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Thursday 21 January 2010

Making Money Online is Hardwork - Make it work by using Backlinks

TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC AND MORE TRAFFIC

Off Page Ranking

So far, we've looked at building your own website, types of internet selling (more to follow on this later) and keywords.  We have also touched on the likelihood of getting first page rankings on Google and in this blog I want to cover what are known as backlinks.


The most important part of this process is linking.

To illustrate this - you are a film producer and you have a great story and ask lots of unknown actors to appear in your film once it's finished you find it's only vaguely successful at the box office. Now, you have written another great story and you invite a few very well known actors to star in the film - this time it's a great success - why?  Simply because you are inviting celebrities and not unknowns to star in the film. Linking works in much the same way. It's very important to get other web sites to link to you and vice versa but if you can link to well known sites that, for example, Google already likes, sites with high quality content and loads of traffic, then, the search engine will surmise that you are a fairly important website and should be considered for a higher rank.

Also if a lower ranked website is receiving lots of 'click through's and is obviously becoming popular, the search engine may well decide to lower a high ranking website and give more credence to the lower ranking site.

Unfortunately, this is all a bit of a balancing act and the goal posts are constantly changing. But don't despair there is a lot you can do to get your website where it will be noticed.

If you already have a website and it's a business site for which you depend on to provide some, if not all of your income, you will have already realised that you face massive competition. It is extremely difficult to get you website to the top of the search engine rankings, certainly on a permanent basis.

There are other things that can assist you to increase the traffic coming to your website. Most people understand what links are, there are internal and external links. Simply put, external links are a connection with your web page HTML which is from another source. That is, not from another page on your website.  Then there are internal links this means  linking two or more internal pages of your website together.


There are various types of links, some of these are rated more highly than others by the search engines.



1. Affiliate Links
2. External Links
3. Reciprocal Links
4. Internal Links





You can add more pages to your website and if you have already purchased web designing software already,  this will be easy to do.  However, you must ensure the new pages you are adding, have the appropriate links to other pages on your website so that customers can click through these to find out other information you have to offer.

Start with this simple type of linking and we'll get going on the external linking tomorrow.

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Making Money Online is Hard Work - How do I get Traffic?

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic and more Traffic....

So, where are we now. Ah! Yes. Hopefully you have a beautiful brand new website displaying all your products that you want to sell, sell, sell.  Well you can sit there forever and wait and very little will happen.

Now what you might be selling may be a product that can be sold locally, perhaps its a service rather than a product.  Now that is  a whole lot easier - I'm not going to pretend you are clueless here because I know your not.  Any local service needs to be advertised and I'm sure if that's you, by now you will have a vehicle, flyers, etc etc advertising your business and web address, you will also be in the yellow pages (UK) or other telephone directories.  I am pretty sure you will have done this too but just in case you haven't.  Type in directories into you search bar and you will find a whole list of  other places where you can advertise mostly for free.  I did a pet sitting service once and I still re-advertise each year.  Its not really a business - although at one time I was serious about it - I still do it from time to time because it  really is effortless and good fun.  It cost me nothing to advertise and I still get phone calls from time to time - that was only from one listing in one directory.  These can be powerful ways of advertising your business and getting traffic to your website.  Great if your local or can post your products. 

If you already have a website and it's a business site for which you depend on to provide some, if not all of your income, you will have already realised that you face massive competition. It is extremely difficult to get you website to the top of the search engine rankings, certainly on a permanent basis.  I have already emphasised using keywords to increase search engine rankings on previous posts so I'm not going into that again.  In my next update I will be helping you to increase your search engine traffic by another means.

GET TOP GOOGLE RANKINGS AND SEND YOUR SALES ROCKETING

See you all soon

Saturday 16 January 2010

Making Money Online is Hardwork

OK, so lets get on with the detail of the first of these 3 methods of making money online.

You Have Your Own Products to Sell and Want Your Own Website

You have products to sell and need to increase or even make your first sales by using a website.  For a lot of people this is common place stuff and all youngsters are taught a great deal about computers, websites and web building at school.  However, not everyone has just left school. The easy way to begin marketing your products on a website is to pay someone to build a website for you.  This disposes of a lot of the hard work but it can be costly and you will most likely have to continue to keep paying up if you need to change or update your information - especially if your a novice.

