Internet Marketing for Beginners

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Everyone who has blog and website want to have more and more traffics to their website. And while there are many traffic sources you can get, I can say that the best traffic source for your website is search engine traffics. It is people who visits your website by finding it from search engine like Google. This is the best traffics since it is, most of the time, free and targeted since they find you.

However it is not easy to get a lot of search engine traffics since you will face a lot of competitors fighting for the first page on Google for your chosen keywords. To increase your search engine position you will need a lot of relevant properly anchored links to your website. And I can say that getting relevant anchored links is not always an easy task for most people.

One of the way to get this kind of links is with article marketing. I’m sure most of you have heard about this article marketing things. In traditional way, it is simply create an article (or a lot of articles if you are not lazy) and submit it to article directories like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com

While this method is quite effective, there are several disadvantages doing this link building method in traditional way. For every article you submit, most of the time, you will only get 1 link from the article directory it self. If your article is awesome, there might be some webmasters put it on their website or blog. But some will remove your links from the article, and complaining about it will only waste your time.

There are some services that will deliver your articles unchanged and post it on various sites and blogs. With this kind of services you can make sure your article will be posted on various sites and blogs along with your links. You will get many relevant links from various IP address, a very important factor for SEO purpose.

However, those services are not free. Many of them will charge you for monthly subscription fees. Of course, while they know the great benefits they will get, most webmasters don’t have money for this purpose. The riches get richer you can say.

Fortunately, I have found the solution for us, the non rich webmasters who can’t simply pay monthly fees for this services. I found the free services that will give you the same benefits as those paid services.

You can submit your articles everyday and have them posted on many websites hosted on different IP address. And you can choose on which websites you want those articles posted into. This is important since you want to get links from relevant websites only, or the genius people on Google will suspect you for doing link spamming.

Let’s say you want to build links for your travel blog, you only want to get links from travel website, or you can also target more links from relevant niches such as hotel blogs, vacation blogs, and so on. You can do it with this service. And yes, once again, it is free.

I can write more and more about this service, however, the longer you spend your time reading this post, the more time you’ll waste. You better spend it to get more links, right?

So, I’ll cut this post here. Visit this website and start building your relevant targeted inbound links, and see your search engine rankings grows. Getting your website listed on the first Google SERPs is not expensive, you can get there for free.

I have to told you though, this is about article marketing. So you have to write your articles, or out source it if you want. If you are too lazy to write your articles, or have them written, then I should say that this service is not for you.

You can access this free link building service here. Once again, IT IS FREE.

To continue my last post about make money selling backlinks, I want to introduce you another text link broker where you can make additional income from your blog selling text link ads. The program name is text link ads or used to called as TLA.

TLA is probably the first program offering text link trading. They meet the advertisers who need to advertise their website and the publishers who need to earn money from their website selling text ads.

TLA is very similar to backlinks I mentioned in the last post, at least at the way they work. However after you joined them, you will notice that TLA is quite different when compared to backlinks program.

You can join TLA for free, however it is quite harder to get your website approved on this program. While backlinks based their requirement on Google Pagerank only, TLA seems to have more requirements for any site to get approved by them.

I don’t know exactly what factors they used to measure a website, but yes, it’s harder to get your website approved compared to backlinks. It seems that you will have a better chance to get approved if your pagerank is at least PR3, with niche topic and not just general topic where you talk about anything on one blog. They probably also look at other factors like traffics, popularity, and others.

However, from my experiences, you will get higher earning for each link sold from your site in TLA compared to backlinks. If you have niche topic blog with good PR and quite good alexa rank, I suggest you to try TLA. If it is not approved, you can try backlinks then.

The procedures to join and use TLA program is very similar to backlinks. Join TLA here.

On my last post make money from blog, I talked about several ways I use to make money online. In this post I will talk about one of those methods, make money selling link with backlinks. I will talk about other methods in the future.

With backlinks, you can sell a link or more to the advertiser. The links are in text link format, just like a blogroll link. To be able to join backlink and start selling your link, you need a minimum PR1 blog/site. This is the only thing you need to have, there’s no other requirements such as traffic, ect.

If you have a PR1 blog or higher, first, you need to register on backlinks, it’s free don’t worry. After you register, and loged in (they’are auto approved), you will need to add your blog to their market place so the advertisers can purchase a link on it.

