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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Is Ezine Articles Still Effective For Free Traffic & High Rankings?

Guest post by Roxanne Manning

There was a time when you only had to write an optimized article, submit it to Ezinearticles and watch it rocket up the search engines, even for pretty competitive keywords or phrases. Today, it is much harder to get these types of results. One of the primary reasons is that there is a lot more competition then it used to be. A person could also count on getting traffic simply by being member. However, with more and more quality article directories popping up on the internet, this type of traffic is beginning to diminish as well.

More and more people have discovered the merits of article marketing and are utilizing it to grow their businesses. Also because this form of internet marketing has been around for some time, article marketers have gotten increasingly savvy. They don’t simply write an article and hope that Ezinearticles does it thing. Instead, they promote it and utilize search engine marketing techniques similar to those used by individuals attempting to get their websites ranked highly. Those people that know what they are doing experience tremendous success and are wiping the mat with people who do not. If you are one of those people on the outside looking in and wondering how it is possible for some to achieve so much with article marketing and others so little, keep reading. Blow, we will discuss some of the most common promotional techniques and tricks of the “big dogs”.

1. Get Incoming Links From Other Article Directories: The most important part of the SEO equation is to get incoming links. One great place to get them is from other article directories, especially from those that are well respected. Try Buzzle, Article Dashboad, Go Articles and other top directories. You will find that this is one simply, easy, fast and effective way to get quality, incoming links.

The purpose of this is to build up the incoming link count to your Ezine article. Because this directory has the best chance to get ranked, using one of the available links in your resource box from article directories to point to it, makes good sense.

2. Getting Incoming Links From Social Networking Websites: This is probably the most commonly used method of the article marketing pros to get incoming links and drive their articles up the search engines. It will take a little trial and error to determine which ones will allow you to link to Ezinearticles. Some won’t but others will. You can do this yourself or you can pay someone to do it if you do not have the time or would simply rather not.

3. Submitting Your Article’s RSS feed: Your Ezine article will have a RSS feed. Write it down and submit it to RSS directories for some easy traffic and back links.

These are some simple techniques to build up the link count to your Ezinearticles’ article and promote it. The more incoming links that you have, the greater chance you have to rank highly. Remember, other article directories and social networking websites are great places to begin.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Residuals and Royalties

Guest post by Michael-John

If you are like most people in America, you probably work a typical 9-5 job and are getting frustrated with the daily grind. Those people that work 40 hours and get paid for 40 hours of work are earning what they call “linear income”. In other words, they get paid for the exact amount of hours they put in and not a penny more. There is a better way to earn income – this better way is through residual and royalty income.

Until now, only actors and authors received residuals or royalties for their work, but the internet has changed this. Nowadays you can do plenty of things online to create residual, royalty and passive income. You may ask yourself “how can I create residual income?” – well, the answer is on the internet.

There are plenty of ways to Make Money Online and Earn Residual Income; you can sell your photos online, write articles, sell your arts and crafts, earn money from your blog, add Google AdSense to your website and do many more things to create residual and royalty income. In fact, there are people earning hundreds and even thousands of dollars per month online in the form of passive income. The best part is that you keep getting paid over and over again long after you have put in the initial investment of your time and effort.

There are so many scams online that it is hard to actually know which websites are legitimate and which ones will just take your money. You need to know where to look to find the websites that are going to help you create supplemental income and not rip you off. There is a blog written by Michael-John Wolfe, an actor who has devoted all of his free to finding legitimate ways to make money online. Each day his blog lists a new form of residual income for you to investigate and research as a possible form of residual or royalty income. While Michael-John lists tons of websites, not each income source is for everyone – but if you take some time to browse through his website, there is no doubt that you will find a source of income that fits with your skills or situation.

Michael-John even lists sources of supplemental income and part time jobs that you can do for extra cash. Everyone wants to make money online, yet only a lucky few will actually take the steps necessary to create an easier life for themselves. Imagine never having to worry about working a “regular” job as a corporate drone ever again! Imagine the freedom you would feel if you had multiple streams of income flowing in from different online sources. Don’t let another year of your life pass by without creating some unique sources of income for you and your family. You can visit Michael-John Wolfe’s website here: Earn Residual Income and Make Money Online.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

How to Make Fast Money with a Blog

Guest Post by Anil Gupta

When we search internet to find some easy ways to monetize our blog, we find lots of stuff already written on this topic. And when we study deeply at all ways to earn money from a blog, there may be hundreds of ways to earn revenue from a blog. But not all methods are going to help you make some quick cash. In today's article, I will discuss some techniques that a blogger in any niche can follow to monetize his/her blogs quickly and fastly:

PPC Ads – With PPC (Pay per click) Ads, we are going to get paid for every click that is made of an Ad on our blog. There are many networks who are offering PPC Ads in all niches. And the most popular PPC Ad networks are Google Adsense and YPN (Yahoo Publisher network), which is available for US citizens only right now. Applying for Google Adsense will not take more than 2 minutes and once you have Google AdSense Account, you have to just place AdSense widgets on your blog where you want the ads to appear. AdSense ads are highly customizable and can be placed in any section of a blog. All PPC networks serve ads according to the content of your blog.

