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Archive for August 2004

August 27th, 2004

Expired Domains and Google

When coming up with the concept for this site I decided that I would look through some deleted domains to see if there were any good ones that had the word “money” within them. To my surprise if found bigmoneytips.com and quickly jumped on it.
Now I have heard about Google sandboxing expired domains for a […]

By admin -- 4 comments

August 27th, 2004

Paying for content

It has been said that “content is king” and for many sites this is very true. How can you attract people to your site without quality content (assuming you creating a content-based site and not just an e-commerce shop)? One possibility is to pay others to write content for you.
*gasp*
Yes many people do it with […]

By Paul -- 2 comments

August 25th, 2004

Measure Everything

Many people may think that creating successful site requires luck. This couldn’t be further from the truth. A successful website can be done by following a step-by-step procedure (another day, another writeup) and once the formula is figured out it can be duplicated over and over again. The key though is measuring what methods are […]

By Paul -- 10 comments

August 23rd, 2004

Allposters.com Review

Next to Art.com, Allposters.com is one of the web’s most popular Internet retailers. They also happen to have a very nice affiliate program with great commissions. Instead of having to rely on an affiliate middleman (eg. Linkshare) you are able to interact directly with them and that is why they are able to offer such […]

By Paul -- 5 comments

August 21st, 2004

Sponsored Entries

Blogs offer the ability to quickly generate new pages of content, which in turn help to increase your effectiveness in search engines. Hopefully every page of content you produce is of high-quality so that you can maximize your potential revenue stream from each one.
Lately I have come across a couple of people discussing the idea […]

By Paul -- 4 comments

August 19th, 2004

Building a Business Around Affiliate Programs

One of the hottest trends in making money involves using Affiliate programs on your website. When you see any “get-rich” quick type schemes and other sites that promise you $50k/month then it usually involves Affiliate programs. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take an interest in them though. A lot of popular, honest sites focus on […]

By Paul -- 5 comments

August 17th, 2004

Overture’s Search Term Suggestion Tool

When creating a site one of the top tips I give people is to focus on their keywords. Every site has a goal of which search terms they wish to be highly placed in, but what about the search terms that users of the web actually search for? How do you go about figuring those […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

August 17th, 2004

Using One Hostname

You work so hard to get your site placed highly in the search engines. However, you find that different search terms use different pages on your site depending on how people link to you. Some may prefer to use the “www” while others will leave this off.
The problem with that is the search engines see […]

By Paul -- 9 comments

August 16th, 2004

Highest Paying Keywords

It is true that many people simply build sites for the sole purpose of Adsense revenue. It’s just a fact of life. Many people who make money on the web do so by finding the highest paying adwords and quickly building “content” sites that would get Adsense to place those ads on their site.
To find […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

August 12th, 2004

Digital Point Keyword Tracker

As a webmaster you will find yourself constantly tracking how well your keywords are doing in Google searches and the pagerank and number of backlinks for your pages. To do all of this you have 3 options:

Do it manually by typing in the correct search terms to figure out your site metrics.
Use the Google API […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

August 12th, 2004

MarketBanker Review

MarketBanker is a site for people wishing to use text ads on their own sites, but don’t want to go through the hassle of managing inventory and payments. The ads resemble Google’s Adsense, but you are left in control of the price.
Features include:

Instant, free setup
No software to install, just 4 lines of HTML need to […]

By Paul -- 1 comment

August 11th, 2004

Developing Traffic

Developing traffic is a fine art on the web. Sometimes we get lost in the fact that just because it is easy to build a website it does not mean that it will be easy for people to find it. When it comes to personal sites, maybe it is not your goal to have a […]

By Paul -- 4 comments

August 11th, 2004

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is just one of those things some people are really, really, really good at and others are left to just wish they were good at it. No matter which camp you are in it is important to understand the fundamentals for success in search engines. Before I begin to explain some […]

By Paul -- 2 comments

August 11th, 2004

How Google Works

The latest numbers as of this writing show that Google maintains a 47% marketshare in the Search Engine Business with Yahoo! having 37% and MSN about 32% (numbers do not equal 100% as people use more than one browser). Therefore, it is safe to say that an understanding of how Google works is essential to […]

By Paul -- 1 comment

August 11th, 2004

Amazon Associates

One of the most popular affiliate programs around, Amazon Associates allows anyone with a website to make some money. Although it is greatly frowned upon in the “professional” affiliate marketing circles because of it’s low payouts (5%-7.5%) on all items I still have found great success with the program.
Amazon provides a large number of options […]

By Paul -- 3 comments