Sunday, February 7, 2010

When You Should Place Ads on Your Blog?

Putting advertisements in your website is one of the most common blog monetization techniques. Advertisements that are relevant to site content prompt the reader to take action in order to find out more about what you are promoting. Each click through blog advertisement brings revenue. At times, just a visit to the page where the ad is placed gives revenue.

Every site owner wants to get the maximum returns from blog ads. How is this possible? What determines the revenue... ad popularity or site traffic. If you want to earn serious blog money through your ads, you must not just put popular ads, you also need to have the kind of traffic that it takes to generate the money you expect from your website.

Now the question is timing. When should you really put ads on your blog? Do you put ads right from the beginning or do you put ads when you get a certain level of traffic. Just how much of traffic must you gain before you begin to put your ads? This is something that every site owner or blogger must consider because the level of traffic determines the possibilities of people clicking at the ads posted in the website.

Let's first take a look at what happens when you put ads in your blog or website, right from the beginning. If you choose to put ads just as you launch your website, you would be getting hardly any earning through the ads. Maybe a dollar a day and this can be an amount at the end of the year.

However, if you put in the blog ads at a later time, when your blog is receiving significant traffic and even comments from visitors, your ads will be clicked more often and this means higher revenue. It's basically the kind of strategy that you seek to adopt. There are ads that you can put that earn you money, even if a visitor does not click them. This means just site traffic will gain you money from them.

The ideal situation would be to put in ads when your site traffic is growing. Put something small, at first, then wait to see the kind of money that you make from it and as your site traffic enhances, you can put in some more. People visiting your site will get used to the ads and when they find it relevant to what they are looking, they are most likely to click it. Compelling content is the key to get the right level of traffic and this in turn reflects on the kind of blog money that you can gain from your ads.

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Super Leads Generation Through Effective Blogging

You will find that many companies are able to earn more money from all kinds of business by grabbing potential buyers for their businesses. Blogging on the web is a great way to start up with online marketing.

Blogging is a great option as it helps to drive in lots of traffic thus promoting the company and its products. It is found that you can increase the users visiting your website to almost double through blog promotions. Important advantage of marketing through blogs is that you could excel your opponents and that to very easily. This is because there are only few companies from any niche which have the blogs of their own. People are very much attracted to visit blogs instead of websites and this is the key factor that leads to make lots of money. One thing which is very essential in blogging is that it is very difficult to make a copy of any blog. Also, they have higher page ranks on leading search engines which will be a plus point for blog administrators. Google is also very famous search spider for ranking blogs on its database which will help in attaining quicker results for the same.

Blogs are very famous among the online users as they usually carry a lot of data either in form of text or pictures. It is also possible to use the followers option while blogging which would attract prospective customers to visit your blogs. As visitors get regular updates about everything in form of blog posts, they are usually loyal members of such sites.

Thus you will get great opportunities to market you goods and services to the users sitting online.

With a communicative blog, you will be able to understand the needs and desires of the users related to your offerings. After knowing this you will be able to market your offerings according to their needs. In order to carry out product marketing, you must be aware about what to sell and whom to sell. Sell such products and services which will be useful as well as beneficial for the users.

This can be done effectively with blogs as you will understand their expectations here. Customer loyalty and brand image can be generated with the use of blogging as through them, you can easily reach out to many prospects.

Having the good brand royalty will enable you to attain more customers also you can generate higher number of prospective customers. For you blog marketing can be the best tool as it can help in promotion for free and at the same time serves you with good leads. Keep in mind that developing the blog is also essential part of promotions. It is very crucial that blogs comprises of great content regular updates and best design as this all things will help to earn for you that is you will be able to have a good blog site, high rank in search engine and also huge traffic and leads.

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Blogs as a Marketing Tool

When blogs came into the scene, no one really knew it’s strong potential to market products, businesses and services. The blog was created to be an online journal and nothing more, but there were some people who used blogs to work for them and let others know about the prblogoducts and services that they offered, and this is how blog started to become a marketing tool. Nowadays there’s no business, online or offline that at some point use blogs to help promote their site or their products.