Now without giving my age away - I first used a computer in 1997.  I had never been on a PC before and I learnt at a - dare I say that dirty word - a call centre.  I had a need at the time to find full time well paid employment.  Call centre work was not in that bracket, so, I was compelled to stay at work in my own time and teach myself about computers, all the various microsoft packages and other bespoke systems in order to become a Manager.  It was a daunting task but I loved it.  I find it very satisfying to be able to find my way around the net, use many types of software and also now added to the list is building my own websites.  One of the first I built is still up and running.  You can find it at  http://www.sweetdreamanimations.co.uk/


That was a long time ago but now the end result is I will have a go at anything.  So, the time came for me to work from home, to start earning real money.  I could not stump up enough cash to pay someone to build my websites and as I liked working on computers I decided to learn to build my own website.  The only question without an answer was .. How!

Well, I have already promoted the particular product I used in previous blogs but here it is again.
BUILD  WEBSITES LIKE THE PROFESSIONALS

I cannot stress enough how versatile and useful this product is.  It walks you through every step with screen shots and help files on everything.  The system allows you to build as many pages as you like.  Easily add autoresponders.  Allows you to add links with complete ease.  Add pictures and affilitate links to you hearts content. Change your pages whenever you need to. It shows you how to set up sales, information, contact, about us pages etc. etc. You can build hundreds of websites or web pages.  It truly is sa imple and incredibly useful tool.  Once your site is built it walks you through hosting, pdf clients etc.  There are even hlep files comcerning keywords, where to place them and the best way to set up your website for maximum image.  It even makes adding google ads the simplest thing ever.

Right so thats enough of the "floggin the product to death bit".  My next blog will help you consider  - once you have the flashiest website in the world - how on earth you get that vital traffic to you website in order to make the sales.

Thursday 14 January 2010

Making Money Online - How is it Possible

So, as I have always said, those who make instant money online are few and far between. Yet, it is possible, maybe not quite as instantly as you have been led to believe, but yes, it is absolutely possible.

Now, those who strive to set up an online business do so by different means.  First, those who have or are beginning a business and set up a website as a platform for selling.  Second, the people who sell things but use someone elses website.  Third, affiliates who sell other people's products either from their own website or from other means.

Over the next few days I am going to set out in more detail how these three methods work and the pitfalls of each method.

Next I am going to set out the steps you need to take in order to achieve success for which ever type of selling you choose.

Then I will help you examine your own situation and find the best solution for you to be able to start earning online.

The possibilities are indeed endless, and that indeed is almost the biggest problem, the internet itself is now almost endless so you really need to work hard and with as much imagination and persitance as you can muster to make your dreams come true.  And, yes, they can come true.

Wednesday 6 January 2010

You Can Get Rich Quick - If You Believe That You'll Believe Anything

Myth - You can get rich quick online!

Sorry, I don't believe it. If you have achieved this I'd like to shake your hand but I guess you haven't or you wouldn't be reading this article. Success does not come overnight regardless of what you read. All the products that tell you that you can be earning money 20 minutes from now, guess who really will be earning money in the next 20 minutes. That's right the guy who received the money from your credit card or your pay pal account.

The reality is it will take time to grow your online business and a lot of hard work and perseverance. You might get lucky with a best selling e-book on your first attempt but for the rest of us mere mortals that's not going to happen. Ask yourself what you really want from your online business. Do you want to sell and run or do you want repeat business and a decent reputation - well that's going to take time to achieve. Are you prepared to stick with it? Do you have what it takes to succeed?

Everyone has heard of Colonel Sanders and most people love his Kentucky Fried Chicken but do you know how long it took him to find someone who was prepared to give him a chance. For 2 years he lived in his car as he criss-crossed America with his chicken recipe, he was rejected over 1000 times before he finally found someone prepared to give him a chance. Would you have kept on trying that long? It's very easy to feel discouraged when no one is visiting your website and most people give up.

Whatever your goal is on the internet - it will take time to build up your business.  If you have lots of money to start you off then Google Adwords will help get yu out there.  I will explain how thi works in another blog update but for now..... just remember the following quote.

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."



It's not how you look it's what you are that counts and you are worth more than you think.