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Friday, November 9, 2007

Secret ways to make your Yuwei page to view more times and best of all Its free!!


Do you want to make more traffic to your Yuwie page?

Do you want to build more referral under you?

One of the biggest problem in online business industry is how to gain more traffic to your page or website and other is how to make more referral to your affiliate program. Since Yuwie design to generate residue by viewing your page and build more referral.

And I found some ways to solve this problem.

Simple and easy and most of all its fun!

Just follow this few steps:

A. Join traffic-generating program.


What is traffic-generating program?
It is a program or company that send your web page or referral link to its other member to view your page for certain time. By delivering more traffic to site it depends on the available credit that you have.
Its free to join you don’t have to pay anything all you have to do is to earn more credits by surf or view web page of other member for just a few seconds. (note: more credit that you have the more traffic to your yuwie account).

Sample list of traffic-generating program
1. Surftiger.us
2. StarXchange.com (This is my favorite)
3. Letsgetsometraffic.com

B. Create a blogs


To your yuwie account create a blog that advertise to join in Yuwie. Put your referral link there.

TO VIEW MY SAMPLE PAGE

C. Submit your url of your blogs to traffic-generating program

At this stage lets assume that you earn enough available credit to any traffic-generating program that you join, and this it will send to all its member.
While generating traffic to your blog from yuwie at the same time you will earn by viewing your blog, and also its advertise to join in yuwie under your referral. And I guess you know what its mean. It’s like shooting a two bird in one stone.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

How To Earn Money from Yuwie

This is a guide designed for Yuwie members that really want to build a massive Yuwie network and earn a substantial monthly residual income.
How Do I Make Money With Yuwie?
It is really important to know the criteria used by Yuwie to work out your earnings. Yuwie pays you for the number of page views that you generate. Yuwie also pays you on the page views generated by the members that you refer and also the members they refer, 10 levels deep (Your Referral Tree). Yuwie gets paid by advertisers for displaying adverts on the page views that members in your referral tree generate.
What actually counts as a paid page view?
When anyone views any of these pages, it counts as 1 page view for you:

• Your profile page

• Your blog pages

• View all your friends

• View all your comments

• Your picture pages

• If someone views one of your share layouts.

When you view any of these pages, it counts as 1 page view.
Any of your control panel pages, including but not limited to: settings, messaging, friends, referrals, favourites, etc.
The following does not count as a page view:

• Refreshing/reloading a page.

• Any page that’s viewed within 3 seconds of the last page doesn’t count.

We can't say exactly, but here's an example of what could happen. The chart below assumes you refer 3 people, and those 3 people refer 3, then those refer 3, through 10 levels, and each referral gets 1000 page views for the month, and the month's RSR is $0.50.
How Much Can I Earn With Yuwie?
Level Referrals Page Views Percentage Earnings
1 3 3,000 10% $0.15
2 9 9,000 10% $0.45
3 27 27,000 10% $0.54
4 81 81,000 4% $1.62
5 243 243,000 4% $4.86
6 729 729,000 4% $14.58
7 2,187 2,187,000 4% $43.74
8 6,561 6,561,000 10% $328.05
9 19,683 19,683,000 10% $984.15
10 59,049 59,049,000 30% $8,857.35
Total 88,572 88,572,000 $10,235.49

