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Resources for making money online

2009-02-10T21:46:00.000-08:00

USEFUL RESOURCES FOR MAKING MONEY ONLINE

Making money online ain't easy, but it's not impossible. Here are some useful resources which could help you a lot.

Affiliate Marketing

eBay - With just a little effort, you can earn a lot of money in the eBay Partner Network. All you have to do is drive traffic to eBay or one of our partners.

Comission Junction - Maximize your revenue opportunities by developing sustainable relationships with top-tier advertisers. Perform and get paid for every sale and lead you generate.

Friend Finder - Take advantage of our mind-blowing $130 per member order payout program offer on Adult FriendFinder, Passion.com, and ALT.com.

Amazon - Make Money Advertising Amazon Products - Join the Amazon Associates Programme and start earning money today. The Amazon Associates Program is one of the largest and most successful online affiliate programs, with over 900,000 members joining worldwide. If you are a Web site owner, an Amazon seller, or a Web developer, you can start earning money today.

iTunes - As an iTunes Affiliate, you can access Apple-designed marketing materials for use in your website, email, and online promotions. Link to music, TV shows, movies, audiobooks — even applications in the App Store — and earn a 5 percent commission on all qualifying revenue.

ClickBank - ClickBank is the online retail outlet for 10,000 digital product publishers and their 100,000 active affiliates. Choose from over 10,000 products with commissions as high as 75%. Accurate tracking, high conversion rates, and weekly payments.

Azoogle - The leader in performance marketing! Develop a highly profitable revenue stream by leveraging our massive advertiser base.

Chitika - Offers a search-targeted advertising solution to web publishers. Delivers interactive text ads relevant to what your users are searching for.

Hydra - Hydra's affiliate network offers the most campaigns, most exclusives, most personalized service, and best conversions to help you make more money. Plus, we'll beat any payout and always pay on time!

Copeac - It’s no surprise why COPEAC is the fastest growing affiliate network. Top converting offers, weekly payouts, dedicated affiliate managers, creative development, and much more make COPEAC the network of choice for over 20K affiliates.

Neverblue - Neverblue is a premier global performance-based affiliate network that brings together choice affiliates and quality online advertisers as partners through carefully monitored, custom advertising.

More Niche - If you’re completely new to affiliate marketing then we can provide you with a website, articles and all the advice you need - for free. $45 bonus when you join the MoreNiche Affilite Program for free.

ZangoCash - ZangoCash offers the highest payouts in the industry - we pay you every time your users install Zango.

PPC (Pay Per Click) Networks

Adsense - Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money.

AdBrite - Webmasters can buy and sell text ads based on their site's topic area.

Bidvertiser - Display the BidVertiser text ads on your website or blog, get paid for every click and have the payments sent directly to your PayPal account.

Yahoo! Publisher Network - Simply display ads that are relevant to the content of your site and earn money from qualified clicks. No investment is required and setup is quick and easy.

Miva - Maximize your site's revenue potential with contextually and search targeted Pay-Per-Click Ads.

AdEngage - AdEngage allows webmasters to earn money selling ad space and allows advertisers to easily place ads on hundreds of websites.

Clicksor - Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text (inline text links) or displaying targeted contextual ads (various sizes of banners) on their Web sites or blogs.

Infolinks - Infolinks presents the next generation of In-Text Advertising, leading the industry with the most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest revenue.

Kontera - Kontera In-Text website advertising solutions allow publishers to monetize their content without taking away additional webpage real-estate.

Make Money by Completing Surveys

Panda Research - Receive Cash for Survey offers, coupons, discounts, Gifts, Rewards and giveaways, targeted to your specific needs based on how you answer our survey.

Survey Club - Survey Club, Take Paid Surveys online and get paid cash for surveys with No Membership Fee. Make money with Survey Club!

Survey Savvy - Unlike other online panels that reward you only for completed surveys, we give you incentives for referring your family and friends - letting you make more as we grow!

Global Test Market - Join GlobalTestMarket and get rewarded for taking online paid surveys.

AwSurveys - Make money from taking online surveys with AWSurveys! You get paid for each survey, the longer the survey the more you get paid!

Survey Scout - Get money for your opinion! Make money without ever leaving your computer.

Revenue Sharing Programs

Youtube Partner Program - Effective Revenue Sharing. YouTube maintains a positive user experience with automatically targeted, creative ad formats that generate revenue.

