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5 Hottest Online Money Making Methods
Aug 10th
What are people doing to make money online? Where do they learn how to rake in the cash?
Here are this weeks 5 most popular products people buy to make money online, right now.
1. Mobile Monopoly
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2. Turbo Profit Sniper – Incredible New Money Making Software
In second place we have a totally free “visitors software program”, that helps you to have thousands of free visitors in less than 30 days
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3. Blogging to the Bank
In third place we have a new version of the auto-blogging system that will help you earn money with your blog. And yes you get a free blog with this product.
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4. CB Wealth Formula
In fourth place we have a highy popular info product that will teach you the secrets of making big money as an affiliate. Created by 2 of the world’s top internet marketers.
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5. SEOPressor Wp Plugin
Shockingly Effective, Tested and Proven Wordpress SEO Plugin That Will Skyrocket Your Website’s Search Engine Ranking
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Slow month – do not panic
Jul 26th
For an internet marketer and blogger July and December are the worst months of the year. The affiliate sales go down and most advertsers seem to be on holiday. So it has been for me for 10 years and this trend still remains.
On the other hand, the months before, ie June and November are usually more profitable than any other months of the year. Advertisers are looking to buy advertising space to last all through July and affiliate sales go though the roof, specially if you advertise hotels and travels.
The important thing is not to panic. I have friends who lose their patience after a couple weeks without revenue and close down their blogs. Just to restart afresh in August or September.
Big mistake!
Most of you know by now how difficult it is to build a blog that provides a decent income, and to restart it will not help the situation. On the contrary advertisers and visitors keep away until they see that the blog have continuity and that may take months or even years.
July and December is therefore the best months for bloggers / marketers to take time off, wind down the pace of work, so they have new momentum when as all goes back to normal in August or January. When you have been going as a blogger for a few years you learn to plan your budget so that the money will last even during ” the off season”.
Keep your cool and do not give up. Think of it as a good chance to get some well deserved rest.
How to keep your blog running when on vacation
May 29th
Blogging with iPhone – WordPress Application
The problem with going on holiday is to access and update your blog blog. I solved it by installing a wordpress application on my iPhone. It can be downloaded from iTunes directly to your phone. FREE! It is easier to use this application than to directly surf to wordpress page, mostly because there are problems if you want to upload photos to your blog post.
In addition, it appears that you have to write all messages in HTML if you use the traditional side.
The application has addressed these issues in a smooth way, and you can also have all images reduced in size so they fit your blog post. This is done in the setup menu for the application.
You can also check comments etc..
TIP!
I looked for the button to publish posts from the iPhone and I began to think that something was wrong or that I had temparary blindness.
I discovered that there is no publishing button in the application instead you simply change the status of the post from Draft to Published. That’s it!
Remember that you need to enable XML-RPC. You do this under Settings -> Writing.
Blogging via email from a regular mobile
Alternatively, if you do not have an iPhone, but an ordinary mobile, you can blog via email. In order to do this you need a secret email address that only you know and all emails sent to that address becomes a new blog entry. Of course it is possible to add photos to the blog post.
The settings to blogging via email are found in the Settings -> Writing section where you fill out mail server, port, email address and password. Then of course you need an email account on your mobile. Just make sure you add an email account that is not the same as you the one you send you blog posts to. If you have your own server and own domain can probably create unlimited email accounts but if you dont have your own domain/server you need to obtain a free email account that can connect to POP3. Gmail is a great service in that regard.
Now you do not have to drag around a laptop on your vacation but still keep your readers updated 24/7.
Have a great vacation!
More SEO tips
Mar 30th
As I’ve written before, on page SEO-actually a series of small changes, which make a big difference in how you rank in search engines.
On page, means the work you do on the web page or blog. Off page SEO is what you do outside of the website / blog, for example, create incoming links etc.
I have already published a whole bunch of articles about SEO but today I wanna talk about a few other small things you can do on page, that are important to how high you end up in the SERP: anchor text and images.
