Making money online is becoming one of the most popular searched terms on Google! The reason for this is that so many people are hearing stories about individuals who are making £30,000 a day for doing a couple of hours work. In some cases this is very true. At first you will have to do a lot more work, but once your online business is well established you too can start making money online with just a few hours work a day.
To make money online at first takes a lot of patience and you will have to get involved in a lot of repetitive work. This will pay off in the long run, as long as you work hard it. There are literally thousands upon thousands of people who are quitting their days jobs to work online, who can blame them when they hear about regular people like you and me earning six figure salaries for a months work?
There are tons of different methods that you can make money online. Making money by blogging is a good option, it will take a lot of work at the beginning but when you start to see the cash roll in you can post just one article a day and your readers will be more than happy.
Taking paid surveys is also a very good option to make money online. There are websites you can visit that have a list of verified survey companies who will pay you for your opinions. You can get paid $2 to $200 per survey depending on how long you want to be asked questions for. Surveys normally take anything from 10 minutes to an hour to complete.
Online data entry is also available. You can receive data entry work to your inbox every day and get paid about $13 per hour for your time. This involves filling out forms and orders, by copy and pasting information that your employer has given you into online forms. It really couldn't be easier if you are looking to work from home.
Working online is a great job for anyone - stay at home mums, students or anyone who feels that they have got the necessary drive to work hard for a while and sit back and reap the rewards.
There are lots of websites on the internet that document different areas of making money online, they normally give you other tips like how to boost traffic, convert more sales and how to have a good work ethic. These sites are very useful and are written by professionals who lots of experience in those fields. You can read their success stories and learn by the best!
Making money online is definitely something that anyone can do if they are given the correct encouragement and guidance and there is no reason why that anybody can't forge themselves a good career out of this and have a successful home based business. If you put in time and effort, you too could be the next person advising other about how to make money online.
by Rabita.Mandhan
www.blog-and-ping.com
Some Tips to Create Money Making Blogs
Blogs are becoming ever more popular on the internet, and although you may not actually realize it but you could find yourself making money from them. There has been some things written about ways of making money through blogging, but not many. However, since the publication of WordPress Goldmine this has really changed and below we look at how this could help you to make money through your blog.
But first let us explain a little bit about blogs. A blog is in fact a weblog, which is a way for people to now express their own individual's opinion on a certain subject matter or may even be about themselves. Each blog is made up of just one web page and entries will then be posted to it on a regular basis starting with the most current addition at the starting.
Many people now have their own blogs on the internet, covering a wide variety of subjects but some still have not actually realized that they can make money from theirs. There are several ways in which money can be made from a blog and in WordPress Goldmine you will find just some of the ways that are accessible. But in order for you to be able to do this you first need to decide just what subject that your blog is going to be about.
Perfectly, what you are aiming to do with your blog is gain the trust of those people who come to read it. Certainly, once you have been able to gain these people's trust then in all likelihood they are much more likely to try any of the products that you are recommending to them.
When it comes to producing good quality blogs this is where WordPress shines. Yes there are various different types of blogging platforms available for you to use, but WordPress is the easiest of them all to use and understand. Although, it must be said that Blogger follows a very close second behind it. But the author of WordPress Goldmine as the name recommended has used the one that is rated first of all blogging platforms.
When it comes to setting up a blog using WordPress you will find that whole process very simple and easy to complete. But first you must register with the site and once this is done then you can start building your first ever blog with them. In fact building the blogs will cost you nothing and will only take a few minutes for you to complete and then all you need to do is start adding more information to it once it is up and running.
It is vital that what you post to your blog is not only significant information but that which your readers will find useful. Through WordPress Goldmine the author explains precisely how to find the right kinds of blog posts that you should be making for yours, and it does not even matter if you have no real knowledge about the subject that you have selected for your blog.
The WordPress Goldmine e-book explains completely the steps that one should be taking in order that a person can actually start to profit from any blogs that they have. It helps you to avoid those mistakes which many novices new to blogging make and which end up wasting them time and losing them money. Through this e-book you will learn about how to set up your blog correctly, selecting the right subject matter and the right products that you should advise to your visitors.
by Neeraj Walia
These 10 SEO Tactics Bring Me Over 2000 Visitors Daily
No matter how hard some people try to mystify SEO, it is not as complicated as many would lead you to believe. Despite all the techno jargon that many in the field will throw at you: SERPs, SEM, PageRank, Keyword Density, Vertical Search, Algorithms... SEO is really simple to do if you understand some basic concepts and follow some easy steps.
Search Engine Optimization is getting your content listed in all the top positions in Google, Yahoo and MSN for your targeted keywords. When someone does a keyword search in a search engine for your particular subject or niche - you want your site or content to be at the top of the list.