Break - Get paid up to $2,000 if your original video is posted on our homepage

Revver - Our unique technology pairs videos with targeted ads and tracks them as they spread across the web. So no matter where your video travels, you benefit because we share the advertising revenue with you.

Squidoo - Share your interests, get found, and even earn money.

HubPages - HubPages has easy-to-use publishing tools, a vibrant author community and underlying revenue-maximizing infrastructure. Hubbers (HubPages authors) earn money by publishing their Hubs (content-rich Internet pages) on topics they know and love

Stock Vault - We have set up a system so the ad revenue can be shared between all active photographers at stockvault.net. If a photographer has an AdSense account, they have the ability to credit their account with the ads served on the detail pages that include their uploaded images.

Flixya - Flixya is a social network that puts 100% ad revenue in your pocket. We've built the tools for you to share your videos, photos, and blogs.

Knol - Knol makes it free and easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content. Put your name behind your content; write a knol.

Dofollow Diver: Dofollow blog search engine

2008-12-23T21:28:00.000-08:00

Blog commenting is one of the most effective strategies in backlink building to increase your site's pagerank. However, these days it is almost impossible to find relevant blogs which do not use nofollow attribute in their links.

Nofollow is a tag used in hyperlinks to tell search engines not to follow and index the related link. In simple terms, this means no 'PR juice' for you if the blog owner uses nofollow in their links. Thus, having links in nofollow blogs is not useful at all in terms of pagerank. They don't count as backlinks for a search engine.

So we need to find dofollow blogs to comment and have backlinks, that is blogs which don't use nofollow attribute in their links. How to find dofollow blogs?

Thanks to dofollow diver, now it is as simple as typing a keyword and pressing the search button! You'll get as many relevant dofollow blogs as you can handle. The rest is up to you. Pick some of them and start posting relevant coments to get your easy relevant backlinks.

Start building dofollow backlinks now: http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/

Essentials of Backlink Building

2008-11-10T15:17:00.000-08:00

ESSENTIALS OF BACKLINK BUILDING

Having backlinks are important for search engine rankings, however; having quality backlinks are vital for getting to the top of the first page of Google. Building backlinks is such an important task for any webmaster that it shouldn't be left to itself. You need to have a strategy for building backlinks.

Here are the essential guidelines for your backlink building strategy:

Get your backlinks naturally

Many backlinks are achieved the natural way. When your website provides users with useful content, webmasters and website owners will often link to these useful web pages for their website visitors to use. Most often then not, these sites that link to yours naturally are relevant to your sites content. Also known as "targeted backlinks", these types of backlinks are the most beneficial when generating quality traffic from them. Getting natural backlinks, however, is a slow process. These are built mostly on trust and gaining trust takes time.

If you are good at coding or design create some free stuff that people download or use so that people will link to your site for that matter.

Submit your site to the relevant directories

Getting listed in directories like DMOZ and Yahoo is a must because this is a way to get some quality backlinks for free and your site is easily noticed by search engines and potential visitors. Generally inclusion in these directories is free but the drawback is that sometimes you have to wait months before you get listed...or not listed at all. Top directories like DMOZ and Yahoo have strict guidlines when submitting, so follow the rules carefully. Yahoo also has a "pay for review" option that is costly and does not mean you will get listed. I would suggest submitting the free listing first, then wait a few months to see if your site is listed before considering the paid option.

Although DMOZ and Yahoo are the essential directories to get your site listed, you could find lots of other free directories on the web. The thing to avoid here is using some automated software or services to submit your site to those directories. Having thousands of backlinks in a very short time will cause Google to balcklist your site. Further, you'll have the risk of getting links from bad neighborhoods. So avoid automated processes.

Make use of Article Directories and Forums

Generally search engines index forums so posting in forums is way great way to get quality backlinks. Join forums with subject matter relevant to your site, add your URL (link) with anchor text of your choice to your forum signature, then contribute to the discussions. Be sure that you abide by the forum rules before you post anything...and do not post just for the backlinks. Forum administrators are not stupid. If your are truly contributing, your posts will not get deleted and you won't get banned. Also, sometimes administrators do not allow links in posts, unless they are relevant ones, so it is best to leave your link in your signature. Submitting articles to directories can be more time-consuming then posting in forums. If you can write good articles on subjects related to your site, it's well worth the backlinks.

