Blog for Money How many of you have the desire to work at home in your PJs? Well, it is something that doesn't escape many people. Getting in your car early in the morning, downing some coffee, and desperately trying to motivate yourself to complete work you hate doing is something that you're probably desperate to eliminate in your life as soon as possible.
This may well be a cliche by now, but the good news is that you can make money at home online to supplement or even replace your income. It's all made possible through blogging!
Don't we all who are Internet savvy read blogs all the time? There are literally millions of blogs out there on every conceivable topic.
However, you might not have considered yourself a blogger before! It's important to get rid of the thoughts that you are not a blogger right now, because this could be the way you are able to change your life for the better.
Instead of sneaking a peek at some blogs at your 9-to-5 job, you can be the one sitting at home and writing these blogs that other people read! That sounds really good, isn't it? Now you are thinking you are your own boss!
You'll not only be providing great content for people, you'll also be pulling in some great money that can literally change your life.
Getting rid of the doubt that you can do this is going to be an important first step. As long as you are able to compose and send an e-mail, you can be a blogger!
All you need is a tutorial that will show you step-by-step how to do this. Of course, none of this will come about unless you also have the motivation and encouragement to move forward. The absolute best place to get this online is The Niche Blogger. If you have not heard about this membership site, then it's about time you do by paying it a visit.
This membership site is good for the newbie and intermedia marketer. In fact, many of the people who join the membership site are brand-new.
The good thing is that there is a whole mix of experience levels so you are sure to be able to find help among the community whenever you need it.
The startup cost is incredibly low as well -- making sure that those who want to join to escape their jobs are able to do so. Even if you're happy with your job, it never hurts to get some added money coming in. Blogging is fun!
You are probably aware that companies spend millions and millions of dollars in order to attract customers. Part of their advertising costs online go to affiliates.
These affiliates place ads on their websites and blogs and their readers often make purchases. When readers make purchases, the blog owner makes money! It really is as easy as that.
All you need to do is be on the other end of things and become the one whose links customers buy through.
The main difference between being able to make money at home online and going to a 9-to-5 job is that you are now in business for yourself.
There is no reason to limit yourself into thinking that you have to stay at a job you don't like forever. Become your own boss and work at home in your PJs so you can do what you want to do, when you want to do it.
22.1.10
Writing Articles For Affiliate Programs
By Nick Kaplan
Why write articles.
Writing articles can make your affiliate pages unique and drive more traffic from the major search engines, resulting in more sales. In some instances the merchant's affiliate program may not provide you with more than a banner and a few text links.
If your traffic levels are low than this will not do much to drive traffic to your affiliate links.
If the merchant does provide you with content then this can be viewed by search engines as duplicate material depending on how many affiliates are promoting the same product with that content.
Beginning Your Article
First begin by reading all the information on the merchant's site about the affiliate program, if you are not already familiar with the product.
It is very important that you learn what it is that you are offering to your customers such as,product features,capabilities,limitations and specifications.
Many merchants will include these details with the description.
Researching your article
Use one of the many free or paid keyword suggestion tools to build your list of niche keywords.
Google Adwords, Digitalpoint and CBtrends all have really useful keyword tools which are free. Experimenting will help you discover search trends.
Testing these keywords in major search engine will give you a sense market saturation and competition.
Include Keywords In your Article
When writing for search engines your article should be keyword rich. Include long tail keyword phrases in your article title and subcategories. Product specific keyword phrases will help drive targeted traffic from search engines to your specific niche.
What to include in your article
Creating an outline will help you organize your article and supporting subcategories sequence.
Including descriptive keywords such as, size, color and dimensions in your article will further help drive targeted visitors to your site.
Helping your visitors solve a problem
When promoting affiliate programs through article writing, bring attention to product features that will help your visitors resolve a problem.
Use examples and illustrations of how these features can be applied in real life situations.
If your product is easy to use, then bring attention to why you believe it is better than similar products.
Ways to emphasize product features
Use bullet points, numbering or italics when writing articles to emphasize and bring attention to helpful product features.
Free content
Articles provide free instant content for ezines,newsletters and website publishers. This free content is used to optimize and attract free search engine traffic.
Submitting to article directories
There are countless popular free article directories, where your can submit your article for publication. Arcanaweb publishes a list of many popular directories. These directories allow anyone to reprint the article as long as the resource box is included at the end of the article.
Read and follow the guidelines before submitting your articles
* Do not include affiliate links in your article or resource box.
* This may cause your article to be rejected by the directory.
* Do not plagiarize another writers material.
