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SEO explained through RAP

2008-04-16T11:18:00.001+03:00

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"...Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them...." Psalm 126:2 KJV (source: bible)

Google Analytics meets Adobe AIR

2007-09-17T16:52:00.001+02:00

Really good news for all who uses brilliant Google Analytics for traffic tracking. Google released desktop version of Analytics on Adobe AIR platform.

Here are two simple steps for all who wants to try it now:
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1. First of all you need to install Adobe AIR (available for both Windows and Mac OS)
Get distributive from Adobe Labs now! The total size is about 9Mb.
2. The second step you need to perform is to download Google Analytics desktop application for Adobe AIR environment.
Distributive can be found here.
The size of an application is very small, so don't be afraid, go for it!

As far as you complete the installation process (usually it takes about 30sec. on average PC) you'll be prompted to add desktop icons and lauch application. Just agree and start using it.

Now let's talk about the benefits of this procedure. I've noticed incredible increase in speed during charts representation and overall improves in performance opposite to the web version.

It was the first time when I've tried Adobe AIR environement and frankly it was great!

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"...Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up..." James 4:10 KJV (source: bible)

How e-commerce sites could use AdSense to increase their overall revenues

2007-09-03T11:13:00.001+03:00

Just want to share some interesting article found on Google AdSense blog. Its about some guys from Zlio.com which allow internet users to create and run their own internet shops with Google AdSense Ads.
The whole post can be found here.
If you wish to learn more about the AdSense API and how you can use it to integrate AdSense sign-up and ad creation into your site, visit the AdSense API website.
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"...The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate...." Provl 8:13 KJV (source: bible)

How to insert Google ads between blog posts

2007-08-22T10:26:00.001+03:00

Yesterday Google finally gave feedback on a long wait feature to insert AdSense ADs between blog posts on Blogger. The official announcement and instructions on how to do it can be found on Google AdSense blog.
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"...Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;..." Eccl 12:1 KJV (source: bible)

Free website promotion tutorials. All in one place :)

2006-11-06T18:36:00.001+02:00

I've looked for this a lot of time and finally I've found it: the place where you can get all tips on how to start optimize your website to get higher rankings and drive traffic to your site. Here is a brief list of covered topics:
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1. Why Your Web Site’s Rank Matters!
2. Search Engines Are Advertising That Work
3. What Is a Software Spider (or Robot)?
4. Search Engine Ranking Criteria
5. Choose the Right Keywords! (Very Important)
6. Brainstorming for the Right Keywords
7. Location, Location, Location! The Art and Skill of Being Regional
8. Factors That Greatly Affect Your Relevancy
9. Possible Places to Put Keywords
10. Example of Keyword Placement Affecting Rank
11. How to Create Effective Site Titles and Descriptions
12. Writing Killer Page Titles
13. Problems With Using Frames
14. How to Combat the “Ol’ Switcheroo” Technique
15. How to Avoid Trouble With the Engines
16. Maximize Your Visibility With Doorway Pages!
17. Further Warning About Naming Pages
18. Never Create Doorway Pages for Directories Like Yahoo!
19. How to Measure Your Web Site’s Popularity
20. Ten Steps to Creating Top-Ranking Pages
21. GOLDEN RULE of Search Engine Marketing
22. META Tags and How to Use Them
23. Include Keywords in Links
24. The Single Pixel Gif Trick
25. Hiding Keywords or Using Invisible Keywords on Your Pages
26. Multiple Domains Yield a Bonus
27. How to Block Spiders From Visiting and Indexing Your Site
28. Referrer Logs
29. Warning to Microsoft FrontPage and other WYSIWYG Editor Users
30. Understanding Quick Reference Tables
31. YAHOO!
32. How to Change Your Yahoo! Listing
33. Learning to Alphabetize – The ASCII Hierarchy
34. Case Study on Improving Your Yahoo! Ranking
35. ALTAVISTA
36. Additional Tips and Tactics for AltaVista
37. EXCITE
38. What to Do If Your Pages Disappear
39. GO.com / INFOSEEK
40. Domain Names
41. HOTBOT
42. New Technology at HotBot – Direct Hit
43. How Your Domain Name Can Influence Your Score
44. LYCOS
45. WEBCRAWLER
46. SNAP
47. Search Engine Optimization Blunders
48. How to Pick a Ethical SEO Firm
49. Small Business Web Site Promotion
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Via Free Website Promotion Tutorials - lots of tips and tricks to help webmasters promote their sites. Information about search engines, search engine optimization and Internet marketing.
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"...I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all..." Eccl. 9:11 KJV (source: bible)