Results are not guaranteed. This is just an example of what could happen.
The RSR (Revenue Sharing Rate) and the page views on each level determine how much you get paid. Here's how it works. After each month, a report will be generated in your earnings area. It will show exactly how many views your referral tree accumulated on each level. It will also show your earnings for each level. Here's the actual calculation: RSR x (Page Views/1000) x Level Percentage = Your Earnings
How can I get more page views?
The best way to get more page views is to add more content to your profile. Leave comments for friends, upload more pictures, and maintain an active blog. All of this activity will cause more people to view more pages on your profile. The more active you are, the more page views you'll get. Remember, whenever you add
something to your profile, all your friends get notified through their friend feed.
Rate the profiles of your friends, read their blogs and leave comments.
Share useful information with your friends my sending out network messages and personal messages.
Join the Make More Yuwie Friends Club:
http://clubs.yuwie.com/morefriends/
Make as many friends as possible and interact with your friends to increase your page views.
Reply to messages from your friends, also read their comments and reply back if necessary.
Using Leverage To Boost Your Yuwie Earnings
You will need to generate over 50 Million page views to earn a substantial monthly income using Yuwie. It is virtually impossible to generate over 50 Million page impressions on your own. If you just relied on your own activity to earn money on Yuwie, you would not earn much.
A small number of Yuwie members understand the income potential offered by the 10 level deep referral tree structure offered by Yuwie.
The leverage offered by the 10 level deep referral tree is huge. If you build a structure like the one in the example, you could earn over $10,000 residual income each and every month.
If the three members that you referred to Yuwie also referred three members each, and the members they referred also done the same, down to your 10th Level, you would have 88,572 members in your referral tree.
From my own experience with Yuwie, I can tell you that this did not happen for me. I had to refer over 100 members myself, before by referral tree started to grow from the activity of the members that I referred.
Not everyone will see the earning potential offered by Yuwie. This is because they joined Yuwie for FREE and they have never got much out of anything that was FREE before.
What I would like to point out is that the MySpace social network generates millions every month from advertisers. None of that money is ever seen by its members.
Yuwie is not trying to create a new advertising model, Yuwie is using a proven advertising model and sharing the revenue with its members. Social networks attract a large number of members that keep on coming back to it day after day. This has created an advertising platform that works well online. MySpace has over 100 Million registered members.
Yuwie is still new, the members that take advantage of the referral program offered by Yuwie will have an excellent chance to earn a substantial monthly income from Yuwie. Just remember that you joined Yuwie for FREE and everyone can also join Yuwie for free anywhere in the world.
Yuwie offers everyone the same opportunity worldwide. It’s FREE to join and everyone has the opportunity to build a referral tree that can earn them a substantial monthly income.
Some people complain about not having had a opportunity to build a sizable income using the internet. The opportunity is here, it is Yuwie… It’s FREE, but worth $1000’s monthly.
A small number of visionaries will become the pegs in the 3x3 plan, they will build the largest referral trees and also pile up the highest number of page views. These member will also get the biggest slice of Yuwies monthly revenue. Just imagine what Yuwie’s monthly revenue will be when it reaches the same size as MySpace!
This could happen in 24 months, or less… The membership is starting to follow the exponential model… Take advantage of this wave of signups, don’t wait until it starts to level off. The largest amounts of money is made by people that follow trends and ride the wave… The Yuwie wave has just started to peak, are you ready for the ride?
How To Refer More Members
You will need to refer more than three members to find the people that will also have a strong desire to build a large referral tree. I have referred more than 100 members myself to find a select few that are ready to build a large Yuwie referral tree.
I will now introduce you to some of the marketing methods that are working for success Yuwie members to bring in referrals daily.
You will need to know your Yuwie referral URL. Your Yuwie referral URL will be in the format: http://www.yuwie.com/yuwie.asp?r=xxxxx
Where xxxxx will be replaced by your Yuwie ID.
You can get this from your Yuwie home page. It’s located on the left hand side under Your Referral URL:
How To Promote Yuwie On MySpace
This was posted in a Yuwie public group by Patrick Webb.
If you are a MySpace member... Open another web browser (stay logged into Yuwie on the other one) Log onto your MySpace profile - Go to the menu bar and click on GROUPS On the Left menu click on SEARCH GROUPS
Scroll down to the Search Groups menu in the KEYWORD box enter the word - Networking (leave all the default choices as they are) Click on SEARCH WOW ! You just got a page of 5000 Network groups! Now - JOIN EVERY "PUBLIC" GROUP! Click on JOIN GROUP (a join group confirmation window will appear) Click on the JOIN button (a "you are now a member" page will appear) Now Pay attention here - If you click your browser BACK button 2 times, you will be back to the groups search page you started at & go to the next group to JOIN ! After you have JOINED as many groups as you can (or have time for), Go to MY GROUPS (you will then have a page of all the groups you've joined) Now, pay attention... Go back to Yuwie (on the other browser you left running) Go to - CONTROL PANEL
then click on the REFERRALS icon then click on REFERRAL TOOLS then choose a banner referral link and right click on it and chose COPY Go back to your MYGROUPS page on MySpace and click on the fist group on your page. In the top of the Group menu... Click on POST TOPIC then enter something catchy like - GOT Yuwie? then click in the BODY field and right click and select PASTE The html code for your banner ad should then appear in the field Then click on POST THIS TOPIC (you will then get a "preview topic" screen) Then click on POST THIS TOPIC (you will then get a "your post has been made" confirmation) Now, Pay attention again... Click on your browser BACK button 4 times to get back to your MY GROUPS page. You DO NOT need to go back and right click on your banner ad link on your Yuwie tools menu - it is still saved & ready to use OVER AND OVER! Have fun posting your Yuwie banner ad! Once you have posted to all the public groups you can, go back &
search under a different topic like "work at Home groups or ebusiness, ANYTHING
You can also post your Yuwie banner ad on your MySpace Profile and also write about Yuwie on your MySpace blog.
How To Use Craigs List To Promote Yuwie
This was posted in a Yuwie public group by Patrick Webb.
Let's Get your Yuwie account Booming! Ok, this is something we do to get our links out there for people to view.
Go to - www.craigslist.com On the right side of the page is all the cities (and countries) you can post ads to.