Resource box and backlinks
Writing articles can increase the number of one way links or backlinks to your site.
Included at the end of every article is a resource box,where you can include a brief bio and link back to your site.
Free article directories
Free article directories will allow you submit content but you are not paid for your article. Goarticles,Isnare and Articledashboard are among some of the large high traffic free article repositories.
Article distribution and submission services
Article distribution services will submit your article for a fee to article directories,ezines,newsletters,article email groups, social bookmarking and article announcement sites.
Article submission software
Article submission software such as Artemis Lite and Article Submitter 2.2 are free and may expedite the process once your are registered. You will need to do a manual submission for sites using an access code.
Paid article directories
These directories will pay you for writing articles or reviews.
Compensation may be in the form of revenue share or per word.
Paid to write reviews
In addition to getting paid for writing articles, reviews can be another avenue to earn extra income. Review rates can range anywhere from $2.00 to $200.00.
Reviewme, Reviewstream, Softwarejudge and Epinions are just a few of the popular paid to review sites that can put extra cash in your pocket.
You can also earn money with your clickbank id at Reviewsarena for up to 60 days.
Paid to blog
Writing blogs are yet another alternative for earning extra income.
Payperpost and Smorty are blog sites that pay weekly and compensation may range anywhere from $5 to $100. In some cases, you may be able to negotiate a price with the advertiser.
In conclusion
Do your research before writing an article, use targeted keywords on affiliate product landing pages. Submit to high ranking article directories to increase the number of quality backlinks. Check site stats for increase traffic levels. Test and improve your writing skills by reading writing tutorials and ebooks. Learn from mistakes and continue writing articles.
About The Author: Nick Kaplan, Internet marketeer and writer, provides useful resources and products for Internet visitors.
Why write articles.
Writing articles can make your affiliate pages unique and drive more traffic from the major search engines, resulting in more sales. In some instances the merchant's affiliate program may not provide you with more than a banner and a few text links.
If your traffic levels are low than this will not do much to drive traffic to your affiliate links.
If the merchant does provide you with content then this can be viewed by search engines as duplicate material depending on how many affiliates are promoting the same product with that content.
Beginning Your Article
First begin by reading all the information on the merchant's site about the affiliate program, if you are not already familiar with the product.
It is very important that you learn what it is that you are offering to your customers such as,product features,capabilities,limitations and specifications.
Many merchants will include these details with the description.
Researching your article
Use one of the many free or paid keyword suggestion tools to build your list of niche keywords.
Google Adwords, Digitalpoint and CBtrends all have really useful keyword tools which are free. Experimenting will help you discover search trends.
Testing these keywords in major search engine will give you a sense market saturation and competition.
Include Keywords In your Article
When writing for search engines your article should be keyword rich. Include long tail keyword phrases in your article title and subcategories. Product specific keyword phrases will help drive targeted traffic from search engines to your specific niche.
What to include in your article
Creating an outline will help you organize your article and supporting subcategories sequence.
Including descriptive keywords such as, size, color and dimensions in your article will further help drive targeted visitors to your site.
Helping your visitors solve a problem
When promoting affiliate programs through article writing, bring attention to product features that will help your visitors resolve a problem.
Use examples and illustrations of how these features can be applied in real life situations.
If your product is easy to use, then bring attention to why you believe it is better than similar products.
Ways to emphasize product features
Use bullet points, numbering or italics when writing articles to emphasize and bring attention to helpful product features.
Free content
Articles provide free instant content for ezines,newsletters and website publishers. This free content is used to optimize and attract free search engine traffic.
Submitting to article directories
There are countless popular free article directories, where your can submit your article for publication. Arcanaweb publishes a list of many popular directories. These directories allow anyone to reprint the article as long as the resource box is included at the end of the article.
Read and follow the guidelines before submitting your articles
* Do not include affiliate links in your article or resource box.
* This may cause your article to be rejected by the directory.
* Do not plagiarize another writers material.
Resource box and backlinks
Writing articles can increase the number of one way links or backlinks to your site.
Included at the end of every article is a resource box,where you can include a brief bio and link back to your site.
Free article directories
Free article directories will allow you submit content but you are not paid for your article. Goarticles,Isnare and Articledashboard are among some of the large high traffic free article repositories.
Article distribution and submission services
Article distribution services will submit your article for a fee to article directories,ezines,newsletters,article email groups, social bookmarking and article announcement sites.
Article submission software
Article submission software such as Artemis Lite and Article Submitter 2.2 are free and may expedite the process once your are registered. You will need to do a manual submission for sites using an access code.