List of all social bookmark services + most popular ones

2006-10-15T12:10:00.001+02:00

Here is nice collection of all social bookmarks services. Currently they have more then 200 services that can bookmark and share (source: 3Spots)

Personally I use this one: del.icio.us

Besides that I just want to add that if you use social bookmarks for promotion purposes there are only 4 services that can give you a good traffic:
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1. fark.com
2. digg.com
3. del.icio.us
4. reddit.com
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"... And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought..?" Job 1:7-9 KJV (source: bible)

Dirty SEO Techniques

2006-10-11T20:46:00.001+02:00

Here is a list what is illegal and called Dirty SEO techniques:

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1. Using Hidden links and texts somewhere on the webpage!
2. Keyword stuffing - use the same and exact keywords repeatedly on the site.
3. Using doorways to increase overall amount of sites that have linked to your site.
4. Using mirror website with the same content and different URL, all linking to one another.
5. Cloaking.
6. Building link farms - linking to great amount of sites with the same content.
7. Using hidden DIV tags and IFRAMES to hold a links to other well known sites.
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I think if this blog devoted to uncommon ways to make money using modern technologies, I need at least to post most of them, in order to avoid using them and put your business in risk of loosing ranking at search engines because of a ban.

I repeat once more time: for your consideration only!
Don't use it - it's unethical and leads to ban on a search engines.

"...He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart..." Psalm 15:2 KJV (source: bible)

Lack of content?

2006-10-03T22:24:00.002+02:00

Today we hear again and again that content means everything for a website.
And a good content gives a big advantage for the web resource, especially when it is used to make money using AdSense or Affiliates or any other way.

But besides a good content a website needs a frequent updates, because that’s the only way to show your potential visitors and the ones that came back that you’re alive and working for them.

This is a best indicator for people that your website is good.

Now let’s ask yourself a question what we can do when there is no time or no muse to produce a new, quality content?

The answer is – find it! Here is a link to a site that can be used for this (I think you can find by yourself thousands of others which offer the same).

Now a little tip:
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If you’ll look closer to this website or any other similar site you can find that most of such websites can be used in two ways – first to get royalty free articles to your ezines, websites, or email newsletters and second – to promote you resource by submitting your content to them.
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"...He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts..." Prov. 6:35 KJV (source: bible)

Quality Tools for SEO Analysis

2006-09-25T17:35:00.001+03:00

It’s not a secret that internet today is a big garbage collector where 99% of all sites represents all kinds of trash and only 1% worth attention or even can be called precious pearls of the information world.

Usually, it is very difficult to most of people to find these websites because commonly they aren’t located in the top results of search engines (I know, there are some exceptions from this rule).

Therefore if you’ll decide to search Google to find quality tools for SEO analysis, in most cases the websites you’ll get for the first 10 results won’t be the best.

Now, the main purpose of this post is to share the tools I use to perform SEO research and make even more but without pretending to proclaim them absolutely best of the best. The other purpose is to extend one of my previous posts on “How to find low competition high profitable niches for AdSense and affiliates”.

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The first one I want to suggest is URLTrends
It is not a one tool - actually it’s a tools collection consists of:
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URLTrends Search: in-depth website ranking analyzer based on data of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Alexa. Besides that it provides information on Link Popularity and Social Bookmarks Trends.
CompareTrend: compares almost any of the data they collect for up to 100 urls at once.
Reverse Keyword Lookup Tool: most important tool after the URLTreandsSearch which designed to determine which keywords and phrases your competitors hold in Google.
HTTP Header Lookup Tool: the one that instantly checks URL provided and then displays the HTTP Headers that are sent back.
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Each of them along and all of them together can be used to perform different analysis in world of SEO, internet marketing and promotion.

The next one will be - Google.
Normally most of people who use Google every day know the basic techniques how to perform search, but Google can be used to get more then just search results. First of all I encourage you to install Google Toolbar if you're using Mozilla Firefox browser (may be same toolbar exists for Internet Explorer too).