• Select a city for your ad to be posted to...

• Select a section of that city (really doesn't matter which one, but I usually select the central most one)

• Go back to the top left of the CL page & select "post to classifieds"

• Select "services offered"

• Scroll down to "small biz ads" & select it

• Put in your "catchy" title. Just get their attention!

• ex: Get paid for page views?

• ex: Make money just hangin' out!

• ex: The Deadline is near!

• ex: Warning! Only __ days left to sign up!

• ex: Be a part of the Yuwie_lution! (you get the idea, make them curious!)


• Enter the following into the ad space.. http://www.yuwie.com/profile/?id=(your link number)


Note: After you modify the above link with your link number - highlight the whole link & right click & copy it so you can then paste it easily without having to edit it again.

• Enter your email address in both lower boxes

• Leave the button selected on "reply to anonymous" at craigslist (center button)

• Select continue...

• Enter the verification word...

• Scroll down & select "Accept terms of use" You will then get a screen that notifies you that that you will get an email containing your new ad link.

• Go back to your email list & refresh the screen or check for new messages.

• Locate the email from craigslist and open the email.

• Click on the link in the email.

• At the top left you will need to click on "publish" to activate the posting on CL.

• the top banner with then turn green and your ad is posted! It can sometimes take several minutes for your add to be visible (don't worry, it will show pretty quickly). You can now go back to CL and post more ads! CL RULES to follow or they will delete your ad.

a) don't try to use a banner ad or a landing page link - they WILL delete the ad.

b) the title of the ad has to be different every time (it won't post and you will get a error)

c) even a similar sentence will be caught as a possible duplicate ad.

d) don't hit all the cities down the list (select 8 - 10 random cities per day to post on) Have fun creating catchy ad lines.

Patrick Web’s Secret To Success With Yuwie
After Patrick Web posting a note on Yuwie about reaching 1,000 plus referrals he started getting a lot of messages from Yuwie members asking him to reveal his secrets.
Patrick says that there is no secret involved, he is sharing his methods with all Yuwie members. Patrick is also new to Yuwie like most of us, we are all trying to figure out Yuwie. Patrick answers some questions put to him:
How are you doing this? (very simply)
How do I motivate people? (I educate - I don't motivate)
How do I convince people that Yuwie is not a scam? (Simply - I have never heard of a scam that doesn't require the scammed to surrender money)
Are you spamming people? (ABSOLUTELY NOT!)
RE: Spam, Patrick has a very simple philosophy on that subject and here it is.
"Trying to build an honest business on the money received by spamming people, is like trying to build a church from the money earned at a brothel" Patricks Methods:

• Use the Craig's List and Myspace techniques

• Tell your friends about Yuwie

• Keep in touch with your down line via personal e-mails, blogs and posts. Try to contact everyone in your first 3 levels directly.

• Copy and post/blog any good advice that you receive.

