Here is where you put keywords that are specific to your website and explain it best. You should start with “big” keywords and move to more specific ones, make sure you start with the best identifying keyword. Do not use more than 13 keywords as your site can get penalized and actually get lower search engine results with more keywords, instead focus on those 13 keywords or even less keywords if you can.

Description tag: Explain your website. Make sure you start with your website name.

3. Increase your website traffic

There are numerous ways to increase traffic. Such as submitting your website or forum to search engines, advertising it, link exchanging, optimizing your website keywords and text, adding link on various forums to your website and so on…

-Submitting your website to search engines

Instead of looking to put your website to as many search engines as you can loosing time and patience, you only need to submit your website in the top 3 search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN/live search.
The best way to do this is by actually going to each of these sites and submitting. Do not use automatic submitters or third-party sites as it’s only a waste of time and there is better chance to index your site faster if you directly submit it.

-Advertising your website

Sometimes in order to get something you must give something. You can call a little advertising as an investment in your website for huge returns. Here are some advertising networks where you can advertise your site: AdBrite, Google AdWords and so on… But instead of paying a lot of money for a quick traffic boost you need to take it the slow way. This means that you need to put 50$ dollars advertising money. Choose the best audience; for example is you have java games website you need to advertise your website to some similar group, in this case another java games websites, flash games website or general games websites. You should choose minimum payment. For example if you put 20$ dollars a day you'll get around 60-80 visits but if you choose 3$ dollars a day you'll get around 15-25 visits, though you will be advertising your site longer. So you do the math but the best choice is 3$ a day and this way you'll get more visitors per week and plus the longer you advertise your website the more people will see it and know about it. Even if they do not visit it through the Advertisement they can still visit directly by url.

-Link Exchanging

This is quite easy. What you need to do is find some site like yours with similar content and then contact the webmaster/administrator of that site. Make an agreement and you both link your sites. Note only exchange links with sites similar to yours who have less or worse content than your site. If this is the other way around you may lose visitors. Link exchanging may also increase your pagerank.

-Optimizing your website keywords and text

The easiest way to find out the best keywords for your website is to use Google AdWords program that scans your website and shows you appropriate keywords for it sorted by relevance.

Optimizing your text means that instead of using general terms for writing something you use specific words.

For example if you are running Xbox360 games website instead of writing console games you write “Xbox 360 games” in the description of your website as well as the news, review or other text you have/want to put on your website!

-Showing your website

One of the free and easy ways of getting visitors is by putting links in your forums signature and posting little on the forums. This is a slower method and does not produce many returning visitors, in fact it will produce only around 5-15% returning visitors but it's easy and simple to do it and will boost some new visitors to your website!

-Innovative ways to increase traffic on your website

For some time now there are newer ways of showing your website. These are innovative and interesting ways but you can expect some increase in traffic.
The first way is using video hosting websites such as Youtube, yahoo videos, Google videos and so on... You need to create/edit an interesting video, something that will attract more people. For example you can do a slide-show type video named "TOP 20 best cars for 2006". You then choose your own best cars pictures and share it online.

Second way is using social and communication websites such as Myspace, hi5 and so on... You can do this is number of ways. First you need to put a picture of your website in a banner form on your main profile page, second is to put a website image in your image gallery, third is to post your website link in all your comments and last but not least is to email all your Myspace "friends" telling them about your website.

Third way is websites such as: digg, delicio, diigo, furl and so on... This is when you have some stable traffic on your website. By making users post your website contents on these websites you'll get even more traffic to your website, or alternatively you can post your site content on these pages yourself.

4. Maintain and posting fresh content on your site as often as you can

Make sure you maintain your website at least once in two weeks. This means checking for wrong codes or just getting rid of the extra codes.
Posting fresh content on your site is crucial to keep visitors interested. Fresh content also increases your site’s search engine ranking.

