SEO TIPS

Hey guys and girls, like-minded link exchangers and all my readers. Things have not been going as planned and I am having bad times too. One of my blogs is no more a part of blogexplosion.com, the Technorati ranking for that blog has slipped miserably, almost all the traffic sources are nearly exhausted. So there is a need of traffic if things want to get going.
So there is only one solution to this-we need SEARCH ENGINE TRAFFIC!!! Why? Lets see why..


This is what you can call my homework which I have been doing for some days now. All these things have opened my eyes, and made me think out of the box. The very concept of Link Exchanging has been shattered in my mind and it may take a while for a recovery.

First of all, there are millions and millions of websites and blogs out there. Every day thousands of blogs are claimed at Technorati.com, after some days search engines like Google and Yahoo crawl with their bots in the blogs and index the sites and look for keywords in them and there is an intense competition for high ranking keywords. The competition is even worser when it comes to a Make money blog like mine. After all everybody wants to appear on the front page of Google.

Now what are these keywords? Basically these keywords are the phrases or words which describe your site and people type these into the search engines to find what they want, if they want tips for making money they will type 'make money tips' or something like that. The more popular the keyword, the more
people use it and the more competition for it.

Secondly, the concept which I had created in my mind after reading someone's article regarding link exchange(I never observed it until today that it was dated to 2006!) I took it for granted that 'yes exchanging links can help!'. But its only partially true. Link exchanges help only when it is done with a site which is related to your site. I read somewhere that you can even exchange links with forums related to your site. Sports sites can only link to sports related sites. It wont help if sports sites link with music blogs or recipe blogs.

Moreover, the links should be text and not a banner or a graphic. I had one like minded blog linking to me via a banner, till only when I requested him that it should be a text. He fixed it right away.
One article regarding SEO(Search Engine Optimisation) and link exchanging on digg.com read:
"'Only text links will count towards what is called a 'Back link'. Linking to other sites do not help your site, It helps the site you are linking to. A 'Back link' is where a site links 'Back' to your site. These links help your pagerank.'"

More than that Google looks for what are called as the anchor links. These anchor links are text links which contain your site's keywords. Like for example, if your blog is related to making money online and you want to rank higher for say 'Make Money Online' you should tell the sites linking to you that they should link to you with this phrase. If many sites link to you with this phrase, your site can end up ranking in top places in Google or Yahoo for this phrase. And most importantly this phrase should be in your site's description as well as your site's content.

Why am I telling you all this is because we need traffic and not only that, we need genuine and targeted traffic,we need people which are interested in our site's topic. This can be only achieved from Search Engine Traffic. And search engine traffic is consistent, because if you rank high in search engines, then more people link back to you and you get more targeted traffic.

Its great that I rank top for I SEEK DOLLARS, but I know that I wont get traffic for I $EEK DOLLAR$ as this is not a very popular phrase neither is 'College Kids Quest for Cool Cash Online', but with time I will look for some popular keywords and optimise this blog for those. I know its a lengthy process and even if I would optimise this blog, chances are that it may take months to rank for those keywords. Updating regularly can boost it.

Surely this has been a fun experience and an eye opener for me and the study was worth it and you too will agree with me on this point that this surely is gonna help you too. So check out which keywords related to your site's topic do people search and optimise your site for those and be sure to keep your site updated or else your rank will drop.

Free web traffic tips from JUNKAMANIA!!

For the last few days, these things have brought a decent boom in traffic on my blog.If You now have a few good quality articles you should consider following tips to get traffic:

1)Comment on other blogs:
Comment on like minded blogs. Commenting on high traffic blogs is a good idea as it gives your blog a good exposure.

2) Submit Articles:
Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com and Isnare.com. Good Quality articles drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3)Links to other Blogs:
Find like minded blogsites and see if you can swap links. The more links out there to your site the more popular it will become. Sites like Technorati give you a higher ranking.

4)Technorati:
Claim your blog on the technorati website. A decent rank on Technorati brings a good traffic.

5)Post Often:
Post often on your site as the blog's content remains fresh and search engine spiders love updated content.

6)Mylot:
Not much but your website gets good traffic if your link is placed below your profile avatar. I have got a few unique visitors from here. You have come here from this site lol, haven't you!

7)Blog Directories:
Blog directories like Blogcatalog.com, Blogtopsites.com, Blogadda.com(for Indian blogs),etc. can bring a decent but not great traffic to your site.

