Webmaster Pro Guide
Making Money from Your web site and search engine optimisation
Maximize Traffic With 10 SEO Power Tips
Thursday, May 1st, 2008How do you know what type of content is really going to attract the right searchers?In this article I wanted to cover a few very basic tips that you can keep in mind when building high-performance strategies. Remember that good search engine marketing is not about trying to manipulate or “fool the search engines.” Good SEO skills are more about creating genuine relevancy for well-written content that deserves to be found because it is truly the most relevant and useful to your audience of readers.
What students quickly discover in the 5-Day classes is that the optimization skills are not nearly as hard as many people make them out to be (even for the most competitive phrases,) once you’ve been trained and understand the full scope of influences that are at work. The biggest advantage that we have had is all about the “accuracy of information.”
Software piracy - unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted patented material
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Software piracy is a growing concern for the modern society. It was an issue since the very first day commercial software hit the shelves. Initially it was spread within friends and/or communities via cassette tapes or floppy disks. With the development of the Internet, software piracy has spread exponentially. The phenomenon, in its current form, was not considered a serious problem until the early 1990s. Since them, there are a series of worldwide organizations that deal with software piracy. Mainly Software Publishers Association, Business Software Alliance, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), as well as American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI).
Software piracy impact needs to be judged depending on various factors, such as living standards and geographical zones. Arguably, the industry may benefit from the software piracy process, which is not that bad as they present it, and it represents a good way to test the products a company develops, it leads to increased awareness and contributes to the popularity of various software development companies and, in the long run, results in increased profits for both parties.
5 Best Plugins To Get More Comments
Friday, April 25th, 2008As you well know, comments are one of the most important element of blogging, and bloggers love to see their articles commented. But, think a little. Who will try to leave a comment if you commenting areas are boring ? Try to make them more enjoyable, to encourage more people to comment and to return to your blog to check if they receive any replies.1. Visual Text Editor
As i’ve told you before, the default comments field is very boring and quite limited. Don’t worry, this can be fixed with NicEdit (30kb in size) which is a full featured text editor. Using this plugin is a lot much easier to format a comment, so don’t hessitate to use it.
2. Subscribe To Comments
Subscribing to comments lets you keep track of the most important ones. The best part is that it’s a good way to bring people back to your blog, to check if they received a reply to their comments. Subscribe to Comments plugin can be found here.
3. Post Comments Via AJAX
AJAX allows the comment to be posted without reloading, and that is a good thing because it save time. Oh, and this plugin will also give the commenters the chance to head off to other pages on your blog before they get bored.
4. List Recent Comments
A sidebar widget listing the latest comments on your blog can be a good way of showing that your blog is alive, but also that you take the time to interact with your readers. Download it from here.
5. Add User Avatars
A single comment can get lost quite easily so it’s best to use avatars add distinction between individual comments. This plugin will also give you a little smile on your lips when you start seeing faces you recognise. Use : MBLA (for Wordpress users).
I hope this tips will help you a lot in increasing your blog comments.
Top 25 most valuable blogs
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008247wallst.com seems to have indentified the 25 most valuable blogs.. The website estimated the value of those blogs based on several factors like page views, ad revenues and expenses.
Here’s the top: (more…)
[Guide] How To Make Money Using a Blog
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Many friends have asked me whether we can make money online from blogs or not. I told them you can make money even by selling lemonade at the corner of your school but the main problem is that you must have passion and time for what you will be blogging. Many people fail because they are starting blogs just to make money , they are writing 2 or 3 articles and they are using different affiliate links and other advertisement programs to catch any cents.
You must know that in order to make some money , at least you should know what you are talking about and not post just crap in order to increase number of posts in your blog.
Many newbies on the internet doesn’t even know how to get a free blog online so in this article I will explain step by step what you have to do in order to make some cash from your blog
There are 2 big blog providers online which are
- WordPress.com
- Blogger.com
- WordPress has a lot of templates and widgets so you can use for your blog , you can create categories and you can even purchase more space and other cool features if you upgrade
- Blogger was purchased by Google so the best part is that you can get accepted to Adsense through Blogger. The bad part is that you cannot create categories but you can give Labels to your posts as they were categories (Im doing it)
You must know that creating a blog is really simple but updating it everyday with new and unique content is really a hard work (its not so hard if you speak about your favorite niche like I’m doing) So content will be the judger whether you will be a successful blogger or not, if you will update it once a week chances will be very low but if you will post good and unique content every day then you will be in the right road
So ok so far , you have created the blog , you chose your template and you are posting some articles. You will ask how will you get the traffic ?
There are tons of ways to drive traffic to a blog , I will explain some of the techniques I’m also using
- Register at FeedBurner.com
- Register at TechnoRati.com
- If you are a member of DigitalPoint Forum add your RSS Feed to your profile (it will be shown under your username everytime you post a new reply or thread)
- Write some unique articles and upload them at Article Directories (See this post for more explanations)
- Register at MyBlogLog.com
- Add your blog url to your signatures in every forum you are (if possible add also an avatar with your blog’s address)
- Add your blog url to high pr directories
So with 7 easy and free ways you can start seeing some increases in your traffic (Note that if you dont post regularly your traffic may decrease again)
Now I know that all of you are thinking , how will we be making money from our blogs ? Its really simple but I would strongly recommend use just 2 or maximum 3 advertisments and do not put the advertisements from the beginning (wait until you have some traffic then you may add them) Make sure your advertisements and other widgets are like your template so you wont have a lot of contrast.
Here I’m listing the ways how you can make money from your blog once you have some decent traffic and some readers
- Adsense (CPM & PPC which pays differently for each niche)
- Text-Link-Ads (Get Money if someone buys a link to your site from TLA)
- ReviewMe (Get paid for different reviews you make , more traffic you have more you will earn)
- PayPerPost (same as ReviewMe but it has more advertisers in their network)
- Money4Banners (Doesn’t matter if you have a small or big blog , you get 10$ when you sign up and 5$ every month just to display their advertisment
- WidgetBucks (this seems to be most promising program which pays very high rates but nobody has received any payment so far as its a new company)