After doing all these things you need to put ads on your site. Whatever advertising network you choose, you need to find a good place to put your ads. The placing of ads is very important.
ADS place/s should be highly visible. This most certainly means do not put ads on bottom of your page. Place them top of your site. It can be left, right, center it just needs to be top. You can also place a smaller ad zone in the area where you post your content. You could experiment at first with different ad places, different ad colors and stuff until you find the best fitting position.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) updates

Search engine optimization updates:

• Google has dropped paid links importance
• Google has droped some link directories importance
• Meta tags keywords importance droped
• Unrelated backlinks importance droped
• Title tag importance droped a little

So you are wondering how to do effective SEO when so much things have changed.
Well whats increased in importance are the following things:

• related backlinks importance increased
• site content(text) increased
• domain name importance increased
• site updates (new articles) importance increased

Building quality and related backlinks is what counts more now.
Your site text counts more than keywords do.
domain name is more important, so make sure you register domains that are related to your site content
When you post new articles your site will increase in search engine ranking by few places

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Improve your search engine ranking

Yet another article on how to improve your search engine rankings. Lets face it your site search engine rank is the most important for getting lots of visitors.
You could submit to web directories, websites like Reddit, Tumblr, delicio.us and others but you only get small boosts for that day and already the next day you still get the normal traffic you were getting  But if you have a high rank for your main keywords on Google or Yahoo then you'll get all that traffic to your website.

So lets start with what stuff is bad for good search engine ranking

1.Don’t make your website fully Flash Or Javascript.
These dynamic scripts don’t contain much content in terms of words and the search engines generally do not like them. If you like to have fancy effects or graphics use Flash or Javascript but in limited amount. Your website should be 70% content, 20% code and 10% other(flash, javascripts, images, etc...)

2.Never Use Unrelated Keywords In Your Meta Tags
Never put keywords in your meta tags that are never mentioned in the body section of your website or that target a high traffic keyword but your content is not related with!

3.Never replace text with images.
Although your website may look better if you use mostly images the search engine rank will suffer. Search engines can't read text from images and even ading 'alternative text' to your images won't help. So use mostly clear text instead of images or scripts.

4.Don't put frames
Frames are ignored by search engine spiders so having them on your site is a bad idea!

Improving your search engine rankings

1.Use clean links
Use clear links to your site pages. The best way is to use text links.

2. Website title
Make sure your title describes your site content.
For example if you are renting cars this is how your title should look like: ""rent a car :: cheapest car renting . Your company name is not so important and thus every person will clearly see your company logo or name when he visits your site.

3.Meta content
You should best describe your website content. Don't put long and complicated descriptions, instead use short and clean description.

4. Meta keywords
Don't use too much keywords and make sure you put your website best describing keyword first. In details: don't use more than 15 keywords and more than 130 characters in the meta keywords tag

5.Body text
Make sure you use the words you have in your meta keywords tag in your body text. Not mentioning keywords in your body text may result in search engines penalizing your site.

6.Build up backlinks
Make sure you exchange links with websites similar to yours. This is one of the key things to get better Google search engine rank

Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.
Check for broken links and correct HTML.
If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

4 simple steps to a great website

Is your website really bad?
Do you have little to none visits per day?
Is your page rank 0 or not yet assigned for months?
Do you have crappy content?
Do you abandon your website or not?

The answer is no. All this can change in matter of weeks, all you have to do is go step by step and you'll achieve a great website, with decent visits and better page rank.

Just follow these 4 simple steps:

STEP 1:

• Redesign your website.
• Having a great looking website is a crucial component in order to gain and keep visitors.

STEP 2:

• Add your website to web directories such as DMOZ.
• Adding your website to web directories will help you achieve better page rank on the long-term. It may not have effect immediately but it helps.
• Do a research on SEO and apply it to your website. SEO stand for search engine optimization and it's a crucial component in order to achieve better search engine results. By SEO you need to optimize your site pages for the following things: Title optimization, description optimization, keywords optimization, text/code optimization.
• Go for quality over quantity.
• Start writing unique and quality articles rather than copies and junk articles. Go for quality rather than quantity.
• Submit your website articles to Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious and similar websites.

STEP 3:

• Start affiliating with similar websites as yours with low page rank. Don't try to affiliate with high page rank websites as you will fail, instead affiliate with other PR0 to PR3 websites.
• Advertise your site.
• Advertise your site in forums or by paid advertising. Make sure you put your website link to your forum signature on forums that allow this.

STEP 4:

• Add third party widgets.
• Make your site look richer and more interesting by adding third party widgets. You can add weather ---forecast for example, or broadband speed test and so on...