Paid article directories
These directories will pay you for writing articles or reviews.
Compensation may be in the form of revenue share or per word.
Paid to write reviews
In addition to getting paid for writing articles, reviews can be another avenue to earn extra income. Review rates can range anywhere from $2.00 to $200.00.
Reviewme, Reviewstream, Softwarejudge and Epinions are just a few of the popular paid to review sites that can put extra cash in your pocket.
You can also earn money with your clickbank id at Reviewsarena for up to 60 days.
Paid to blog
Writing blogs are yet another alternative for earning extra income.
Payperpost and Smorty are blog sites that pay weekly and compensation may range anywhere from $5 to $100. In some cases, you may be able to negotiate a price with the advertiser.
In conclusion
Do your research before writing an article, use targeted keywords on affiliate product landing pages. Submit to high ranking article directories to increase the number of quality backlinks. Check site stats for increase traffic levels. Test and improve your writing skills by reading writing tutorials and ebooks. Learn from mistakes and continue writing articles.
About The Author: Nick Kaplan, Internet marketeer and writer, provides useful resources and products for Internet visitors.
24.10.09
Does Google PageRank Count Anymore?
Specifically, the rather startling news from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa that Google has ditched PageRank from Webmaster Tools.
"We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true," states Moskwa. "We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it."
Find more here on WebProNews.
Now, for SEO reasons or for ranking in Google's index, PageRank has long been eunuchified by Google. However, even missinga few dangling bits, history has shown us eunuchs still wheel tremendous power. PageRank is no different.
Regardless of what Google wants to happen, PageRank is still extremely important to anyone marketing on the web, especially if you're selling SEO services or operating a web business. Try selling SEO services when that little green bar on your site is pointing to PR0 or worst yet, pointing to a solid gray bar.
Obtaining a high PR7 or PR8 simply means more business and revenues... regardless of how Google is or is not using PageRank. People know how to count and they learned long ago, a ten is a lot more than a big fat zero.
Placed against a PR1 site, a PR8 will win more respect in the eyes of potential clients and can produce enormous profits for the site owner and we won't even mention the still widely practiced habit of selling links, which Google is desperately trying to stop. Total and full elimination of PageRank would be an honest start
but it will still be an uphill, if not an unwinnable battle, for Google to fully eliminate link selling.
Even with my modest sites, I have turned down a small fortune by not selling text links on any of my sites. When I had a PR6 site instead of a PR4 - those link requests were nearly doubled. So one can easily understand Google's position and the need to downplay PageRank, if they even want to put a small dent in all
this link selling and buying which is still rampant on today's web.
PageRank is Google's creation, and unless they remove it fully from their system and the Google toolbar, then PageRank still Counts. Actually, in the whole scheme of marketing your website on the net, PageRank counts big time. And in more ways than one.
There are several reasons why you shouldn't count PageRank out.
For years Google has been downplaying the importance of PageRank and states it's only one of about 200 ranking factors which determines how Google ranks its index for keywords. Obtaining top organic rankings for popular lucrative keywords in Google simply means money in the bank. Actually, even a movement of only one or two places on those first page SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) can make a major difference to any online marketer's bottom line.
Now while you can have a lower PR number and still rank above other higher PR pages for your chosen keywords, I have even had many times when my PR drops but my actual SERPs rankings in Google goes up, mainly due to building related relevant backlinks. So PageRank counts little towards your keyword rankings but it can't be totally dismissed.
Mainly because, even if PR is just one ranking factor, in close competitive keyword battles (I am presently fighting tooth and nail for some very choice keywords) just one ranking factor such as high PR can make the difference of whether or not you get to the top spot. Big dogs are still jumping and for those of us who know
how to count, getting a number one spot in Google makes all the difference in the world.
Not only because Google controls roughly 80% of all search engine traffic, but more importantly Google has established unmatched credibility and brand recognition in the eyes of potential customers visiting your site. Web users trust Google. Web users look to Google for guidance and direction. Web users believe what
Google is telling them. In the online world, rightly or wrongly, perception is everything.
As an online marketer, I am completely amazed each day at the marketing power Google now commands with web surfers and with the general population. Google is king of online search and no other search engine even comes close to Google.
PageRank is Google's ranking system, and in the eyes of those who notice these things, it still wheels tremendous influence and power. By default, PageRank is Google's opinion of your site, and web users can count (at least to 10) and if Google believes people are still not counting when it comes to PageRank, then they are fully mistaken.
About the author: Titus Hoskins is a full-time professional online marketer who has numerous niche websites.
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