8)Give Blogging tips:
Writing a few quality blogging tips and writing about a blogging article can bring you a lot of backlinks and eventually a lot of visitors.

9)Burn your feed:
Burning your feed at Feedburner.com and keeping a link of your feeds in your blog can get it indexed by search engine spiders. This will give you backlinks to each new post you make.

10)Social bookmarking your blog:
You should look at submitting your web site to the social book marking sites like Squidoo, del.icio.us,digg.com,stumbleupon.com, etc. This helps in getting good exposure to your web site.

This is all that I have tried with my blog. I know its a long list but however it’s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more methods to drive traffic so if you have any you are welcme to share it with us.

GET PAID TO SURF with GOMEZPEERZONE!!

Have you ever thought you could get paid to do what you love. You love surfing the internet. And that is for what you are going to get paid. Yes indeed. You surf and Gomezpeer pays.

Well, its very simple. Just register by clicking on the banner above and download their software. You save it, install it on your machine and run it. Their program runs while you surf the internet.

What does the program do? It receives small pieces of information and processes it. Processing does not take much of your computer's resources, almost negligible. There isn't any decrease in speed. The program is proved to be safe and is not a spyware. So, you can stay cool.

Currently, they pay $0.10 per day online. That makes to $3/month which is not bad, and is a passive source of MAKING MONEY FROM HOME.

Well, if you are dissapointed with that amount, this is going to cheer you up. They have a referral system too. They will pay you $1 per individual joining via your link. That is how passive easy income can generate.

So, join now by clicking the banner below and make me some money while you start making some yourself while you GET PAID TO SURF. Yes, I will earn $1 if you join via me.

The payout is as low as $5. Payments are processed through PayPal and Alipay.

Go become a Gomezpeer!

COMMENTS ON COMMENTS-Are you Shy???

his is coming straight from my heart. I mean, are you SHY to comment on comments? What makes you shy? Come on, I am not shy at all.

I have got more than 20 posts(Don't go on my archives in my sidebar, there's a bug I need to fix), many of them have got more than 4 comments and yes your blog's popularity depends upon the feedback given to you. I try most of the time to comment back on the comments I receive and thus a good conversation between me and my readers is created. This indeed helps my relations with my readers.

There seem to be a lot of ways that different Bloggers deal with the comments on their sites, some don’t have comments on at all, others are happy to let you leave a comment however don’t really participate in what can end up being quite an interesting conversation. Then there are the ones that provide active feedback for the comments left on their sites.

If you are on a blogger blog, then its a great option to enable anonymous comments on your blog, that way you won't limit your readers who are having only blogger blogs as these are not even half of your potential readers.

One of the best ways to get comments on your posts is to visit other sites and leave interesting comments. So go on, why don't you get over your shyness and go and leave a comment on someone's Blog - you never know they might just end up visiting your site and could even become a regular visitor!

Free SMS-Save on your Cellphone bills!!!

Here is a list of some of the sites which allow free website to mobile phone SMS anywhere in India.

mysmsindia- This site is new on the scene and they boast of having a wide network in India. You just need to register your cell phone number for free and then enjoy SMSing. The site enables you to send a 110 characters message and there is no limit on the number of SMSes you can send. They have even got a bulk SMSing service for businesses for some fee. Its one of my favourite sites to send a text message to my friends.


India2Sms- This is a site which requires no registration of any kind at all. The site says that they don't want anything in return. Just send your SMSes continuously without any waiting time and there isn't any limit. Seems that they can go a long long way in their niche. Currently they allow 118 character SMS. Plus you get a full privacy and the latest addition to their services is the SMS block service. What is that? Find it on their site.

sms7 - Another of the SMS sites. There is a limit of 50 messages per account per day. They have a contact book. The site supports group messaging and more features.

mycantos-Another superb site which allows a 146 character message for free. Just need to register to start sending SMS.

160by2 - One of the few sites offering 160 character SMS. But there is a demerit. You use 80 for your message and they use 80 for their advertisements. Even though there is a catch, 160by2 is quite popular. You an send upto 50 messages per day per account.

way2sms - Another 160 character SMS allowing site. Good thing is that way2sms allows 110 character sms and uses 50 characters for ads. There is a feature of sending SMS through gprs enabled handset through their wap site.

AtroChatro - No registration required. Allows 2 SMSes per day per IP.

mginger-Another site where you can send an SMS. There is also an opportunity to earn some pocket money just for receiving promotional SMSes. There is a free membership and a premium membership. Obviously, Premium members will earn more than the free ones. There isn't any catch. Try it.