Get a quick boost in website traffic

If you want a quick boost to your website traffic try some of the following things:

Include your website link in all of your forums signature and start making some new threads. It's important to start new threads instead of posting in other threads beacose you will get bigger exposure due to your post being first. Make sure you make few new threads so that your exposure is even bigger.

Pay someone with high post count and average daily posts of 5 or more, on some highly visited forum to put your website link in his/hers signature. This shouldent cost more than 10$ for a whole month link in his/her signature. Much cheaper and effective than conventional advertising as you also get back-links at the same time.

Digg and stumble your articles. Then go to forums like digital point and exchange digg's and stumbles with people. The more digg's and stumble's the more expousure your article will get and thus increasing traffic to your site.

Make some short but interesting video, show your website link in the video. The most efective way is to show your link in the begining, middle and end of the video. Then submit it to sites like youtube, Vimeo and others.

Google AdSense review

AdSense is run by Google and serves websites with relevant ads. Publishers can join for free and can show automatic text, image, video, and rich media adverts that are targeted to site content and audience. These adverts are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google. You can earn money from AdSense on a per-click and/or per-thousand-impressions basis.

Google uses its search technology to serve ads based on website content, the user's geographical location, and other factors.

There is also AdSense for mobile. This allows publishers to generate earnings from their mobile websites using targeted Google advertisements.

Review: (1-10) 1-worst, 10-best
Customization 6/10
Ads variety 9/10
Geo locations 10/10
Revenue 9/10
Stability 10/10
Support 6/10
Payment 7/10
Overall score: 8.1

Rating explained:
Customization - Ability to customize ads look and ads served
Ads variety - number of different ads shown per site
Geo locations - Number of geographical locations covered by the the ads and ability to display ads on non US languages
Revenue - overall revenue from ads, by all means of earning(CPC, CPM, CPA, etc...)
Stability - ads uptime and time of impressions/revenue updates
Support - How quality and fast the support is by all means (email, phone, IM, etc...)
Payment - Flexibility in payment; meaning if you can choose the time/amount for/of money to be send to you ($10, $30, $50, $100, etc...). How fast(slow) is the payment recievement.

Best SEO and pagerank analyzing websites

Here are the best 2 SEO tools as far as i'm concerned:
Backlinks checker tool - http://www.backlinkwatch.com

• This tool will check and show all backlinks to your site and provide the pagerank to the backlinks linking to your site. It will show you "anchor" text, pagerank, total outbound links on that page, and nofollow flag for each of your inbound link available.
• It's a bit slow but it's worth

Website SEO Score Tool (website grader) - http://www.websitegrader.com/

• This is a comprehansive tool for checking how does your site rank for specific keywords as well as give you a site rank based on all website checks made.
• Furthermore it gives this complete list:
  Website Grade
  Google Page Rank
  Alexa RankTechnorati Rank
  Google Inbound Links
  Yahoo Inbound Links
  Delicious Saved Count
  Google Indexed Pages
• Also it gives some general SEO tips on how to improve your site search engine ranking

AdBrite Review

AdBrite, Inc. is an online advertising network, based in San Francisco, California, which was founded by Philip J. Kaplan and Gidon Wise in 2002.

AdBrite uses javascript technology to serve ads based on website content, geo location and other factors.
Today AdBrite serves over 600 million impressions a day on over 40,000 websites.

AdBrite offer for publishers:
Full Page Ads
CPM Banners
CPC Banners
CPC Text - Banners (Content Ads)
CPC Text - Inline (Key Word Contextual Targeting)
Video In-Banner
Video Pre-Roll

Review: (1-10) 1-worst, 10-best
Customization 9/10
Ads variety 6/10
Geo locations 7/10
Revenue 5/10
Stability 9/10
Support 5/10
Payment 6/10
Overall score: 6.7

Rating explained:
Customization - Ability to customize ads look and ads served
Ads variety - number of different ads shown per site
Geo locations - Number of geographical locations covered by the the ads and ability to display ads on non US languages
Revenue - overall revenue from ads, by all means of earning(CPC, CPM, CPA, etc...)
Stability - ads uptime and time of impressions/revenue updates
Support - How quality and fast the support is by all means (email, phone, IM, etc...)
Payment - Flexibility in payment; meaning if you can choose the time/amount for/of money to be send to you ($10, $30, $50, $100, etc...). How fast(slow) is the payment recievement.

