Fast Track Your Blog's Success

There is a quick way to fast track your blog and get it ranked. It will only cost $20.00. Join Google AdWords. Here is how it works. You sign up for a Google Adwords account. Invest $20, Google says the minimum is $50, but they will accept $20.00 https://adwords.google.com/select/Login

To enter your blog or website into the program, they must rank and spider (read your website) within 24 hours. Your website is instantly submitted - no sand box. Your site is instantly ranked. And, it is rated for the campaign. Also, you will receive traffic to your site for the $20.00.

This reduces the time needed for your blog or website to be added to searches, receive search traffic, and to receive a Page Rank. A higher page rank equals more money from Google Adsense, more traffic from searches, and more exposure on the web.

However, there are a few 'tricks'

1. There should be 20 - 50 posts in the blog, even if these are 'free content' articles, reviews you wrote, or daily muses.

2. There should be at least 30 - 50 back links to the site. These can all be from another blog, forums, or directories. Many of these can be inside your blog, navigation links.

3. There should be inbound links from your site to other 'relevant' sites to help make your keywords solid. a) only use keyword anchor that matches the keywords you want Google to focus on. b) make sure the site you link to has the same keywords in the titles, links, and meta. c) use the keywords in meta information and titles on your blog

Following these rules will fast track your blog or website.






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Get Paid to Write Blog Posts - Ethical Problems

I must admit that Trick Falls made me start to think. One of the problems I face is that much of what I do, and how I do it, has become habit. When I am writing for new writers and work at home professionals, I often forget the 'little things.'

Trick falls asked about disclosure in a blog, and making readers feel like they have been 'advertised to' when they are reading. This forced me to take a good hard look at my blogs. I knew that I had disclosure. But, I never really thought about how I do it.

First, there are organizations that help bloggers with disclosure and ethical problems. There are several companies like womma that help bloggers learn how to use full disclosure and ethical blogging.



There are also disclosure badges from PPP and other places that let people know a post has been sponsored. I also use a comment such as:

This post is my thoughts and my message for the day. I thank XXX company for sponsoring it and allowing me to continue bringing this information to you free



Pay Per Post is one of the most ethical, and profitable, paid posting sites.

If you would like to make some money by writing a review for my blog, and let the world know about the information I give away free, then please click the red bar above. PPP will pay you to review my site.








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Not Every Internet Business is 'Do It Yourself'

One of the hardest things for most internet business owners to handle is the SEO. Most of them are lost, so they go to a web design business, pay all their money, buy a great site - and have nothing.

When you are ready to take the website to the next stage then it is time to leave Google behind, and start using a 'real' income generating service on your website.

A good service offers search engine promotion and internet marketing services. The services should offer the business more than just an opportunity to make money.

It is becoming more common - leaving Google behind. Businesses cannot operate on the sliding scale. They cannot pay their bills when they only are paid if someone clicks to the site for more than XX amount of time. The cost of internet marketing is not calculated on a sliding scale, so revenue should not be on a sliding scale.

Should You Put Google Ads On Your Ecommerce Site?

Should You Put Google Ads On Your Ecommerce Site?

One of the biggest debates in the ecommerce world is whether to post PayPerClick advertisements on a website, or not. Many sites are using video advertisements to improve the look and feel of their sites. Others are hoping that PayPerClick will offer a passive source of income, but this short-term thinking may cost the company serious profits.

The purpose of a PayPerClick ad is to take a visitor from your website and put them on another website. This person leaves before they ever see the host company’s squeeze page, buy-now page, or Social Networking tools. This means that a potential customer is gone for good. The problem is - the ads on the host company’s website represent the competition.

PayPerClick Passive Income

On one side of the debate is the idea that PayPerClick lets ecommerce businesses generate some revenue from people who were going to leave the website anyway. The problem arises when the website looks at the actual numbers.

It takes several months before Google starts registering clicks, even if thousands of people have already clicked the link. Even when Google does start registering links, they rarely register more than one half of the actual links. In many cases, Google counts less than half.

Then, there is the Page Rank Trap. Google only pays a percentage of the money promised, based on the site’s page rank. A site can build more than 10 000 inbound links and 1000 pages of content and still have only Page Rank 3, earning about .05% of Google’s promised payout. Many sites (non MFA - Made For Adsense) work for 2 - 3 years before they earn $100 a month.

A website can make hundreds of dollars a month from Adsense, as long as the primary purpose of the site is to generate PayPerClick traffic.

