Derek-Baker.com is now a “Do-Follow” Blog

Well I finally decided to join the masses of bloggers that offer “link juice” by making a my blog a do follow blog. Hopefully I will recieve more quality comments because of this. I also added the Akismet Spam Plugin. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. This plugin comes with Wordpress and I had thousands of unapproved spam comments but since using it there has been ZERO spam!

History of Follow Tag
Back when Wordpress was first created they made the script built in for Google to notice the “no follow” tag, telling them it was bad to follow that link.  This tag has stayed with Wordpress and requires a plugin to remove it. By removing the “no follow” tag from the comments it will encourage others to leave comments on your blog because they will benefit from it.

Top Commentators
I am sure you have seen this before on many blogs. It is the Top Commentators Plugin. The people will the most comments will be show on sitewide on the sidebar.

Example Scenario 
An example of this plugin would be if someone that owned a Business Directory made a post about Incorporating a Business.  Their link would show up in both the top commentators and the post they were commenting on.

Posted in: Blog, Increase Traffic, Make Money Online | Date: August 24th, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | 2 Comments »

Three Ideas to Make More Money Online

Making Money Online is hard for beginners. Like in everything it all comes down to beating out the competition. Here are three business ideas that are sometimes overlooked or not considered by people starting out trying to make money from home. I have written this for anyone trying to make money online, mothers, college students, and even those that are retired and looking to start earning a passive income using the Internet.

Get Your Family Involved
Make the business a family affair. Most married couples would love spending time together and getting paid building some websites.  Let your wife work from home while you are working hard at your day job and double your income! Work from home moms are gaining in popularity everyday.  If you are fortunate enough to have children ask them for ideas about the popular trends at school. They know a lot more than you do about what is hip. A great resource for those looking for more ideas is by moms.

Use Popular Sites To Your Advantage
Who would think that someone could make money online using Facebook? Well most of the popular sites either have a lucritie affiliate program (i.e. ebay.com), or at least will offer link exchanges with you (i.e. break.com, collegehumor.com). Just looking at their keywords, design, and taking all of that in can help you figure out why they became so popular. Of course having a ton of capital to start always helps! Every way you look at it the worlds most popular sites or the people that visit them can be targeted to help grow your website.

Treat It Like a Real Business
Create a business plan to help piece all the ideas together. Try to get startup money from venture capital firms. There is a wealth of them online just doing a quick Google Search. Being a real business means forming a LLC, Partnership, or  many of the other ways to incorporate your business. Don’t forget to figure out how much taxes you are expecting to pay at the end of the year and budget the business accordingly. I looked into this last year when I was paying taxes and found some small ways to help save money for Small and Online Business Tax Deductions. You can deduct your Internet Service, Computer, Web Hosting, and much more. Sometimes when making money online we forget that this is  a business and we need to be serious and treat it like any offline business would.

Posted in: Blog, Make Money Online | Date: August 24th, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | 2 Comments »

Promote Your Internet Business/Brand By Advertising on Derek-Baker.com.

I have not mentioned anything about advertising on my blog in a long time. Since I have started to make posts daily and traffic is increasing again why not let everyone know about it! Here are some important stats  for anyone that is interested.

Blog Stats
Google PageRank: 3
Link Popularity: 2832
Blog Posts: 40
Unique Visitors
Daily: 80
Monthly: 3000

Prices
125×125 Rotating Sidebar: $10/month
728×90 Banner Advertising: $25/month
Text Link in Blogroll - $5/month

Anyone that purchases 3+ months will recieve a 25% discount and an extra 10% for being a reader of my blog. That means you can save 35% off the 1 month price for buying ahead of time! To purchase an advertisement or see more information about my blog view the advertise page.

Posted in: Blog, Increase Traffic, Make Money Online | Date: August 24th, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | 1 Comment »

CPALead.com Review

The Company. CPALead, LLC is a performance-based, online advertising network that develops technologies to promote incentive-based advertisements across niche websites in the niches of video games, entertainment, social networks, vitual worlds, and more. CPALead specializes in websites that have premium content.

CPALead Review

I started using CPALead toward the end of July to see how they compared with Zango. I noticed a 250% increase in earnings after the first day with the same traffic numbers.  The only downside is the users are forced to install it to view my content so the traffic numbers were hurt about a little bit.The best part about it is most of my visitors fit into the 18-26 age demographic and do not mind filling out a quick survey if they see a benefit from it. Most of the surveys are “Win an Apple IPod” or something similar to my demographic so it is a win-win. CPALead has excellent support that even answers questions when they are off the job. The only other issue I have is tracking my sites. They do not have individual channels that I can set up which makes it real hard to tell which sites are not performing well. They are working on adding an improved gateway which I have heard should be out in early September. Overall CPALead is a excellent network if you run a entertainment, Get Paid to (GPT), or anything that has content that visitor will do a task to view.

CPALead Gateway

Here is a preview of the CPALead Gateway it is in the BETA stages according to the recent announcement.

Join CPALead as my referral and I will help you make money using them. Anyone that has already joined ZangoCash I suggest you join CPALead and compare the two. Join now and you will be accepted within 48 hours.

Posted in: Blog, CPALead, Make Money Online | Date: August 23rd, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | No Comments »

Learn to Make Money Online with my Earning With Zango E-Book

I did not mention my Zango Ebook yet because I was waiting until I would have more time to help those that wanted to join under me. Using these methods I have been able to make a steady income online ($x,xxx) for the past six months. I am working on making a new e-book that will focus on new methods that I have learned to make money online and a section how to purchase an established website. For those that have never heard of Zango I have written a very detailed Zango Review.

Zango E-Book Preview

These e-books were built to show you step-by-step how to make money using the Zango Paid to Install program and Google Adsense. By selecting the right niche you will be able to make a killing right away and earn more then what you invested buying the domain names within the first week. I do not  make thousands of dollars daily, not even hundreds, but these programs help me make more money then a regular part time job. This can work for anyone including the novice looking for that one way to finally make money online. I am more then happy to show it to you and reveal everything that I have learned so far. There will be no complicated affiliate marking systems to join or expensive software to buy. I did not create this ebook with the intention to sell you my course on making money; I am honestly a regular guy just like you. I worked my tail off to build a simple book that anyone can read.

I am not the type of guy that likes to wait four months for the search engines to bring me ten unique views a day. I want lots of traffic and I want it right now. That is the great part about the type of sites that I am going to introduce you to. You can get thousands of unique visitors daily within your first week and they will all be targeted. These sites along with the advertising networks that I will show you are a deadly combination to make huge money online.

In this ebook I will show you:

* How to make a steady stream of income from the entertainment niche
* Easy ways to get massive targeted traffic promoting just 10 minutes a day
* The secret to making big bucks with Zango
* The easiest way to get returning traffic that keeps growing everyday
* My method to getting indexed and into Google within 72 hours (24 hours or less most of the time!)
* Where to get domains cheap and what domains the search engines approve of

Example of earnings from 8-21-2008

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This was done using eight sites and about 5,000 unique visitors that day (some do not go to the install page).

For a LIMITED TIME I am giving the readers of my blog a 30% discount to buy the e-books off the price others paid. Read more reviews and order your copy here.

Posted in: Adsense, Blog, Make Money Online, Zango | Date: August 22nd, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | No Comments »