Bidvertiser review

Bidvertiser is a subsidiary of Bpath, established in 1997 as an international services provider for websites.
Publishers can join for free and show text and ebay ads on their sites through Bidvertiser network.

Bidvertise uses javascript technology to serve ads based mostly on advertisers set preference, so you as a publisher have little or no control of what ads will appear on your site.
Currently Bidvertise is considered to have fair amount of advertisers and it has a significant amount of publishers.

Bidvertiser have moved on from only cost per click advertisement and are now serving banner ads, pop-under ads and slider ads.

Review: (1-10) 1-worst, 10-best
Customization 7/10
Ads variety 5/10
Geo locations 8/10
Revenue 8/10
Stability 9/10
Support 8/10
Payment 8/10
Overall score: 7.5

Rating explained:
Customization - Ability to customize ads look and ads served
Ads variety - number of different ads shown per site
Geo locations - Number of geographical locations covered by the the ads and ability to display ads on non US languages
Revenue - overall revenue from ads, by all means of earning(CPC, CPM, CPA, etc...)
Stability - ads uptime and time of impressions/revenue updates
Support - How quality and fast the support is by all means (email, phone, IM, etc...)
Payment - Flexibility in payment; meaning if you can choose the time/amount for/of money to be send to you ($10, $30, $50, $100, etc...). How fast(slow) is the payment recievement.

ValueClick Media Review

Founded in 1998, ValueClick Media was among the first online advertising networks and an early pioneer of applying performance-based pricing methods to the ad network model.

Today, ValueClick Media is one of the largest online advertising networks in the U.S, though lacks big time in the international market. In fact it has quite fewer international publishers and advertisers that can't even be compared to some other advertising networks like Google AdSense for example. ValueClick’s customers include advertisers, advertising agencies, and traffic distribution partners.

ValueClick Media allows publishers to earn revenue from every standard banner format, as well as pop-unders, rich media and video. ValueClick also has mobile advertising, a growing market for online advertising companies and publishers.

Review: (1-10) 1-worst, 10-best
Customization 7/10
Ads variety 7/10
Geo locations 4/10
Revenue 8/10
Stability 10/10
Support 6/10
Payment 9/10
Overall score: 7.2

Rating explained:
Customization - Ability to customize ads look and ads served
Ads variety - number of different ads shown per site
Geo locations - Number of geographical locations covered by the the ads and ability to display ads on non US languages
Revenue - overall revenue from ads, by all means of earning(CPC, CPM, CPA, etc...)
Stability - ads uptime and time of impressions/revenue updates
Support - How quality and fast the support is by all means (email, phone, IM, etc...)
Payment - Flexibility in payment; meaning if you can choose the time/amount for/of money to be send to you ($10, $30, $50, $100, etc...). How fast(slow) is the payment recievement.

Why SEO is so important to your website

More likely than not, you’re using Google, Bing, or Yahoo to search for things on the web, so it makes perfect sense that your website must also be attractive to these search engines, too.

Seomoz offers some helpful information from Yahoo!, Google and Bing and their webmaster guidelines and search engine rankings. Yahoo! has these factors that websites must have for high ranking, which include:

• The number of other sites linking to it
• The content of the pages
• The updates made to indices
• The testing of new product versions
• The discovery of additional sites
• Changes to the search algorithm – and other factors

Bing engineers at Microsoft recommend the following to improve rankings:

• In the visible page text, include words users might choose as search query terms to find the information on your site.
• Limit all pages to a reasonable size. We recommend one topic per page. An HTML page with no pictures should be under 150 KB.
• Make sure that each page is accessible by at least one static text link.
• Don’t put the text that you want indexed inside images. For example, if you want your company name or address to be indexed, make sure it is not displayed inside a company logo.

 And finally, Google recommends the following:

• Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as cloaking.
• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
• Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content. Make sure that your  elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate. • Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100). elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate. • Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Reviewme sponsored reviews

ReviewMe is a publisher network for bloggers and advertisers and its main occupation is serving as a bridge between bloggers and advertisers for sponsored reviews.
ReviewMe offers bloggers the ability to submit their blog to reviewme for inclusion and if they are accepted you can write reviews for money. You need to create a free account as a blogger and you may add as much blogs as you want from your one account, ofcourse your blogs must be accepted first. They pay from 20$ up to 200$ for one single review. You also have the power to accept or deny a review. In essence its pay per post.