Text & Banner ads – Selling text and banner ads will be easiest way to monetize your blog if it's already popular. There are lots of advertisers who are willing to place their ads on top blogs in their niche. We can earn from $10 to $100 or so for a link/banner for a month on our blog depending upon our blog popularity, traffic, Alexa ranking and Google Page rank. We can add a section like 'Advertise here' or 'Banner' here on our blog to attract advertisers. With this, we can also try some networks that can sell text/banner ads on your behalf and will share revenue with us.

Writing Articles – With these options, we can make money with what we are already doing i.e. blogging. There may be many advertisers in your niche who will be interested in getting a review about their service or product on your blog. With this 'Get Paid to Blog' kind of scheme, we are asked to write a review about a product or service and include their links within our review. But we should be extra cautious when going for this scheme. We should write about advertisers only who are directly or indirectly related to our niche and if possible should include nofollow links in our paid posts. There are many paid blogging networks on internet where you can register yourself to get extra money making opportunities. Some of popular 'Get Paid to Blog' networks are Payperpost, ReviewMe and SponsoredReviews.

Author Bio
Anil Gupta is the Author of make money online blog where he talks about ways to making fast money from blogs and how we can increase traffic to our blogs.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

You Need the Right Information to Make Money Online

The Internet is changing rapidly leading to more and more online money making opportunities appear. Some of the popular ways to make money online now is affiliate marketing, blogging and completing paid survey.

Affiliate marketing is about promoting online companies' products or services and share a percentage of revenue for each sale or lead you generated for the online company. This is a low start-up cost online business, so a lot of people participate in affiliate marketing.

Blogging is even more popular nowadays. You can earn steady advertising income while writing about your passion, share your knowledge and opinions in your blog.

Paid survey is about taking survey from the Internet market research companies. These companies generally will reward you cash or gift for the online survey your completed. Paid survey can't offer your full-time income potential but can be a great source of extra monthly income.

Whatever way you choose to make money online, you need the right information and knowledge to get started. One new website that recently launched can help you get started on the Internet. The site is called Onlinemoneymakingeasy.com. The owner of OnlineMoneyMakingEasy.com, Jeff Wasson has taken time to put together the programs, e-books and guide teaching you how to make money online with affiliate marketing, blogging, paid surveys and etc. For those of you who are always wondering how you can start your own money making venture from scratch, check out Jeff's OnlineMoneyMakingEasy.com. Jeff will recommend you the right resources so that you can get all the information you need to start making money online.

Besides, Jeff also shares with you the useful marketing tools for building and making your online business. For most of the types of online businesses, it is essential to research keywords, competition and your targeted prospects in order to effectively generate profit on the Internet. These marketing tools suggested by Jeff will assist you in the process so that you can save a lot of time and work.

If you have any question about making money on the Internet while browsing OnlineMoneyMakingEasy.com, do send an email to Jeff. He is happy to help you and answer your online money making inquiries.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Upcoming Tele-Training: How to Use Facebook and Twitter to Make Money Online in 2009

This Wednesday on a live tele-training call Glen Hopkins will be interviewing a Internet marketing teacher named Bob Jenkins on:

"The Secrets To Increasing Your Profits In 2009 Using Facebook And Twitter!"

This is a free tele-training you can join and learn about how you can use these two big social networking sites to promote your website or your online business and build your very own profit potential network.

If you are interested to join this call, here's the link to get all the details and sign up for the call:

http://glenhopkins.name/social-networking-call


Glen has also prepared some bonus money making products for those who attend this live training.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Simple Ways to Advertise and Grow Your Membership Website

Many internet marketers recognize that a membership site is a great way to bring in a comfortable and consistent income. So they find a great niche, set up their membership website and add great content, there is still one major step, getting members to join. At first glance, this often seems a bit overwhelming and is the point where membership site owners often get discouraged. Not knowing how to find members stop many online marketers even before they get started.

Fortunately, it is not too difficult to grow your membership base. As long as you understand that it may take some time. Don’t expect to fill up your site overnight. Instead, shoot for a couple of new members a day. Overtime, you will be able to draw a pretty good income. Below, are some simple ways to advertise:

Start An Affiliate Program: One very effective way to grow your membership website is to offer people (members and non-members) the ability to earn money by getting other people to join. Think about it. If your monthly fee is $29, offering individuals 50% or $14.50 each month for every new member that they sign up would be very enticing. If you get the right affiliates, you may not have to do much advertising at all.

Hang Out Where Your Potential Members Are: Spending time at the same places that people who might be interested in joining your membership site is a really good way to get members. This might include forums and social networking websites.

Try Adwords: Depending on what niche you are targeting, Adwords may be a great way to get the word out about your site and to get new members. Make sure that you carefully target your audience so that you don’t waste your money and time.

Write Press Releases: Press releases are another excellent way to advertise your membership website. There are a few fairly good options and some excellent paid ones. If you don’t know where to begin, consider Prweb.com. If you optimize your website and choose good keywords, you can get some good rankings for both your sales page and your release.

Forum Marketing: Once you figure out where your target audience spends their time online, it is time to go to them. Often times, forums are a great place to find people that will be interested in your offer. If the forum allows, make a post advertising your membership site. If they do not allow blatant advertising, then create a signature link ad.

Social Networking Websites: Social networking websites are another fantastic, advertising option. Find one that caters to your niche and then create short articles or blurbs that would interest them so that they click onto your website. After you get them there, it is up to you to sell your product. Consider, giving them a few free days or a free report so that they have some idea of the quality of content that you are offering.

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