Bizhat sms- Allows 140 character SMS.

Sms Gupshup- Unlike other SMS sites, this site allows to send images too. Free registration required.

ibibo-A social networking site which is very popular in India. Did you know that you could even send an SMS directly from the website. Well you can send a 80 character SMS from the site. Be a member there for free and start SMSing.

All these sites are genuine and safe. If you people know then mention some of them through comments.
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ADSENSE and ADSENSE like programs

Whenever I setup a new blog, I am always tempted to place all my google ads, affiliate links, etc.,etc. just for a little passive income because I am very lazy. But I should tell you that I have never been successful with any of these.

But even then Adsense has not been a good money earner here while other programs like myhpf and mylot.com have helped me raise a good bucks. So even if I am not convinced to removing Google adsense ads from here(removing would be sheer foolishness!!), I am also looking at other ways of monetizing my blogs, other adsense-like programs are being experimented on my other blogs and I will be posting how they are doing and if fortunate enough to earn anything I might be adding that money to my piggy bank.

I am trying Bidvertiser on one of my blogs which is a humor blog but the ads on it are in no way related to humor or entertainment but rather they are more related to making money or surveys sites or sites like that. I don't know how much time Bidvertiser has been around in the business but they appear to be new as they don't have many advertisers but I heard that their CPC(cost per click) is decent.

Another adsense-like program is Adbrite which also a pay-per-click program and I should admit that the ads look cuter on my blog(not this one) than the Google adsense ads. The only drawback that I could find in their site is the zone setup process. Each time I created a new zone I had to fill the details of my blog again and again. Thats the only drawback I could find, nothing else.

As far as this blog goes it has only Google ads and some of my affiliate links. I am experimenting with the placements of the ads. Google allows only 3 blocks of ads each page according to their TOS so I am careful with that too.

If you know more adsense-like programs or a link to a relevant website then you are welcome to do so.I wish to know if you have tried them also. Also share your experiences with us.

Advertise on Junkamania

Junkamania is an ever growing blog with good number of followers and regular unique visitors. You can buy cheap advertising on Junkamania and get your online profile exposed.

We currently offer Advertising of two forms:

125 x 125 advertising:

This form of advertising is very popular and catches every body's eye and this type of campaign can bring in loads of traffic to your site or increase your sales of your products.

There are 6 spots available. You can either buy one spot for some fixed price or all the spots for a discount price.

1 spot: $5 for one month

There are 6 spots available. You can either buy one spot for some fixed price or all the spots for a discount price.

All the 6 spots: You pay $25 for one month and save $5

Special offer just for today 07-19-2009*

Reserve a 125x125 ad spot for just $10 for three months. This blog is regularly updated and will have a decent pagerank and have a good number of visitors in the process. Your ad wont be removed from that spot for three months. If you are interested then contact me atboneysharaon@gmail.com.

468x80 header banner advertising:

The header is the first thing seen after reading a blog. You can buy the space for just $5/month.

To Advertise contact me at: boneysharaon(at)gmail(dot)com

Get paid to Search-ITS TRUE!!!

Well this site which I am going to recommend you, pays for your searches on the net via their search engine. So you will search for a living. The site has partnered with Yahoo for the service.

The greatest thing is that it pays in Pounds-Sterlings(Twice a Dollar). Basically you benefit only if you use their search engine.

You can earn from your referrals too like I will be earning if you sign up by clicking the banner here. The site claims to give away 70% of its profits to its users. The following chart explains how much you can earn on your referral searches. So its a game of collecting a lot of referrals. But thinking practically you can earn upto 50 pounds per year even without referrals as the site shares half the search revenue with you.

This is slow but steady income source which I highly recommend and you can value on that money.

The payout is 20 pounds and payment mode is Paypal, IBAN transfer or UK bank transfer. Indians can get money via paypal,so you should have a paypal account(Go to paypal.com), and you can open an account for free at paypal.com. You can sign up by clicking on banner below.





They have a Zero tolerance policy towards invalid searches, so no one tries to cheat them by searching the same thing over and over again. You can read their FAQ's for more information. If you are honest then there is nothing to worry.

Dislaimer: This was not a sponsored review of the site. The link which you'll click to join is my referral link and I will be getting commissions for your searches if you join by clicking it.

Have you the Fortitude of becoming the PROBLOGGER???