To add your blog, click the Add Link Page on their left menu. You can choose Add Single Links Page button or choose multiple links button, but for the purpose of this tutorial just choose the first button.

On the next page, choose and fill all the necessaries form. In all form there’s a “?” mark that will guide you if you are not sure about it. It’s simple really, however if you are not sure just leave me a comment and I’ll try to help you.

After you submitted your blog (or page), click My Link Page link from their menu. You will see the URL you have just submitted. Click “installation code” button under your URL address. Let’s just assume you use wordpress blog, on the next page choose wordpress blog from the drop down menu.

On the next page, you will see this: Step 2. Follow the Installation Guide… Click the link and a new window will open. You will need to download their plugins that need to be installed on your blog. Install the plugins, activate it, and submit the backlink key, it’s in a red font.

The final step is, placing their code on your blog. I suggest you to place the code on your sidebar. In most cases, you only need to edit your sidebar.php. Place the code on the place where you want to display the links.

After all of those steps done, back to your link pages and click validate. That’s all. You don’t need to do anything from now. They will find the advertisers for you, and you’ll get paid each month for each link you sold from the previous month.

The higher PR you have the higher you will get paid for each link. The more advertisers buy your links the more money you’ll receive. You can also add your single post/page if they have a minimum PR1 too, so you will get more money.

Selling link like this is like having a nice passive income. You only need to work once, then everything is on autopilot, no more works on your side. The payment will be sent trough paypal, so you need to have a Paypal account.

Join backlinks now and start making passive income from your blog.

There are, for sure, many ways for us to be able to earn money from internet, no matter whether you have a website or not. Talking all the make money online opportunities in one post is almost impossible, so I will only talk about any money making methods that can be generated from our website. To narrow it even further, I will only focus to any methods I use to make money from my websites and blogs.

The first method is – probably one of the most famous way to earn money from website, Google Adsense. While adsense is not my biggest income source, I place adsense first on the list since adsense is the first make money method I know. I know the world of webmastering and blogging since I want to earn money from adsense.

Though I don’t earn much money from adsense, at least I always receive my payment check each month. On average I earn between $300-$600 each month from adsense. While that amount of money is ‘nothing’ for anyone from western countries, $300 is enough to support my life here. Our minimum wage rate is around $100 here, and below $100 on some provinces.

My second online revenue source is from link sales. I joined three link sales programs, they are Text Link Ads, backlinks, and Ask2Links . TLA by far brings the biggest money from link sales field, followed by backlinks, then Ask2Links where I only earn very little from them. Overall each month I earn around $150 from those 3 programs and some more from direct advertisers I got.

My current biggest revenue source is trough Paid Review. I usually earn around $1000 from paid review jobs each month, however in January I only earned around $800 from various paid review programs I joined. And those jobs are not only from the review networks but also from direct advertisers I got.

While this is my biggest revenue source, I must say that -at least on my opinion- the paid review business become harder and harder each day. Less jobs and less payment per job. Sad!

My fourth revenue is from Affiliate Program. I joined several affiliate programs, but currently only three of them who earn me money. They are ShareASale, pepperjam, and MarketHealth . Biggest revenue come from shareasale so far, but currently I’m trying to pump more earning from pepperjam and markethealth, simply because they send the payment trough paypal while SAS trough check.

How about yours?

One of my online revenue sources is trough affiliate program. If you are not familiar with this term, it simply referring your reader to a certain products you are affiliated with, and get paid if they make certain action whether it is buying the products, filling some forms, etc.

To maximize your affiliate earning, there are some tips you can use. One of the tips I’d like to talk today is, masking or cloaking your affiliate link. It is a method to make your affiliate link doesn’t shout “hey I’m affiliate link, if you click me my master will earn some money from you!”.

We have to accept the fact that not all people like affiliate links. That’s why we need to cloak it so the links will look like a ‘usual link’.

There are several ways to cloak our affiliate link, but I usually just use this one method. I call it redirect page. Erm.. perhaps someone before me who create that term, whatever, here is my way to use redirect page to mask my affiliate link.

First, if you see this blog permalink, you’ll see it’s uses something like: http://domain.com/postname. All of my post page will have an url ended with postname, there’s no .html .php or any other endings.