Here two most important features of Google Toolbar you'll get:
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Google Page Rank - it will give you opportunity to see importance of the page you're viewing.
Enhanced Search Box - as you type a search query into the new Toolbar's search box, you'll see a list of useful suggestions based on popular Google searches, spelling corrections and your own Toolbar search history and bookmarks. Besides this you'll get amount of results for each search query.
Full list of Google Toolbar features can be found here.
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And finally I post a short reference on Google Hacks it will make your searches more effective and can give your opportunity to dig deeper:
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Basics:
1. Use the plus sign (+) to force a search for an overly common word. Use the minus sign (-) to exclude a term from a search. No space follows these signs.
2. To search for a phrase, supply the phrase surrounded by double quotes (" ").
3. A period (.) serves as a single-character wildcard.
4. An asterisk (*) represents any word—not the completion of a word, as is traditionally used.
Advanced:
5. Google advanced operators help refine searches. Advanced operators use a syntax such as the following: "operator:search_term"
5.1 The "site:" operator instructs Google to restrict a search to a specific web site or domain. The web site to search must be supplied after the colon.
5.2 The "filetype:" operator instructs Google to search only within the text of a particular type of file. The file type to search must be supplied after the colon. Don't include a period before the file extension.
5.3 The "link:" operator instructs Google to search within hyperlinks for a search term.
5.4 The "cache:" operator displays the version of a web page as it appeared when Google crawled the site. The URL of the site must be supplied after the colon.
5.5 The "allintitle:" operator instructs Google to search occurrences in the title of a document.
5.6 The "allinurl:" operator instructs Google to search occurrences in the URL (web address) ofthe page. The search term must follow the colon.
5.7 The "allintext:" operator instructs Google to search occurrences in the text of the page
5.8 The "allinanchor:" operator instructs Google to search occurrences in the links to the page
5.9 The "related:" operator instructs Google to search similar
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Now you can mix basic and advanced techniques to get more:
For example: use following pattern to find all pages contains specific word on specific site: site:(url) (search word)
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More information can be found here.
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"...The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge..." Prov. 14:18 KJV (source: bible)

BASICS: Top Ten common strategies for Driving Traffic

2006-09-18T16:10:00.001+03:00

BASICS: Top Ten common strategies for Driving Traffic

Several days ago I’ve started a new thread on the “Google Web Masters Help” group (can be found here, probably you need to register to get access) regarding uncommon SEO strategies, where I’ve asked people to share tricks they use to get high rankings using common tools in uncommon ways.

Fairly quick this thread became popular and I got several responses from people most of them signalized me that about 90% of people don’t understand what I’m talking about. They just can’t get out of theirs boundaries and start thinking about something new. Most of advices I’ve got was about start leaning marketing and business administration or make a quality content to get quality visitors.

Now I see I made a mistake when I’ve started to talk about online marketing & new business opportunity, uncommon new ways to promote websites and BLOGs without defining first what is the common ways used by the mainstream promoters.

To be consecutive I’m going to point you to some great (all in one) article which can be called “Top Ten common strategies for Driving Traffic (source: SEOmoz blog).

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"...In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God..." John 1:1 (source: bible)

Top Ten AdSense competitors according to Estimated number of times each one was searched on August 2006

2006-09-15T10:28:00.001+03:00

Here is a small research I did in order to know how popular each of the AdSense competitiors is (based on people search popularity during August 2006).
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The Champion
#	name	searches
01.	AdSense	30765
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Top ten competitors
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#	name	searches
02.	clickbank	9750
03.	Fastclick text ads	2692
04.	Linkshare	2592
05.	MIVA AdRevenue Xpress	2275
06.	Adbrite	1260
07.	Yahoo Publisher Network	912
08.	Claxon	850
09.	SearchFeed	770
10.	Nixie	746
11.	ValueClick	542
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The next 20 results
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#	name	searches
12.	Chitika	463
13.	Tribal Fusion	417
14.	Clicksor	414
15.	Right Media	354
16.	ContextAd contextWeb	311
17.	Bidvertiser	224
18.	Quigo AdSonar	221
19.	Enhance Interactive	196
20.	Burst! Media	174
21.	clixGalore	169
22.	AzoogleAds	154
23.	eMiniMalls	124
24.	TargetPoint	120
25.	BidClix	98
26.	Veoda	71
27.	Casale Media	67
28.	RevenuePilot	51
29.	Traffic Marketplace	51
30.	Mamma Media Solutions	29

