It really is amazing how many bloggers are burning rubber out there. By that I mean they are working really hard but doing all the wrong things.No wonder people think blogging for an income does not workI was at a forum which I have been a member of for about three years and have about 60 posts on there.Yeah, I know 60 posts for three years does not make me the most active member of the forum.
As affiliate marketers or internet marketers or professional bloggers, we are always, always looking out for the next big thing that will take our business up yet another level.You know the new traffic generating software, or tutorial on how to quadruple your income in 5 minutes, or how to make x amount in a short timeThere is an abundance of them on the web and honestly some of them have really
Photoshop is the gold standard for photo editing software.As an internet marketer you'll need photo editing ability to do things like creating your header, making favicons, editing screen captures, etcAnd photoshop is second to none regarding this.But it costs about $700 give or take a dollar. And most of you reading this just do not have that amount of disposable income.So what are the
"How can I get my blog indexed quickly." It's an ever recurring question in the forumsOr"I have submitted my blog to the search engines and it's still not indexed"Another frequent thread in the search enginesSo I thought I'd write this post on how you can get your blog indexed quickly in the search engines, specifically GoogleI know that Google and Yahoo have a site submission service where you
If you are a blogger looking to improve the results you are getting from your blog, this post is for yo.I don't care if the desired action is to make a sale or get an opt in or get an adsense click, they are all measures of outcome from your blogging activity. They are your desired results.While it is true that there are a lot of factors that could influence the outcome of your blog e.g. blogging
Anyone who has been in blogging for any period of time will have realized that content is crucial if your blog is going to make any big shakes in the search engines and with your visitors.Problem though is if you are like me, you want your content to be meaningful and useful for your visitors. You want to give them all the information they need and keep out the dross.But there are times when the
Adsense is a favorite topic of mine and when I visit the forums I tend to gravitate towards the adsense subforums.A recurring question in adsense forums is 'Which is better, make one big site and monetize with adsense or make several niche sites?'And it's a valid question.The answer however depends on who is asking the questionSo if you are a newbie to making money with adsense and you asked the
Ezine articles is probably one of my favorite article directories. It's got decent PR and I have had no problems getting my articles accepted and published by them.One great feature of ezinearticles is the ability to see how often your articles have been viewed, how often the link in your signature has been clicked etcAnd this information is really useful. But ezinearticles have cranked things up
Autoblogging is the process of creating a blog that automatically populates itself with content. Other peoples' content. Personally I am not into autoblogging. Something whiffy about it. But as an affiliate marketer, I learned everything I could about autoblogging so that I know what the rest of the industry is doing.And I learned a few things that applied in non-autoblogging have yielded good
As an affiliate marketer, you may be marketing via a website or a blog. If you do not have a disclaimer on your website, you need to add a disclaimer page whatever niche you are inFor those of us in the make money online niche, adding a page with a 'no guarantee of earnings' clause is second nature.But what about other niches?Here are some reasons why you need to have a disclaimer page
Title tags are so crucial to your search engine optimization.Yet when I look at some 'niche marketers' websites, i just have to shake my head in dismay. No wonder sites are not ranking as well as they should be, especially when the keywords that the sites I reviewed are aiming for are not exactly what you would call competitive.The main problem or I should say a common problem is the use of the
In Niche marketing keyword research is crucial.Here is a heads up on one of the smartest and yet easy to use keyword research tools I have used. It's free and the tool is by Google.The Google wonder wheel. Absolutely a gold mine. If you know the general niche you want to be in e.g. fat loss that's a great start to setting up your niche marketing website. But what you want is the long tail
Backlinks are good for search engine optimization. In fact backlinks are crucial for SEO, especially if you are after those lucrative keywords.But there are a number of backlinks that you should seriously avoid. Simply because they could seriously hurt your sites performance in the search enginesIn a rather old post on this blog we talked about link farms, bad neighbourhoods and blacklisted sites
Internet marketing requires you to have your finger on the pulse at all times. especially when it comes to monitoring the traffic on our websites.And before I launch into this, I just need to say that any serious internet marketer needs to have some method of analyzing the traffic to your websites and your conversions. Traffic analysis is crucial. If you haven't got analysis on your sites, stop
Prior to last week I thought you could only get a virus infect your computer through downloads. And as a result have always been very careful about where I download products from. All those email attachments are carefully scanned before I open them, thank youSo I was absolutely stunned a week ago when one of my laptops suddenly flashed up a warning that I was under an internet trojan attack. What
Images and SEO is one of those posts that I have been thinking of sharing with you for a while now but didn't. Why? Because I thought the value of Images and optimizing your images for the search engines is very much in the 'well known' folderBut looking at some websites and some of the questions on the forums and which I am asked personally, perhaps This article on SEO and images needs to be
Building do follow backlinks is the core of search engine optimization ... for nowAnd if you are like most niche marketers you spend a lot of time looking for new ways of getting backlinks or building backlinks to your sitesAnd be it forum profiles, guest blogging, article marketing or building content on free blogging platforms, you probably have been there and done thatOne key ingredient that
Canonical URLS is something that had me confused for a long period of time. And it adversely affected the way my websites and blogs performed in the search enginesYou upload a website and throw content and backlinks at it. All well and good.But in the process of assessing your home page you find that the address is displayed variably aswww.yourdomainyourdomainwww.yourdomain.com/indexand so onAnd
Is blog commenting useful for creating do follow backlinks and getting traffic to websites or blogs?I am sure you have come across this question as often as I have in the affiliate marketing forums.And it's a valid question. Because it takes time to compose a blog comment that will pass scrutiny and get approved by the blogs moderators. You have to read the post first and some posts are just long
How do I get traffic to my blog is a frequently asked question in the forumsAnd whenever I see this question I think, even a blog post is not sufficient to cover the various methods of getting traffic to a niche blog or website. It's just too big a topicBut this picture may help towards answering the question
Somewhere along the line someone came up with the idea that outbound links i.e. links pointing out of your blog or website to another website, can significantly boost your search engine optimization. And like all SEO tips it caught on like wild fire. And a lot of webmasters and bloggers wrote articles on the types of sites you should be linking to in order to maximize this SEO boost.And there was
In a post on search engine optimization which I think I put up two days ago, I talked a lot about backlinks for SEO. In fact I think the post yesterday was also on some aspect of getting backlinks to help your search engine optimization efforts.But On page optimization matters and it matters a great deal. So do not neglect your on page SEOWhen you talk about on page search engine optimization,
So for those who are really desperate for backlinks, there is a relatively simple method of getting backlinks from statistics websites.Statistics websites are sites that show some statistical information about other websites e.g. alexa, websiteoutlook, jinxsun, etcThey show information like traffic, backlinks, value of website. The information is not always accurate and two of these sites can
I recently logged into my Google webmaster tools account and found things have changed a little and for the better.By the way I think every niche marketer should have a webmaster tools account. it's free and gives you a lot of information about how Google sees your websiteRecently though Google has added a great feature to the analytics aspect of webmasters toolsPreviously it showed us the
Getting a number one ranking and staying there for a relevant and lucrative keyword in Google is not going to be easy but it is possible.It is why you need a strategy that works when doing SEO for your website.It's about creating a system that you work at everyday and only vary from when you find a better methodEmphasis on everydayYou could decide to focus on article marketing and directory