The fact is that I actually don't put too much time into Yuwie because of my other commitments in life. I wish that I could do much more. It is my down line that is doing all of the work. It's YOU guys that I need to thank you all for getting me as far as I am in Yuwie. You see once this snowball really starts rolling then the referrals just start growing and growing.
The Routine:
Here is a routine based on Partick’s original.
How To Find First Level Referrals:

• Post in Craig's List and Myspace ads

• Post messages to your friends on Myspace

• Tell your personal friends about Yuwie

When Someone Signs Up On Your First Level
1 - Post a comment on their page
Comment - "Welcome to Yuwie and let me know if I can help, read my blogs etc..."
You can post more
2 - Send 3 personal messages

• Message 1 – “The Yuwie Master Plan” (a link to download this ebook)

• Message 2 - " How Much Can I Earn With Yuwie?" (attach the tree diagram)

• Message 3 - "Marketing Tools" Create a blog or webpage with your affiliate links for online marketing tools that you are using (traffic exchanges, safelists, paid to read…). You can also send them links to marketing tools that are working for you offline.

When People Sign Up On Levels 2 and 3
You can only see the first 3 levels of your referral tree, but if you really work at those three levels, then the rest of the tree should take care of it's self. Contact everyone in your 2nd and 3rd level, and issue a friend request, stating that they are in your downline and that you would love to become their friend and share advice on how to make their Yuwie account a success. Then post the exact same comments and messages as you would with your first level friends. Post more if you have the time of course. Note #1: Some profiles are set to private. If this happens, then simply rate the person's profile, and do NOT Rate it anonymously. If you give a decent rating, then that person may add you as a friend. You will also want to research the higher level and see if you can determine who their sponsor is, and ask the sponsor to advise their downline members to make their profiles public. Note #2: If you come across profiles that have no layouts, suggest to that person that they dress up their page. First impressions are everything!

Marketing Yuwie Online
You can market Yuwie online using some of the following methods:

• Email To Friends And Family

• Email Signature Link

• Forum Signature Link

• Create Videos On YouTube/Metacafe

• Traffic Exchanges

• Paid 2 Read Email/Adverts

• PPC Search Engines

• Banner Exchanges

• Other Social Networks (MySpace, FaceBook, Hi5…)

• Link From Your Website/Blog

Marketing Yuwie Offline
You can market Yuwie offline using some of the following methods:

• Talk To Your Friends And Family

• Business Cards With Your Yuwie Link

• Flyers

• Display Ads On Shop Windows

• Car Bumper/ Windscreen Stickers

It is a good idea to use a redirect URL to make it easier for people to remember your referral URL.
Start Taking Action Now – Don’t forget to pass on this ebook to people in your downline.
Don’t forget to send me a friends request, chances are that I’m somewhere in your upline, since you have this ebook.
http://www.yuwie.com/profile/?id=14222
My goal is to have a Yuwie referral tree that has over 100,000 members on it. If you share a similar goal, let’s make Yuwie rock!
Just enjoy your time on Yuwie and do something daily that moves you closer towards your goal.

Friday, August 31, 2007

How to earn money from blog

In this blog I will give you a free preview of how to earn money from blogging. The internet had witnessed in the past years a new type of cyber communities known as BLOGS. In a blog everyone is a webmaster who can share jokes, ideas, emotions, advice, and anything that can be translated into words; making them popular sites that are visited about 10000 times a month!!
In this blog I'll teach you how you can create your OWN blog, make it as popular as possible, and at last how to MAKE MONEY.


Step 1

Setting Up Your Blog
Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain. Imagine a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it. In this step, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our own at no cost! Interested? Read on!
First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several options – host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. If you are a techie, you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that is robust and infinitely expandable. Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google’s radar faster and you will be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However, Wordpress is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later).
Get a free blog at either Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/signup.g) or Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/). Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on your blog and tinkering around with the options and templates. Here are a few common “blog-related” words to help you out:

1) Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.

2) Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.

3) Pinging – Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a useful way to gaining traffic, which we shall discuss later.

For now, I shall leave you testing out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the next steps, we shall discuss the many ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to write posts that keep visitors glued and keep coming back for more!


