01 Feb 2010 06:43 am
Are you ready to spread the word for your own social media? I believe that social media is one of the fast growing business in the internet right now. But why is it that you must turn on your microphone for this? Is it you're going to audition like the American Idol? Or you want to be the next America's Got Talent? We'll, you're wrong.
Social media sites are designed for people who want to share anything they want with regards to entertaining them like videos, glitters, games, music, and anything that can entertain and attract the people like me. Some of the hottest social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are now on the top of the mountain, while the rest are still developing.
If you're going to create another social media and would like to announce it, simply turn on your microphone by what? Of course, if you are launching a new product, service or website, it needs a press release. You will create your own press release by yourself and increasing the microphone's volume to submit into various top press release sites like Free-Press-Release, just like you shout your news to many people.
I believe that new social media sites are definitely needed mostly by webmasters and bloggers too, in order to increase their exposure by getting lots of backlinks and traffic to their website. I experienced it right now that when I want to shout using my microphone, people gather around on me. This is truly the same thing when I want to shout in a "quiet" way by using press release as my microphone to let people gather around and check the brand new social media of my own in the internet today. Is that simple, huh?
01 Feb 2010 07:00 am
Hello everyone! If you think this picture above is my own CPALead balance, then I can tell you it's not mine. I'm going to share this to you guys about my experience about a CPA affiliate program called CPALead. First of all, CPA stands for cost-per-action (not Certified Public Accountant). Meaning you get paid for every lead generated which they click your hoplink or "whatever" it is, and if they sign up for a trial or paid offer, or even completed a survey from the link they clicked, you get paid.
CPALead has been rendering service for a long time and last year when I want to join CPALead, they will review first my website before getting accepted. On that time, I was rejected because my website was not qualified due to little content and traffic. So I worked on my website over and over again and when I want to apply again on CPALead, they have changed their rules and it was so easy.
I signed up again without the referral link, and I was automatically approved. The reason I am interested with CPALead is because they have lots of cheap offers, surveys and other things that I want to promote. It's so easy guys. You have to select an offer or a survey that matches your website's niche. My strategy is to convert the "hoplink" using the URL shortening service like Bit.Ly.
I put it on my website and I can see some little progress that I got paid because some anonymous visitors from U.S. and U.K. are clicking the survey link on my website and finished it, and I was so happy. The amounts on each offer are very different, and I just choose the offer wisely. Looks like I'm going to continue boost my website through SEO and link building, in order to gain more earnings on my CPALead account. Try it guys, you're not going to lose anything here except your precious time to generate some bucks.
02 Feb 2010 05:36 am
I have noticed on many blogs that there are actually spam comments that are spreading and invading tons of blogs that exist right now. Most of the spammers in my own thoughts are using some form of blasting software that can blast spam comments to random blogs whether appropriate or inappropriate. Their strategy is to automate their detail insertions like name, location, e-mail, URL and the body of the comment that says "Nice post. Keep it coming", or "Thank you".
Blasting softwares in the internet right now are just making profits from the spammers who are buying their software just to do the "Black Hat" thing. But according to my friend, it was not recommended and the success rate was less than 30% to 40% when you submit your links to those blogs. Most of the blogs right now are setting them under moderation or it needs them to register when posting a comment, along with their supporting link.
As for one of my friends, he has a blog and he noticed at least four to five comments a day, 90% of them were spam and stupid type of comments. He didn't mark it as spam, instead he immediately trash it. However, he still allows anonymous users to comment on his blog posts. But then, starting next week he will change his settings to let them register first before writing a comment.
You cannot outsmart the owners of the blogs you would like to spam, because they're always been notified when someone commented or registered in your blog. Blasting spam comments using software is not good, it's better if you do it manually and in a hard way. Right now, I'm no longer using a software, instead I do this manually.
02 Feb 2010 10:44 am
First of all, I'm not really experienced on email marketing. But what I do know is that this kind of promotional method has been already practiced by mostly affiliate and online marketers, which they collect active e-mails from their trusted clients or from membership sites like social networks, social media, forums, blogs, etc.
