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.

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...

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).

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!

Paying for SEO? Is it good or worthless thing to do?

Today i'm going to adress a widly asked question. Surley you've been at a point when your own developed and optimized website doesen't give good results. It can be that your site is just not interesting enough, it doesen't rank good in search engines, you don't have many, if any backlinks to your site and you've comed to the point when you consider buying SEO services.

Now to the point: SEO services can't guarantee high search engine results or high backlinks nor it can always redesign your site to be good looking and/or interesting. But then again you can't or don't have the time to do SEO yourself. So your best option would be to go in your nearest webhosting company and pay them to make you a brand new website. Paying for SEO services can cost you even more than paying for a new website development. Ofcourse you must know what you are looking for and what your site needs to be and behave.
Having a website developed is much more cost efficent and better beacose apart from the normal website development your website will also be optimized. So once again we come to the point when you need to have a clear vision about what your website is for and what you want from it. All you have to do then is transfer that "vision" to the ones developing your website so they have clear directions on how to build and optimize your website.

Cheap webhosting solutions

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The objective of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The objective of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to increase web visitor counts by ranking very high in the results of searches using the most appropriate keywords describing the content of your site. This relative ranking is often viewed as a struggle to best use a few keywords, instead of a struggle to out-do your competition.

If you search on your target keywords, you will see the leading site in the rankings. All you need to do is to be better than that number one site. This page suggests ways to optimize and improve search engine results with ranking and placement advice, information, hints, tips, and clues to improve your search engine keywords relative to existing leaders. After all, better keyword ranking is your real objective.

It is not enough to simply add META tags and do search engine submission of your site to a million search engine indexes and directories. The first placement step in obtaining significant web visitor counts is to seek first-page search engine results. An early step is to build a great content-rich site.

One of the last steps is the proper submission of your great site to the search engine or directory. In the middle is a step that is VITAL if you want to obtain front-page results. Most sites skim past this step because it is forgotten or too complex, but without competent Search Engine Optimization you are destined to be search engine fodder. The following FREE tools and advice describes how to design your keywords with Search Engine Optimization and ranking in mind.

There are no Search Engine Optimization secrets -- just ranking and placement methodologies to follow in order to beat your competition in obtaining a high ranking for desired search keywords. SEO training, content and link services are just one small part. This site targets improving search engine rankings by using a "follow the leader" approach to keyword selection and page wording. Once you know what keywords and search engine marketing services (not spam) worked for the "leaders", you can "beat the leader" and do even better!

Proper Search Engine Optimization requires that you beat your competition, so knowing the keywords and criterion used by your competition is the most important first step. It will become obvious that good ranking excludes keyword spamming the search engine, and that with the careful selection of your keywords that you will fare well for a little effort.

Individual Keyword Phrase Analysis

Here is a good article about individual keyword anaysis by Fernando Chavez

It is common for Web sites to rank very well for certain keywords but not very well for others. This makes sense since the competitive landscape changes from one keyword phrase to the next. There may be 300,000 search results for keyword A and 1,000,000 search results for keyword B. Presumably, it would be harder to outrank a million results than three hundred thousand, but this is not always the case. There may be a greater number of optimized pages in the smaller results set, making it more competitive than the largër set.
While it is nice to know why a certain keyword phrase is more competitive than another phrase, it does not really help us formulate an SEO strategy to rank well for that keyword.


In order to come up with a successful SEO game plan it is necessary to gather a significant amount of data about the top ranking sites for whatever keyword phrase you are trying to optimize.

Gathering the Data
As we all have heard, there are two main factors that contribute to rankings: content and links. Generally speaking, the more optimized content you have on your site targeting a specific keyword, the more likely it is that you will be viewed as relevant by the search engines for that keyword. Similarly, the more inbound links you have going into your site, the more likely it is that your site will rank well. Search engines consider an inbound link to be a "vote" for your site. The more votes your site has, the more relevant it must be.
So how do we gather the data to compare your site to the top ranking sites for your desired keyword? The search engines are surprisingly helpful in this regard. Google and Yahoo! together give you nearly all of the information that you need in order to do an effective competitive evaluation.

Let us assume you want to rank for [sample keyword phrase]. The first thing we would do is search for that phrase in Google and look at the top 10 results. Once you have that líst of sites, we recommend that you gather the following information for each site:
1. # of pages on the site that use all the words from the phrase.2. # of pages on the site that use the exact keyword phrase.3. # of pages on the site that use all the words from the phrase in the page Title.4. # of pages on the site that use the exact keyword phrase in the page Title.5. # of inbound links to the site's home page, not including internal links.6. # of inbound links to the most relevant landing page on your site for the keyword phrase (assuming it is not the home page). You should make note of how many internal and external inbound links there are to the landing page.


