4 Easy Tips To Getting Listed On Google
January 28, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Search Engine Optimization
One of the first things that you should ever do when you start a new web site is to get your webs site listed on Google Search Engine. However, sometimes it can be quite tough to get listed and if you are a newbie you may get frustrated by the lack of progress in getting listed after trying all sorts of ways and means.
However it can be quite simple if you know the way to do it properly. There are four tips that you can used to enhance your chances of getting listed on Google in the shortest possible time. You must understand why it is important for you to get listed in Google as soon as possible. Google as the biggest search engine out there can refer more traffic to your web site than other search engines and this could make or break your online revenue.
Please note that many variables can affect your web site from getting listed, but for the most part these four tips will give you a head up on your competition. However you must understand even though you used these tips, there are no guarantees that Google will list your web site. In fact, many web sites never get listed for various reasons.
Message To My Dear Friend!
Recently, one of my close friends asked me how to go about making money online. To cut the long story short, this is not the first time he asked me about making money online. In fact I lost count of the number of times I have discussed with him about real people like me making a comfortable income online besides holding on to a routine job. The extra couple of thousands a month do make wonders to your personal life, if you ask me.
The same thing applies to all of my close friends whom I have discussed this topic before. The opportunities to make money online are real but sadly enough while all of them are excited and keep asking me about it, none take any concrete actions towards making money online. While I may not be the best person around,
I offered to guide them along as long as they are willing to learn. So far, none has come back to me for further information on how to make money online. It is really a pity because if I have someone who offers to guide me along, I will definitely jump at the chance.
Now back to my friend who is currently in a unique situation. He has recently become a father and as you know, bringing up a baby is not easy. Besides the financial commitments, you also need to put in a lot of love, care, time and effort to ensure your child is being brought up nicely. Finally, he decides to take some action and ask me to guide him along. I think it got to do with him being a father and his realization that he needs to make more money.
3 Easy Ways To Profit With A Blog
Blogs are a great platform to make money. There are many ways to make money with a blog but let’s take a look at three of the most popular ways in which internet marketers used blogs to make money.
The first way to make money with a blog is through reviews of products or services in which you are an affiliate of. Normally, when you promote other people’s products and service, you will get a commission in the region of around 50% to 70% of the selling price. What you need to do is just to write a review of the products or services offered and if your readers valued your opinion, they will be more likely to buy from you than anyone else.
The other way to make money from your blog is through paid posting opportunities. Basically, you are being paid to review other people’s products, services or websites. This is a great way to make money from your blog if your blog is in a niche whereby opinions or reviews of related products or services are highly complementary. Please take note that your reviews do not need to be positive, if you feel that the products, services or websites are crappy, just state so. It’s more important to retain the loyalty and trust of your readers than a few advertisers. It is simply not worth the while if you spent so much time and effort to build up a profitable blog only to see your efforts went down the drain.
Don’t Get Caught In Being A Perfectionist
A perfectionist is someone who demands perfection in everything he or she does. While this is definitely a good characteristic highly valued by many individuals, it may not necessary be a good trait to have especially if you are a self employed individual or a businessman.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer in always improving yourself but being perfect is another issue. No one is perfect if you get what I mean. Certain situations at certain times requires urgency in the job completion as opposed to having the job done to perfection. If you are in the field long enough, you would have understand that things can never be perfect. Each individual has his or her own definitions of perfection. The least you should be able to do is to finished the job in a fashion or manner that is satisfactory to every parties involve.
List Of Highly Recommended Social Bookmarking Sites
January 17, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites are a great source of traffic for your site. By submitting your content to social bookmarking sites, you can ensure a steady stream of traffic for months to come especially if you have good and unique content on your site. Previously I have written in an earlier post that you can use OnlyWire to submit your content to a number of sites all at once with just a few clicks of your mouse. However, some of the sites mentioned here are not listed in OnlyWire and you can only submit them manually. If you want more exposure and traffic for your site, you should submit to all the social bookmarking sites listed.
The social bookmarking sites are listed in accordance to their Page Rank.
http://del.icio.us 8/10
http://www.digg.com 8/10
http://www.stumbleupon.com 8/10
http://www.furl.net 7/10
http://www.mister-wong.de 7/10
http://www.blinklist.com 7/10
http://de.lirio.us 7/10
http://www.simpy.com 6/10
http://linkagogo.com 6/10
http://netvouz.com 6/10
http://www.spurl.net 6/10
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com 6/10
http://www.backflip.com 6/10
http://www.shadows.com 6/10
http://www.rawsugar.com 6/10
http://www.taggly.com 5/10
http://www.markaboo.com 5/10
http://socialbookmarking.org 5/10
http://www.diigo.com 4/10
http://ma.gnolia.com 4/10
http://www.lookmarks.com 4/10
http://www.blogmarks.net 4/10
http://bluedot.us unranked (Changed domain)
The list above is by no means comprehensive, I will be adding more social bookmarking sites to the list from time to time. If you know of any social bookmarking sites that are not listed here, please feel free to share.
Essential Knowledge And Skills Required to Kick Start Your Internet Marketing Business
January 14, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Web Development
If you want to build an internet business, there are certain skills and knowledge which will stand you in good deeds down the road. Even better if you are already proficient in some of these skills and knowledge, your forays into online money making opportunities will be able to kick start much faster. Although you can probably outsource most of the things required, the best is to have at least a good working understanding of the skills and knowledge. Until you can find reliable and good outsourcing partners, you still need to do most of the work yourself.
As you all have known if you are a regular reader of this blog, I run a conventional brick and mortar business with my partners. Whenever we clinch a new project, we will employ freelancers or part time workers to help out. However sometimes, these freelancers or part time workers simply do not deliver or worse still do not come to work at all leaving us shorthanded and running out of time to complete the project on hand.
Using Yahoo Answers To Drive Traffic To Your Sites
January 11, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Traffic Generation
There are many ways that you can drive traffic to your site. Depending on the nature on the traffic that you want, it can be done quite easily. If you are looking for targeted traffic, one of the best free methods that you can use to drive traffic is through Yahoo Answers.
Sign up for an Yahoo account and check out answers.yahoo.com. You can drive traffic to your site easily by answering questions. You’ll be surprised to find that most of the questions posted are left unanswered in a lot of categories.
By providing solutions to these questions, you stand to build up your credibility in your chosen niche resulting in more targeted visitors to your site and at the same time having relevant links pointing back to your site.It’s one good and quick way to build back links.
6 Reasons To Use WordPress
You have probably read my posts before and know that I advocate using WordPress as your blogging platform. If you need any convincing on using WordPress, here’s a 6 reasons why WordPress is so great!
1) There are millions of free cool looking themes for you to download and use. Imagine what you can do with all these free themes around, you can practically change your blog’s look every single day for the next 100 years or so! Now, if only you can live that long!
Create Your Own Unique WordPress Theme

For those of you who are keen to design your own WordPress theme, there is a way to do it fast without doing all the initial coding required. Use the WordPress Theme Generator at yvoschaap.com to create your own WordPress theme easily within minutes and from there, you can start to code and design your theme to your own liking.
Social Bookmarking Made Easy
January 2, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Social Bookmarking

If you are into social bookmarking, chances are this is a useful site that you must not ignore. Long gone are the days whereby you need to submit your pages one by one for each social bookmarking site. With OnlyWire, you can shorten your time spent submitting content to social bookmarking sites. I started using OnlyWire many months back and it helped to cut down my submission time by more than 20 folds. Best of all, it’s free!