PayPerClick Traffic

Many ecommerce businesses sign up for a PayPerClick program through Yahoo or Google to generate traffic. While the search engine advertising companies promise that they do not favor their advertisers, it is foolish not to. They are only cutting their throats letting sites which do not use their ads to rank higher than the sites who do use their ads.

From this side of the fence, PayPerClick is a good deal, because you are the company stealing customers from the competition. However, very few PayPerClick programs give the advertiser control over sites they appear on.

Google does, to a certain extent. It is possible to visit a major competitor’s site, which generates millions more hits than your site does, and place an ad on their pages. However, this does not guarantee that these same people will not click off your website.

Rule #1 of Sales
The first rule of sales is to hook a potential customer. This means keeping them on the host ecommerce site, and encouraging them to click through the links until they reach the buy now page.

There are some crafty ways to do this. For example, make the link bar to squeeze pages and buy-now pages look like PayPerClick ads. Another trick is to lead people from one website owned by the host company to another of their sites, in effect, creating a big circle.

However, make sure that the main pages are optimized with no=follow code in the links. Search engines penalize this type of ‘black hat’ SEO trick. The no=follow code in the ads will prevent the search engines from penalizing the site.

Both of these tricks will keep potential visitors inside the company’s ecommerce sites.

Another trick is to use a ‘default’ internal search tool. Instead of Google’s search, use one that defaults inside the ecommerce network’s sites, instead of on the world wide web.

Keeping customers is the only way to increase profits, and retain customers.









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Passive Streams of Income

Revenue is not the same as income, or wealth. Revenue is the money that comes into a business before expenses are paid, and a percentage of money is saved for growth is removed.

Most businesses cannot increase their revenue because they do not understand the difference between revenue, and disposable revenue. Most business plans do not pay the business owner an income for five years. All profits in the first five years are needed to ensure the company’s continual growth.

Unfortunately, most people who start a business need disposable income – now. They start a work at home business to supplement their income. This means that the business owner needs to look at multiple streams of incomes. However, not all revenue is earned from sales.

The important thing to remember is that revenue is money earned. Write up a budget. Calculate the cost of operating the business, and how much money is going out of the business on a monthly basis. Do this for your personal income also.

Revenue is anything that lowers the expenses side, or increases the profit side of the balance sheet.

Income Tax

A work at home business gives the business owner the opportunity of saving on their taxes. Most income tax offices do not allow business write offs if the business operates from a room where the family eats. However, converting a dining room to an office offers several benefits.

The dinning room often takes up 20% of the home. This means that business owners can deduct 20% of every bill, from hydro to lawn care, carpet shampooing to renovations. They can even write off 20% of the mortgage and mortgage interest, insurance paid, property taxes, and levies.

Careful planning can drop the business owner’s income tax $1000 or more, depending on how much they usually pay. This is revenue earned, money in the business owner’s pocket, that does not come from sales.

Depreciation
Everything a business uses from computers to automobiles is subject to depreciation. This depreciation is deducted from the fixed asset’s value, whether it is a portion of the family vehicle, a computer, office furniture, and other equipment used to generate income.

This depreciation lowers the income generated by the company, and in turn, lowers the income tax paid.

Invest In Yourself

Many small business owners fail to realize that they have value. They rarely consider the knowledge learned as an asset. It is an asset, and it can be used to reduce expenses, and increase revenue.

Most small business owners spend a few months researching their business, but few take the time to learn how to become a success. Once they find one or two methods that they understand, they stick with them, whether the methods work or not.
Every time a business owner learns how to save money, the money saved should be considered revenue.

Conclusion

In this way, many business owners save a few thousand dollars each year – even before the company starts earning money from sales. The problem is, most work at home business owners overlook these streams of passive income. They do not keep gas logs on their vehicle, or receipts for their home care, utilities, and taxes. They loose thousands of dollars each year, because they do not view their business as a ‘real business.’

However, if a person occupies their time trying to generate sales and earn revenue, then they are in business. There is no threshold that defines a business.





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Have You Considered Getting Paid to Blog?

I Started five blogs this summer, to help the students of my course 'make $1000 a month blogging wat writersonlinecourses.com' learn the ropes and actually see that the claims in the course are true.

Paid Blog Posts and Page Rank

This blog now has a PR2. That is good enough to get started, but it does bring up some good questions. Will blogging for pay lower the site's PR. The simple answer is no.

One reason it does not lower the page rank is because paid blog links almost always lead to a page with a higher PR than the blog post. So, in fact, the opportunity to increase the PR of the blog is real.