Items 1-4 can be obtained if you have software that can crawl a Web site and compile statistics on word usage throughout the site. For SEO purposes, it is much more useful to query Google to gather the data above. After all, does it really matter if you have ten pages of content about a particular keyword phrase if none of them have been indexed?

Here are the queries you would use to get the data for items 1-4 in Google:
1. site:www.domain.com sample keyword phrase 2. site:www.domain.com "sample keyword phrase" 3. site:www.domain.com intitle:sample intitle:keyword intitle:phrase 4. site:www.domain.com intitle:"sample keyword phrase"
The inbound link data (items 5-6) can easily be obtained from Yahoo! Site Explorer. You can also gather the link data for your own site in the Google Webmaster tools. If you are not familiar with Yahoo! Site Explorer, you can simply copy and paste the URL below into your Web browser, replacing the domain name that we have highlighted with the name of the site you are researching:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u
Copying and pasting the URL above will give you the number of inbound links to your home page (minus internal links) according to Yahoo! Site Explorer. In other words, the results of this query will give you item 5 from above. From this page you can get item 6 by pasting the URL of your most relevant landing page into the Yahoo! Site Explorer search box. Make note of the initial number of results. It tells you how many inbound links you have to that specific page from external sites. Now change the option selected in the Show Inlinks pull down menu from "Except from this domain" to "From All Pages". You now have the total number of inbound links to that page.
Once you have all of the data gathered for every site we recommend putting all of the numbers together in a spreadsheet. You can organize it in whatever way is easiest for you to understand, but you want to be able to easily compare all of the sites to each other.


Data Analysis - Where Should You Focus Your Efforts?
So now that you have all of this data, what do you do with it? The answer is - it depends. If your site appears to have a better than average amount of link popularity but fewer optimized pages than your competition, then you will probably want to spend some time creating new pages. On the other hand, you may want to focus all of your initial efforts on link building if you have far fewer links than your top performing competitors. You can have all the relevant content in the world, but without any inbound links your site has very little chance of ranking well.

Not every competitive analysis is going to be as simple as the two examples given above. Sometimes you do have enough link popularity and plenty of content. What is the problem then? Well, the reason we feel that items 3 and 4 are important is that using a keyword phrase in a page Title usually reflects that the phrase you are researching is the main theme (or one of the main themes) of the page. There are obviously many other factors in optimizing a Web page. However, using the intitle: command is one of the only ways you can query the search engines to find pages that are somewhat optimized without having to view every page on your site.
Your content optimization should begin with the pages that are already somewhat optimized. In this case, we are talking about the pages that use the keyword phrase in their Title tags. Make sure that all of these pages are as optimized as they can be without overusing or "stuffing" keywords. We recommend using the Single Page Keyword Density Analyzer in the SEOToolset (you can try a frëe version of the Single Page KDA here) to evaluate each page.


Once you have gone through the pages that already use the keyword phrase in their Title tags, you should then focus on the pages that use the phrase in the page body but not the Title tag. You can find these pages with the following command in Google:
site:www.domain.com "sample keyword phrase" –intitle:"sample keyword phrase"
One good thing about Google is that they almost always rank results in order of relevance. That appears to be the case with the above command based on what we have seen. For that reason you should start with result 1 and go down from there. You might as well start with the pages that are closest to being optimized for your keyword already. Optimize these pages using the Single Page KDA exactly as you did with the others.

After you have optimized your pages it may also be necessary to create a silo for this keyword phrase and all other similarly themed keywords. Please read this article from the September 2006 edition of the SEO Newsletter if you are not familiar with the concept of siloing. If your most relevant landing page was not ranking well due to a lack of internal links, then creating a siloing structure should help. Be sure to add the index page of any newly created silo into main navigational elements so that it has plenty of inbound links.
Let us suppose that you have created a well-optimized silo to target your keyword and your site is still not ranking well. Assuming that your site is not being filtered and/or penalized in some way and that all of your pages have been indexed, then you will have to either create more content or develop more inbound links to get over the hump. When it comes to developing links you will want to focus on getting links to both your home page and to the most relevant landing page for the keyword you are optimizing.

The analysis that we have discussed in this article is for one keyword phrase. It is a good exercise, but you will likely be optimizing a much largër set of keywords on your site. The SEO process becomes more and more complicated as your site grows and you try to optimize more keywords. However, the same fundamental principles still apply. Good rankings will come if you have a well-organized (i.e. siloed) site with a significant amount of optimized content and inbound links. You will not have the time to go through this evaluation for every possible keyword you want to optimize, but it is valuable to go through the process for high priority keywords. Otherwise, you will have no idea where you should focus your SEO efforts.

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The influence of semantic indexing on your search engine rankings

Semantic indexing is getting more and more important to search engines. What exactly is semantic indexing and how does it influence your search engine rankings?