Since a lot of people use or read blogs today, it’s impossible for them not to notice these promotional blogs popping up everywhere. However, to make a blog as successful marketing tool, the writer of the blog should know how to market the blog well. The first and most important thing that he should keep in mind is to stay focused on the product that the blog is trying to market.



A lot of people though still ask if blogs make good marketing tools, and again it really depends on how the blog was created. The writer should bare in mind the important keywords he has to used within the blog to make it rank high in search engines. An SEO specialist can also help the blog rank high in search engines.



If used correctly, the blog can be a very powerful tool. Just think about

how many people are online in one day, that’s actually a lot. Now think of them searching for something on the internet like gadgets or food and your blog just happens to talk about those topics. If your blog was done correctly, chances are you’re going to have a lot of visitors in one day and since it’s promoting whatever it is you’re offering, then you’ve just tapped a huge source of income
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

What is Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI)?

KEI is the vital term when calculating the value of keyword phrases to target for your blogs, websites. It is simply an indicator of how popular a search phrase and how competitive the market for this search phrase. The formula simply stated as (Number of monthly searches) squared divided by (Competing Pages). It is a simple mathematical equation, but tells a lot about the keyword competition for SEO experts, online marketers and surely for bloggers. Let's investigate the KEI formula further now.

How we determine the popularity of a keyword?

Simply, we look at the monthly searches in a specific search engine. You can use Google Adwords keyword tool to determine this value. Many novice keyword researchers think that the most popular keyword is the best choice to target. Actually, it is wrong. The more search means more competition.

So, what is the competition in terms of search engines?

Competition is determined by competing pages for a keyword phrase in search engines. If a general keyword (such as "car loans") is searched several hundred thousands times a month at a search engine, it will naturally have several millions pages competing to show at the first page results of the search engines.

Our aim should be finding moderately searched with small-to-moderate competition. I will give a concrete example. Let's say keyword phrase A is searched for 100 times a month and 10 competing pages. Another keyword phrase B is 1000 times a month and 100 competing pages. If we didn't square these terms and simply divide; they would give the same results for KEI!

Notice that according to our KEI formula (squared) B is much more logical to target. Why? Because 100 times/month is a small number that actually it will not bring much income unless it is a highly priced keyword.

While calculation KEI, it is wise to look for keyword phrases which are at least 1000 times/month are searched for serious SEO investment.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Traditional Self-Employment Versus Online Self-Employment

Traditional Self Employment

Buying or Renting a Location: You have so many things to worry about when you have a traditional brick and mortar business. First will start with either you having to buy a location or rent one for your business. If you do not have the money you will have to get a loan. So already you are going into so much overhead that you have to deal with and having to count on people in your local area only and so much competition if you try to target other areas. Were just getting started.

Inventory & Employees: Now you need to worry about your inventory and employees. You have to make sure your inventory is always full. So there is more overhead you got and more debt. Sometimes your employees might steal from you or just take a bit without you knowing. You have to pay your employees and make sure they are always doing the right thing. You must have trustworthy and independent employees which is hard to find now especially in this economy. You know how much stress and headache you are getting yourself into and we have not even gotten started yet? All this will have your mind going crazy and your mind will not be able to function and full capacity to sustain yourself. This leads us into the next topic nicely.

Marketing & Advertising: To start from the last topic. By now your mind will not be functioning at full capacity ever because you are going to have to deal with so much at once every single day. This leads to your creative faculty part of your mind. If you can not be creative because of stress and frustration you will not be able to write masterful copy in your marketing and advertising.

Your marketing and advertising will be so dead and weak that you will not target high quality prospects to yourself. Also marketing is not free. You got more overhead and more debt. Now if your target prospects start to not make the money they want they will never spend a dime with you. Are you really going to count on a certain industry to start a traditional business in or even continue with?

This is why 99% of traditional businesses shut down or go bankrupt after a year of being in business and that is statistics. Why put yourself through this when there is a better way?