The catch here is that there are many websites that offer services or products but they have no clue if their services are good or what should they improve, so basicly this is similar to surveys but in this case you write a full review of their service, product or whole website. So in order to find out what is good and what is bad they are paying money for people to review their services or products. ReviewMe is basicly the "mid" website that finds reviewers for advertisers and vice-versa.

In order to start making money with reviewme your blog must be first accepted, one of the things your blog needs to have in order to be accepted is a lot of traffic, many links, subscribers and reasonable ammount of articles.
NOTE: It is better to get the minimum amount of traffic, links, subscribers and articles first before submiting your blog to reviewme, beacose if your blog is rejected you may need to wait up to 3-4 months before you are re-accepted. See bellow for more detailed minimum requirments!

More close numbers in order to be accepted are:
from 500 visits per day
from 50 subscribers
from 50 links on your blog
from 15 articles on your blog

If you have this much traffic, links, subscribers and articles your blog is likly to be accepted but theres no guarantee.

here is the reviewme FAQ for bloggers:
Why was my blog rejected?
To be accepted into ReviewMe, a blog must meet a minimum number of citations, subscribers, and traffic. If your blog is rejected, you may want to return in a few months' time and submit again.
How do I get review offers? How can I review more stuff?
In the ReviewMe system, advertisers choose which blogs review them. So basically, sit back, and let the review offers come to you.
What are the review guidelines?
We like to keep the guidelines loose, so bloggers can write in a way that makes sense for their unique niche and audience. We do require that all reviews are at least 200 words long, and that the review post is disclosed as being sponsored in some fashion.
How and when will I get paid?
Our payments are calculated and paid out on a monthly basis. On the 1st of each month, earnings will be calculated and shown in the earnings section of your account. Payments will be sent out shortly thereafter, no later than the 4th.
Do reviews have to be in English?
Please write reviews in your blog's "normal" language. If your blog's category is German, for example, advertisers will generally expect the language of the review to be German.

SEO Total new blog looks

New Year is coming very soon and since its synonymous for change(for the better) I decided to update the blog looks. Furthermore this blog has had its old design for about 3 years and it was about time for a change.

This new look is not as fancy, its simple but effective and also loads faster which are the most important things anyways.

I've also decided to write a new article, since most of the stuff is quite old, though still valid and useful. So yeah a new article on SEO or maybe even online money making, still undecided.

What are text link ads?

Extremly useful way to monetize your website is to display text link ads.

-What are text link ADS?

Text link ADS is basicly advertising through words, to fully monetize your website besides google/bidvertiser ads, besides affiliate programs you should have text link ads.

All you need to do is write on your website or blog whatever you want rigister with text link ads program, put a simple code on the page and the text link ads will be shown!

-What makes text link ads unique?

Text Link Ads are unique because they are static html links that can drive targeted traffic and help your link popularity which is a top factor in organic search engine rankings.

-How are text link ads priced?

Text Link Ads are priced at a flat rate per month per link. You prepay for a 30 day run of your ad. Your ad will never be turned off if it gets too many impressions or clicks. The pricing algorithm factors in a websites: traffic, theme, ad position, and link popularity when setting the flat ad rate per month.

here are some text link ads providers:

linkworth.com

adbrite.com

text-link-ads.com/

textlinkbrokers.com/

direct-link-ads.com/

Yahoo to cut more jobs

Yahoo will cut 400 more jobs, after the previous cuts. Yahoo has been on the brink of profitability for some time now and after the microsoft bid to purchase Yahoo failed, Yahoo's stock plummeted, since then and the ecomomy crisis now, its been hard time for Yahoo and there is no sight of light at the end of the tunnel.

SERP and SEO Domination

Anytime I approach a middle to heavy weight niche I try to look at the current SERPS sensibly and take the idealism they present with a grain of salt. The intent is that they rank your sites upon a mixture of their quality and relevancy. When the reality is they rank the sites upon their authoritativeness and subject coverage.