So, what I need to do is simply create a blank page, and call it whatever I want link something.html. You’ll see the difference between the blank page URL and my post page right?

On the blank page, I will name it similar to my affiliate product, let’s say gator.html if I want to promote hostgator.com. There will be no text on the body, but put this code between the <head> tags

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;
url=http://www.myaffiliatelink.com”>

All I need to do is just edit the “myaffiliatelink.com” with my affiliate link. Upload the page on your hosting at the root, and every time you want to send your visitor to your affiliate link you link it to your blank page.

I’ll give you an example. I will make a link to my affiliate link, and mask it to my redirect page. The redirect page is epowhost.html and it will be redirected to my epowhost affiliate link.

Click Here to test it. Don’t worry, it’s just a simple example, you wont get charged for clicking the link

Some people like to use new directory, then host the redirect page on that directory, let’s call it “go”. So the redirect link will be, domain.com/go/redirectpage.html or whatever ending you like.

Whichever method you use, it will bring similar result.

Januari is ending. It’s probably one of the bussiest month during my online journey. This month I built several new blogs. Of course I have to develop them with more new contents and also doing some linkbuildings and of course try to get some traffics on it. The blogs will add more strength my ‘made for money blog’ arsenal, lol.

OK, everything is quite established for now. It’s probably the right time for me to add more attention on this blog. And I don’t have any plan to add more blogs on my arsenal during February.

The first thing I’d like to do with this blog is start to do blogwalking and commenting with this blog as my URL. While getting more traffics and comments on this blog will not bring any good for me in the term of ‘earning’, but I shouldn’t left this blog lonely

And I have long term plan with this blog too that will force me to add more value on it.

Sure I will also try to add more contents by making more posts in the future. 2 or 3 posts each week will be enough I think.

Having a better alexa rank and Google Pagerank is my short term plan at the moment.

There are several ‘great’ ideas crossing my mind, but it seems that I should start with little step first before I do more actions here.

So, see you in a moment. I’ll find ya!

Everyone knows that alexa rank is not valid since their rank is purely based on their toolbar. No matter how valid (or not) their rank is, alexa rank is still used by many people to determine the traffics of certain site. And if you sell direct advertisement on your blog trough paid review or other methods then you will need to pay attention on this rank.

Since the most important thing on this case is the alexa toolbar, you will need to target visitors who most likely install the toolbar on their browser. Who they are? Bloggers and webmasters. If you don’t have a blog or website, will you ever care about alexa? Probably not.

Here are few ways you can do to increase your alexa rank:

1. Install their toolbar on your browser, and use your blog as you default homepage. Every time you open your browser, you will visit your blog and give ‘points’ to it.

2. Browse your blog everyday. I’ll say it in a simple way. Open your blog, leave it open and continue do whatever you are doing. After a while, click your singe post, leave it open and continue your previous activity, after a minute or two, open another post on your blog, and so on. Doing this everyday won’t distract your daily activities since you only open it then continue doing whatever you do.

3. Blog commenting. I haven’t tried this method on this blog but I use this method on my other blogs. In simple word, visit other blogs and leave a comment or two. One comment each blog is enough for this purpose. Most of the time, you will get a visit from the blog owner or other people who read your comment. The chances they have toolbar installed on the browser is higher then average visitors, trust me.

4. Be active on webmaster forums and put your blog address on your signature. Use an attractive anchor text that will attract more clicks and visits to your blog.

There are still many other methods you can use, but doing the 4 above is enough to increase your alexa rank faster. And it will not need a lot of your time.

If you read my last posts about paid review here and there you will see that you will need a blog with pagerank. Pagerank is a measurement provided by Google to determine the importance of a blog/website and this rank is purely based on the amount of backlinks you get from other website.

So, in order to increase your Google PR, all you need to do is simple. Obtain more and more inbound links to your blog. The next question then, how can I get more inbound links to my blog?

Firstly I have to told you that there are two kinds of links you have to know in accordance to google pagerank, it’s nofollow and dofollow link. To increase your pagerank, you need dofollow links, since the nofollow one will not the link juice that will increase your pagerank. I can elaborate this in a full post, but for now let’s just agree on this one thing; you need dofollow links to increase your pagerank.

OK, here are some link building methods you can use to obtain more inbound links to your blog.