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I used keyword selector tool to get results (you can find more info about it at one of my previous posts called "How to find low competition high profitable niches for adsense and affiliates")
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"...In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury...." Prov. 14:23 (source: bible)

BASICS: Rules to Better Google Rankings

2006-09-14T17:05:00.001+03:00

If your ever asked yourself any of these questions:
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01. Do you know how Google ranks pages?
02. Do you know if Google has indexed your page?
03. Do you know your Page Rank?
04. Do you create new page rank for yourself?
05. Do you conserve your page rank?
06. Do you concentrate your page rank where it will do the most good?
07. How many inbound links do you have?
08. Do you use enough keywords?
09. Do you monitor the progress of your keywords?
10. Are your <h1>, and </h1><h2> tags descriptive?
11. Do you use META keywords and description tags?
12. Is your URL consistently in the same case?
13. Do your links have relevancy to the page you're linking to?
14. Do you make your data-driven pages easier to find?
15. Do your inbound picture links use attributes?
16. Do you avoid the temptation of link farms?
17. Are you listed with DMOZ.org?
18. Do you avoid using frames on your website?
19. Does your Flash website have an alternate HTML site?
20. Do you use include files for your JavaScript?
21. Do you submit all your software to download sites?
22. Are your webpages less than 101k?
23. Do you use your Robots.txt file effectively?
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The following article describes basic terms, it's well organized, contains illustrations and all in one place, but... you'll not find any SEO tricks there (source: SSW).
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"...He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him...." Prov. 16:26 (source: bible)

Your time is short!

2006-09-13T11:24:00.001+03:00

Actually none of us know the day of death. We can propose to live 60, 80 or in some rare cases 100 years. Let’s say we will live until 60 (to be on safe side). What is your age now? I’m 33 years old; therefore I lost half of my life and have 27 years left! Think about yourself, what age you’re. Most of people don’t even learn something useful during first period of time, when most of them don’t need to work and bring money to live. They live with there parents, go to college or university and most of time they spend with there friends without say to themselves – stop! I don’t want to waste my time at parties or bars.

Several years ago I read a book on how to make a business plan and the only thing I still remember from this book is this statement: If we were live 1000 years all of us will be rich people on the second half of our lives.

Now I am thinking that we all have a choice what to do. No matter what choice we have most of our choices brings unto us…. Yes you’re right – money.

Some of us choose to built career, some go to business and actually we know that when we go to this university we can get that amount of money on our first job (its not a fixed sum, I’m talking about money range), and if we’ll choose another one we’ll get another sum. Same rules work in business. We can propose what money we can get when we open a cosmetics company not equal to what we get opening an IT startup. You can ask me how? It’s easy - through building a business plan (in other words our propositions on market expectations opposite to our investments).

Internet and all modern technologies use the same principles and have built on the same rules. When I first saw the movies from my previous two posts – first thing I was thinking about was how simple it is and why I didn’t come to that by myself?

Therefore stop wasting your time if you know that what you doing now bring you less money opposite to something you can do but you don’t. Don’t even think that you can switch to that later. You don’t have later in your life. All what you have is NOW (you’ll be surprised but same way internet work). There are no past and no future. Only the page currently opened in your browser. Where you’ll go after that? That’s the question! Don’t waste your time.
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"...The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after..." Eccl. 1:1-11 (source: bible)

Some uncommon SEO techniques - part II

2006-09-12T12:05:00.001+03:00

Yesterday I've finally found some time to sit down and see a next video on uncommon SEO techniques.

The original one can be found here and I want to say it is the same quality as a previous (may be even a little bit more interesting).

It was so amazing, that I sit down and wrote guidelines from the movie for future use. Here they are:

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A. Three (3) Conversion best practices (to enhance customer's interaction):
1. Lemming principle
Most respect websites use a certain standard of design. In some cases you can put following things to increase customers faith to trust you:
1.1 Put eBay power seller logo (if you actually is a eBay power seller and sell stuff on it).
1.2. Add Live Support button (actually you need a person to answer incoming questions, at lease for several hours a day).
1.3. Put VeriSign logo.
1.4. Add Traffic ranking button with "Certified by Alexa (Alexa is an Amazon company)
1.5. Put BBB Online Reliability Program logo.
1.6. Add UPS logo (if you give opportunity to trace UPS delivery)
1.7. Add reviewed by Trust-E logo.
1.8. Add pictures of common credit cards you receive to make payments (like Visa, Master Card, Diners Club, Discover etc.) From my side you I can add that it will be good if you put logo of each payment system you work with. Same way as most Casinos do.
1.9. Add information that a customers can make an order 24 hrs a day, 7 days a weeks, 365 days a year to insure that they purchase whenever they want.
1.10. Add phone number to call for help shopping.
2. Business councils
Put credibility stamp on your site, for example "As seen in Home business magazine" or "Contributing Editors: Entrepreneur Magazine, E-Biz radio show" or "Featured on While you were out" or "Chandler: Chamber of commerce member".
3. Pimps
It is called also Guided navigation" or "Pimped navigation". When you have a really huge menu on your site, just add some kind of a small menu (with previews or thumbs describes where each link actually leads) to help people navigate through your site for the very first time (it must be bolder then the original menu and you can add a small character to bold it).
B. Rank single sales page sales letter
The truth is that that kind of sites can achieve rank greater then the huge ones like Yahoo shops.
C. Hollywood style search engine optimization
Remove all text from the site the index robot can find to associate a website with the only one keyword which describes site the best way. For example: a website of "I, Robot" movie. It takes a lot of time and a lot of linking connecting to the site.
D. Keyword research the way the Big Dog do.
Actually it means technique how to get most effective search phrases corresponds to your business, check them and if they are relevant - finally build keywords based on them.
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"...He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich..." Prov. 10:4 KJV (source: bible)

Some uncommon SEO techniques

2006-09-06T17:52:00.001+03:00

I was really inspired by some recent video I found via one russian blog.
Its about using uncommon, highly efficient SEO techniques, introduced by Brad Fallon & Andy Jenkins (source: video - in English)
Now I'm thinking - it's absolutely amazing! The major purpose of this post was to extent a previous one. Personally I've found that greatest results can be achieved by using non-trivial techniques. The key to find these techniques is by analyzing existing ones and trying to improve them.
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"...Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established..." Prov. 4:25,26 KJV (source: bible)

How to find low competition high profitable niches for adsense and affiliates

2006-09-03T12:02:00.001+03:00

Most of people break their heads trying to find high profitable, low competition niches where they can start making money using AdSense, Affiliates or On-Line Sales.
Personally I can advise you to stop searching internet for this stuff and start making some basic research by yourself. Here are 3 good tools you can use (for free):
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- Yahoo Buzz
- Google AdWords:Keywords tool
- Keyword selector tool
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If you don't know how they work, here is a quick step-by-step instruction (provided with screenshots) on how to work with Google AdWords:Keywords Tools to perform niche research. (source: SEOproToolZ)
The other two works similar and less complicated.
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"...Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding..." Prov. 4:7 KJV (source: bible)

Research on High profitable Internet niches for 2006

2006-09-03T10:09:00.001+03:00

The greatest challenges that many affiliates, bloggers and AdSense marketers face is finding their niche. I always suggest its best to start off with research. Here are some facts you can find using simple internet search:
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1. Travel - In the United States, LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) estimates that ecotourism, including green tourism, eco-volunteering trips, active sports trips and environmentally responsible tourism, is among the fastest growing travel trends, and represents about a $77 billion marketeven though it is still a small percentage of the overall U.S. travel and tourism market. (source: Falls Church news press).
2. Internet marketing - According to the IAB&PWC, Internet advertising revenues in the US totaled over 12.5 billion for 2005 increased nearly 34 per cent over 2004, which is of 9.6 billion. The Internet advertisement in the US is estimated at $ 15 billion for the year 2006. Forrester Research forecast Internet based sales to touch $329 billion in 2010. (source: CIOL)
3. Internet gambling - Americans account for $6 billion of the online gambling industry's estimated annual revenue of $12 billion. By way of comparison, all other forms of gambling in the United States had revenue of almost $79 billion in 2004. (source: The Paramus Post)
4. Online Porno - Hard-core sexual material sells because it titillates. Porn earnings are estimated at $ 10 billion to $ 14 billion a year in the United States (the lower figure is according to Fortune magazine) and $ 56 billion worldwide. Forbes magazine breaks down the global profits this way: adult videos,$ 20 billion; sex clubs, $ 5 billion; magazines, $ 7.5 billion; phone sex, $ 4.5 billion; escort services, $ 11 billion; cable, satellite, and pay-per-view TV, $ 2.5 billion; CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs, $ 1.5 billion; Internet (sales and memberships), $ 1.5 billion; novelties, $ 1 billion; and others, $ 1.5 billion. (source: CWA)
5. Mobile servicies - A typical user in the U.S., spends about $40 on voice service but only about $5 on data. And it's the data segment that has the most growth potential. Music and games each account for roughly 20% of mobile-content business, or roughly $2 billion to $3 billion. The rest includes such services as news, weather, financial data and horoscopes. (source: easyBource).
6. Online Games - By 2010, the online game market is expected to reach $4.4 billion, up from $1.1 billion in revenues last year. (source: Clickz Network)
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Now the question is: "Don't The Numbers Speak the Truth?"
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"...And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many..." Matt. 24:11 KJV (source: bible)