Feed them with RSS

Offer free content through RSS feeds to interested sites. When the other site publishes your RSS feeds, you will not only get backlinks to your site, but potentially a lot of visitors. Publishers of the feeds in return get to add relevant content to their site. It's a "win-win situation".

Comment on the dofollow blogs

Some blogs allow dofollow links in their comments and almost always moderate their incoming comments. So the best way to build backlinks by commenting on the blogs is posting a few sensible comment on the dofollow blogs everyday so that blog administrators will approve your comment easily. Just search for a dofollow blog list on Google and start commenting on those which are relevant to your niche.

Triangular link exchange

It's a well known fact that one-way link exchange is not good for your rankings, but you can easily avoid been spotted by search engines using a triangular link exchange strategy. In simple terms A site links to B and B links to C, then C links back to A.

This is a win-win situation but you need to have at least 2 websites for this to work. Then you can ask people to link to your A site, in turn you'll link to their site from your B site.

SEO: Using (www) prefix on your URL or not

2008-11-10T14:53:00.000-08:00

Webmasters are always on the watch for the effects of what they do with their websites from a SEO perspective. There's always some kind of dispute on the management of the URLs. Possible effects of having keywords in the URL, using subdomains or subfolders, etc., are common things which are widely disputed among the webmasters.

Another rare question can be the use of www prefix in your URLs or not. In technical terms www is a subdomain which is redirected to your homepage but people are so used to it that they think it is an essential part of any website. Good that number of people who knows that websites can actually work without the www prefix has increased for the last a few years.

However, in terms of search engine optimization (SEO) using www prefix or not doesn't have a known effect on SERPs. You can use it however you like it.

For instance, you can use it as http://www.yahoo.com or http://yahoo.com. There is no difference in terms of SEO. It doesn't affect your rankings at all.

However, once you choose your way of promoting your URL, keep it that way all the time. It will not only help you achieve a standard backlink building strategy but also keep your users remember your URL easily.

How to increase your PageRank to rank better in Google

2008-10-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

So you've just created your site and waiting for the Google to pick it up and serve it to the millions without any effort? Things are not that easy in the real life. There are billions of websites on the World Wide Web and everyday millions are added to the cue.

Before understanding what to do to increase your PageRank in Google, you need to understand how Google works and what is PageRank.

Google spiders crawl and index billions of pages everyday which means it adds samples of the pages into its database. This database is used to serve the related results to the users when they search for anything on Google. The issue of serving the best results first is the key factor where the competition starts.

To overcome this issue Google started to rate websites according to many factors such as the authority of the website (backlinks), relevance of the content (keyword density), relevance of the URL, tittles, descriptions and many more. These ratings obtained by the Google's rating algorithm is called PageRank which is Google's way of evaluating your website to decide if you have valuable and relevant information there.

Back to our point, PageRank is important for all the webmaster who would like their websites to appear in Google's first page when searched for the relevant keywords. There are many ways to increase your PageRank and this is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Learn your PageRank

Before starting to optimize your website to rank better in Google, you might want to know what is your current PageRank.

There are many tools on the web to check your pagerank. Some of them are:

There are also other ways to look up your PageRank like using the google toolbar. You can get your Google Toolbar to display pagerank, to see the pagerank of every site you visited easily.

OPTIMIZING YOUR WEBSITE TO RANK BETTER IN GOOGLE

BACKLINK BUILDING

The most important factor affecting your PageRank is the number, quality, and the relevance of your backlinks pointing your site with a hyperlink. To rank better in Google's search result you need to have lots of backlinks.

WATCH OUT: The most important important thing to keep in mind while starting to build backlinks is the 'nofollow' issue. Many blogs, directories and forums use nofollow attribute in their hyperlinks which tells crawlers no to follow those links. Those are not the kind of links you'd want to get to increase your pagerank since they don't affect the pagerank at all.

The other important factors are using relevant keywords in your backlinks instead of the plain URL and trying to get quality backlings from the authoritative sites.

If you don't know how to get backlinks, here are a few strategies for building backlinks to rank better in Google.

Forums

Join a few forums which are relevant to your niche. Be active and start posting quality content which you can refer to your site at relevant points.