1. Blog commenting. It simply leave comments on other blogs. Make sure it’s an on topic comment so the blog owners will not delete your comments. However most of the blogs place a ‘nofollow’ tag on their comment system, but there still many blogs out there that use dofollow. Search on google for dofollow blogs, you’ll get many of them.

2. Directory Submission. It simply submit your blog on any directories you find. Many of those directories are paid one, but there are a lot of other free directories you can submit your blog into.

3. Link Exchange. It works like this, I link to your blog and you link to mine. Ask other bloggers to do link exchange with you.

4. Guest Blogging. It is like, I write an article on your blog with a link to my blog somewhere on that article.

5. Article submission. It works like the above guest blogging but this time you submit your articles on any articles directories like ezinearticles.com and others. There are thousands of article directories you can submit yours.

6. Forum Postings. it works as simple as this. You join a forum or two, start making conversation with other members, make a new post, respond other people threads, and so on. And you place your blog URL (along with your anchor text) on your forum signature. the more forum you join the more links you get.

There are still many other methods you can use to obtain more inbound links but using the methods above alone will require a lot of your time. So try to take some actions first before applying other methods.

Once again, make sure the links you get is all dofollow. Good luck.

OK, I plan to edit my last post about paid review but I decided to make a new post as an update. On that post, I have provided several paid review broker you can join, and most of the time they will have their own terms on how they accept (or reject) a blog to join their network. However there are some common requirements that you can use as a standard. Here they are.

1. Google PR (Page Rank). Most of those brokers will require a minimum PR2 to be able to join them. However, having a higher PR will give you more advantages since most of the time you will get more jobs if your PR is higher. I know few paid review brokers accept even a blog with PR0, but it’s a rare case. So prepare your blog to at least have a PR2 before you decide to join them.

2. Alexa Rank. While there’s no exact terms about this, I suggest you to at least have your blog alexa rank is below 2 million. Alexa rank below 1 million will be a plus of course. I will talk about this alexa next time.

3. Blog Age. Most of those brokers will only accept blogs that have been online for at least 90 days. I think i don’t need to explain about it further.

4. Minimum posts amount. It varies from broker to broker, but to make sure you’ll be accepted, you will need at least 30 posts on your blog. It shouldn’t a problem I am sure since you don’t need super awesome posts just for this purpose.

5. Blog language. While some brokers accept non English blog, it will be much easier for you if you use English language on your blog. It is because almost all of the advertisers require the review to be written in English.

If all of the above requirement has been fulfilled by your blog, i am sure you will be accepted on most brokers. Leave me a comment if you have something to ask about.

Good luck.

OK, it’s the time for me to talk about what I’m doing on daily basis to support my life. I earn money online and this is my only income source. Of course there are several ways I use to make money since the opportunities to make money from internet is almost unlimitted. There are too many ways you can use that it almost impossible to find a person who use all of those ways to earn him money.

Ok, enough the bla bla things, today I will talk about paid review, or some other people will call it paid to blog. Whatever terms you use, it calls the same thing, you get paid to write on your blog by placing link(s) to the advertisers site(s).

How much can I make money from each post I make? It varies from $5 to $500 or even more for each post you publish. The differnce of value is usually related to your blog quality that is measured with several factors like Google page rank you have, alexa ranking, technorati rank, feed subscribers, and some other factors.

To be able to get paid for your blog post, you will need an advertiser that will pay your blogpost. There are several paid review brokers that will connect you to the advertisers. You join the review brokers, submit your blog, and you’re ready to take the job. Since the procedures varies from each brokers, I should suggest you to learn it from the broker website directly. Read their FAQ section, and you will surely understand how it works.

Here I give you a list of paid review brokers you can join. Of course there are still many brokers out there but for the start the list below is enough for you. Most of the time, you will need a blog with at least have PR2, though if you have a PR3 or above you will get more jobs from them.

ReviewMe.com
SponsoredReview.com
Smorty.com
PayPerPost.com
BuyBlogReviews.com
Blogvertise.com
Blogitive.com
LoudLaunch.com
BloggerWave.com
PayU2Blog.com
BloggingAds.com

Once again, since the requirements and the procedures are varies from each brokers, I suggest you to read their terms, FAQ, and how it works section to really understand it.

Oh, and you will need Paypal account to receive your money. All of those brokers use paypal to pay their members.