What is semantic indexing?
Semantic indexing means that search engines try to associate certain terms with concepts when indexing web pages. For example, Paris and Hilton are associated with a woman instead of a city and a hotel, Tiger and Woods are associated with golf.

How can search engines find the relation between words?
For example, Google has billions of web pages in its index. If Google finds that many web pages contain both the word Paris and the word Hilton then Google might assume that these keywords are related. The other words on these pages could give Google a hint that this special word combination is about a woman.
Words that frequently appear very close to each other could get a tighter connection. Google has a lot of algorithms that allow them to calculate the relation between different words.

How does this influence your search engine optimization activities?
If you want to succeed on Google then it is important that you show Google that your website is relevant to your topic. Here are some things that you can do to show search engines that your site is relevant:
Use a meaningful site architecture. Use a logical system to organize your website content. Create content sections that deal with different parts of your main topic and make sure that everything that is related to your topic is mentioned on your web pages.Make sure that your web pages are put in the right categories on your website and that it's easy to find the different categories.

Use web pages that use different relevant search termsIf you're targeting the search term "used cars" you should also create pages that are relevant to "auto", "suv", etc.
Get links from pages that are semantically relevant to yours If you're selling cars then the "Cars" web page that links to your site should not be about the movie. Links from topically related pages will be semantically beneficial to your site.

Find out why other pages rank higher than yoursIf you ever asked yourself why another page has been ranked higher than yours although you perfectly optimized your pages for your search terms then you should analyze the inbound links of the top ranked pages.The number and the authority of inbound links are important. However, it's also important that the links come from semantically and topically related pages.

Don't focus on a single keyword when optimizing your pages. If you want to prepare your website for advanced search engine algorithms then you have to create a website that has been optimized for many different but related search terms. In addition, it's important that the links to your website come from topically related pages so that search engines put your website in the right context.

Make money online with paid surveys

Another easy way of making money and geting free products online is paid surveys.
The thing with paid surveys is that big companies and websites need important feedback for their products and services but the attention from users is minimal and rarly who will take a survey or answer a form. Thats why companies are willing to pay in order to make people fill out their surveys. Beacose surveys is not their main field most companies use third party websites to find people to take their surveys.

For example a company offser a third party website like http://www.surveyclub.com/ $15 for every filled survey. The website then presents you the survey and it's up to you if you are to accept it or not. If you take the survey you will get paid $5 or $10 for that survey depending on the website. You can earn up to $40 for a single filled survey, these payments are rare and most companies offer free products like software and prizes but there are enough that are paying for that survey.
Usually for one completed paid survey you earn from $1 to $10 bucks. But hey thats not bad considering it's a 5-10 minutes work.

Note: avoid paid survey sites that require you to enter your credit card information as they are fake and worse yet they will steal your money, joining paid survey sites is free and you should never have to give your credit card information!
Some paid survey sites even contain viruses and/or malware so make sure you have your firewall enabled and set to high when searching for paid survey sites.

Bad paid survey sites that are fraud and contain viruses (do not visit them, i've listed them here so you know who they are):
http://www.surveyhawk.com/
http://www.surveyscout.com/
http://www.opinionpaycheck.com/
http://surveyincomesystem.com/
http://www.paidsurveysetc.com/
There are more but i'll have to write all day in order to list them all.

So when searching for paid survey sites be cautious and i repeat do not give out your credit card inofrmation!

Make money with AdSense

Make money with Google AdSense.

a) Ways to make money from Adsense by Distributing articles through ezine and article announcement lists
Some of the most effective methods ways to make money from Adsense clicks involve the simple step of just increasing the volume of targeted traffic to a site. One of the ways of doing this is by distributing interesting content to ezine lists and article announcement lists. It is not too difficult to quickly build a list that reaches a million or so email boxes and can thus give a lot of visibility and drive tons of highly targetd traffic to your Adsense site or sites. Probably the most popular place for doing this is at Yahoo groups, but there are a few others that you can find easily by using your favorite search engine.
Success here depends on three main factors. Firstly you should be careful to join article announcement lists and ezine lists that are as relevant as possible to your subject matter and offering. Secondly your headline has to be a killer headline that will grab readers by the scruffs of their necks and force them to open your email message amongst the dozens or even hundreds of others they receive daily. It goes without saying that the content must meet the promise of your sensational headline. Anything less will cause annoyance and leave all those potential visitors to your Adsense site feeling cheated. And believe me, you don’t want to cause this sort of reaction because it is definitely not one of the ways o make money from Adsense or any other program for that matter. Thirdly, you will need the sort of resource box in all your articles that will leave most of your readers with no option but to visit your Adsense site.
Within a very short of consistently applying this technique, my daily Adsense earnings increased seven-fold.