Email marketing is one of the easiest methods to promote a product, service or offer. Even affiliate and CPA products you promote from the vendor are also applicable. If you are just email your family and friends just for nothing, why don't you try using email as your online source of income? I heard that there are some email marketing platforms like Aweber which is truly professional and it helps you generate sales of the fixed messaging and professional way of promoting the product, service or offer.
Right now I don't have any potential contacts who came from US, UK, Canada and Australia. I prefer to market my services and offers to them, but it's a challenging and expensive process. The easiest way to do email marketing is through gathering emails of the members in any membership sites through their contact information. It's really hard to convince them through internet promotions, but it's going to be potential than I thought.
Email marketing helps our business grow over and over again, only if you do it the right way. The more professional we are, the more we gain traffic, hits and sales or lead conversions for just an email. Anything can happen, as any portals like emails can be a good source of money. Imagine that if you blast this to over hundreds of ad exchange and list building sites, or to millions of emails worldwide, who knows? You could make tons of cash from your affiliate programs by promoting it the right way. It's never been late to do this in order to earn money, as I got to try email marketing as soon as possible.
03 Feb 2010 09:01 am
A lot of things happening right now is very challenging. If I can compare affiliate and cost-per-action programs, which is which? What method is very easy as of this moment? First of all, I understand that online and affiliate marketing is a difficult and challenging process, and that includes CPA, pay-per-download, pay-per-sale, etc.
What are the programs right now which I am focusing on to earn money?
1. Clickbank - affiliate program
2. CPALead - CPA program
3. CJ- affiliate program
4. AdSquareNetwork - CPA program
5. TribalFusion - PPC and CPM program
6. ShareCash - pay-per-download
I know that affiliate and CPA are the same, but there's something different about them. Affiliate programs focused on sales through purchased products and services. On the other hand, CPA programs are focused on sales through generating leads of valid registrations on surveys, programs, etc.
But CPA is one of the basics, because they can pay you as little as $0.20 per lead who have clicked your survey link or banner and entered their valid information and affiliate marketing programs are very high on prices. So on my conclusion right now, I will try both affiliate and CPA because these two methods are a great tandem and can make you hard cold cash. So if that is affiliate vs. CPA, let's call it a truce and join them together for a chance of your dreams to be successful, which I want to be one of the successors as well.
04 Feb 2010 06:04 am
A Navigation Menu in SEO can play a huge role in optimizing your website for search engines. The reason being is when a search engine crawls your website, it is going to read everything in the header and the first 100 or so keywords in your body which would usually be your article..
In this lesson we are going to discuss using targeted keywords, using text, why not to use image or flash, and why css is your best bet when it comes to header, footer and other navigation menu’s / bar’s.
Using targeted keywords in navigation menu’s
I am sure you have seen websites which use flash or image navigation menu’s in their headers. If you are trying to optimize your web site, this is a major SEO Mistake which has been added to the SEO Black book on here as reference.
The reason this is a no-no when it comes to SEO is because, search engine crawlers are not human, no matter how much you may want them to be. They cannot read images and flash. This is where using a CSS menu comes in handy. The reason this will come in handy is because you can spice up your navigation menu with awesome looking graphics and effects but at the same time you will use text to overlap every item on the menu. When designing a menu and adding categories and items, you want to use keywords that you are trying to rank for in search engines. We are going to discuss more of this below.
Using targeted keywords in your navigation menu’s
This will play a crucial role in your site ranking for keywords that you are targeting. In a normal menu you will see it categorized like this for example:
Home | News | Forum | Reviews | Tips | Tutorials
These are just general keywords. Now let’s say you have an SEO site like www.therantandrave.net and you are optimizing for SEO Keywords. When getting a site off of it’s feet, you want to use keywords in your menu until you start ranking for main keywords that you are aiming for. For example below.You would want your menu to resemble something like this:
Home | SEO Tips | SEO Tutorials | SEO Forum | SEO Tools
Now that you have a hint, these are keywords that I am trying to rank better for (SEO Tips, SEO Tutorials, SEO Forum, SEO Tools). As you can see in the top header navigation menu on our site therantandrave.net and on this site, our menu’s are in CSS. If you use wordpress, almost every wordpress theme comes with CSS menu’s which saves you a lot of work.
