Saturday, February 28, 2009

Earn money from a blog / Website

6) Affliate marketing. Affliate marketing also known as cost per action (CPA) pays more than pay per click programs. Instead of visitor clicking the program, the visitor must visit the advertiser website and make an action there for you to get paid. Action can be signing up, downloading a product or making a purchase in the advertisers website. Here is list of affiliate marketing website.




Commissionjunction
Linkshare
Clickbank
Clixgalore
Primaryads
Shareasale




Affiliatewindow
Performics
Affiliatefuel
Platform-a
Linkconnector
Avantlink
Associateprograms


7) Linkbee : Here is another method of earning money. You have number of links in your blog / website. Those links can earn you money by displaying ads to the visitors. Visit Linkbee website for details.
Join Linkbee


B) How to bring traffic to you blog / website.


1) Search Engine optimization :

a) Keyword Research is one of the first important step in Search engine optimization. The best performing keyword must be selected so that visitors searching for the particular item might be able to find your blog / website easily in their search engine results. Suppose your blog / website is for jewelry then if you are optimizing your blog / website to jewelry then there will be severe competition to your blog / website. However if you focus on more specific keywords like gemstones and other jewelry items your blog / website faces less competition. So start with few keywords and start doing research. Overture and wordtracker are the most widely used keyword research tools. Use initial list of keywords and then using the above tools build a group of keywords. Visit wordtracker.com and overture.com

b) After selecting successful keywords, now you have to use it in your blog / website effectively. Don’t put all the keywords in single page. Search engines regard, over repetition of the keywords as spam. So divide your keywords into groups. Select your website pages, identify the keyword group suitable to those web pages and use those keywords in those pages. Search engine ranking is affected by appropriate use of keywords in heading text, link url, link text, comment and webpage content, description tag, title tag etc.

c) Your html code of your website must be properly written. Crawlers of search engines must be able to read your html code. Otherwise your webpage ranking might be decreased or crawlers might not see the webpages. Use html validator to validate the html code.




d) Link popularity: If search engines are to find your website then apart from keyword research you must have very good link popularity. If your website is having good number of inbound links then your page rank in search engines will increase accordingly. For example if you post your website advertisement in craiglist then you will have an inbound link pointing towards your website. Likewise increasing your inbound links will increase your page rank in search engines. There are number of ways of increasing the inbound links. Submit your website to Directories, forums, blog comments, article writing, yahoo answers etc.

2) Classified Websites: Submit a nice written advertisement of your website in classified websites. Just enter “classified websites “ in a search engine you will get a thousands of classified websites. Post your advertisement there and drive traffic to your blog / website.

3) Article submission : Write nice articles relating to your blog / website and submit to popular article directories like ezinearticles.com, goarticle.com etc. Well targeted quality articles might get you free traffic.

4) Comment on blogs: Write comments on other blogs related to your content, by which you can get easy traffic. Use blog search engines like blogsearchengine.com, searchengineblog.com, to find blogs relating to your content and post your comment there.

5) Community Forums : Using a search engine find the forums that are related to your blog. Collect the list of forums and check which has large number of members. If the forum accepts links to be posted then you can join them. You can ask questions, post answers to other people questions, add comments and promote your blog / website.

6) Changing the content of your website at regular intervals and making quality posts in your blog is very important to make the visitor come to your blog / website frequently.

7) Join social book marking websites like mylot.com, simply.com, myspace.com to increase visitors to your blog / website.




C) Designing successful blog / website.


Well now you know what topic you are going to blog or design a website. If you want more content to your blog / website then go for newspapers, magazines etc and find sufficient content. Kindly note insufficient content in your website might discourage the reader in returning back to your website. Keep updating your blog / website with fresh and informative content so that the visitor finds it interesting. Another important factor is professional look of your blog / website.
If you are using blog you might at times, be interested changing the html code of your blog for your blog to have better look and you can do this by visiting the site Blogdoctor or by searching in the search engines to see, how to edit html code of the blog to change the appearance of your blog . If you are designing a website you can do this by writing html code but it is very difficult. Instead you can use WYSIWYG ( What you see is whet you get ) editor. Some WYSIWYG editor require money to use them however there are free ones too. The main WYSIWYG editor which is free and easy to use is kompozer. You can use the site Thesitewizard. to download and learn how to use kompozer.

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