Easy Ways to make Easy Money?

2006-08-31T12:57:00.001+03:00

Common ways to make money using internet:
- Get Paid per Click
- Get Paid per Signup
- Get paid by reading eMails
- Get paid by Surf
- Get paid by HYIP
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General payouts:
- Paid to Read Email: up to 2¢
- Pay per Click: up to 1¢
- Paid to Signup: up to $1
- Paid to Join Free Offers: up to $14
- Paid to AutoSurfing: up to 0.5¢/page
- The earnings from Referrals: up to 50%
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Do you still think it's easy money? Don't be fooled, there are no easy money in internet. Just some smart peoples know how to make money even with this extremely low pay rates. By the way, if you are curious about HYIP, it's here.
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"...And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much..." Mark 12:41 KJV (source: bible)

Top Five money transfer companies

2006-08-31T12:01:00.001+03:00

The list of leading money transfer companies is growing every day. Some are global well established wire transfer services that can reach almost anywhere on the planet - while others are competitive but only serve select areas. Here is a list of Top Five money transfer companies.
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1. Western Union
Advantages: Largest network, tops in reliability and best brand awareness.
Disadvantages: Typically is the most expensive (sometimes significantly higher).
2. MoneyGram
Advantages: 2nd Largest USA wire transfer provider.
Disadvantages: Limited / No international network and high costs.
3. PayPal
Advantages: Free or low cost, available everywhere and not only money transfer but your personal wallet for internet payments.
Disadvantages: Requires your receiver to also have an online account.
4. Xoom
Advantages: Great mix of options; low costs - flexible & convenient to use.
Disadvantages: Not available in all countries.
5. iKobo
Advantages: Low costs.
Disadvantages: Limited model, hard to use.
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This is not a list of “One Hundred And One Money Transfer Companies” – only real ones, with good reputation and a huge amount of satisfied clients (URLs also provided).
Now you can start doing your own investigation which one you'll trust.
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"...And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;..." John 2:13-15 KJV (source: bible)

