Your Internet Business Blog: September 2011

How To Remove Bar Code From a Blogger site

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If you use Blogger and you’ve been looking for a way to remove the bar code from your blog then this is where your search ends.

I was once faced with this problem and since I knew nothing about HTML programming and I had to customize my blog to look a bit professional since it is the haven for all starters in the city of blogging, I had to look for some one who knew better than I did.

The easiest way to start blogging is by setting up a free blog at blogger.com

The usual limitation with a free blog like blogger is that it comes with it’s own custom blogger toolbar which is usually at the top.

Most people who visit your blog usually term it to be unprofessional because it is free and this is because the tool bar becomes immediately visible as soon as they land on your home page.

I know you don’t like that happening but you have to blog anyway and since blogger presents you with the opportunity to keep your passion alive, who cares. There’s a way you could solve this problem.

I’m going to be showing you a short cut you can use without calling on anyone to fix this issue.

All I need you to do is follow the step by step guide below and

your toolbar is gone for ever.

These are the steps:

Step 1:

Log into your blogger account

Step 2:

Click on "layout". If you are using the new interface or “Design” for those still using the old interface.

Then click on "edit HTML"

When you get there, you'll see a pack of HTML codes in the "edit

template" box. Go down on the 8th line of those codes, you'll see <head>

Step 3:

Click just after <head> and tap the enter key on your keyboard.

Step 4:

Paste the following codes:

#navbar-iframe {

height: 0px;

visibility: hidden;

display: none;

}

</style>

Step 5:

Click on "Save Template"

That's it. nothing more! Just click on “view blog” to confirm the change.

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How To Attract Traffic To Your Squidoo Lens

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Traffic is the real reason that Squidoo is so popular. Google tends to rank lens highly. When Google ranks something highly in their search engines, there is a lot of traffic that comes from that source. However, relying on traffic from Google to market your lenses will be less effective over time. You have to use other traffic generating strategies to increase your lenses’ ratings in the Squidoo community if you want to be a big “Squid”.

The same methods that are used to attract traffic across the Internet by webmasters also can be applied here. You have to go to places that already have a large audience and promote your lens there with a link to get more people to visit your lens. You can even promote it on social networks like Facebook and Twitter by asking people to rate it so that you can improve your ratings as a lensmaster. Here are some ways by which people drive traffic to their pages across the Internet:

Submit to various search engines

Google isn't the only search engine out there. You can index your pages and submit them to various search engines, like Yahoo!, Bing, MSN, Askjeeves, Northernlight, Netscape, Aol, Vconnect, Excite, Looksmart, About, etc. To get a wider exposure. This is great for the keywords on which you lens is optimized and the ability of increasing traffic from search engines to your lence.

Update your content frequently

Due to the fact that Squidoo rates the freshest content higher, it is advisable to constantly add few updates to each of your lenses. This means more visitors coming to your lens as a result of the fresh content on your lens. You can even add a few paragraphs or modify a few sentences to make your content fresher.

Make your content sharable

You will want to give people the ability to grab your lists and promote them, using a Plexo module, or make your content easy to share by adding it to delicious.com and other link archives.

Make comments on blogs

You can search for popular blogs that talk about your niche topic and then contribute to the conversation there. When relevant, add the link to your lens to increase its exposure. By so doing you would have succeeded in attracting more traffic from such a blog to your lens.

Create videos with links back

YouTube is a very popular video platform that allows its users to put a link back to some other page on their video profile. Create a fun video and draw YouTube watchers back to your Squidoo lens via that link.

Using social networking Sites

Twitter is great place to promote and share your content on social networks. Twitter, in particular, is a fantastic place to add a single link a few times a day or a week to create more traffic which can translate to urge income possibilities. You do have to devote time to generating followers and friends on these sites, but it's a great way to target specific niche readers and to create more income possibilities for yourself.

Facebook is another good example which could be used to create a viral marketing hub to expose your lens for increased traffic. With the number of people who are currently signed on to facebook and the record breaking number that amounts to about 250,000,000 around the world who log on to their facebook account on a daily basis, you’ll have a great deal of free advertising to increase traffic to your lens.

Be creative, try to explore some more ways to attract or drive traffic to your squidoo lens for this will have a tremendous impact on your ability to make a lot of money with squidoo.

How To Make Your Blog Do Follow

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What is do follow?

The art and science of increasing page rank when bloggers visit other established sites to make comments to increase traffic by linking back to their site is highly dependent on the concept of dofollow.

Here, i will show you a step by step guide on how to turn your site from nofollow to dofollow for fellow commentators to receive free page rank juice!

The Steps are as follows:

Log into your Blogger account
Click on the Layout Tab
Click the edit HTML Tab
Check “Expand Widget Templates”
Now search for the rel=’nofollow’ code and delete it. It is usually located around the bottom where you start to see codes such as ‘comment-form’ and codes that start with ‘comment’.
Once you have spotted the code, delete the rel=’nofollow’ code between <a expr:href=’data:comment.authorUrl’> (rel=’nofollow’)

<data:comment.author/></a> and hit save.
You have completed the process of making your blog do follow!