Step 2

Blog Content


Today, we’re going to discuss the type of content that is suitable for your blog in order to make it profitable. First off, I want you to understand that there is no fixed scope that your blog should have, which means you can write about whatever you’re interested in.
However, the difference between a profitable blog and a non-profitable blog is the way the blog is written. Just imagine, would you prefer to read your university professor’s lecture notes or the latest novel by your favorite author?
You may prefer to read the novel because it appeals more to your interest, or because it is not as mind-numbing as the lecture notes by your professor. However, the most important point is people like to read “light” stuff most of the time. You see, when people log on to your blog, they are not only looking for information – they are also looking for information they can obtain easily, and better still in a relaxed manner. So, to attract more visitors as well as to keep your current visitors coming back for more, it is very important to add a human touch to your blog posts. This can be done by simply imagining you’re talking about a certain topic with your personal friend. An extra bonus for your readers would be a great sense of humour, so try to add funny comments in your articles where they are suitable.
Another important key point is to avoid addressing your reader as a plural unit. What I really mean is you should not write as if you’re preparing a speech. Instead, you should write as if you’re having a conversation to a single person because this will make your visitor think of you more as a personal friend rather than a person of higher authority.
Besides that, it is also very useful to establish your own personality through your words. Human beings are very curious creatures, so naturally your visitors would want to know as much about you as the information you’re offering them. Having a distinctive personality in your blog would make a world’s difference between your blog about gadgets and all the other blogs about gadgets out there. This is a lot like creating your own brand name, where people immediately remember your blog’s name when they need to find out information about gadgets, just like how people immediately think of McDonald’s for fastfood or Nike for sportswear. So, the lesson for today is to simply write as an equal friend to your visitors, write to them as if you’re talking to a single person and establish your own personality on your blog.

Step 3


Blog Content Brainstorming


Face the fact – your blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership! Hence, you must always find fresh topics to write about, and we’re going to discuss how to do just that in this step.
We have discussed how to write attractively, so now we are going to discuss what we are going to write on. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as your mundane job! The other reason I ask you to write about something you’re passionate about is because your feelings and emotion shows through your writings! If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it. Remember the advice about writing with a personality? Forcing yourself to write will not establish a welcoming style at all.
Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and make it a habit to post at least once every day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!
However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm for content for your blog.

1) The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com. There are other decent search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog!

2) Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite an unexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like
http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com/.

3) You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join forums related to your niche, but don’t join every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.
Remember to keep up your momentum of posting at least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content everyday. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence gaining you extra traffic. Don’t worry about the paragraph above about generating traffic and search engines, because we’re going to talk about that in more detail later. For now, remember to keep a consistent effort everyday and build up momentum like that of a locomotive!

Step 4


On Page Search Engine Optimization


Now, you should have a blog full with content you have passionately written. It should be a very interesting grapevine for the community of your chosen niche, as opposed to a lifeless factsheet.
However, no matter how delicious your content is, if there is nobody to read it you can’t generate profit from it. Traffic is the lifeblood of your blog. In order to attract people, you must offer attractive information. Simple enough.
However, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. Where do people look when they need information? Yes, they search using search engines like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com and www.msn.com, to name a few more popular ones. So, to get these people on your blog, your blog needs to rank high on search result pages of these search engines. When these people search for information through the search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog!
The art of getting your blog or website onto high rankings on search result pages is called search engine optimization. It is a very complex and hard subject to master, but that doesn’t stop us from learning simple yet effective techniques to conquer the search results for certain keywords. The more complex techniques are usually needed to fight for very competitive and general keywords such as “fat loss”, but I’ll teach you how to overcome that later.
For now, let’s determine the keywords that you want to optimize your site for. For example, your blog talks about tech gadgets. Now, you’d want to check in Google whether it is a very competitive keyword. At this time of writing, there are 29, 000,000 search results. Think you can beat 29, 000, 000 sites at your first attempt? I don’t think so. Now, let’s try to narrow down our scope. Let’s look for “technological gadgets” instead. At this time of writing, Google lists 792, 000 results. That’s more manageable, but you’d like to search for more focused keywords. However, let’s optimize your blog for “technological gadget” just for the sake of learning.
First, you have to pay attention to the title of your blog. Since you’re optimizing for technological gadgets, you need to have that exact phrase in your blog title. For example, a line like “Your Best Technological Gadget Blog!” would work great. You can change the title of your blog in the Blogger control panel or the Wordpress blog when you’re creating it. If you’re proficient with HTML, you can even do that on other blog engines like Moveable Type. Bottom line? Learn a little HTML! Other than that, your page heading should also contain the term you’re optimizing for.
The page heading is the bit of text in your code that is enclosed within the tags. This is important as it tells the search engines what your page is about (in this case, “technological gadgets”). Since we’re posting a blog, the tags are usually the post titles, so remember to include the term there whenever relevant. One last bit, you should also sprinkle the words “technological gadgets” in your posts whenever possible. The frequent occurrence of that phrase in your blog will hint the search engines that your blog is really relevant to that topic.
However, this is the most important bit of all. Always keep in mind that you’re writing for real life people who read your blog to obtain information, so it is very stupid to spam your blog with keywords! In fact, if you do that, the search engines will end up thinking you’re spamming and drop your ranking further down into oblivion… So keep in mind! Write for humans, not search engines!