Its a serious question? Can you blog day after day, for about many years? Yes thats how long it will take to build a good income and a better living from your blogging? Well even if you could, it should be quality content. You just cannot start a blog and hope to make money straight away from it, not just by filling it with adverts can help you lol.

Well if you have enough confidence and fortitude to make it happen, I appreciate it and would like to SWAP links with you if we go the same niche topic.

Its a true fact that however confident you are and however are your intentions, willpower begins to drop after a few weeks. So its really important to motivate yourself to get going and set a goal.

Until your goals are achieved, working continually towards achieving them is the only way you can be successful. So set a goal and try to achieve it.

This blog is a goal setting basically. Actually its a mission to earn some money. I am damn confident that someday this blog will help me to pay my bills. really is motivating in itself.



Don't forget to comment please. Your feedback is what I look forward to.

To make it blogging, we need a dream!!

In some way or the other my outlook has changed towards my blog and I think you should follow these to be successful in your online endeavours:

1. Willpower and Self confidence:
It is in our will to make it to our goal and we should stick to it. We should possess that self confidence and never give up whatever may be. Have a never-say-die attitude basically.

2. There isn't any time limit:
I fully accept and understand that this may take a fair amount of time, there are too many days left however on this blog and it will be continued further too, so that's OK and there's no pressure.

3. Change is a necessity:
There will be many things which won't work for us, while many will stop working for us afterwards. Prepare to change your thinking and know that this is a necessary trait in the pursuit of the end goal, which for me is to earn a lot from this blog. For example if this Blog may not attract readers after several months of effort , then I may change my tacts.

4. Update and Update more frequently:
Update your site regularly for good search engine results as Search engines love updated information and search engines bring a decent loyal traffic. I am trying this on my own and advising you to do the same.

5. We aren't the only people on the scene:
As there are many people making money already on the web we can also get our share along as we follow a plan and keep at it, we really should be able to do it. So stick to it and Never Say Die.


You can share your ideas with us if you have any or give us some links taking us to good information.

then good bye and keep thinking about Dollars and Rupees...

MYLOT.COM-Get paid to socialize!!!

When I read about this site on some other blog, I decided to try this and I joined the site last month.

Mylot.com is a discussion forum site where you can find everything of your interest and plus you get paid for every discussion you make and every response you give to others discussion.

I have not been too active on that site but have noticed from the Feedjit the real time widget that it has brought some few visitors over here. Not only that my discussions and responses have credited me 28 cents for my 20 posts, responses and images combined. I highly reccomend you to join this site by please clicking on this link (http://www.myLot.com?ref=Xpertcomments). This is my referral link and I will be paid 25% of the money earned from my referal's acivities. So its a good passive income as long as I have good amount of referrals and everyone under my downline will be helping the Young guy's(its me!!) quest to make money Online Experiment.

I never tried this but my blogging mentor Rob St.George of NZ(http://millionnzdollars.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-34-some-new-ideas-start-to-evolve.html) had posted long back how he earned $2-00 a day and I recommend that you follow these tips(I have added mine too) and you can earn approximately $2 a day which is a good amount.

1. Respond in posts and not in comments.
2. Comment back to ALL responses to your discussions.
3. Tag all your responses with AS many words as possible.
4. Answer a wide variety of topics.
5. Answer questions with no response(Be the first one to answer to unanswered questions) .
6. Apply plus ratings to everyone, I wonder why this pays.
7. When you reply in posts write good lines atleast 3-4 quality lines.
8. Keep discussions going.
9. Make friends that can help you out, I've made a few.
10. Aim for over 50 posts per day to different discussions to make and maintain at least 10 new topics per day.
11.Never ever spam the discussions by placing your referral links. You can place them in your profile if you know some html.

I don't think I will go for that many as 50 posts a day but earning some cents wont bother me so I will still be active-after all however small, its money,isn't it!

If you feel like going and making some money, and making me some at the same time please go and sign up here Mylot

Thanks and Good bye.

Get PAID TO WRITE for TRIOND.COM

This site has a superb look and gives a promising feel once you visit it. Its a service of a company named STANZA Ltd. or simply called Triond.

Triond offers a platform for people like us to freely publishing our original content which otherwise we would never have got. Your content can be an article, photos, audio or a video. If you are looking forward to write some articles then you are free to write on any topic you like and submit .You can even write in other languages besides English.