Notice that the keyword “seo” is used in each phrase. It is alright to use it in there like so when a site is getting off of it’s feet. Once you start ranking for the keyword “SEO” in this case, you then can change it up to just tutorials,forum,tools , for the search engine will start grabbing the information seo tutorials, seo tools in the future especially if you are building pages are given keywords.
Your best bet is using text/css navigation menu’s in your header, sidebar’s and footer using targeted keywords.
SEO Navigation Menu
07 Feb 2010 08:56 pm
A lot of rumours are being displayed in real time search results due to the real time search integration to search engine results. The false information are being promoted virally through twitter and other real time social media. How search engines would prevent this type of false information being displayed on their real time search results is not yet clear.
Search Engine's should come up with a new technology like Page Rank which I do like to call as Social Rank. The tweets that come online at real time in search engines should be based on the Social Rank. The social rank of each profile must be based on the credibility of the users social presence and interaction.
I hope that this way we can really get the correct news at the right time. Real time search should provide the correct news not just the real time data which might be false information.
In the morning on feburary 3rd, 2010 TV channels created a flutter airing incorrect information about the death of popular movie star in malaylam and it was tweeted virally. The real time search started showing the false information. At 1pm the channels said they regretted airing the false news but within this time the news had virally reached to thousands of people around the world.
The TCS hack was in the real time search results today. The website was hacked by a french hacker according to relevant sources and the domain was put to sale.
Real time search have its own merits as well as demerits like any other technology. Search Engines needs to ensure that they start measuring the Social Rank of each profile rather than the Page Rank which seems to be an irrelevant source to measure credibility.
Do you think Search Engines should measure Social Rank? Tell us what you think
04 Feb 2010 06:04 am
So you are here because your are wondering what SEO is? SEO is called Search Engine Optimization. The name pretty much gives you a hint itself but, let’s take a deeper look into better understanding what Search Engine Optimization is, how it works, and how it will benefit you and your website or blog.
If you own a website or a blog, you of course want to rank(be placed higher within search engines) and target as much traffic(website visits/hits) as you can. Nothing beats Organic Traffic. Organic Traffic is natural traffic that comes from people searching for keywords and terms that relate to your website within search engines and simply going to yours.
The more traffic that your website receives,the more money that you can make off of simply managing your website about something you may or may not love to write about. With this you don’t have to put in money to make it. If you are clueless to making money online with your website, shoot on over to our “Making Money Online” category.
Now that these basics are out of the way, let’s discuss SEO. As stated above, this is a practice of optimizing your website to rank well within search engines. I will discuss a couple of the main, basic ways of doing so.
- Building Back-links
- Using Anchor Text
- Using Keywords To Target Traffic
- Optimizing Your Meta Tags
- Unique Content
The best way to rank well within Google is by building back-links. A back-link is simply a one way link back to your site. Google counts this as a vote for your website. You want to build quality back-links with sites that are relevant to your niche(what your website is about) and with high PR websites. (PR is Page Rank 1-10, 10 being the highest). You can check website page rankings by simply using the Google Page Rank Checker tool.
Within back-links you want to use anchor text. Anchor text is the text within a link. Within this text you want to use keywords that you are trying to rank for within Google. So for let’s say this site, I would link with a few sites with my site link on theirs being “SEO Tips” then on a few others “SEO Tutorials” and on others “Search Engine Optimization” and so on so forth. You don’t want to over use just one keyword. Try to rank for a few different ones that are related to your website. It’s up to you how many you want to try and rank well for.
Using keywords which are related to your website to drive traffic is of course a must. As stated above, these are terms that you want people to search for within Google and stumble upon your site by searching them. Use keywords in meta tags, page titles, article titles, categories in your navigation bar, within your articles and etc. Do not overuse keywords in articles or on pages for this is called keyword stuffing and your site may get penalized or banned.
For every web page that you have, you want to have optimized meta-tags which are in the header of your page. Use keywords within your meta-title, description, and meta-keywords. Meta-keywords really aren’t too effective on ranking anymore because of the abuse of keyword stuffing in the past. It still doesn’t hurt to use it though. In your titles of pages, use some keywords you are trying to rank for. In the description, describe what the page is about while using a few keywords within the first 150 characters or so.
Unique Content is something I have to stress. Google doesn’t like duplicate pages and plagiarized work. Always update with fresh content that hasn’t been discussed before. Even if it has, write it better than all of those others out there. I do not recommend using article re-writers. If you can’t write a decent article about something you are interested in, you don’t need to be running a website.
