Archive for December, 2007

Finding the Right Niche Keywords to Target

December 17, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

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So you’ve spent the weekend figuring out what you’re passionate and somewhat an expert on. If you haven’t already done that I suggest you read this first. Now it’s time for another equally important part; figuring out which keywords to target!

Choosing the right keywords can play a large part in success or failure so this part is not to be overlooked. You want to choose keywords that target what you’re niche is about but aren’t overly competitive. Terms that are too competitive are often a waste of time as ranking for them would take years and a very powerful site. Other terms which are in the middle of popularity are often a lot easier. Another approach is to go for ones with almost no search volume and almost no competition.

If you chose 25 terms that got ~5 searches a day and you were competitive for all of them you’d …

Adding YouTube Videos in Blog Posts Made Simple

December 16, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

Embedding YouTube videos into any blog is important in today’s world. Just today I found what I believe to be the easiest plugin to solve this problem.

Vladimir Prelovac wrote a very simple Youtube Wordpress Plugin that isn’t only easy to install but brain dead easy to use.

If you don’t already have a plugin as such installed I recommend you download this one. Doesn’t get any easier; seriously.

While on the topic I’d also recommend you visit Vladamir’s blog. I read it regularly and am always amazed at the content he produces. Also if someone can make a plugin that makes my life this easy I’m curious to know what else he has to say.

Yes Tomorrow is Monday… Welcome to the work week; I think Monday’s are the best reason to start making money online so you can avoid the rat race all together. Not a big fan of Monday …

Pay Per Play - No Clicks Needed to Monetize ALL Your Traffic!

December 16, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

Pay Per Play is a new audio advertising program. It’s quite rare that I get excited about new programs. Typically I won’t touch a pre-launch but what I’m about to introduce to you has gotten me quite excited.

Let me introduce to you a new form of advertising on your website that involves no impressions and no clicks to earn revenue. I’m talking about a system that allows you to cash in on 100% of your website visitors similar to the way television companies make their money. If you don’t feel like doing much reading and just want to watch the video explanation click here.

Big-time advertisers are starting to realize that at any given time there are more or close to the number of people logged on to the Internet than there are television. They also know that the Internet and its …

Know Yourself to Find the Right Niche for Your Online Business - Forget the Net!

December 14, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

Surprisingly the first thing I’m going to say is that once you finish reading this turn your monitor off and go somewhere where you can think. It’s all too easy to look around the Internet and go from one page to another, registered domain name then realize another niche makes more money and start the whole cycle again.If you are seriously going to make money and have an interesting hobby that could evolve into a business then you need to do something you love and the Internet isn’t going to tell you what that is. Regardless of how many keyword searches you do both long and short it all comes down to you. Only you know what niche works for you. Only you know what you are truly passionate about. When trying to decide what niche to dive into it’s important to have no external influences.

Go somewhere you can be …

You CAN Lose Your Page Rank Selling Links - It is Official!

December 13, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

It’s official and it’s on video. Matt Cutts infamous Google engineer and representative stated on a video interview with WebProNews at PubCon that selling links can cause you to lose your page rank if Google becomes aware of it.

Here is the Video of Matt Cutts Google representative discussing how selling links can cause you to lose your page rank.

Let’s think about this logically and rationally for a second. Before page rank came around if you wanted to make money online it was like most other offline businesses. You needed to produce value. This could be in the form of selling a product and or service. It could also be by selling traffic on your blog or website through mediums like adsense, kontera, adbrite and the list goes on.

Suddenly Google released Page Rank and people began selling this artificial …