Step 5


Offpage Search Engine Optimization


We’ve already optimized our blog to rank well for search results of certain keywords that we’re targetting, but here comes the sad news – it affects your ranking in only very minor ways. However, don’t skip this step as every little bit helps when you’re competing for search engine rankings!
Now, we’re moving on to offpage search engine optimization. That is, factors that are not on your blog but affect your search engine rankings very greatly. There are a lot of offpage factors, but we shall study them one by one. The first and most obvious one is the number of links to your blog. As a general rule of thumb, the more links to your blog, the more the search engines think you are an authority in that particular niche and hence the higher they rank you.
However, take care to observe the quality of the links. For example, a thousand links from totally irrelevant sites like online dating sites would not help at all because your blog is a technological product blog. In contrast, a single link from a highly authoritative site about technological gadgets will get the search engines crawling about your blog like the Feds storming a crack den…
Anyway, the most cost effective way of getting high quality links from authoritative sites is simply to ask for it. If your blog contains high quality content that is original and will provide valuable information to the site’s readers, chances are the webmaster(s) will link to your blog or even write about you!
Let’s talk about how we should ask these webmasters of authority to link to your blog. We’re discussing this based on the presumption that your blog is really content rich and offer high quality information to anyone in your niche or topic of discussion. The most viable option would be to send an email directly to the webmaster. First, let’s look for the top sites in your niche. Simply search the major search engines for the term that you’re targetting. In this case, let’s search for “technological gadgets”. The first few results, www.t3.co.uk and www.acarplace.com/brands/gm/gadgets.html are commercial sites, so don’t bother asking. We’re looking for community-based sites and other blogs that are more accessible to a complete newcomer like you. Seems like www.gizmodo.com would be a good option!
So, compose an email to the webmaster of www.gizmodo.com (whose email address you shall find on the site). They even have their AIM contact there, so it’s also a good choice if you use AOL Instant Messenger. Start by stating how you came across their site (i.e. “looking for gadget information”, NOT “looking for link partners!”) and how you think their site provides valuable info. Basically, try to say something really good about their site honestly. Then, suggest that so-and-so content on your own blog will be a nice complement to their site’s content and vice versa. Put a link on your blog to their site and ask subtly if they might be able to do the same to weld a mutually beneficial relationship between the site and your blog.
Along the way, you might find people who won’t even respond to your email, so forget about them and move on. Remove the links from your blog to their site if they have not responded to your email within two weeks, which is a pretty long wait. Keep doing this for the first 30 search results that pop up, and before long you should have quite a few good sites all linking to you. In the next step, we shall explore further the more advanced offpage factors, and ways to improve them!

Step 6


Offpage Search Engine Optimization II


In the last step, we talked about how getting high quality links from authoritative
websites in your field can boost your search engine rankings. This time, we’re going to explore further into linking strategies, and how to determine and obtain “high quality” links. We’re also going to talk briefly about Google’s PageRank. First, let’s examine a regular link. It’s a piece of text (or image, but we’re going for text) that links to your blog, and some of the factors that matter are

1) The address which it links to
2) The text of the link
3) The PageRank of the page on which the link resides