Don't just post to ask people to check out your site. The quality of the backlink is as important as getting the backlink itself. If the threads you posted have quality content in it, you'll leverage the advantage of having a backlink in those threads when they receive their own high pageranks.

Use Signatures or Buy Signature Links

Another way of having backlinks in the forums is using the signature area. Insert your links into your signatures when they are allowed by the forum administrators.

As you post more and more, you'll get tons of backlinks. Signature links are so great for building backlinks that some active members of the forums rent or sell their signature area to the people who want to get quick backlinks which is another way of getting backlinks.

If you are lazy and don't want to be active in forums, find a relevant forum and ask the person having the most post count to buy links in their signature area. However, this may not be as effective as doing it yourself. Google appreciate backlinks accumulating gradually, not all at once.

Blog Commenting

Although many bloggers tuned to nofollow after the hype it generated when people started to use this as a tool for getting backlinks, there are still a lot of blogs who generously provide dofollow links.

Search the web for the tools to find dofollow blogs and start commenting on the articles in those blogs. Needless to say, you need to post relevant comments, otherwise they are going to be deleted or not published at all.

Directories

Directories are another way to get links. There are tons of directories on the internet. Submit your site to the free ones and avoid reciprocal links.

Friends and Peers

Ask your friends and peers to place your link on their websites. Today, a lot of people have their personal or commercial websites. If you have lots of friends who are active on the internet ask them if they have a website and could provide a backlink to yours. You might get surprising results.

If you don't have enough friends interested in backlinking your site, you can still make friends online. Join social and webmaster communities try to make some authoritative friends.

Link Worthy Content

Perhaps the best way to build backlinks is creating content that other people could find worthy of linking. If you are good at coding, create a few simple tools that other people might want to visit your site every now and then while some others linking to your tools to share it with the others.

Homepage vs. Individual Pages

Some of you might wonder why their individual pages don't rank better in the search results although they have a high pagerank homepage. This is due to the fact that everypage on your site has its own pagerank.

Although having a high pagerank at your homepage benefits the rank of your individual pages, you also need to have sites linking to your individual pages.

So a good backlink building strategy should focus both on the homepage and the individual pages such as articles, tools, images, videos, etc.

KEYWORD DENSITY

All right, you have lots of backlinks both pointing to your homepage and the individual pages, but couldn't you still increase your position in the search results?

To rank better in the search results, another factor, relevance of the content, is another issue to focus on. If your content doesn't include the relevant keywords, your page won't come up higher in the search results, no matter how many backlinks you have pointing to that page.

Sometimes, if you have lots of design related words, such as date, author, rating, uploaded, etc., and little text relevant to the actual content, your pages may suffer in the search results. To overcome this issue can replace those words with the equivalent images written those design related phrases on it.

However, increasing your keyword density too much might make Google to evaluate your page as spam. Don't just stuff keywords in your pages, make your content keyword-rich in a natural way.

Another thing to avoid is cloaking. Don't hide texts on your pages by writing in too small fonts or making the background and the text color the same. Google is smart enough to notice and eliminate those kind of tricks.

If you don't know if your content is good for keyword density here are a few tools to check it:

Google Webmaster Tools

If you don't have an account at google webmaster tools, sign up to get some important info about how Google evaluates your site, while providing statistics about your site such as the errors it encountered while indexing your site, the websites linking to your content, and top keywords your site has been searched and clicked on google.

You'll need to verify that you are the owner of the site and might want to add a sitemap while you are there. It will help Google to index your site better.

TITLE AND META OPTIMIZATION

Another factor affecting your site's rankings is how relevant your titles, meta description and meta keywords are.

To get better rankings for the relevant keywords, your titles should include those keywords. Don't stuff your titles with a lot of keyword, just create a descriptive title containing the keyword and arrange your meta description and keywords accordingly.

If you are using dynamic scripts to create pages make sure that those pages have the correct titles, descriptions and keywords.

Another factor, and the final that we are going to discuss here, influencing your site's position in the search results is the URL of the page itself. If you have have the relevant keywords in the URL, your chance to appear higher in the search results is much higher as well.

Yet again, if you are using dynamic scripts, make sure you rewrite your urls into a more human readable form. Having your url like mypage.com/diseases/breast-cancer/ is far better than mypage.com/disease.php?id=3 in terms of SEO.

This is the end of the article. Thank you for reading and good luck in optimizing your website and ranking better in Google!