Anchor Text
When you link to another page on your blog/site (internal linking), you wanna use anchor text that describes what the page is about. The anchor text presents a higher relevance in search engines.
For example: If I have a fashion / beauty blog and has a page of my makeup tips I want people to find my make up page when entering the word ”makeup” in Google, Yahoo, Bing an so on. I use the phrase “makeup tips” for my link. Logically the phrase “makeup” is the anchor text.
The code would look something like this:
I’ve uploaded my latest <a href=http://myblog.com/makeup> makeup tips </ a> and pictures so you can easily ….
This means that the text and the link on the blog will look like this, to the visitor:
I’ve uploaded my latest makeup tips and pictures so you can easily….
It’s much better to do this than to put a link on a completely irrelevant word such as:
To get to my make-up tips click here
The word “here” is irrelevant and a waste of a good opportunity to get some SEO done. In other words, add your internal links to the target page’s keyword / key phrase.
A blog is normally not just optimized for one keyword. A fashion blog can also be about clothes, shoes, accessories, jewelry, hair etc. Each of these topics is a keyword and each post to your blog is a separate page.
Pictures
With pictures you are able to sneak in important text in the code that makes your site more relevant to certain keywords / phrases. The text is not necessarily visible to the visitor, but search engines see the text and bring it into consideration when your site/blog is ranked. Sometimes these texts are visible to the visitor and that depends on what browser they use.
For this purpose we use a so-called alt tag to add text in the image code. The alt tag may contain words or phrases and be a short or longer text. I recommend something in between (given that the text may appear in some browsers).
Let’s say I want to do SEO for the phrase “Make money on the Internet” and to use an image in my post. I do not want to spam the post with this phrase but I still want the page to be ranked highly by search engines. I publish my picture:
In WordPress, I can change the Title field (in the admin panel) and put my keyword or phrase in the box. In some browsers the text will then appear when the visitor point their mouse over the image. Like this:
If you do not have Wordpress, but a traditional website, you can change the HTML code and add the alt tag to you picture’s code. The code should look like this:
<img src=”http://uronliebiz.com/mypic.jpg” alt=”Make Money On the Internet” />
Replace the URL with the link to you image and “Make money on the internet” to your keyword or key phrase. Note that quotation marks should not be erased. In this case, I chose XHTML and thus ending the code with a /. If you write pure HTML you should remove / and add </ img> at the end instead. Like this:
<img src=”http://bloggliv.net/minbild.jpg” alt=”Make Money on the Internet”></img>
You can see at the top of your blog page if you should be using HTML or XHTML (when in HTML mode). If the page is coded with XHTML, it usually look like this:
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “- / / W3C / / DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional / / EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”><html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
If it does not look like this then you probably are using basic HTML.
Good luck with your pictures and anchor texts. Feel free to participate in the dicusssions by posting a comment and don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
Beginner’s guide to making money online
Mar 1st
What are your options?
It has been quite a while since I wrote articles for beginners and since the questions pile up I thought I would write down some options (there are more opttions out there though) you have to make money online and what is required of you to become successful. I also talk about the risks and downbsides with each method.
Resell rights
It is very popular to sell products with resell rights or privale label rights. The biggests advantage with this form of selling is that you will make money instantly when someone buy a product from you. You also get 100% of the profit. As an affiliate you earn a percentage of the sales amount, you will have to reach the minimum payout and wait up to 2 months before you actually see a paycheck. The disadvantage is that you will need your own website, forum or blog to promote the products. This sometimes means you will have to create a site from scratch but often you get a ready template that you can just kodify a bit and upload to your hosting account. You have to know how to create payment buttons and paste the code in your site but you find full instructions on the payment processors’ websites.