b) Ways to make money from Adsense by Distributing free articles to high traffic article sites Some people find the recent trends that have seen an increase in article sites surprising. I don’t. The net is primarily an information-seeking tool. Anything that will help improve the search and quality of information will greatly benefit the people making that effort.
Some of the older article directories receive very high traffic, mainly from web masters and site owners seeking quality free content for their sites. So apart from the immediate exposure these sites also guarantee plenty of future targeted traffic to your site, when folks find your articles useful enough to re-post at their sites.
The more new articles you release to these sites every week, the more targeted traffic your Adsense sites will receive. This is in fact one of the most effective ways of making money consistently from Adsense clicks. One of the reasons for this is that targeted traffic will tend to spend more time at your site or sites, and the more time they spend, the higher the chances that they will click one one of the Adsense ads posted there.

c) Ways to make money from Adsense by Using Articles And A Viral Marketing Website
Any online marketing technique that involves the use of referral marketing or viral marketing automatically has a huge chance of being a success. The net is ideal for viral marketing and in fact gives any viral marketer huge leverage. Viral marketing or referral marketing is one of the most effective ways to make money online. Just ask Bill Gates.
When Gates was trying to play catch up on the Internet after an earlier mistake of underestimating the future importance of the net, he launched his Hotmail free email service when rivals like Yahoo already had millions of users. He decided to use a simple referral marketing technique. Every Hotmail message that went out had a brief signature at the end requesting the recipient to sign up for their free Hotmail account. Within a few short months, Hotmail had millions of users. And there are many other amazing stories which viral marketing boasts of on the net.
There is one of the very simple ways to make money from Adsense by going viral. Sign up at a leading viral marketing site. You will automatically get your own viral site. You can then use some of your articles to point people to your viral site. The way these sites work is that anybody who signs up at your site will have to visit your Adsense site if you register it at the site. So within a very short time you will be driving thousands of visitors to your Adsense site.
Find more details on this at my blog whose address you'll find in the resource box below.
Admittedly this traffic is less targeted. Still the huge potential and possible numbers you are able to receive using this free tool more than makes up for this.


d) Ways to make money from Adsense With Your Email signature.
People greatly underestimate the power and potential effectiveness of a simple email signature as one of the ways to make money online. Actually this is a viral marketing method because emails get forwarded all the time and are even copied to several other people sometimes.
Do not waste another minute. Go to all your email accounts right now and create a signature that points to your Adsense site or sites.
Writing effective email signatures is a skill that you will have to develop, but I have found that using famous quotes is more effective than a straight advertising message. Always remember that people hate to be advertised to online.

e) Ways to make money from Adsense By Asking Questions At Discussion groups
I recently had an interesting conversation with a young Internet and computer techie. He asked me whether there were quick ways to make money online by answering technical questions and helping people to solve their computer and web-related problems. My answer was that there were many discussion groups where participants would get these answers for free. I advised him that he had a better chance of making money by making use of this free advice available online rather than by trying to sell his own advice.
There are tons of online discussion groups where leading world experts will answer your questions and give you valuable insight for free. It is amazing why most people do not think of using these online forums to learn as much as they can about the most effective ways of making money from Adsense.
These forums can easily be found through you favorite search engine.

f) Ways to make money from Adsense By Bartering your online skills for valuable Adsense keywords
In the old days, before the invention of money, if somebody needed something, the first question they asked themselves was; “What is it that I already have that I can exchange for what I need? Barter trade seems to have been forgotten but it is a very powerful method of trading. More so online where people have plenty of skills but are slow to trust others enough to send them money for an item they need.
You can barter whatever it is you have, your skills, products or services, and exchange them for genuine valuable Adsense keywords. Valuable Adsense keywords are the most effective way for a small site with low traffic to earn big cash from Adsense. And you can do this barter trade on an ongoing basis so that you always have a constant supply of valuable Adsense keywords which you can use at your site or blog as one of the ways to make more money from Adsense.

g) Ways to make money from Adsense By Sending Teaser Emails
To Everybody In Your Inbox And Also To Your Opt-in Email List Most of us receive tons of email in our inbox every day. You’ll be surprised at the huge number of people you know by simply going through your email inbox. No matter how good your spam filters are, you are also bound to be receiving more than your fare share of SPAM or unsolicited email. All this is “gold” lying in your email inbox and there are ways to make money using these emails. All you need to do to process the emails into pure gold is to send out “teaser emails about the most interesting aspects of content at your site. The whole objective of teaser emails is to get people to visit your site. For instance if I were to send out teaser email on this content here is how I would construct it;
Subject: Free Tools Currently Being Used To Increase Adsense Earnings
Hello,
Just thought you might be interested in this subject, since so many folks online use Adsense these days. If not please accept my sincere apologies. Details are at my site.
www. your site's address .com
Regards, Chris.
I am sure you can write an even more effective teaser email. It would be a better idea to have a different message for your close friends, a different one for your business contacts and yet another one for those nasty guys SPAMMING you.