20 Dec 08 Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching!

“Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching”

Taking into account Technorati’s count on February 11, 2008 of 185,620,000 and adding a calculated 175,000 new blogs everyday – Today, as of December 20th 2008 there are a total of 217, 236, 376 blogs! You can view the running count here. (The flash counter adds 1 new blog every 2 seconds (based on the 175K new blogs daily).

That’s a lot of blogs, and even more content! According to WordPress.com, their stats stand at 5,037,838 blogs and a whopping 43,332,247 words today! The user generated content on the internet is staggering, and you would expect that.

So, in this competitive online world you cannot be soft – go hard out with what you write and write it like you mean it. You have to stand out from the crowd because your website falls into one of the following two categories;

~ Lots of Interested Users, More Competitive

~ Not many Interested Users, Less Competitive

If your blogging for any reason other than personal “writing” you are most likely to fall into the first category.

You might ask yourself, how do I make myself stand out? Well simple, do something out of the ordinary. Everyone can write, but it takes determination, perseverance and dedication to run a website that will have your visitors returning back and back again! Look around you, see what other people are doing and try to do something better, I know this is easier said than done, but nothing’s free in this world and you got to get out there and earn your respect. Don’t worry about money as you start, because with respect the $$ piggy bank is not too far behind.

Just a last pointer, is that write in topics you are personally interested in and not for the money. 95% of new bloggers fail because they try to write for high paying keywords and niches. What good is a high paying keyword if you give up in 2 months? If you don’t see yourself writing content about the topic in one year’s time, don’t even bother starting.

Firstly find out your passion and your interests and then go from there. Good luck to you, in your journeys!

Tags: adsense, blog, content, earn, howto, money, more, traffic

20 Dec 08 All about Google – Easy, Simple and Effective Part 1

Sometimes, People wanted to know so much and can find so little information, I keep asking myself why because I have faced this kind of situation quite often. But today is a new day and I have got something to share because someone has done a great job especially to those who are new or vaguely understood about Google before.

I have recently posted about the sources of knowledge and some websites I find it very interesting for webmasters, SEO and online marketing worlds. One of these sites is DigitalPoint forum, which I visit frequently past a couple of months. I have met an awesome person from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and here’s what he shares all about google. I can only say 3 words.

Easy, Simple and Effective.. I will divide into two parts because this is going to be covered in a lot of Google related topics.  So, Thanks to MGTGamer whose profile is M3rC shares this fantastic information for all of you. This article is published with the content & consent of M3rC and his original post.

Google Search Engine Related

Q: My site/blog doesn’t show up on Google! Why?

A: This, I think is one of the most widely asked questions not only here at DP, but any SEO Forum for that matter. Well, let’s see the answer to this question depend on many, many variables. As you read through this thread, perhaps you might come across information that will help you understand the algorithm behind the Big G (no-one really has a 100% insight on it, but we can all try) However, for the purpose of the thread, let’s work out a few? If you type “site:[your domain here]” on Google and no results are found, you should try the following processes: 

1) Write some decent UNIQUE Content
2) Fine-Tune your H1 & H1 Tags and have a well written Title, Description & Keywords.
2) Submit your articles to Social Bookmarking sites such as Facebook, Yahoo! Buzz,  Stumble Upon, Google Bookmarks, Digg, Reddit & Others.
3) Submit your site to Directories (You can find heaps of recommended ones, just search the DPForums)
4) Make sure your SiteMap is up to date and in working order
5) Submit your site to the “Google URL Submitter”
6) Register a Google Webmaster’s account, and submit your site details <- IMPORTANT!
Trust me, this works all the time! I usually get indexed after 5-8 HOURS after I follow those six steps (in order)! It works. Perfectly.

Q: Should I submit to Yahoo/MSN/Google?

A: Why not all three? It wouldn’t hurt. Now it is true that the algorithms behind these big engines are different, in fact I personally conclude that they are matching opposites. I have personally experience websites moving up on the Google Results (due to WHITE hat SEO techniques) and in return the site was falling on Yahoo results. So, I guess it’s fair to come to that assumption? I recommend you submit to all engines, but select one and work on getting good results on that. Don’t try to kill all three engines with one stone, cause your stone will never be big enough.

Q: How to get #1 Position for keyword “ABCDE”

A: If the answer to this question can be answer via a thread post, Search Engines wouldn’t exist because everyone “would be #1″. To gain number one status, is hard and it’s even harder to maintain that position. In fact it’s near impossible you pick a keyword and search it once a week, You would see that there’s at least some slight change in the order of websites. It will take time, effort and perseverance to get to #1. If you stick around long enough and stay true to your ambition you will get there! Only time will tell if you do.