You find a big list of resell rights products you can promote
Blogging
A successful blogger can make millions! The richest bloggers are those that write about a certain topic like fashion, cars, music, games, IT and so on and get hundreds of thousands visitors per week. 2-5 blog posts per day is necessary in order to succeed and the money comes mainly from advertising and promoting affiliate products/services. The more popular your blog is the more advertisers will want to display their banners in your blog. There is a huge series of articles about becoming a super blogger in the where you find info on how to get started, how to get advertisers and much much more.
These are some of the most common methods to make money online and as you probably figured out already, none of them comes without a bit of work. How much you will earn depends on how much effort you put in and how much you know about marketing. There are great guides available online in order to learn more and the hottest guides and sofware is found on the top list. We update the page weekly so that you can be sure to get you hands on up to date guides. We also test and review some of the products so you knoiw exactly what you get for your money.
Affiliate
As an affiliate you earn commission by promotoing other people’s/companies’ products or services. There are many affiliate networks you can join to find products to promote.
In order to make a living as an affiliate you have to build a website or a blog and use it as a pre-sell page. You can also work with a contact list and do email promoting. You mustn’t just send traffic to the merchants website and hope for the best. That used to work a few years ago but those days are over and if you do that you will loose money.
Today you need to convince your readers to buy a products and put them in the right state of mind before they visit the merchant’s website
You need to know about writing copy that sells, a bit of search engine optimization, write ads that will not cost you fortune but yet get you a lot of traffic. You also need to do keyword research and babysit your campaigns, track the traffic and sales in order to remove the campaigns that doesn’t work and scale the ones that are profitable. Tracking is the key to the cash here.
There is no way to make money as an affiliate with just a few minutes of work per day, it can be hard work but when you strike gold with your campaigns it is well worth it.
Trading with domains can be very profitable but it requires quite a bit of work and research. You have to be a little bit of a fortuneteller and predict what domains will be popular in the near of far future. Some domains you will have to sit on for a few years before they can be sold and some can be sold after only a cuople of months.
The best way to earn money fast with domain trading is to do what we call site site flipping. This means you buy a new or existing domain and create a website. Then you start sending traffic to that website and raise the value of the domain that way. There are a lot of free information about domain trading on our sister site DomainDominating.com where you learn exactly what to do in order to raise the value of a domain, how and where to sell and how much you should ask for.
Stock/currency trading
This used to be a niche for people with razor sharp knowledge about the stock/currency market and who read Financial Times daily. Today there are robots and services you can use that will help you pick stocks/currencies with potential and they will tell you what to buy, when to buy and when to sell. Is sounds like a dream, right? Well there are still risks, the robots cannot predict everything and sometimes you can loose money instead of earn. Not every stock/currency is a winner and your best chance is to also stay updated with the world economy and do your own thinking. To get started you need to sign up with a stock broker/currency borker service like e-Trade/Forex and transfer money to your account. From the trader account you can buy and sell stocks and currencies and you get real time stats and news. Every transaction will cost you some money so you have to take that into consideration when buying or selling.
PT Sites
Paid To sites offer money when a visitor read ads or email. The payment is very low and your best chance to earn money is to refer a lot of people so you can earn from your downline. You can also buy referral packages from the PT site. This is the easiest way to earn cash but it comes with quite a bit of risk since many PT sites are run by scammers and even if the site is legit it can still go bankrupt overnight. If you choose to work with PT Sites only invest in the ones that have been around for a while and is proven to pay the members.
Author: T.J
Twitter Marketing Made Easy
Jan 29th
Twitter Marketing is another brand new method of online or internet marketing focusing on the use of the popular social networking and blogging websites today. The individuals who use this form of social networking tool can write, send and read messages popularly known as “tweets”. These tweets are now the latest tool being used in the world of online or internet marketing by numerous advertisers and publishers. The people making tweets can thus make short and informative tweets for a certain website, product, good or service, promoting it by containing all of the necessary and positive features for initial reading by the individuals who eventually encounter these messages as they surf the internet and the World Wide Web.
