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Making Money with Affiliate Links,Google Adsense and PL Content

In all my years being an Internet Marketer, this is the number one question I see and hear all the time. "How do I make money on the Internet"?

If you have been trying to make money on the Internet for even a short time, you have undoubtedly heard quite a few names being thrown around. It seems as if everyone sees themselves as an expert and everyone who is anyone knows everyone else who is an expert. It is like a marketing guru clique. And they make you think that if you do not know somebody, you will always be a nobody.

You have probably encountered product launches, audio and video streaming, teleseminars, and joint ventures, etc. And don't forget the flood of emails promising millions of dollars in just 30 days with absolutely no experience and so easy a baby could do it! These gurus that are selling these products and services are making money hand over fist. In all fairness, these products and services are genuine and valuable to the folks who buy them.

But what most of them will not tell you is that there are thousands of people on the Internet making thousands of dollars a month without spending a lot of money. They don't fly to every seminar in the country just to make contacts. They rarely do joint ventures, because frankly, no one knows who they are. They literally sit in front of their computers in their underwear, click a few links, and wait for the money to roll in. These are people just like you and me!

How do they do it? Affiliate links, Google Adsense, and content are a few of the ways. Little information products and reports are another very popular method of making money online.

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Take Google Adsense, for instance. Search engines love good content, the more, the better. When you create multiple content pages on your web site, the search engine spiders crawl the site, then follow each link to more content, which helps raise your rankings.

How does this make you money? By placing Adsense ads on every page. As readers click through your pages, many will also click the Adsense links. Every time they do, you make a commission from Google. It can be anywhere from a few cents to several dollars. The best part of this is, they don't even have to buy anything. Just clicking the link makes you money. The more people you drive to your site, the more people will click the links, and the more money you will make.

Now all you need is content. If you are a good writer, you can write your own. But most of us are not. One option would be to use articles written by others. Go to any of the popular article directories and you will find thousands of articles. Most can be used free of charge as long as you include the resource box with each article. Since you are not promoting your own product, this is a very viable option.

The major downside to using other peoples articles is that the reader will view them as the expert and likely click the link in the resource box instead of the Adsense links, and you lose money.

However, the best option is Private Label Rights articles. Just a little editing can turn these articles into your own creation. The reader will view you as the expert, since you are not competing with another writer. But, you must re-write these articles in your own words. If you simply submit them as is, you may very likely be penalized by the search engines as duplicate content. Spend some time on PLR articles and really make them yours.

You can also include your own resource box with a link to an affiliate program that you may be promoting, so whether they click the Adsense links or your affiliate link, you have increased your chances of making money. And you have done it without a single product of your own.

Making money on the Internet is not as difficult as some would have you believe. As with any business, give the people what they want and they will keep coming back. Determination and commitment are key factors in your success.

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Ed Rizzo has been involved with internet marketing for over 10 years and has been teaching hundreds of people how they can work and profit from a Home Business.To learn his 'secrets' go to http://www.dpdhomebusiness.com

Website Content Can Be A Beast -- 6 Ways to Avoid Being Devoured

FAIR WARNING TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS: You will actually have to put real stuff like words and pictures on your web site to go along with that nice, pretty design you paid for. Sounds simple, right?

Tell that to the hordes of small business owners who have gone missing since being asked to provide content for their web sites.

Solving the Mystery
It's really not a mystery. I know exactly what happened to those missing business owners. They've been swallowed whole by the Web Content Monster -- a beast that begins stalking you when you first realize that your logo, service listing and contact information doesn't quite make the show-stopping web site you were hoping for.

How does it happen?
While small business owners may have the expert skills required to run their business, that skillset may not include copywriting or product photography. Others simply don't have the time. And so the dream of an all-informative web site complete with staff bios, product photo galleries, monthly articles, polls, helpful tips, etc., now sends these doomed business owners running blindly right into the arms of the beast. Chomp, Chomp.

6 Tips for Avoiding the Beast

1. Be realistic about what you and your employees have time and skills for. Don't commit to more of a web site than you have time or budget to handle.

2. Contract out your content needs to someone skilled in copywriting or photography.

3. Can't afford to contract the work out? Get the word out to your staff that help is needed. You might find out that your payroll clerk is a talented photographer or that your bookkeeper is as good with words as he is with numbers. At the very least, they may have contacts that could result in a discounted rate from an outside contractor.

4. Make the most of work that's already done. Scour your existing company materials for content. Brochures, flyers, ads, manuals, client handouts, press releases, business plans, PowerPoint presentations--even e-mails--can be great sources of content.