Tamato, tomato right? Well….no. That’s like saying a “person with good qualities” is a “good quality person.” Regardless of how many people it fools, it’s still false. It’s these subtle differences that gives those of us without a registered 1998 domain a chance. With that right and the lack of proof that even an algorithm can count to infinity everything becomes part of a nice little scale. I don’t have to be big, I just have to be larger than the rest.

With that new perspective I stand a smaller chance of running uphill in the mud with my work. Sometimes people rush into a niche too eagerly. I’ve done it so many times. I just create a site based on some keywords and keep building and building on it while getting nowhere. The other sites just seem to have too large of a head start and have already had time to build up momentum faster than I can catch up. It seems like an endless cycle which often times has a much easier and quicker path; I am just too bull headed and committed to see it. So now that we got the right mental approach let’s review what we’re up against.

For this fictitious example we’re faced with a top 15 consisting of four or five very large old community sites on the subject. Also, a few informational sites with lots of pages and inbound links(a range of 7k-45k). There also seems to be a couple shithead subpages. By shithead subpages I’m of course affectionately referring to major authoritative sites that have a page on the matter, such as Wikipedia, About.com, and Amazon. Within these results the average domain age is 6 years. The domain age range is 5-10 years. Alright, so I got quite the project ahead of me. Let’s analyze what I’ll need. The presence of subpages in the results tells me that “subject coverage” factors aren’t highly required because in this case Google luckily believes that a single page written by a punk editor is more relevant than an entire site dedicated to the subject due to domain authority. However, I’ll keep the subject coverage factors in my back pocket because they’ll help me deliver the final kill once we catch up. Catching up? Hmm. there’s an interesting dilemma. I got some serious age and authoritative competition to deal with. Even if I create an absolutely huge site and get tons of inbound links quickly I could still get stuck treading water with the sharks for the next 3-4 years. In the interest of getting paid I have to figure out a better way of generating huge amounts of authority.

There’s more than one way to get a job done. Sometimes you got to ask yourself a rhetorical question. Whats the fastest way to move a bunch of dirt, one giant bulldozer or a half dozen or so small bulldozers? A logical person would realize the flaw in the question. The answer doesn’t depend on the bulldozers. It depends on the dirt. In this instance I obviously can’t use one giant site with lots of power, I’d just be fighting muscle with muscle and get nowhere. I need to beat them in sheer numbers. Like a bunch of midgets on a bear. So I got this awesome ideal website in my head that I would love to build for this niche. It would cover just about every aspect of the niche and absolutely rock. Unfortunately after looking at the competition I realize and accept the fact that it’s a bad business model. So I have to break it up and remodel.

Let the destruction begin. First thing I do is break apart the entire site into primary sections. For instance if the site has a forum, that becomes a new site. If the site has a blog, boom another separate site. If I got an articles and informational section or even a shop, same thing. I tear the entire site apart into separate and focused sites and bundle them together as part of a mid-sized network of sites. So for this example I ended up with between 15-20 separate mid to large sites that are all interlinked and cross promoting as part of a tight network within the niche. I build up each site with a different template and fluff it with some extra pages and content. If some of the sites are really lacking I’ll take one section and break up all the content and divide it amongst the sites. I think we’re just about ready to create some authority.

Lets review the dynamics of what we now got. Each site has X amount of authority. So if we have 20 sites we have Xx20 total authority. If we give Site #1 an inbound link it gains a little authority. So Site #1 is X+1 authority. Since Site #1 now has some authority it can call out other sites and as part of it’s recommendation can help them gain authority themselves. So since we gave Site #1 some authority, by proxy, sites 2-19 also gained slight amounts of authority themselves. This creates a nice little leech and donate relationship amongst the network. When one site raises in the SERPS it’ll naturally try to help pull the others up with it. Hey! Bring my buddies to! Each site is working in synergy to raise the other sites within the network’s authority faster and more efficiently. If you are under the initial impression that authority points are strictly an average amongst all the sites on the net than that would mean the total sum of all the pages would equal a relative 0. Therefore there would be sites with negative authority of equal part to sites with positive authority. Naturally that is untrue, sites can and do help build each other’s authority rating. If you’re with me so far you can see where this is headed, and that is straight through the Relevant Link Wall.