What is a tweet? This question has been asked by thousands of individuals all over the world. To answer this query, a tweet is a text based work or composition that has a maximum total of 140 characters displayed upon the maker or author’s profile in the said social networking site. The author of these tweets may or may not have any “followers”, or individuals who have subscribed to the said author’s tweets. Any new tweet made by the said author will be instantly relayed to his or her followers, ensuring that any form of advertisement or promotion of the said product, good or service is adequately promoted or advertised.
These tweets can be received in various ways and means. Firstly, these tweets are initially received by the followers or subscribers via the tweeter website. By accessing the tweeter social networking site, these followers or subscribers can immediately view any tweet made by the authors of the said short compositions. Secondly, these tweets can also be accessed via SMS or short message service applications widely available in the internet as of today. Accessing thru the tweeter website is generally free of charge, but using SMS in order to obtain or view these tweets may incur in expenses such as phone service or network provider service charges. If you are looking for alternative ways and means in order to earn money in the fastest or quickest way possible, then this Twitter Marketing is the perfect money making opportunity for you as of today.
You can earn money making these tweets by simply following numerous steps. Firstly, you have to look for an advertiser that wishes to promote his or her product, good or service by using these tweets. Secondly, you need to register to the said advertiser’s website or URL domain by providing all of the basic data and information about yourself such as your full name, address, mobile number, telephone number, e-mail address and other important and pertinent stuff. Probably the most important field that you must provide is the payment processor that you wish to use in order to receive any and all payments directed to you. You can then perform any task related to constructing these tweets set by your advertiser. Pretty soon you’ll realize how much more money you are making because of this unique tool.
Author: Brendan
Free Blogging Platfoms – Avoid Them Like a Plague!
Sep 28th
Should you host your own blog, or just get a free blog from services like BlogSpot.com and WordPress.com? That’s the first question most new bloggers ask themselves.
Although there are advantages and disadvantages to both, having your own web hosting server is always better at the end of the day. Let me give you two simple and valid reasons why you should never use a free blog provider:
Reason #1: Limited Resources
Posting content through a remotely hosted blog requires that you relinquish a tremendous amount of control over how messages look and work. This is mainly because a remotely hosted blog by design is built to accommodate hundreds of thousands of bloggers.
For such a big volume of activity, it can only afford to offer the very least. A blog that offers an extensive amount of features to a large number of people consumes much more resources than what its own servers can provide — ultimately running the risk of major crashes.
Even something as simple as a low-graphic poll can consume an insurmountable amount of bandwidth if over 100,000 bloggers decide to offer one to their visitors. A popular blog already consumes more bandwidth than you can imagine.
Resources simply aren’t an issue with a self-hosted WordPress blog these days. With your blog web hosting, you can deck out your blog with as many plugins and widgets as your heart desires without having to fear server crashes or time outs.
In fact, you shouldn’t consume any more bandwidth with your own hosted blog than you would consume with your own hosted website.
Reason #2: Limited Monetizing Opportunities
We couldn’t count the number of people who want to monetize their blogs if we wanted to. The simple fact is that everyone and his “mom” wants to monetize their blog but the ugly reality is that many (free) remotely hosted blogs don’t allow it.
If you host a blog at WordPress.com for example, you’re prohibited from using any form of direct advertising like Google AdSense or affiliate links.
Limited resources could play a factor in this restriction, however since most monetized campaigns call upon the resources of a 3rd party, this restraint is mostly censorship. Providers than block third party ads usually do so because they want to promote their own services, or at the very least get more people to sign up for their free blog accounts.
If you have your own blog, you can use any type of advertising program. The only restriction you’ll face are the ones imposed by the third party advertising programs. This allows you to tap into popular programs like Google AdSense, Chitika, Text Link Ads and much more.
Reason #3: Long Term Control of Content
One of the most overlooked reasons to get your own blog hosting is the complete control over content in the long term. Many smaller blog providers will eventually go out of business.