Here are 10 SEO tactics that have worked and are working for me at this moment in time. I make this clarification because you must understand search engines, especially Google, are constantly redefining how they rank pages. Here are my favorite SEO tips, tactics and strategies:
1. Quality Content is and always will be your number one factor for getting high rankings and keeping them. You must understand search engines are simply businesses who supply a product like any other company. That product is information. They must offer quality results to anyone using their service to solve a problem, answer a question or to buy a product. The more relevant, the more targeted the search solution they return, the higher the overall quality of their product and the more popular their search engine will become. Providing quality content is vital for SEO success.
2. Keywords are your number one tools for achieving high rankings. You must understand keywords and how they work on the web. You must know how many searches are made each day for your chosen keywords. Sites like Wordtracker and Seobook will give you a rudimentary number of searches. Design your pages around your targeted keywords and don't forget to do some deep-linking to these pages on your site. Find and build backlinks to these interior keyword pages and not just to your home page or domain URL. Picking keywords with medium to low competition has worked out well for me. So too has using the more targeted and higher converting "long-tail" keywords been very beneficial for me.
3. Onpage Factors and site design will play a major role in the spidering and indexing of your site/content. Make sure all your pages are SEO friendly, made sure all your pages can be reached from your homepage and no pages should be no more than three levels away from it - keeping a sitemap listing all your major pages makes the search engines happy. Make sure you have all your meta tags such as title, description, keywords... are all optimized. (Title = around 65 characters, Description = around 160 characters) Remember, your title and description should not only be keyword targeted but these are the first contact/impression anyone will see of your site - make sure you use them to draw and entice interested visitors to your site and content. Also make sure your title and URL are keyword matched for maximum effect. Having your major keyword in your Domain Name also helps, using a pike | to separate different elements of your title has helped my rankings, so too does having your keyword in the first and last 25 words on your pages.
4. Google will send you the most qualified traffic so concentrate the majority of your SEO efforts on Google. Don't ignore Yahoo! or MSN but Google is king of search so give it the respect it deserves. With its new browser, Google's influence will only grow stronger so you must optimize your pages for Google. Use Google's Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics to fine-tune your pages/content for Google. I also use Google Alerts to keep up on my niche keywords and for comment link-building on the newly created pages Google is indexing.
5. Link Building is still the most effective way to boost your search rankings. Make sure you get backlinks from relevant sites related to your niche market and make sure the 'anchor text' is related to your keywords but don't ignore the text and overall quality of the content linking to you. The anchor text is the underlined/clickable portion of a link. Don't forget linking is a two-way street, make sure you link out to high quality, high ranked relevant sites in your niche.
6. Article Marketing is a well established method of getting quality backlinks and it still works. Writing short 500 - 700 word informative helpful articles with your backlinks in the resource box is still very effective for getting targeted traffic and backlinks. Longer articles have also worked for me and I use an extensive network of distribution including SubmitYourArticle, Isnare, Thephantomwriters... plus other major online sites. Don't forget the whole element of blogging and RSS feeds in your article distribution. And always remember you're also using these articles to pre-sale your content or products. Don't forget to leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages... to increase your rankings and traffic.
7. Onsite Traffic Hubs have worked extremely well for me. These traffic hubs are whole sections of your site devoted to one sub-division of your major theme. For example, if you have a site on Gifts, then wedding gifts could be a separate section. This would be fully fleshed out with extensive pages covering everything dealing with wedding gifts - a self-contained keyword rich portion of your site on wedding gifts. Works similar as a sub-domain but I prefer using a directory to divide it up, such as yourdomain/wedding_gifts. (Most experts suggest always using a hyphen in your urls but underscores have worked fine for me.) Search engines love these keyword/content rich hubs but keep in mind you're creating content to first satisfy your visitors.
8. WordPress Blog Software is extremely effective for SEO purposes. WordPress software is easy to install on your site even if you have no experience with installing server-side scripts. Besides search engines love these highly SEO friendly blogs with their well structured content and keyword tagging. I have at least one of these on all my sites to draw in the search engines and get my content indexed and ranked. I also use Blogger (owned by Google), Bloglines and other free blogs to help distribute my content.
9. Social Bookmark/Media Sites are becoming very important on the web. These include a whole range of social sites like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter... media news sites like Digg, SlashDot, Technorati... you must get your content into this whole mix if you want to take full SEO advantage of Web 2.0 sites. You should be joining these sites and using them. It's time consuming but it will keep you in the swing of things. One simple thing you must do is to put social bookmark buttons on all your pages so that your visitors can easily bookmark your content for you. You can use a WordPress plug-in or I like using a simple free site/service from Addthis.com which gives me a simple button to put on all my content.
10. Masterplan! Many webmasters and site owners forget to develop or have an overall masterplan/strategy when it comes to SEO. You must have an understanding of what SEO is and what it can do for you and your site. More importantly, you just don't want SEO - you want effective SEO. In order to achieve effective SEO you must have three things: Relevance, Authority and Conversions.
First, your content/site must be relevant to the topic or niche area you're pursuing - your content must fit in and be related to all the other sites in your niche. That's why closely themed sites do so well in the search engines, they give only relevant content to what's been searched for or discussed.