Remember, you don’t have to pay out thousands of dollars to have your site ranked well within Google. You can do this yourself and we give you all of the tools, tutorials, and tips needed to achieve this. We use all of these methods on this site constantly and by each day that goes by, we rank higher and higher.
If you have any further questions simply leave a comment.
SEO Tips
04 Feb 2010 05:51 am
What is Anchor Text?
Anchor text is your basic href link with text in it. for example:
Seo Tips And Tricks
Now your link text will come up as “Seo Tips And Tricks” .
Now when you link to a lot of pages, this will bring up your ranking but you must look into the quality of the pages you are linking to. So you want to have text links from your pages that go to pages already high in the Google ranking system. Stay away from link farms and spammy sites. Doing this will get you ranked higher.
Now this is a pretty long process, you should find some other ways to do this. You objective is to Build Page Rank higher. Here are some other ways to do so.
Blogging – If you are a blogger this is a good way. Link up with other Bloggers, do guest posts on other related blogs using Anchor Text and links in your articles.
Page content – So what is in your pages, how unique is your content? Do not use duplicate content for Google does not like this, do not steal other sites content either. Make your page interesting, to the mind and to the eye. If you site is unique other sites will come to you more often.
Social Networks – There has been a huge debate on this but Social Networking is great for a website. Build a page for your website, give information, add friends and reach out to people. Interact with others, don’t just spam or people will disown your site. Post links around in comments urging others to come to your site. Post when you have new content, try to get users active in discussion.
These are just a few ways that you can increase your ranking with. Focus on your content, make your content interesting that will keep readers around waiting for more. Get your readers into the discussion. Have a site that people want to link to, and you will achieve getting a higher ranking.
04 Feb 2010 05:52 am
Keywords are what make or break your website when ranking within search engines.
Here are the steps we are going to explain with using them:
- Meta Tags
- Navigation Menu’s
- Text Formatting
- Anchor Text / Back Links
Meta-Tags
Meta tags are the information in your header that tells the search engines what your website and certain pages are. In your tags you have the Title, Description, Keywords. The title is well, what it says. It is your page title. In your title you want to use keywords within your description. Please refrain from using your website name or your website address in the title unless your website name has the keywords in it that you are trying to rank for. In the title use a brief description of what your page is about while using a keyword or two within it.
Your meta-keywords are the keywords that your site is relevant to and what you are trying to rank for. Use no more than 30.
The meta description is what the description of your page is and this comes up in search engines under the page title/url/link to your site. Again use a brief description using no more than 140-160 characters in it with keywords that you are trying to rank for in it also.
Navigation Menu’s
For a more in depth explanation on how to optimize your navigation menu’s please visit our lesson for Focusing On Navigation Menu’s.
To give a brief explanation, you want to use keywords in place of your categories in your navigation menu’s. This helps you rank for the given keywords and it tells the search engines what each page/category is about and pretty much helps map your website out for the search engines.
Text Formatting
When writing your articles in the body of your page, you want to build it around keywords that you are ranking for. In the title of your article you want to use
, tags which are basic HTML header tags for a paragraph. These tags weigh a lot within search engines.
When using keywords within your articles you want to bold and italicize them which also makes them stick out within search engines and also makes them weigh a lot. Don’t over due it with the bolding and italicizing of keywords for your page will look spammy and non-user friendly. Try to use each keyword 5-7 times in an article and don’t use anymore than 2-3 keyword phrases in each article.
Anchor Text / Back Links
As explained in our previous lesson, anchor text is one of the main factors in your website ranking. The anchors help tell the search engines that this is a keyword phrase that your site is about hence when someone goes to search for example “SEO Tips” your site will come up. Whether it is first page or 20-30 pages back, it will come up. To help rank higher you want to use anchors in your back links. A back link is simply a link from another site to yours. As explained in the previous lesson, a back link is basically counted as a “Vote” for your website.
Always link with quality sites preferably with a high page rank. You can use the Google Page Rank Check Tool to determine what other websites rank. The ranking chart goes from 1-10, 10 being the highest.
For more information please visit our lesson on Anchor Text.