You got to love the supposedly nonexistent brick wall of relevant links. Dipshits on newbie forums love telling people, “don’t worry about the rankings, just build some relevant links and they’ll come.” So you do just that, after all they have over 4,000 posts on that forum, it can’t all be complete garbage advice. At first it’s totally working, your gaining a good 50-200 very relevant links a day. You submit to directories and score a bunch of links from your competitors. After a couple weeks you even manage to score some big authority links within your niche. Suddenly it all starts to slow down. The sites that are willing to link already have, and the rest are holding firm. You’ve just hit the Relevant Link Wall. Don’t bother going back for further advice. They don’t have any, and if they did they are too busy trying to rank for Kitty Litter Paw Prints to help. On the plus side with the power of my network I just pushed my proverbial wall back quite a ways. Where it was previously at around 1,700-3,000 links its now around 40k in total. Giving me some huge authority. So now my network is scattered around the 20-50 position range in the SERPS. With the pansy sites out of the way I just need a bit more of an authoritative push to go play with the big boys. So I’ll need to create a second much larger network to make the final shove.

Volume is my key strategy here. I don’t care about building up these other sites or even getting links to them. I just want them indexed and get their links to count. So I create a nice little blog network using free blog hosts on authority domains. I may even do some clean parasite hosting and push for some authoritative small links. Any relevant links I can find to make that last push up the hill and into the top 30 positions. Unfortunately this will be a struggle and take some time I don’t feel like wasting. I got to work double time and get some link power from some preexisting non-relevant sites within my arsenal.

For this I’ll use the rule of three and link to my network from a few other sites of mine that already rank high in the targeted engines. This will help the links on the individual sites within my network have more outbound link weight, so they can give more authority to other sites within the network. By policy I never allow these other sites to join the network, so they only link to one of the sites within the network and never get a link back. Otherwise the other sites within the network would gain less overall authority. It’s better to push all it’s weight to one single site and let that site boost the other sites within the network. So now our network is sitting between the 7-30 positions. They may be a bit scattered and thats okay as long as we break into that top 10 with at least a site or two. If at this point I’m coming close but still can’t quite break through I may have to resort to sabotage. Nothing says successful sabotage like slowly removing the outbound links on that ranking Wikipedia page and labeling them as Spammy links in the edit history. I know it’s a bitch move and the link may just go back up but nothing is greater than when the webmaster notices the traffic loss and checks to see why their Wikilink was gone and is like, “Fuck you Wiki, you think my site is spammy? Fine, there goes your backlink.

Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you got to do, and if that means doing sneaky underhanded stuff like convincing About.com authors that the page is in the wrong category and should relocate the article to a more suitable one, than so be it. Just don't take it too far and pretend to be the owners of those sites and harass directory editors because you feel like your site should be listed above the competitions', then call them morons when they try to explain alphabetization. Just get that booty into the top 10.

So now, like a girlfriend's hair dryer, I'm in and under the radar. Time to prove that my sites are the most relevant by expanding the content on the 2-5 sites that made it into the top 15. Now is the perfect time to shake up the industry by releasing a new feature on your site that the others don't have. The other webmasters and the 3-4 community forums that are already in have taken notice of my sites by now so I need to give them something to talk about. I'll focus on these primarily top sites and leave the others to push authority of those sites up. Perhaps by organizing my NOFOLLOW tags more efficiently? This is also usually when I'll steal little portions of content from the few sites that fell through the cracks in the rankings and put them up on my top 5-10 sites. Suddenly my number one site will need a featured blog and the blog site will quit updating so often. I may even spend a little time focusing on some Market Bait. Once I got 4-7 of my sites within my network into the top 10 I’m in like Flint, grab my cash, and move on to the next niche.

All I got to do from here is watch for other Pros attempting to do the same thing to me. They are usually pretty easy to spot when they email you from several different email accounts begging for links in a similar way. If these strategic thoughts are starting to sound familiar, but you’re not sure from where; I can explain. Have you ever had one of those sites that have always ranked well for their keywords? Then suddenly over the course of a week or so your site just deranks like crazy. All these new sites pop in to the top 10 and your left like WTF? First you glance around and wonder if something is wrong with your site. Nothing out of the usual, in fact it’s quite odd for such a consistently ranking site to drop like that. So you assume it must be some engine update. You do some research, but no one reporting anything too strange other than the few usual paranoid one hit wonder eccentrics screaming Damn Big Daddy! So you chalk it up to a possible algorithm change. Sure that must be it.