5. Don't try to put your whole wishlist on your web site at once. This may sound like a no-brainer but I see it occur over and over again. There's nothing wrong with gradually building your site over time. In fact, in many cases, this may be the better approach even if you're not feeling overwhelmed.

6. Don't wait until a week before your site is scheduled to go live to ask for help. Do that and you'll feel the fangs of the Content Monster for sure!

If you really want an informative site that adds value to your consumers, that's great! Just realize it will take time and effort on someone's part to achieve that. Decide who that someone will be, develop a plan of action and stick to it! There will be one less tasty snack for that old Web Content Monster.

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Keita Del Valle is the owner of Crafty Pixel, a Corona web site design company which operates from Southern California's Inland Empire. Her site is updated weekly with small business web site news, tips, articles and opinions, including her Hollaback weblog .

Web Site Content and How to Succeed with Article Marketing

It is evident that whatever changes Google and other search engines make in future, still the game will be about quality web site content. Logically today we observe the increase of attention to web site content and everything that helps to score better with content over Internet has gained amazing demand.

No one was talking about article marketing a year ago, and now this keyword is searched by thousands. Articles give you publicity, better scoring with search engines, higher ranking. Articles are the peak of content game at the moment and here are the most crucial tips to win with article marketing on your web sites:

(i) Use search engine (SE) - friendly technologies.

Sitemap (Google + Yahoo).

Always use sitemaps on your sites. Create Google sitemap file, Yahoo sitemap file, submit them to relevant search engines - and you are sitting safe with all new content on your site getting indexed in days (5 days maximum). When others wait for Google sandbox for 2 months, you get your new content indexed within a week.

RSS feeds.

When you run article directory on your site, copy the content to RSS feeds. Then submit RSS feeds to MyYahoo and MyMSN. This increases indexing a lot. Plus this is extra way to make search engines see your real work on site.

RSS newsblocks.

As this technology is a nice content optimizer for search engines, they keep indexing good info inside the database of RSS news and give high relevancy content on your pages, helping you out with duplicate content crossroads.

(ii) Use anchoring to score on your keywords.

Anchored text is another content optimizing technology for search engines. It means that search engines can easily learn a lot from the keywords inside the anchored text to the link.

In practise it means if you wrote a promo article and submit it to article directories, make sure they allow to use anchored links in resource box to that article. After good submission you will have hundreds of sites pointing/voting for your site. Imagine if all these sites have a text link that says 'My Keyword' and the linking goes your www.Your-Keyword-Site-Name.com Search engines will index all these pages with anchored text and you will get up the list for this keyword. You will save hundreds on advertising budgets to one way linking.

(iii) Keywords in names.

Whatever type of content you have on the site, stick to your keywords in naming file names, text links, pages using your keywords.

Search engines will never stop in their fight for bigger scope for indexing. Who knows, maybe one of top search engines will announce shortly the deeper level of indexing. If you make sure to name the files on keyword-wise base, you will score, because filenaming has big potential in terms of content optimization technique for search engines.

(iv) Never stop growing relevant content.

When you got the bots of search engines dwelling on your site pages, make sure to update content on regular basis, quality content. Search engines loves gradual and quality growth - even 2 new articles per day are fine, if these articles fit and up to the point.

Combine the tips above with smart SEO and your competitors will stand in line to join you.

Inventor & owner of Internet marketing tools and projects, Nickolay Bokhonok. Article Directory tool - the last from Nick.

Finding a Search Engine Friendly Content Management System

What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a third party software application which allows web site administrators to add, update or delete content, photos, and documents to their web site in "real time". Many web sites are modified using these web-based tools as they require little to no knowledge of HTML or web scripting languages. CMS programs make it easy for a webmaster or site owner who does not know HTML or have access to a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML Editor, such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver, to update their site.

In today's high paced web world, a good CMS is integral to the efficient operation of a web site. Many webmasters and web site developers are building database driven, or dynamic web sites, which require a third party solution, such as a Content Management System, to update the content that lives in the database. In addition, a CMS allows the web site owner to outsource content development remotely to contract copywriters and other willing contributors. With built in access level hierarchies, webmasters can allow various users to register as authors and start submitting articles and news to be published on their site.

How do Content Management Systems Work?

