Goals For The Make Money Online Blog

It is finally that time of year, and I plan on making some changes to this blog in 2008 that will make it more interesting. I enjoyed writing the list posts and the case studies most, and if the readers found them helpful I will continue with those. The other great part of having this blog was meeting other webmasters that share the same interests and goals as myself.

Here are my money making blog goals:

- Write more insightful and higher quality posts
- Finish my eBook and get some reviews then publish it at the blog
- Post more affiliate program reviews
- Post on a daily basis and write more during my free time
- Full up the advertising space and start looking into paid reviews
- Get the attention of more known bloggers such as John Chow, Dosh Dosh, Andy Beard, and everyone else!

Of course the goal never changes,

Lets Make Money Online!

Posted in: Blog, Ideas, Make Money Online, Search Engine Marketing | Date: February 22nd, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | 1 Comment »

Blogging With A Purpose: More Ways To Make Money Online!

Been a while since my last post and I am going to attempt to get back on track for the new year now. If you did not get the chance be sure to read my money making goals for the new year which outlines my plan for 2008.

Blogging takes dedication, something which everyone needs to succeed. A great example would be my post about the 5 reasons why the top bloggers are successful where I outlined some of the most important aspects of making a great blog. The hardest part for me has been time. It takes about an hour to make a solid post and even longer if I have to do research beforehand. It is worth it in the long run to make these posts but short term the results are minimal. Once the search engines pick up the content it is a nice boost though. Plan a free day for blogging. This is something that I am going to do for the new year. Mass produce some high quality content and see how it ends up.

Case studies and lists seem to be the popular posts on my blog. They are easy for the readers to follow and in the example of case studies, give them a reason to come back. That will be one of my areas of focus for the new year, increasing RSS subscriptions. I tried not to pay attention to it during the early stages of the blog and instead I wanted to produce lots of content! Between RSS and Technorati I should be able to bring the popularity of this blog to new heights and even make some great friends while doing it.

Advertising is going to be my main focus for this month. It is important to secure some relationships with people that are looking to promote their web based products and want more exposure to the webmaster community. Up until this point advertising and promotion have not been much of a goal either but not anymore! As I secure more advertising relationships and build a better reader base I will have no choice but to make more posts daily and have them on important topics that all the webmasters want to read.

This year I want to post more on the following subjects:

Affiliate Marketing
Search Engine Optimization Techniques
Free Ways To Build Traffic
PPC Reviews and Tutorials
SEO Services
Wordpress Plugins and Templates

Posted in: Blog, Case Studies, Ideas, Increase Traffic, Make Money Online, SEO, Search Engine Marketing | Date: January 14th, 2008 | Posted by: Derek | 3 Comments »

Proof That Widgetbucks Publisher For Bloggers Paid!

WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help our customers make money fast. They instantly display the most popular products based on buying trends of 100 million shoppers. These ads are highly engaging and very effective. The widgets average $3-$6 CPM which makes them highly competitive with Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN). The network has been under intense debate if they were legitimate and would pay, this proof hopefully helps those skeptics.

Features and Benefits

• Self-service, scalable and relevant content that’s free and easy to publish
• Dynamic, contextual widgets act as content (vs. ads) that more effectively targets your users, not the masses
• Extensive reporting tools and daily updates; Payouts are monthly
• Complements existing programs, such as Google AdSense
• Over 300 configurations, 256 color schemes and formatted for major IAB standard sizes
• Manual configuration also available by category
• Product listings from 30,000 merchants including trusted leading brands

Posted in: Make Money Online, Search Engine Marketing | Date: December 6th, 2007 | Posted by: Derek | No Comments »

Five Tips to Increase Directory Approval Rating

Even after the recent pagerank update caused many sites to have a decrease in their pagerank it is still very important to submit to directories. I am not saying to go out and submit to thousands of general directories, make sure that they are related to your websites niche. In my case I found a bunch of quality blog directories and submitted there. Of course some did not approve me for a number of reasons, but here are some tips that I used to increase the chance of getting in at some of the best directories. Keep in mind that paid directories to not guarantee free inclusion, sometimes even these will deny you if the terms are not followed. Always look for Deep Link Directories over the regular ones as these carry a far better SEO benefit even though the price is a little higher to get into them. Most Deep Link Directories are paid and have a fee to get listed in them.

Keep the Wording Simple

Most directories do not want a long drawn out title that looks like a sales pitch. Keep it simple and use the keywords that you are looking to boost in the rankings. For instance I was using SEO and Marketing Tips as my title. It was simple and straight to the point. When it comes to descriptions this it up to you. Most directories prefer longer descriptions, about 200-300 characters should do.

Follow The Rules

The Terms Of Service are very important, read them over become submitting your site. If the directory requires the website to be written in english and contain no adult or illegal content then be darn sure that your website complies. Otherwise you are just wasting time and if they allow these sites then the search engines are likely to hit you with a penalty for being listed with them. Even if not mentioned every directory wants to contain quality websites. Nobody wants ones that are on free templates, filled with spam, or made for adsense. Have a friend or family member review your site become submitting it, if they do not like it then a webmaster defiantly will not either.

Use The Correct E-Mail

Using the @yourwebsite.com for submitting to all directories will increase approval rates for a few reasons. It shows that you indeed are the owner of the website and builds a higher level of trust in your website with the directory owner. Without him talking to you it proves to him that you own the site and are not one of the spammers that are too often clogging the submissions to directories.

Submit A Limited Amount

Submitting to thousands of unrelated directories will do no help. You also will have a very tough time tracking which ones approved you and which ones did not. Submit to about 10-15 directories at first. Submitting to many at once may cause Google to penalize your websites search engine positions (SERPS). Nobody wants to end up getting hurt from submitting to directories.

Use Directory Lists and Services

These can be helpful and save time rather then finding them all by yourself and submitting for endless hours. Some may like submitting it themselves, using autofill you can submit to most directories in under a minute. With the services for a few dollars someone will submit to a large number of directories manually. Most of these services are poor quality and submitted to a large mass of directories which is not what you want. I have been experimenting with them and the results are not clear how helpful they are at this time. By subscribing to my feed you will have instant access to the list of best paid web directories and the best free web directories.

Posted in: Blog, Increase Traffic, Make Money Online, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, Web Directories | Date: November 27th, 2007 | Posted by: Derek | 1 Comment »

Building Quality Links to Reach Search Engine Ranking Goals

Since building one way links is so important to increase search engine rankings, pagerank, and getting a higher link popularity I am going to create a list of the best ways to build more quality links. The intention of this list is for webmasters to use it as their resource of choice therefore visiting this blog to access it. In other words I want to build some buzz from making a list and think that this is something that not many others have covered. I was trying to find one myself and having a difficult time. Of course people have made one for a paticular niche but not a massive one combining a bunch of differerent onces.

What will this list cover?

Good question, the answer is not clear at the moment as I will keep adding to the list until I release it tomorrow. Even then it will have to be updated. As of right now it will cover paid and free directories, a list of webmaster blogs,  webmaster tools, social bookmarking sites, marketing and webmaster forums, article directories, and more. Anything to help improve your rankings will be listed! I will rank all of these by popularity and usefulness. I will also share my experience with the topic and how it can help in your link building goals.

Posted in: Blog, Make Money Online, Search Engine Marketing | Date: November 23rd, 2007 | Posted by: Derek | 1 Comment »