Second, your content/site must be perceived as an authority site on your subject or niche. Establish this authority position and the search engines will love you and your content. One way is to develop this authority, besides offering superior content, is to form links/partnerships with other perceived authority sites in your field. Always strive to make your site an authority site - tops in your niche - the one site everyone has to check before drawing or forming a conclusion.
Third, conversions should be your main goal of any SEO efforts because you want to convert your targeted traffic into site members, subscribers, buyers or just repeat visitors. If you're into online marketing, conversions will be the most important element of the whole SEO process because you want buyers, not just visitors coming to your site.
Most of all, you must convince yourself Search Engine Optimization is not difficult, nor is it the equivalent of the online bogeyman as many would like you to believe. Used effectively, SEO can give you the targeted traffic you're seeking, just follow some of the outlined steps/tactics listed above and you will have SEO working for you and your site in no time at all.
by:Titus Hoskins
http://www.bizwaremagic.com/
How to Keep a Virtual Assistant Busy
For people who are just getting started with building an internet business, there is a good possibility that you have more work to do than you can handle, but not enough money to be able to hire someone full time. Even if money wasn't an issue and you needed to hire a virtual assistant, you may not have enough work to keep them busy.
Of course, you can outsource just specific projects if you know what you need done. The problem with this is that to find a dedicated VA that understands your business and your keywords and to be able to bypass having to train a new VA each time, you need to be able to keep them busy. Here are some ideas for you to both keep a part-time VA or a full-time VA busy.
Keyword research: Have your VA create a spreadsheet with your keyword phrases in one column with your monthly / daily searches in another column and then a few more columns with Google search results like the "keyword phrase in quotes" and the allinanchor or allintitle searches to give you an estimate on which keywords are going to be good. For basic SEO and getting started, your VA shouldn't need anything but free tools initially. If you're building a pay-per-click campaign, there's a greater likelihood that you'll be needing more keywords than what you'll get from most free tools.
Submitting to directories: Once you have the keywords that you'll be using on your site, you should start using those keyword phrases in strategic ways. Your VA can take the keywords, a basic description of your site and a list of directories and manually submit your site to hundreds of directories. Once place to have a VA start is with a website www.addurl.nu.
Comment on blogs: You can get your VA to participate in comments on blogs that allow links back, preferably without the "nofollow" attribute. An intelligent VA that is at very least accustomed to your industry can add more comments than just "nice post, thanks". Give them some freedom to participate in the occasional conversations by way of blogs.
Profiles on social media sites: Another great way to get links back to your site are on websites that allow profiles to be created, such as Facebook.com, Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Technorati.com, etc. These profiles can be created, but should be used on a relatively regular basis so that they stay active and also build up the chain of links pointing back to your main website. The more incoming links you can generate and the more the keywords are used as anchor text, the higher up in the search engines your website will rank. You can search for social media sites including hundreds of social sites on which you can create these profiles. You can also have your VA rank these social media sites by Page Rank as they create the profiles and keep active on the profiles that have the highest PR possibilities.
Social bookmarks: You can use social bookmarking sites to have your blog posts or ezine articles or just about any other sites listed and linked to from these social bookmarking sites. Have your VA go to SocialMarker.com and submit your articles and your blog posts through this tool. Do the "most popular" and the "nofollow" links... or rather, have your VA do this.
Ping services for updates: Once you have your blog posts and your articles done, you can have your VA use pingoat.com and pingomatic.com as well as Google's ping at blogsearch.google.com.
Article writing or editing: If you're not much of a content writer, you can have your VA help compose content or at very least edit content. This may work better if your assistant's primary language and possibly training is in the same language. This isn't to say that outsourcing to a foreign country won't work. Basically you'll have to try out the skills and capacities of your VA.
Creating new blogs: wordpress.com, squidoo.com, hubpages.com and blogvis.com as well as hundreds of other sites that allow content to be created. After these blog posts are created, make sure to have your VA use ping services as well as social bookmarking to get additional links and exposure back to the blog they've just created for you. Duplicate content is definitely an issue if you're trying to get the individual blogs themselves ranked. However, if you are using the blogs as a method of generating links back to your site for SEO purposes, the content on these blogs can be duplicated.
Use Diigo.com & Google's Blogsearch to find new content for these blogs. Just remember to find a way to successfully link back to your website using the keywords as anchor text.
All of these methods are a part of a massive effort to get both links back to your primary website for the SEO benefit as well as the residual traffic many of these sources can produce all on their own. Make sure you keep a spreadsheet of both the work you want done and stay organized. Work with your VA and don't commit to anything full time until you've had a chance to evaluate his or her work. Finding a good VA may not necessarily be easy. Once you find a good one, you'll want to keep him or her as busy as they need to be in order to keep loyal to you.
Most of these tips will require some training which you can get from the "help" or "faq" sections of a lot of these sites as well as videos on Youtube and Google that will show you how to do several of the things on this list, or they'll show your VA how to do several of the things on this list. You may want to spend a few hours trying some of these techniques yourself so that you can know what to expect as far as the time requirements.
by:http://www.merchanthotline.com/