Online Self Employment

Being self employed online is great because you do not have to buy or rent a location or building. Your location and building will be a website. To have a website is going to cost you such minimal fees that you will not be going into any overhead. You do not have to deal with inventory or employees. You can have a drop shipper for your product or service so you do not even have to see the inventory. You do not need employees. Your website will take care of all the selling and telling and give the benefits to your clients. There is nothing you need employees for! You can maintain your site in just a few minutes a day.

Your website will run for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You can make money while you sleep. Sound interesting? I know. Now about the marketing? You can market online for free! You can not get into or start a business like this anywhere else in this world. Many all over the world are doing it and making millions working from home. The best part you only have to work 3-4 hours a day and you can make 5 figures a month and even more if you really wanted to. I know by now your wondering how do I start an online business? I will tell you exactly how right now.
So those are the differences between traditional self employment & online self employment. Which one are you going to choose? I know which one. So here is what you got to do next. Go to Here to find out...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

How to Explode Your Networking Business Without Signing Up Everyone

Many people today are having problems attracting people to join their networking business and that can be frustrating being that without prospects the likelihood of generating income into your networking business is basically zero.

We have taken all the guess work out of working all day trying to prospect people into your business and being rejected all day and not earning any money. Why depend on your team if you even have one and matter of fact many people do not and find themselves selling the product more than building a team.

Now we all know that if you do not build a team you may as well go back to 9-5 at your local strip mall or working around the clock for the corporate boss that does not appreciate you at all because without a team you cannot build massive passive income.

So, how would you like to explode your business without signing up everyone? It is as easy as joining a lead generating team and learning how to have people hunt you down with wallets open because they are looking for your business to join.

You can literally put your business on auto-pilot and have the leads come to you and earn income before even contacting anyone about your primary business. How cool is that!

Imagine earning money while working your networking business and you have not even signed up anyone into your business. Now, after you have gone through all those leads that have been generated you call them and being that their your ideal prospective consultant what do you think their going to say?

This is when you work your primary networking business and have generated 10x more traffic through this program than what you can generate on your own... This is the icing on the cake! More articles from coopers team building.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Tips From the Pros on How to Earn Money As a Blogger




Steve Pavlina, whose website is named after him, and Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net, both claim they earn well over $1000 a day from their blogs. While Steve and Darren have different blogging styles, and disagree on some points, what they have learned can help all of us would-be bloggers. While most bloggers are not necessarily in it for the money, the income potential is a strong attraction and is one of the best home businesses available. What else can you do that requires little or no investment, allows you to work at home, set your own hours, has the potential of earning a large income - and all you have to do is write? Of course it's not easy. In fact your chances of getting rich through blogging are probably only slightly better than your odds of playing in the super bowl someday. Your level of success as a blogger will depend on many factors.

Here's what the pros say are the secrets to success:

Knowledge

You need to know something that other people also want to know about. It's great if this knowledge is already inside your head, but you can also gain the necessary knowledge through research.

Writing Skill

It's critical that you have the ablity to write well - with clarity, proper grammar and punctuation, and good paragraph and sentence structure. But even more important is your ability to write in an interesting manner. Not everyone is able to do this. While it is possible to improve with study and practice, it's largely a God-given talent.

Educational, Enlightening, or Entertaining

Those are the "3 E's" of any good content. Your material must have at least one of those qualities in order to be of interest to your readers. Your main goal may be to sell something, but you can't show it. It needs to be done in an indirect and passive manner - at least until your readers really trust you.

No Faking

Honesty is critical. People can tell when you're not being genuine. It's very important that you develop trust with your audience. This means no sales pitches, and no talking about subjects you know nothing about.

Connecting With Your Audience

You need to find a way to relate with people in a way that makes them want to come back. This is related to writing skill, but is more intangible. If you are able to naturally connect with people in real life, you might be able to do it online as well, but there are no guarantees.


Technical Know-How

Although this is less critical than the previous items, It helps a lot to know something about the techincal aspects of blog and website creation. This includes optimizing your site for search engine traffic, tracking the number of hits, and of course making it attractive and easy to navigate.