As soon as your material is published the people at Triond fire up an email to you telling you that they have done it. They even tell you where they have published it. Yes thats because they have many affiliate sites related to different topics, one of which for instance is writinghood.com which is known for its high quality content and has thousands of daily visitors so they can assure you that your material is not going in wrong hands. You may have your articles published at different sites if you write about different topics.

Your content must ;
(i) be your original work;
(ii)not be previously publicised on the internet or any other media, as a whole or as a part.
(iii)not be containing any content of any kind whatsoever that is libelous, illegal or infringes any third parties' copyrights;
(iv)not be containing any derogatory, offensive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, vulgar, profane, abusive, harassing, obscene, pornographic, defamatory or tortuous content

Earnings:
You earn when you get hits to your content. That means Triond.com earns when visitors viewing our content view the advertisements. Its not pay-per-click so no need to worry. But its bonus if people click your ads(No need to ad your adsense or other program IDs) you get paid on a revenue-sharing basis.
When your content is approved and its published, Triond.com places third party ads along with the content. Your earnings are equivalent to 50 percent of the total revenue generated by advertising that appears on the pages alongside your content. They calculate your earnings through their formula:
Earnings = page views * eRPM / 1000(eRPM stands for effective-revenues-per-millennium which means the amount of revenue generated for each 1,000 page views.)
A heavily keyworded aricle can generate more eRPM than a photo, reason being that they provide a more relevant framework for contextual advertising.
This is for each content you upload there. If you are creative enough and passionate about earning more I would suggest uploading more than one material for more profit. More content, more pageviews, more money. What do you think?

Payment:
I was totally confused when I could see different things written about the payment on different pages;
Here's a skinny ;
If payment is made through PayPal, the minimum payment is $0.50; if by check, the minimum payment is $50.00; if by Western Union, the minimum payment is $50.00. If, on any month, your revenues do not reach this minimum, the amount owed to you will be rolled over and added to next month's payment.
And here's a skinny from the T&C's page ;
Payment of any Commissions due and payable with respect to any published Original Content shall be by made on the 30 th day of each month. In the event that the Commission you are entitled to receive for a certain month is less than $US50, Triond shall be entitled to carry over payment to the subsequent months, until the aggregate Commission to be paid shall reach such minimum amount.
Really confusing. Seems like they will agree with me on that..lol. If you know the actual payout please tell us.

Some more Conditions:
The site also forbids you from bringing artificial traffic to your content through softwares or by such a method to manually increase your earnings. All the promotion, marketing, financing will be done by the experts at Triond.com so we needn't worry. So its all about just writing and submiting and Triond does the rest. One guy has had over 20000 pageviews to his article since last month and he is reeling in big bucks. Thats all you can expect if you are creative, original, passionate and patient.

Even if there is hard work at the beginning-you got to explore your creativity, sit and write; but remember that there is no set price. You can earn big and earn continuously.So its passive income at its best. Suits right for the long term benefits in the interest of the College Kid's Quest for the Cool Cash Experiment.

If you are creative or want to earn decent income off your creativity the site is surely worth a try. A top 10 tips list or a 'How to' video can be an instant hit than an article of lesser interest like on astronomy or astrology(at least I feel it boring!!). So start building your content right now and join by clicking the picture below. Its free to register and there is no referral income so below link isn't my referral link.



I am rushing with my Top 5 list to Triond, Are you???

Do you have the passion???

Online blogging is not so easy. We have to look into the coming future to benefit long term than short term.

Basically you should have a passion for blogging. You need to just plough on when things get tough. Most sites don't make it because they give up. One thing I will tell you is post articles and keep on posting. I am new to this blogging thing and I have no background online but I think everyone starts from scratch. You will need to build your empire from zero.

If you need some inspiration and looking for it desperately consider reading the following blogs:
www.problogger.net
www.sevepavlina.com

Both the owners Darren Rowse and Steve Pavlina started their empires from scratch. You can get inspiration from the problogger fame Darren Rowse by reading his story of how he became a full time blogger.Its really inspiring.

Surely we are in the new era where world is a global village and we can influence billions with the power of words. Blogs have the most value today and if you can keep your content fresh you are on a winner.

If you would say to someone 10 years ago that you earn blogging they would look at you and say on your face, 'Are you Crazy???'. But now its reality and it involves a lot of hardwork and I know that wont pay me initially but on a long term basis I will surely reap the benefits. It is like investing in my future of course.
However little promises of success and just glimmer of hope at times.

So, Happy blogging and dream big and aim high.



Have a nice day!