What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0, should you build a web 2.0 site and what are the benefits or downfals?

Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of web design which is aimed at improving and enchasing user experience, information sharing, greater user integration, creativity and so on...
Web 2.0 reffers to how website developers create websites and how end users use it.

In the opening talk of the first Web 2.0 conference, O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized what they saw as the themes of Web 2.0. They argued that the web had become a platform, with software above the level of a single device, leveraging the power of the "Long Tail", and with data as a driving force.

In basic user terms web 2.0 means a website that integrates text, images and application into one whole as a better way of representating the websites and greater end user experience.
On a more high level web 2.0 is reffered to as a business revolution in the computer industry and more specificly the internet, however this is arguable as every component of web 2.0 has previosly existed although may not have been used in such ways!

WEB 2.0 website
Some examples of web 2.0 websites are: ebay, flickr, wikipedia, skype, microsoft, etc...
Web 2.0 aims at improving WWW technologies such as RSS feeds, blogs, API's and so on...
Some web 2.0 integration examples are social networing sites, google maps, delicious, etc...

O'Braily's web 2.0 example:

DoubleClick-->Google AdSense
Ofoto-->Flickr
Akamai-->BitTorrent
mp3.com-->Napster
Britannica Online-->Wikipedia
personal websites-->blogging
evite-->upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation-->search engine optimization
page views-->cost per click
screen scraping-->web services
publishing-->participation
content management systems-->wikis
directories (taxonomy)-->tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness-->syndication

Is it worth developing web 2.0?
You may not even be aware of it but you may already have a web 2.0 website, but in a more global view your site is only part of the so called web 2.0.
Web 2.0 site means innovative site with lots of end user enchased experience like custom user profiles, users having personal blogs on your website or in any other way connecting them.
Another thing is integration between text, images and application into 1 whole for enriched user experience.

Benefits or downfals?
If I'm to answer I'd say web 2.0 is nothing more than the natural evelution of the web and can't be seen as a different type of WWW(world wide web)experience or any other way it may be called that didn't already exist.
In order for some definition to explain web 2.0 it must have evolved from something and portraited some different characteristics from what has been up to that point.
Instead I look at "web 2.0" as a continued evolution path for websites and online experience which has been named web 2.0 that can't be characterized or claimed to be something special.
In the end you should go and try build a website that you think is good for you, your business, users or any other thing you build your website for!

Set up a Blog

One of the best ways to inform your visitors and/or customers without changing your website concept is to introduce a blog to your website. With the blog you can keep your visitors up-to-date with whats going on with your website and/or the related content(s) of your website.

Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, and often were themed on a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. These days all major companies and websites have blogs.

Having a blog gives you a way of producing fresh and unique content for your site and improves the overall quality of your website. A blog will also act in a good way on improving your search engines ranking.

LinkWorth Review

LinkWorth is a rather unique advertisement network, It was started in year 2002 and made its full public launch in October 2003.

Today LinkWorth is a strong company offering various advertisement metods to advertisers as well as various ways for publishers to earn. They offer link ads, link words, link posts, link BB, etc...
All these names stand for similar type advertising, for example link ads means placing a text link on the publishers website, geting a article writen for an advertiser and so on...
Now serving over (43,346) advertisements, through (22,591) Partner websites that have more than(227,627,435) actual pages!

Review: (1-10) 1-worst, 10-best
Customization 7/10
Ads variety 10/10
Geo locations 5/10
Revenue 5/10
Stability 10/10
Support 9/10
Payment 7/10
Overall score: 7.5

Rating explained:
Customization - Ability to customize ads look and ads served
Ads variety - number of different ads shown per site
Geo locations - Number of geographical locations covered by the the ads and ability to display ads on non US languages
Revenue - overall revenue from ads, by all means of earning(CPC, CPM, CPA, etc...)
Stability - ads uptime and time of impressions/revenue updates
Support - How quality and fast the support is by all means (email, phone, IM, etc...)
Payment - Flexibility in payment; meaning if you can choose the time/amount for/of money to be send to you ($10, $30, $50, $100, etc...). How fast(slow) is the payment recievement.