Marketing Savvy

You can have a wonderful blog, but it won't make you a dime if no one knows about it. You're going to have to learn some techniques that will help you be found. This includes search engine optimization, social bookmarking, and social networking.

Perseverance

It will take a lot of time, patience, and faith to persevere long enough to see tangible results. One thing you should definitly do is use Google Analytics to keep track of your visitors. This will help you keep the faith despite the fact that you're not seeing any income.

Passion

I save this for last, but I probably should have put it first, because passion can go a long way to overcoming deficiencies you have in the other areas. If you don't have a passion for your subject, and for all aspects of what you're trying to accomplish, you probably won't be very successful. This means it's critical you start with a subject you feel strongly about - something you would be thinking and learning about, regardless of whether you have a blog or not.

How the Pros Disagree

There are a couple of significant items that Steve Pavlina and Darren Rowse disagree.on. Steve doesn't allow commenting on his blog posts. He used to allow it, but decided it wasn't worth all the time it took away from his blogging, while Darren feels it's a critical method of engaging and connecting with his audience.

The two also disagree on type of content. Steve sticks to old-fashioned plain text in his posts, while Darren recommends, and uses, video. Steve says text is easier to work with, while Darren says video helps him to connect more fully with his audience. While Darren's opinions on both of these items would seem to make the most sense, Steve's success can't be argued with.

Now, let's discuss some of the specifics of blogging. You don't necessarily need your own blog to earn money as a blogger. Many people earn money by creating content for other bloggers, posting comments, and writing reviews. In this article, we'll explain how to set up a blog, what to write about, how to promote your blog, and ways to earn money by blogging.


How To Set Up A Blog

There are many sites, like Blogger.com, that make it very easy to start your own blog for free. The drawback is you have little control and do not have a unique domain name. If you're more serious about blogging, it will take more effort and money - but not much. You'll need to purchase your own domain and find someone to host your site. For software, download a free copy of WordPress.

Top Free Blogging Websites


Typepad
Blogger
WordPress
Blogster
LiveJournal
MindSay
Blogging Software

If you want to set up a blog under your own domain name, you'll need to install blogging software on your web hosting server. There's really only one choice for blogging software. The WordPress open-source software has become the standard, used by all professional bloggers. There is a bit of a learning curve, but most people can master it well enough to make it work well. This is what you need if you want to have complete control of your own blog, including your own domain name and placement of ads on your site.

WordPress.org- download the free software here

WordPress Goldmine - an excellent resource - teaches you how to set up WordPress, and more importantly, how to make money using it.

GoDaddy - This is a good place to order your domain name. See also the Website Setup section.

Netfirms is also a good domain registrar, and inexpensive.

HostGator - This is a good place to get hosting for your website. They an easy control panel that will help you install the WordPress software.

What To Write About

The first rule of making money from your blog is to create valuable content. That's a simple statement, but an entire course may not do it justice. If you expect anyone to take you seriously as a bloger, and especially if you would like earn a living as a blogger, here are some simple rules:


Focus on helping people - if you do this, the rest of the items on this list can be ignored.
Write about something you are knowledgeable in.
Write about something you are passionate about.
Create original content.
Write for your human readers first, search engines second.
Let your readers see the real you.
Develop a vision - have a purpose greater than just the money.

How To Promote Your Blog

If you have created valuable content, you are ready to promote your blog. Here are some of the ways of doing this:


Take advantage of blog carnivals when you're just starting out. Periodically submit your best blog posts to the appropriate carnivals for your niche. Carnivals are easy ways to get links and traffic, and best of all, they're free.
Post a variation of some of your articles on an article website, like EzineArticles.com.
Post comments in forums on other blogs - just make sure there's a link back to your blog.
Submit a "Digg" for your articles.
Link to your blog from your profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

How To Make Money With Your Blog

This is what you really want to know. Ideally you'll have multiple streams of income. Here are the most common ways of earning money with blogs.