Dictionary of abbreviations currently used in online promotion

2006-08-30T14:29:00.001+03:00

Sometimes when you don't know terminology – it is difficult to understand new business concepts especially when it's concern business using modern technologies like internet.
In these cases I usually use Wiki to make things clear. But for those who wants to know what major terms means I made a brief correspondence dictionary for future reference. But beware it contains some terms which used in both legal and illegal spheres of internet promotion:
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AWM (Adult Web Masters) – people who make money mostly by creating adult websites or promoting an existing adult content.
TGP (Thumbnail Gallery Post) - a site with links to galleries. Each gallery in this case has a link or advertisement to promote sponsor's site.
TGP-submitters – is special software used to automatically create thousands of various TGPs.
FHG (Free hosted gallery) - free ready galleries which provided by a sponsor mainly to exchange traffic with somebody. In a different world you have a visitor on your FHG and you send him to another FHG (of your friend) and he sends it further to another new one and so on. So, the user instead clicking once to get what he desires clicking several times which brings more traffic.
Link lists - Roughly speaking it's a TGP, but here links go not to one-page galleries, but sites. They could be pay sites, AVS or free sites. All the links in link lists are sorted according to niches and sub niches.
AVS (Adult Verification System) - is a computing system used by a website to confirm that the user attempting to access their website is of the age required to view the website's content.
Billing System - is a financial organization that performs money transfer from the customer's credit card to the website or service where the customer purchase something (it can be some virtual thing like website membership or a real product)
AdSense – is an ad serving program run by Google. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per thousand impressions basis.
PPC (pay per click) – is advertising technique used on websites, advertising networks and search engines. According to the Kelsey Group, the pay-per-phone-call market is expected to reach US$3.7 billion by 2010.
CPM (cost per Mille) – is the cost of one thousand (1,000) impressions.
Doorway – are web pages that are created for spamdexing
Spamdexing – is spamming the index of search engine by inserting results for particular phrases with the purpose of sending you to a different page.
Affiliate(s) - is composed of a group of merchants and a group of affiliates. Merchants join the network and affiliates join the network in order to advertise the merchant products in exchange of a commission from the merchant.
SEO (search engine optimizer) – is a set of method used to improve the ranking of a website in search engines.
Cloaking – is a search engine optimization in which the content presented to search engines is different from that presented to users.
Link farm – is a group of web pages that all hyperlink to every other page in the group.
Web scarping - is defined as a web crawler that copies content from one or more existing websites in order to generate a scraper site. The result can range from fair use snippets of text to plagiarized content pages solely for the purpose of earning revenue through advertising.
Reciprocal link - is a mutual link between two objects, commonly between two websites in order to ensure mutual traffic.
CTR (Click through rate) - is a common reporting statistic showing how many clicks from unique viewers your ad has received.
Lead - can be anything from an e-mail address for a mailing list to a complete survey that needs to be completely filled out and verified in order to get credit. The requirements to be considered a bona fide lead can vary greatly from program to program. This is a very common method of selling advertising on your website.
HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) - is purported investment program normally offered via the Internet. HYIPs typically accept investments of $100 or less while promising high returns.
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"...To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven..." Eccl. 3:1 KJV (source: bible)

Six problems with $1 million to each!

2006-08-28T20:43:00.001+03:00

I assume that some of my readers don’t like easy ways. They think that besides common opportunities of making money using internet (like MLM, affiliate programs, ADSENSE and online promotion), there is something else that not so well exposed to public, and therefore can bring more in profit.
In most cases – it’s true. Usually it gives you a huge advantage amongst other competitors. Now let’s look at some facts:
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“…In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years. The Board of Directors of CMI designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each….” (source: Clay Mathematics Institute)
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Hope you understand what I mean. If you genius enough to take care of one of this problems – it’s the easiest way to get million (or two?). Be warned, however, the problems are hard and it may be easier to rob a bank after all :)
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"...Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;..." Dan 2:27,28 KJV (source: bible)

Where to submit BLOGs and RSS feeds to get more exposure

2006-08-27T18:31:00.001+03:00

Greetings!
Today I've found an excellent post about "Best blog directories and RSS submission sites" (source: RSSTop55). I know there is a lot of hungry web surfers, who want to promote their web blog or RSS feed, but they don't know where to start. Here is a brief list:
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01. http://www.yahoo.com/
02. http://dmoz.org/
03. http://w.moreover.com/
04. http://www.syndic8.com/
05. http://www.newsisfree.com/
06. http://www.newsknowledge.com/
07. http://www.yellowbrix.com/
08. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
09. http://www.genecast.com/
10. http://www.technorati.com/
11. http://www.daypop.com/
12. http://www.feedster.com/
13. http://www.bloglines.com/
14. http://blogdex.net/
15. http://www.topix.net/
16. http://www.popdex.com/
17. http://blogcritics.org/
18. http://www.blogstreet.com/
19. http://www.blogwise.com/
20. http://boingboing.net/
21. http://www.2rss.com/
22. http://www.weblogalot.com/
23. http://www.globeofblogs.com/
24. http://www.weblogs.nu/
25. http://www.blogtree.com/
26. http://www.bloguniverse.com/
27. http://www.truthlaidbear.com/
28. http://memigo.com/
29. http://www.bloghop.com/
30. http://www.blogarama.com/
31. http://www.contentsmatter.com/
32. http://www.pubsub.com/
33. http://www.fastbuzz.com/
34. http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
35. http://portal.eatonweb.com/
36. http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/
37. http://www.blogdigger.com/
38. http://www.bloogz.com/
39. http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/
40. http://www.blizg.com/
41. http://www.blogmatrix.com/
42. http://blogmatcher.com/
43. http://feeds.scripting.com/
44. http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
45. http://www.newstrawler.com
46. http://reader.rocketinfo.com/
47. http://www.headlinespot.com/
48. http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
49. http://www.crayon.net
50. http://pepys.akacooties.com/cgi-bin/links2/add.cgi
51. http://www.diarist.net/
52. http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
53. http://fried-spaghetti.com/
54. The Blog Hunter (currently down)
55. http://www.kmax.ws/bloglinks.htm
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If you looking for detailed explanation on each site which includes (in most cases) link to direct submission - read the original article.