Let’s analyze this information one by one. First, you’d naturally want the link to link to your blog, but to which page of your blog? To an individual post or to your blog’s home page? Since your blog is a constantly updated website, it is always wise to accumulate all the links to point to your main page instead if individual posts because they tend to be very time-sensitive. The text of the link also affects your rankings for a certain keyword. Let’s say your blog is about technological gadgets and another site has a link that says “Barbie dolls” and links to your blog. Doesn’t make much sense, right? If a lot of links that link to your site contain the terms “technological” or “gadget”, it will greatly boost your rankings for those keywords. Hence, it’s essential to put some thoughts when requesting links from
other webmasters as you want them to link to your blog with appropriate keywords. Now, about Google’s PageRank. It’s basically a scale set by Google to measure the
popularity of websites. You can read more about it on http://www.google.com/technology/. What is interesting is that the higher the PageRank of a certain website, the more frequent Google’s robots will visit the website to index it. Of course, the PageRank of a page will also help it to rank higher in Google’s search engine results. In short, having a high PageRank will bring you many benefits SEO-wise. Your blog will start with no PageRank (which is different to PageRank 0) because Google has not yet indexed your blog. Once Google’s robots find your blog through links on other sites, your blog will show a PageRank of 0 and depending on the PageRank of the referring page, your blog’s PageRank will also rise eventually. Getting high-quality links to your blog will help direct targetted visitors who are interested in your niche to your blog, enable search engines to find and index your blog and ultimately rank higher in search engine results.

Step 7


More Traffic Sources


Getting links from other websites is not the only way to attract visitors to visit your blog. This time, we are going to explore alternative methods to attract high quality traffic with both free and paid methods. The first thing you can do to generate traffic is to recycle all the content you have written on your blog. What I really mean is to turn your blog posts into little “manuals” or articles that help people solve their problems or offer valuable information and submit them to article directories. These article directories are like aggregators that collect articles of similar themes together in one place, so they receive thousands and thousands of qualified visitors every day. When you submit your articles to these directories, you are exposing your name to the thousands of pairs of eyes visiting them for free! On most article directories, you are also permitted to include a “resource box” where you can include your contact details, a simple biography and so on. This is where you can truly leverage the traffic of the said article directories.
Some good article directories to get you started:
http://www.ezinearticles.com/

Another excellent way to gain traffic is to join internet forums that are based on your niche. To find these kind of forums, you just need to go to any search engine and enter “ +forum”, without the quotes. You would want the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members, and preferably always bustling with activity. Just check the dates of the threads posted on the forum. When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post very useful and valuable posts, your peers will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are also allowed to append a link to your site in the signature line, which is under every post you make on the forums. People will click and visit your blog if they find your posts helpful and informative. This way, your credibility is built even before they land on your blog, so traffic from the forums would be easier to turn into profits if your blog is selling your own products or recommending others’ as an affiliate since they are already convinced you’re an “expert” in the field. The strategy we’ll discuss is word of mouth. Let’s say you already have a daily visitor count of 100. What if you compiled a small report or gift and posted it on your blog, saying that if a certain visitor can refer three of his/her friends to visit your blog the gift will be his/hers for free? If your small report or gift is lucrative enough, it will generate a small buzz among your blog readers and they will surely refer their friends to this blog that they frequent!
You can also utilize the “blog and ping” technique that everyone’s talking about. Basically, when you update your blog, you can let blog portals such as www.technorati.com know by pinging them. You can ping a lot of portals at once by using the free http://www.pingomatic.com/. Besides the techniques described here, there are also paid methods like buying links from high-ranking pages or buying banner advertisement space. A thing to keep in mind when buying paid traffic is to always weigh your profits generated from the paid ads. If your profits do no offset the expense, you will end up losing money, so choose wisely.