Google AdSense ads (see my AdWords & AdSense article)
Donations (via PayPal or snail mail - yes, some people will actually mail money to you)
Affiliate programs like Amazon and ClickBank (see my Affiliate Programs article)
Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)

Other Ways To Earn Money From Blogging or Writing

There are many ways you can earn money by writing that do not require you have your own blog. The amount you earn can vary from a few dollars to thousands of dollars a month, depending on a lot of factors. Sites like ehow.com and blogger.com share advertising revenues with their bloggers. Some people are paid through blogging networks to write and post their opinions and reviews of advertiser websites, products and/or services. This can earn you $100 to $500 or more per month. You can also get paid to write articles that get posted all over the 'net.

Freelance Writing

This is not exactly blogging, but is related since it's a way to earn money by writing articles. Try elance.com or freelancewriting.com to find writing jobs.

There are several reasons people might pay you to write articles. More content on blogs and websites equals higher rankings in the search engines, more page views, and ultimately more income. Article and posts will frequently include links to another website. These "backlinks", as they are called, also improve a website's search engine ranking.

Can Any Business Do Without Search Engine Optimization?

Today, having a website is not the end of the day for all the businesses. If it had been that easy, businesses would have simply invested in a website and then sat at their homes expecting the clients to call them when they just look at the website. But, you are not the only business that has come up with a website. Every year, so many novel entrepreneurs launch their websites in return for some gains. A website development company that has an ample amount of experience can only promise such reputable gains in traffic through a website design UK company.

Search engine optimization is the biggest need for businesses that desire to reap some gains out of their websites. So, a business should invest a lot of money in the SEO of its company by hiring any established search engine optimization UK company. The first rule that any business should follow is to get as many natural links that it can afford for any website. But the links should appear natural and not contrived for any website. If links are invited from too many websites by sending them invitation for links in your website, then these links can't get you long-lasting ranks on search engines. Search engines immediately recognize such artificial links and don't award high ranks to a website. Also, the search engine optimization company UK should make sure that the back-link building takes place over a period of time. If it's too sudden, then Google spiders will take note of it and ban the website.

The links should also be present in those websites that have a similar niche to that of your business. If you are selling bulbs and get links in a company that sells hot dogs, imagine the traffic that lands up on the website through these backlinks. This kind of a back-linking will be considered ludicrous enough by customers to buy products.

Search engine optimization is the biggest need for businesses that desire to reap some gains out of their websites. So, a business should invest a lot of money in the SEO of its company by hiring any established search engine optimization UK company.

ClickBank Products - A Great Resource For Affiliates

For many affiliate marketers, ClickBank is very much the place to be. There are quite literally tens of thousands of products on ClickBank which you can promote and sell and make good affiliate commissions from but exactly why ClickBank products are so popular could be down to a number of factors.

The sheer number of products available to sell is certainly one thing and the really great commissions that many vendors offer is possibly another.

However, let me tell you what I personally love about ClickBank products:

They are on the whole, very easy to sell!

You see, any reputable vendor who is looking for affiliates on ClickBank to promote and sell their products, will always offer a pre made sales page. All you have to do is find a hungry audience and simply direct those people to that page.

Okay, there is a little more to it than that and let's not pretend that you do not have to do any work to get them there but this simple and rather straightforward fact does help greatly.

You will also find that the vendors (the people offering their products for sale), will also have a dedicated 'Affiliates' section on their website. These really are worth while checking out as they are a goldmine of information.

More often than not there will be promotional tools for you to use such as advertising banners, pre written emails, articles and lots of other promotional tools.

Want to know another great feature of ClickBank Products:

They have a really great analytics feature whereby you can see how many people have looked at the sales page, order form and they also supply statistics on how many people have clicked to submit an order form on a chosen product.

Here is another fantastic aspect to using ClickBank:

You can promote and sell them for FREE. Following a Proven Sales System, you can promote and sell any of the ClickBank products for free with no financial risk whatsoever to yourself.

For this reason alone it is easy to see why so many new and experienced Affiliate marketers choose ClickBank products as their number 1 choice for their affiliate marketing campaigns.

Are you ready for learning proven methods on selling ClickBank products?

I can highly recommend a free eBook, expertly written which shows you the exact steps to follow to start earning an affiliate income selling any ClickBank product.