First indie blog to earn a million dollars a year in profit?

2006-08-23T18:02:00.001+03:00

I hope all of you already read recent article called "Blogging for Dollars" which was published at CNNMoney.com this August (source: Blogging for Dollars).
It was quickly became fairly popular among bloggers and besides this I've found somebody who try to compare it to other one, which have more critical look on the subject.
For those who's too lazy to read the original post (which is huge), here are some facts I've found extremely interesting:
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"...Today 71 percent of American households have Web access; Americans ages 13 to 24 now spend more time online than they do in front of the TV..."
"...AdSense alone is expected to generate sales of $4 billion this year..."
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Sounds promising isn't it?

Profitting from MMO gold?

2006-08-23T11:49:00.001+03:00

Probably it is old news, but to those who didn't read it yet...
Some time ago I've found a brillian post written by James Lee about Wage Slaves. His post was dated 07-05-2005 and talked about some underground (and in most cases illegal) business of making money by growing characters and earning virtual gold at MMO games. (source: WageSlaves)
Here are some facts:
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"... The real money is made by the people with the resources and the right programs. Rich Thurman earned $100,000 by farming 9 billion gold in Ultima Online..."
"...Smooth Criminal's game cartel made $1.5 million from Star Wars Galaxies alone last year, and individually, he's made as much as $700,000 in a single year. "[SWG] built my new house, which I paid for in cash," he says. "So when you ring my doorbell, it plays the Star Wars music..."
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I advise you to read the whole article and make your conclusions.
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"...Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit..." Eccl 2:17 KJV (source: bible)

One Million Dollar Homepage - Easiest Way to make a million?

2006-08-23T07:16:00.001+03:00

I hope you've heard about that, if not - here are some facts:
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The Million dollar homepage is a website conceived by Alex Tew - a 21 year old student from Wiltshire, England to help raise money for his education. The webpage consists of a 1000x1000 pixel grid (one million pixels) on which he sells image-based links for $1 per pixel, in minimum ten by ten blocks. Launched on August 26, 2005 the project brought gross income of $1,037,100 and had Google RankPage of 7. (source: www.answers.com)
URL: http://milliondollarhomepage.com/
Current status: all pixels sold out!
Other facts:
- last pixels were sold through e-Bay;
- within first three days he sold his first 20 x 20 pixel block;
- the site was subject to a Distributed Denial-of-service attack, commencing on 11 January, 2006;
- because of his craziest idea he got attention of a biggest publishers which brought him most of visitors;
- all other similar projects weren't so successful;
Rare facts:
- This concept wasn't new. In the 70's, in NYC, where everyone is chic and suave, an Iranian taxi driver put up $30,000 for a double fold out page ad. All it had on it was his picture, full page, and in huge text, "SEND ME $1", and his address. That taxi driver got rich that day (source: ask The Geezer).
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Now you can ask me, why i'm posting it?
Ok, let me explain....
During the last days I see a lot of people (especially those who have blogs) asking "How to start making money using internet?" Actually there are a lot of ways to do so. Here i want to post my ideas, what I'm thinking about it.
First of all - no matter what type of business you'll choose you need to know one thing: traffic = money. Most of successful businesses I know based on this.
Now, IMHO Alex Tew got his money only because of one thing - he got attention of the biggest publishers without giving them a dime and through them he became popular (got traffic, visitors, attention) and succeed selling his pixels.
Therefore: if you have an idea how to make money using modern technologies - go for it!
Give a try! It's the easiest way to make really big money (in case of some luck).
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"...Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after...." Eccl. 1:10,11 KJV (source: bible)

Money? Money!

2006-08-22T20:48:00.001+03:00

What is all about? Money? Yeah, about MONEY, BIG MONEY!
It's a fact that most of people love money. We think about money, dream about money and forget that first of all money is an instrument of support.
I've started this blog principally because I want to share my thoughts with those who want to make money using modern technologies. Why? Don't know. May be because I'm good?
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"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows" 1 Timothy 6:10 KJV (source: bible)