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Learning How To Make Money Online
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Running A Small Internet Business From A Thumb Drive
Last year I wrote about attempting to run our internet business from a USB thumb drive while traveling and some of the struggles with that. After doing it for a bit, here are a few thoughts for anyone else who needs or wants to try it. Pros Carrying around and packing a thumb drive is extremely eas ...
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Website Marketing Using Image Search Engines
Did you know that images can help bring more visitors to your website? It takes a little bit more time to do this but leveraging image search results is another way to increase traffic. Think of the image search engines as a way to supplement your existing traffic. A Picture Of What? What do you n ...
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Double Your Click-Through Rate Using AdWords Placement Reports
Heres a tip that could double your click-through rate when advertising on Googles content network. Make sure you use the placement reports in AdWords to track the sites showing your ads. Then add exclusions to remove any sites with a bad CTR. I didnt start doing this soon enough and wish I had. H ...
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I Almost Care About Other Search Engines
We only pay attention to what Google does and wants when it comes to search engines. I dont think thats a stupid strategy since most of the articles, posts, and podcasts about SEO do the same thing. Google owns the traffic and the king sets the rules. Most of our sites get 80% or more of their se ...
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Nuked From SERPs By MSN And Live
Microsoft kindly provided us with yet another reminder to diversify our traffic and income streams. Two of our sites got nuked from the MSN and Live search engine results yesterday. Youre probably thinking MSN traffic sucks so who cares. Well, the MSN/Live combo sends us, I mean sent us, a decent ...
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The Value Of Owning Sites In Related Niches
Think about sticking to one niche or maybe two niches in the beginning. Your personality or interests might make this difficult but there are several advantages to narrowing your focus. How Do I Get More Traffic? Building traffic to a site is likely the single most difficult thing youll do as a web ...
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Dont Let Losing Interest Sabotage Long-Term Projects
I just wrote about getting bored with new ideas after three weeks and putting them on the shelf. It wasnt meant to imply you shouldnt think long-term or scrap an idea because it might take four months to finish. What I meant was if you get bored with working on something then take a break. Most pe ...
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Saw An Awesome Landing Page On Facebook
My partner in crime, 46, found an awesome landing page advertised on Facebook the other day. The ad headline and picture tied together nicely making a compelling reason to take an online quiz. Ill leave out the specifics since I dont want to out anybody too much. Anyway, she clicked on it as a cu ...
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Attempting To Cure Idea Boredom
How many of you jump from idea to idea? Probably quite a few if blogs and forums are any indication. I didnt used to be that way but I fight it tooth and nail now. Between the internet induced ADD and all of the ideas swimming around in my head, motivation for anything new lasts about two seconds ...
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Removing AdSense Increased Landing Page Revenue A Lot
Should you put AdSense on your landing pages? Theres probably a way to make it work but my experience says no. Ive noticed a lot of new people do it and so did we. The thinking goes hey, if I dont make a sale then I might get an AdSense click. Heres a good example of why you should at least find ...
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Take PageRank With A Grain Of Salt
We accidentally found another reason that you shouldnt take PageRank at face value. This blog went from PR0 to PR3 to PR0. It kind of makes you wonder how it got up to PR3 and dropped back down to PR0 huh? Was the PR fake? Nope. Did we anger Google by selling links? Nope. Top Commentators Rule ...
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Building An Email List - Maybe It Isnt So Hard After All
The moneys in the list. The moneys in the list. We heard that over and over again from the big internet marketers when we first started. It makes sense to me now why everyone says having an email opt-in list is so important. That list of repeat customers and prospective customers represents a long ...
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Why I Dont Use Keyword Spying Tools (Much)
Im not using any keyword spying tools. At least not right now. It might be one of the stupidest things ever but heres why. First, I really feel that I need to learn how to do PPC effectively. Could I jump start my campaigns if I stole someone elses? Maybe. But what happens when that stops worki ...
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A More Effective Directory Submission Strategy
A lot of you probably do directory submissions manually to build up your backlinks. That takes a lot of time. Maybe so much time that it isnt worth it to do yourself. If outsourcing isnt in your budget then heres something that might help make it worth your while. Old Crappy Strategy When I first ...
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Zero Work For Free Traffic - 45n5 Top 100
Do you have a blog related to making money online? Theres a way to get free traffic to it without doing any real work whatsoever. Just submit it to the Top 100 Blogs list over at 45n5. Its a list of several hundred blogs about making money online ordered by a combination of PR, Technorati, and Al ...
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Find Websites To Buy Using Pay-Per-Click Data
A lot of people talk about using your AdWords reports to find high converting sites when running pay-per-click campaigns on Google. Then putting your ads on those websites using site placement to get a higher ROI. I just discovered a similar use for the same technique. Add site placements for tho ...
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Add Google Analytics Differently For Sites With Frames
Make sure you look over this documentation page if you decide to use Google Analytics on a site with frames. The traffic sources for one of our niche sites werent showing up properly (it listed search engine traffic as referral traffic) and I could figure out why. It turns out you need to put the ...
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Thinking About Buying Some Aged Domains
Weve only bought new domains to this point. Im thinking about getting an aged domain (or three) the next time we go looking for one (SitePoint and Sedo are two popular places to look if youre interested). There are still good new domain names available but an existing domain has a few potential ad ...
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Struggling To Set Business Goals For 2008
It seems like every blogger and their dog posted their goals for 2008. Except us. We thought it would make more sense to wait until no one cared about New Years resolutions before sharing ours. Just kidding, our dog blogged about his goals already The real reason is that I am really, REALLY str ...
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These Payday Loan People Have It All Wrong
Do you want to know what the best place to find customers or leads for your payday loans? Heres a hint. It isnt the parking lot of a large corporation with a bunch of white-collar workers. Yet thats exactly what someone did yesterday at the company where I work. When we left that evening all of ...
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