And when that happens, it can be difficult (if not impossible) for you to move your content to another free provider. Even in the case of BlogSpot or WordPress.com (free version) you may want to move your content to your own blog host two or three years down the road.
Unfortunately, any search engine ranking you get, and the free traffic that comes along with it, will be lost. So even if you think you’re saving a buck or two today, in the long term you’re always on the losing end if you decide not to host your own blog.
Web hosting blog blogs nowadays is pretty affordable – mostly under $7 a month – so there’s no real reason not to take your blog to the next level. The meager cost is nothing compared to the benefits you get, like flexibility and professionalism.
Author: Gobala Krishnan
Make money with your blog – Part 8
Jun 1st
Search engine Optimization (SEO) for your Wordpress blog
I say that the best SEO you can do is to write quality content and update your blog often. However there are some things you can do to make search engines give your blog a little extra attention.
First and foremost, a couple of key plug-ins are necessary to add to your WordPress installation, but also we need to remove some stuff from the WordPress code and to change the H-tags on the site a bit. Add to that some small changes in the CSS file.
In other words it is not entirely simple changes, and if you are completely new to html coding, php and css, it may feel a bit tricky. Always save a copy/backup of the WordPress theme you modify, so you can go back to a working version if things go wrong.
Search engine friendly permalinks
Make sure the site’s permalinks are right from the start. I have chosen the custom setting and set the value /% post name% for page-url. It suits me fine.
I have also set category URLs to be marked with the string / on / on other blogs, I have chosen / – / or / about /. If there is no logical string for your blog, syou can just skip that bit.
The important thing is that it is not doing just the monthly archiving and do NOT publish all the posts in just 2-3 categories. Use categories for real. Add if you need a new one and don’t be afraid to use as many as you need. Some so called “experts” say that you should limit the number of categories but I say that is false. Many pro-loggers would agree with me.
You want people to find older topics and posts easily so that your old promos are still selling, right?
Make sure your sub-pages have an H1 header, rather than an H2.
I have never understood why anyone who has made Wordpress templates chose use an H1-tag for the blog’s name, and then do not dare to reuse this heading level of individual blog post headers.
It is generally accepted that the h1 tag is seen as one of the most important elements on a page, and if it corresponds to the title tag (and incoming links) as it becomes more powerful. Why throw away such a chance? This modification requires a lot of changes to the header.php, single.php, page.php and archives.php and finally (and most complicated) in style.css.
How to do this:
Open style.css and find all instances of h1. Add, h3.h1head on all lines that refer to h1. We will use an h3 header with the class h1head for the blog name on all pages except on the blog’s front page. This change can differ between different WordPress themes, but you even if you use a custom template I think you will get an idea what I am doing here.
Now, locate and change all instances of h2. In particular, the very common h2.pagetitle. Ensure that all lines that refer to h2 also refer to h1 and simultaneously change h2.pagettitle to h1.pagetitle. You may need to add a reference to the font size inthat section, eg font-size: 28px; so that not all page titles are as large as blog name at the top of the page.
Open single.php and replace all <h2> with <h1> and all </ h2> with </ h1>.
Open page.php, archive.php and index.php and change in these files all <h2> with <h1> and </ h2> with </ h1>.
Open header.php and look for a line that looks something like this:
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
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Change the whole line of code with this:
<?php if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { ?>
<h3><?php } else { ?><h1><?php } ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a>
<?php if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { ?>
</h3><?php } else { ?></h1><?php } ?>
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Now we have replaced the H1 header in the blog’s name with the much less important H3 tag with class h1head in all sub-pages: <h3>
Use the Word Press plugin “Header META Description”.
Download here. An essential plugin that creates a meta-description tag on all pages. There are different text elements showing different pages, but you can get very good control over which texts are being used.
For the blog front page a description text is used.
To the category pages, the description has been written for each category.
For blog entries, the first paragraph or what you have typed in the ‘optional excerpt’ is used.