Step 8


Monetizing Your Blog


You have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your blog and you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into money.
There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your blog, and Google’s Adsense programme allows you to do so with ultimate ease. First, visit their website at http://adsense.google.com/ . You’ll find out more about their advertising programmed there, but here are some extra bits I’d like to tell you.
First, Google’s Adsense programme is a really useful way to monetize your blog because when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your blog because they have nothing else to do on your blog. If your Adsense advertisement block is visible on your blog, they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them to exit your blog. Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents! But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t “do it right”. This involves placing your Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html to see the “heat map” of your blog. The “hotter” a certain area, the greater the chances of someone looking at your blog. Once you get a Google Adsense account, you can change the colour of your advertisement text and links. You will want them to match the colours on your blog. If your blog’s text is black and the links are red, do the same for the ad blocks too! It’s that simple.
Another way to earn profits from your blog is to recommend products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to start because you don’t have to create your own products or services. Anyway, let’s refer back to our technological gadgets blog example. Let’s say you discover this Gadget X on a merchant’s website, and they offer an affilliate programme. What you would do is to create a post in your blog and do a mini-review on this Gadget X. Rip it apart and point out its benefits and bad points, if any, and include a link (which is given by the merchant) for the visitor to purchase the Gadget X online.
If your visitor clicks and purchases the gadget, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would be a $2,700.00 paycheque for you just for writing about ONE product. Now, affiliate programmes are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find affiliate programmes that are related to your blog’s theme? Easy, just go to Google and search for +”affiliate programmes”. Another slightly better way is to go to http://www.associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate programmes in your niche. The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your blog. We’ll be discussing other great, profitable ways, so keep your eyes peeled!

Step 9


More Monetizing Options


We’ve discussed about using Google Adsense programme and other merchants’ affiliate programmes to generate profits from your blog. However, we have a lot of other options ot monetize your blog, so we’re going to look into that today. The first option we’ll be looking at is Chitika (www.chitika.com). Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising programme because it can serve very detailed
advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for “reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher. You can apply here: https://chitika.com/application.php?type=mm .You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range of products but its predominant domain is in books. Whatever your niche is about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com. Join their Associate programme here: https://associates.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html/
Once you join them, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 10% commission. It’s not a lot but if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you. This programme really shines when it comes to the ways you can refer visitors: you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items that match a certain criteria you set, you can target your ad to show a specific item on sale or you can just simply weave your referral links into your blog posts.
Last but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your blog if your blog is truly popular. Just take a look at blogs like http://xiaxue.blogspot.com. That blog receives over 10,000 pageviews every day and naturally merchants will want to strike a deal with the blog’s owner to post their advertisements there. If you manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that blog, you can definitely get people to buy ad space on your blog for prices from $150/month upwards, depending on your blog popularity. To gauge how much pageviews and visitors you get everyday, just use the free tool available at www.statcounter.com. They have a very detailed setup guide there so I won’t go into it.
If your blog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your blog on a per click or per impression basis. Just visit sites like http://www.adbrite.com/. For a complete list of these sites, visit http://performancing.com/node/60. Hopefully, that will help you maximize earnings and profits from your blog!

Step 10


Interactions Between Blogs


As your blog’s content increase, people in your niche will definitely mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions. This is, in a sense, an initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them for the mention and build up the interaction!
When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where traffic comes from. If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, you can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation!
As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such as interviews. In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your blog, you can interview other blog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose writings they read so often. If you’re using Wordpress, Textpattern, MovableType or any other advanced blog engines, you can also post trackback links on your posts. This means you can post an article about what other people have posted! Your particular post will then appear as a link on that post you have written about. This is definitely a great way to get traffic if you post brilliant insights about a post on a very famous blog. Since the famous blog already has a per-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors! The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer. On the other hand, if you’re using Blogger, you would not be able to use trackback links.
However, you can post insightful comments on other people’s blogs and subtly include a link back to your blog. You can make it seem like you’re pointing to your blog as an extra reference to the subject of discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users of other blog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Thank You Lord

Lord, thank you for this sink of dirty dishes, we have plenty of food to eat.

Thank you for this pile of dirty, stinky laundry; we have plenty of clothes to wear.

And I would like to thank you, Lord, for those unmade beds; they were so warm and comfortable last night. I know that many have no bed.

My thanks to you, Lord, for this bathroom, completes with all the splattered mirrors, soggy, grimy towels and dirty lavatory; they are so convenient.

Thank you for this finger-smudged refrigerator that needs defrosting so badly; It has serve us faithfully for many years. It is full of cold drinks and enough leftovers for two or three meals.

Thank you. Lord for this oven that absolutely must be cleaned today. It has baked so many things over the years.

The whole family is grateful for that tall grass that needs mowing. The lawn that needs raking; we all enjoy the yard.

Thank you, Lord even for that slamming screen door. My kids are healthy and able to run and play.
Lord, the presence of all these chores awaiting me says You have richly blessed my family. I shall do them cheerfully and I shall do them gratefully.