Communati mentioned that I helped increase the Page Rank of this site. In a real way, I did, by linking back and forth from this site to web pages and blogs with PR3 and PR4. This increased the value of the communati page.

Understanding Page Rank

Now, if the blogger were using heading titles, and were 'breaking' their posts every 150 words. If the blogger were building 'keyword anchored' links to a specific post, then yes. There may be an argument that the blog is being degraded by the paid ads. But, as there are few blogs in a site like communati that meet the criteria:

-No more than 10 keywords which are repeated through the entire blog
-Staying on topic
-Using proper coding and H1/H2/H3 titles

Then the effect of paid blog posts is minimal and on the 'plus' side of the scale, as apposed to the minus side.

Not everyone is intrested in writing for pay. This is totally acceptable. For others, the concept is a natural progression from hobby writer to professional blogger status. Will it offend your readers? I will talk more on this later, but the answer is basically - no, not if done right.


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What I Love About Work At Home

I Love work at home because . . .
When I have a birthday, I have cake for breakfast for two or three days becuase I can :)
I can turn the television on and listen to my fav movies while working.
I have a good excuse to stay up until 4 am.
I can read a novel while my computer is booting up.
I am home when my kids get home from school.
None of my relatives think I have a job, so they don't ask me to do things for them.
I can read my favorite magazines and call it research.
I can play on the computer for 10 hours and call it promotion.
I need to work hard, but I do not need to put up with office gossip.
I can dress up in comfe old clothes to work.
I can get to work with other writers.
I can turn down work that I don't feel good doing.




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Does Google Identify The Original Version of an Article?

The problem of duplicate content goes far beyond the control of most web site owners. It is very easy to have two domain names pointing to the same home page.

http://mywebsite.com
www.mywebsite.com



More Examples:
http://www.example.com
https://www.example.com
http://www.example.com/index.htm
https://www.example.com/index.htm
http://example.com
https://example.com
http://example.com/index.htm
https://example.com/index.htm

Both of these URLs lead to the same web page. Unfortunately, Google sees two versions of the home page. Unfortunately, I use Cpanel, so I cannot do a 302 redirect, or at least, I haven't figured it out yet.

When all the arguments end, and the air clears, the only thing that Google does in most cases is stop ranking the web page (not site) where the duplicate content appears.

The thing you need to balance is. Is it better to rank high on each page of the website, or is it better to give my readers 200 'good' articles on a certain topic? Of course, you can rewrite every article at least once a year. That will solve the problem.

The purpose of this series of blogs is to encourage writers to submit free content articles for promotion - without fear.

And, if you do have fear, just reword some sentences, change a paragraph or two, use different words, cut a couple words, and then submit one version to the net, the second to your site.

Again, it is hard to measure whether you gain or loose.
On one hand, your content is not original.

On the other hand, you can gain hundreds of inbound-links, from websites with similar content (keywords) which will increase your rank.




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Urban Legend, or not? Google's Duplicate Filter

If you are on a blog like writingup, then yes, use original content, and ping after every post.

I have posted at five major blog sites for three years. I am not big here - yet, but I make more money from this blog because of the traffic.
However, your personal website is different.

The Duplicate Content Penalty

Let’s look at the “Duplicate Content Penalty.” It has been around for years, and haunts society like an urban legend.

It is feared despite the near total lack of reasonable proof that it exists in the form that most web owners understand.

The Penalty suggests that if my site has the same content as yours, one will be penalized.

Then, you do a Google search and what comes up as #1 on the search? An article directory, and an article that has 15000 downloads.

As usual, Google's duplicate content penalty has nothing to do with duplicate content. And it’s not a 'real penalty. It’s just a by-product of how the search engines work.

What happens is 'authority' sites get ranked. So, your little site with 100 articles on how to make the world's best short bread has the same article on mixing batter as a massive, 10 000 page website that focuses on cooking cookies - they get ranked - you don't. This is not a penalty, it is the 'natural consequences of living in the net environment.'

But, let's say that you've dutifully posted your article on 50 000 other websites, with an inbound link to a single article (never your index page) - then wham - you've just knocked the poor cooking cookies website off the charts.
What to do --- What to do?

You can do two things.

1. Put new content on your site weekly. Syndicate actively. And build links.
2. Toss the whole thing and become a Social Networking expert like Sharon Hurley Hall - and laugh at the search engine crawlers all the way to the bank.





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Many of today's writers are asked to write ad copy for companies. Some of them have viable solutions for small businesses, even freelance writers. There are some Fax Server solutions that can make life easier for a freelance writers - even help them start their own business.

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