Author: T.J
Make money with your blog – part 7
May 5th
Bloglovin’s Spotlight
A fairly new income opportunity has popped up in the blogosphere. Bloglovin has introduced a widget called Spotlight that allows other bloggers and advertisers to publish their link in a box on your blog. This is a really easy way to make money while you don’t have to do any work.
How it works
You need a Bloglovin account to get the java script code. Once you have an account you can get a spotlight box here.
Once registered you can modify the box so that the design match your blog and you can also set the price and how long the link will be displayed. Once you are done you hit Save and the get code. The code is to be pasted on your blog in the spot where you want this box to show. In Wordpress you can add it in your sidebar by adding a text widget and then paste the code. The higher up on the page the spotlight shows the more popular it will be.
If your blog is new you should set a modest price to begin with and raise the price later on when the demand is higher.
The script will take care of everything automatically. When the time runs out the advertiser’s link will dissappear and the next link in queue will show. On the top on the Spotlight box the advertiser can see how long before the next ad/link will show. The Spotlight box only shows one link or ad at the time.
How much you get paid
How much you get paid depends on what the price you set. You get 25% of the fee and Bloglivin pays your taxes and fees and send you the rest to your bank account.
You also get paid for referring people to Bloglovin Spotlight. You get 10% of everything the referrals earn so clearly this can be very profitable if you get a lot of blogging friends to sign up.
How you get paid
When reaching the minimum amount you can request payout. Bloglovin will pay to your bank account so you will have to register your bank info once you have reached minimum payout.
Overall Bloglovin’s Spotlight is very easy to use and provides a passive income opportunity. I think that it is the easiest money ever made on a blog, specially if you have a lot of traffic.
Author: T.J
Make money with your blog -Part 6
Apr 4th
“Trackbacks”
As a reader of blogs, you have certainly stumbled over the term Trackbacks haven’t you? Many blog platforms allow so-called “trackback links”. This means that if you want to write about another bloggers posts, you can use the trackback-link to automatically send a comment, telling us that you wrote about the post. The comment presented usually looks a little different than an ordinary comment, and listed with an extract from your own contributions, together with a link to your site.This is a great way to get traffic, especially if you have a back link from a popular blog. Suppose you comment on a blogger political opinion and you make sure you use the trackback, Then your article’s title and a short draft of your article will show in the original article with a link back to your blog, which entices readers to click through to you.
Before I explain how to do a trackback, there are a few questionsmarks that should be straightened. First, it must be said that many bloggers are moderating their comments, so your trackback link may not show up immediately or at all. Blogger may reject your trackback, although this is not likely if you have written a decent article.
Due to spam, bloggers sometimes choose not to publish trackback links, but since most blog tools support it, it can be possible anyways. WordPress, for example, is a very popular tool, and there the trackback link is always followed by the post link/trackback/. For example http://uronlinebizblog/updates/trackback/. Although the trackback link is not in the actual post, you can try adding /trackback/ and see what happens. If you are sent to the post’s page, it probably works.
So, how do you do to send a trackback, once you have a link? In most major publishing systems, there is a field where you can fill in the trackback link. In WordPress, you can add several at once by separating them with spaces.
A trackback is sent when you publish the post. If you change the time stamp to schedule the publishing at a later date, the trackback will not be sent. That’s because the technology does not allow it. It requires a direct action on your part to activate the script that sends Trackback. What happens is that a script send the data on your post to the trackback link, which corresponds to an approval or denial function. This happens automatically, so you need not worry about any technical aspects.
If your publishingsystem lack the possibility to post trackback links you can use the web service Wizback Tech Trackback Ping. It is a script that allows you to do a manual trackback-ping. You fill out the form on the page, paste the trackback link, and then enter the title of your post, your weblog name, the address of your post and a short description of maximum of 250 characters. Then click Submit Trackback. Simple!
Personally I like the track-backs, both sending and receiving them. That is why I have my post trackback-link under each post. Since I am moderating comments, I can weed out any spam coming in.
Author: T.J