Google Adsense Related

Q: I’m not earning “X” amount! Why?

A: Don’t quit your day job just yet, hand on for a second buddy. Google Adsense pays you PER CLICK. That’s right you might get lucky and get $1+ for a click, but that won’t be for ever unless you done your homework, and found the ultimate niche (this is possible) anyways, most of us publishers, earn around 10-40cents a click, and those are the lucky ones. You won’t get rich overnight with a new site, so give it time. Traffic is the key, not only traffic but targeted traffic. Junk Traffic that you can buy for $1/100,000 hits is the biggest waste of a dollar! Targeted traffic means that your visitors have an interested in your topic, so if they see an advertisement that catch their attention they will hopefully click on it. Surfers that get paid 2 cents to view your page for 10seconds isn’t going to get you any clicks, guaranteed. Traffic ultimately is the key to success in Adsense, so stick around learn as much as you can – and one day you can reap the benefits.

Q: What can I legally display?

A: There’s been a few threads about warez and adult sites having Adsense on it, well to answer all those questions – get rid of it! Google cannot be cheated, we’ll you can but not for long. They will find you out and eventually destroy your ability to use their tools once and for all, let alone earn money. If your still concerned about your niche you can always try other incentive sites, or even better read theGoogle Adsense TOS first. If they don’t say you can’t do it, that means you can <- just a handy pointer.

Q: OMG! I “accidentally” clicked my ad! What now?

A: Don’t panic, just notify Google using this and just one measly “accidental” click won’t do you harm unless someone has a repulsive disorder, repeating the same accident over and over…

Q: Google banned me, do I have hope?

A: Save your time, and don’t bother. Google has many publishers as they need, if not want too. So, if you really want to you can file a complaint and fight and near unwinnable battle. Or else you can be smarter and invest that time in working with other incentive programs like Adbrite or YahooPublisher.

Q: I’m getting “X,XXX” clicks but only “$YYYY“! What’s going on?

A: If your impressions, clicks and payout doesn’t match out then either you are overlooking something really important your Googles wrong, and the likely hood of that happening is 99% and 1% respectively! Target your keywords better, revise your traffic and visitor behave by using Google Analytics then re-revise your advert layout and colors and positions as these three are the biggest reasons why your Adsense might not be performing. If all three seems in shape, post here @ DPForums, I’m sure we can help you out!

Google PageRank/Traffic Related

Q: Whens the next PR Update?

A: Digg a hole, and bury yourself and we’ll call you up when the next updates coming. Seriously, who cares? PageRank is just a visual representation of how much GOOGLE THINKS that your site is of value to the community, you could easily have a low PR site with significant amount of visitors. PageRank is important but isn’t the only SERP factor! For crying out loud don’t worry about this, it happens every 2-4months and if you can’t stick around that long – do you really think web developments for you?

Q: Do-Follow? No-Follow? Who-Follow? 

A: Your probably wondering what it is, well it’s simple. Google allows webmasters to set which sites should get the “link juice” from the originating webpage. What does that mean? Well say I have a PR4 page and I link to your page, and I set you as “Do-Follow” then when the little incy-wincy Google spider comes crawling my site and comes across your link, it will identify the Do-Follow tag and pass on some of that PR4 Link Juice on to your page! That’s why “DO-Follow Commenting” is such a good way of getting good, healthy and quick backlinks for your site! Obviously, the term “nofollow” will negate this instance.

Q: Buying links for Higher PR and better back links?

A: This gets a bit grey, let me put it this way. You can do it, but if Google finds out that you are – you will be penalized and most likely loose the effect of that bought link. In other words, if they catch you – you’ll go down the SERPs and they are likely to backlist you (this is an educated guess).

Q: I just started a website, how can I get more traffic?

A: This is one of the most frequently asked questions by new web developers, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Except maybe the fact the answer has no limits. You can generate traffic from telling your friend to visit it, to ordering a Cessna plane to leave a URL on the skies of a sunny morning and everything in between the two! There’s unlimited ways you can get traffic but here are few that’s been narrowed down to “online marketing”:
~Submit to Social Bookmarking Sites
~Participate in Forums, Online Discussions and become a niche-related community activist (other words talk to people)
~Don’t Spam! “If what you have to say, isn’t something you want to hear yourself – don’t say it”
~Write often, the more content you write the more times your visitors will come back to read it
~Perfect your theme, layout and optimize your site visually <- this has so many advantages, so just do it.
~Be creative and think outside the box, look at what others are doing and try to beat it with something out of the ordinary. People get amused by new and exciting things.
~Optimize your tags, keywords and images for Search Engines this will indirectly turn into traffic.
~Aviod keyword spamming
Google SiteMaps Related

Q: Should I have a Sitemap?