Content Management Systems create a dynamic web site environment, where all the content is stored in a database or XML file. Using a web-based interface, the webmaster can select which page they want to update and then can modify the web content in a text editor, with many of the familiar formatting keys that can be found in a word processing program. Once the content has been updated, with the simple click of a button, the CMS will turn their text into HTML code and publish the content to the web site.

Problems Between Search Engines and Content Management Systems

Historically, search engines have had difficulty indexing dynamic pages. While their ability to index and rank dynamic pages has improved dramatically, there are some basic things to avoid. One of the greatest enemies of search engines is URL strings that contain many URL parameters. URL parameters are variables that are passed to the CMS through the URL, which tell it what information to retrieve from the database. URLs with too many parameters generally make little logical sense to the average user and may also scare off search spiders. For example see:

www.naxtor.com.au/mg/vbclass/search.aspx?A9_MAKEVBCookie=Yes&vertical=CLTH&cat=Mens&subcat=ID&displayTarget=Subcategory

It is suggested to limit the number of URL parameters to two or three per URL to ensure that that search spiders will not have difficulty indexing pages deep within the web site.

Certain URL parameter names may automatically flag a filter on the search engine. One example is the URL parameter names that contain 'ID', such as 'sessionid', 'sid' or 'userid'. Historically, search engines detect the term "ID" and assume it is associated with a session dependant variable. As a result, search engines have learned to flag these parameter names and it can cause problems with page indexing. Passing session dependant variables through the URL is a problem for search engines because the spider essentially sees a unique URL each time they visit the site because the session dependent variables change with each visit. For example, on one visit to the site, a page URL may be www.naxtor.com.au/page.aspx?sessionid=12345. The next time the spider visits the page, the URL may be www.naxtor.com.au/page.asp?sessionid=56789 This creates a situation where a spider may think that there are multiple URLs with duplicate content, resulting in penalties which will negatively impact search rankings.

Based on the above, it is imperative to employ a CMS that does not pass session dependent data, such as session variables, through a URL string. Doing so will not only create potential usability issues for the end user, but will also result in indexing problems for the search engine spiders.

Finally, search engines gather understanding from your web site's content by filtering through the HTML code. For this reason, it is extremely important that your CMS generate HTML code that adheres to the latest requirements of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Use the W3C Code Validator to determine if your code meets the W3C standards. Be aware that some CMS's add in many lines of proprietary code or JavaScript at the top of the file, which can choke search spiders. This violates a cardinal rule of SEO; 'To always have more content then code'.

Finding a Search Engine Friendly CMS that will Work for You

Now that we have explored many of the potential problems with Content Management Systems, lets look at how to go about finding one that will be both search engine friendly and suit your specific needs. First you will need to determine what server platform you will be using. Many Content Management Systems use scripting languages and databases that are platform dependant. If you are married to a particular platform, it may limit your CMS options. Ideally, you will want to find a CMS that is platform independent, which can run on any server.

There are many search engine friendly CMS's that will allow the web site owner to generate a URL structure that is both meaningful to their users and digestible by search engine spiders. Instead of having a URL that is packed with parameters, you can create a URL structure that looks like this: http://www.naxtor.com.au/children/hats/prodid/121576. Your next step is to check whether your CMS builds HTML pages to the latest standards established by the W3C. Most CMS providers will be able to tell you if their solution generates valid code. If they can't, then ask for a sample page and run it through the W3C Code Validator. In order to rank effectively in organic results of the search engines, it is imperative that your CMS allows you to update your title tags, meta data and alt tags on a page-by-page basis.

The most important aspects of a good CMS are the ease of use and richness of content formatting features. This one is a no-brainer because the very reason that you are looking for a CMS is that YOU DON'T WANT TO CODE. Any good CMS should provide an editing stage that is similar in feature and function to a standard word processing program, such as Microsoft Word. The technical term for this is a WYSIWYG Editor or a Rich Text Editor. This important feature will allow you to type and format your content using standard buttons and keyboard shortcuts. When you publish the content to the live web site, the CMS will write the HTML, CSS and scripting to display your content as it was formatted during the editing stage. Many Content Management Systems are offering additional technologies, such as RSS feed, shopping cart solutions, forums and live chat integration, which can really enhance the functionality of your web site. The key is to find a CMS that will suit your core needs and then determine what add-ons would be beneficial. The ends result will be a web site that is easy to manage and usable for both your customers and the search engines.

This article reviews the basics of Content Management Systems (CMS) and details the key aspects of a search engine friendly CMS. This article was written by Nasir. Nasir is the Project Manager at Naxtor Technologies.

http://www.naxtor.com.au/

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