A: Do you want to be ranked high in search engines? The answer to these two questions will be the same.

Q: Google hasn’t accepted my Sitemap yet?

A: It will take a while, if you have submitted your sitemap to Google Webmasters, just give it a few days and personally visit your sitemap URL to see if it’s in working and accessible order.

Ok, pretty long enough for part 1. Part 2 can be read here.

Thanks for reading.

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24 Nov 08 10 Phases that Successful Bloggers Habituate

Presently, over 100 million blogs are available online. Why you are reading here? That’s because you have searched the correct keywords (organic traffic), visited high page rank site (PR techniques) or you visited the relevant sites (SEO techniques).

What makes you stand out from over 100 million blogs is not easy, but it is not tough as well. If you follow these 10 processes over a certain period of time, you will definitely achieve what you expected. That being said, it’s not an easy task to follow and usually you would have to satisfy yourself in every single phase.

1. Develop a valuable information, product or service.
2. Develop your own website in the niche that you know and love to do in the long run.
3. Develop your content with valuable resources and unique materials
4. Develop a real traffic to your website/blog.
5. Utilize your content to attract your traffic.
6. Build Trust and Credibility with your visitors.
7. Use your site to pre-sell your visitors.
8. Convert your target visitors to create sales.
9. Expand your revenue by effectively monetization of your site.
10. Continuously improve step 1 through 9.

There, you have it all. If you fulfill your website one by one, you can start having ads and affiliations at step 6. Step 7-9 will involve you to sign up with effective advertisers such as AdSense and Bidvertiser.

Happy making money. Thanks for reading.

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07 Nov 08 Making Money With AdSense What Google Never Told You About

Google AdSense is one of the major money generating cash cow for make money online population. It is very important to get to know that whether you know all the secrets that you are supposed to know about AdSense rather than having AdSense account and not generating attractive income for quite sometimes. I have seen many people are stuck with AdSense and finally gave up on maintaining or developing their websites and blogs because they cannot create what they aimed for.

For those who are making good money with AdSense then again hardly share the secrets because of a few things, firstly, you may not be putting enough efforts as they are, you may not understand how affiliate programs work,  you may not have unique contents, you may not work hard for search engines to love your website/blog, or you may not plan and implement nicely and effectively for long run.

So, Once you feel that you have all the requirements to earn money online, then you definitely need to know a few things about AdSense. Most importantly, you have to learn how to not get banned from AdSense by doing common mistakes or violating their TOS.

This FREE e-book is written by Joel Comm who has great writing and fantastic solutions regarding AdSense. You may also distribute freely  if you want to. The book is actually divided in some topics. They are

1. Secrets of AdSense Revenue
2. Things you should know about Adsense
3. Adlinks Units
4. Must know Google’s Terms of Service
5. Adsense STATS
6. Three Kinds of Sites That You Can Make Fortune
7. Tweaking AdSense Ads
8. Is Someone Messing Up Your AdSense?
9. The Biggest Mistake Peopel Make With AdSense
10. Making Public AdSense Serve You

Tags: adsense, ebook, free, stats, traffic

01 Nov 08 5 Things You Should Know About AdSense

Nowadays, every website turns to AdSense and they all have been earning pennies a month and never ever reached for the first $100 cheque, being on the long way, some people screw their websites with duplicate contents, unworthy information and boring content and some even violated Google’s TOS, consequently resulting bans before the first pay cheque.

So, here are the 5 important facts you need to know about Google AdSense.

1. AdSense can make a lot of money, so do not underestimate it. There are individuals who are making $300,000 a month with AdSense. So, plan and implement very well.
2. Content is MOST important thing to earn $$$ from AdSense, not keywords, if you try to trick it, you will not even make it to your first pay check. You can review how Google works here.
3. Define your niche and category to monetize in. Research a bit about AdWords and bidding for certain keywords before you decide to make money online. You love having a website about real estate, then you focus on real estate niche to get more consistent and relevant ads on your site. (Some niches will even create better rate for your ads)
4. Rely, review and research on your traffic. The people who made money are the people who use “triple R”. If you rely on your traffic, you will know the  nature of your traffic. If you review your traffic, you will know which pages and which articles are drawing attention to which countries or what type of persons. Of course, research your stats and come up with the better Ads placement ideas always help you earn more than usual AdSense members is the key of all “triple R”.Always have two or more traffic monitoring service. Most of the hosting offer free web stats. You can also use Google Analytics to monitor your web traffic. (Here is how to add google analytics to wordpress blog.)
5. You can partially control about your Ads placement in order to tweak the ads content with your content. It is neither cheating or keywords spamming, however, it will improve your Ads Placement.

Tags: adsense, google, Google Analytics