There are so many software out there designed to target dofollow blogs which could mean a whole lot of traffic to your site. This constitute an advantage on your part because it will serve as a source of free traffic.

The disadvantages of dofollow is that there is a bigger possibility of receiving spam comments. There is also other software programs that help to put a check on this trend.

Ways To Earn Money Online With Squidoo

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What is squidoo?

Squidoo is a website that offers its own version of web pages called lenses. A lens is a way of looking at topics the writer is passionate about and makes it come alive for the reader.

Squidoo calls it an “overview” page because many Squidoo users just give a wide overview of the topic. Squidoo has a user community, called “SquidU” which helps newbie Squidoo users to quickly and easily learn the ropes and Ways To Earn Money Online.

The Available Data

Squidoo started small and has become very popular online. According to Squidoo.com, around 900,000 lenses have been built. These all have to be done manually by someone, usually referred to as a lensmaster and this is an outstanding achievement. These lenses attract more than 420,000 people to Squidoo.com every day. It's the popularity of the site, the increasing traffic, and the ability to link to money making opportunities that bring new people to the site every day. Squidoo.com reveals that a lot of people make about $1,000 per year with their lenses. In some unusual cases, people have made close to $10,000 per year; however, it's possible you may only make a meager $100 per year, but this depends on the quality of the lenses you put out and how many people they can attract.

What Determines The Quality Of The Lens?

Each lens is assigned a hidden Lens Rank. This is based on factors that can include the lensmaster's reputation, how many ratings and how high they are rated, the number of inbound and outbound links, and the actual traffic coming to the lens. The higher the LensRank, the more qualities attributed to it. Unlike other sites that pay more to people based on a rating system that grants more privileges to older users, this one re-rates the lens every two weeks to keep the rankings fresh. The amount of Traffic to the lens is a major component of the quality, as it includes click-through rates. The more traffic you get to your lens, the more opportunity you have to earn income from the lens. Other income opportunities come from affiliate offers you have linked to your lens. You might be using the lens to generate leads and make money that way too. Finally, you can create a Squidoo co-op page which allows you to partner with others who will take a share of the royalties for that type of exposure.

How To Earn Money With AdSense

It is no surprise to established internet marketers that you can make money with AdSense from Squidoo. For those that don't know what this is, it's the money you are paid by Google from visitors who click the Google Ads located at the top of every Squidoo lens. Squidoo collects money from Google and then distributed via a formula that rewards top lensmasters and popular lenses more than others. However, just because you have a lens doesn't necessarily mean you'll make any money from Google AdSense. This is determined by the amount of traffic you lens can attract and the number of people clicking on ads that have a good payout. For Squidoo, it follows a revenue sharing model that provides 50% of the revenues generated by the lensmaster to go directly to them. The rest of it goes for operating expenses, charity, investors, and employees. There are several tiers to the system, where higher ranked lensmasters can make more from their lenses than others. You don't have to have a Google AdSense account to make this money, unlike other sites where you embed the code into the pages. This is all taken care of by Squidoo. You do, however, have to have a PayPal account where the monies from your lenses can be deposited every month and If not your earnings are paid to a selected charity.

The Money Maker Lens & Modules

Google AdWords is one stream of income and it is automatic. Other ways to make money will include a collection of various lists, polls, visuals and text made up of modules that you insert into the lens. Some of these modules help you to make money, and others are merely informational. In figuring out which modules might make you money, you can start out by creating the Money Maker lens when you are asked what you want to do with the lens. This some times does not include everything you need to earn money, but will put you on a good start on how to make the lens that is targeted for income opportunities.

Other Ways To Make Money On Squidoo

You can make money in other ways too, not just by creating a lens with the right modules. You get paid when you refer people to Squidoo. Just like other programs that will pay you for getting others to sign up. Squidoo offers the same type of incentive. Many of the same types of strategies that you use with other Internet businesses can be combined with Squidoo to help you make money. If you are earning money from advertisements on a blog, for instance, you can drive traffic to the blog from a Squidoo page. This is another indirect way to make money using a Squidoo lens.

Making Money With Affiliate Offers

You can offer your own affiliate offerings through Squidoo. That's because you can make money using the CafePress and eBay modules too, where you can sell your own products and services. In addition, Squidoo partners with a number of top affiliates to make selling their products and services easier to do on your lens. Amazon.com is one notable example. This is the route many newbies take because they don't have to learn about another site and their policies. They don't have to create anything to have a large inventory of products to market. Best of all, they don't have to ship anything just to earn a commission on it. The main difference between selling your own or someone else's products is that you stand to make more money per sale on your own stuff. However, it also takes a lot more time and effort to create that stuff. So, it's up to you on which way you want to go when selling with affiliate offers.

Content is King

Be creative, be warm, be approachable, and be an expert! That's what Squidoo was originally about: Focus on eye-grabbing headlines and subheadings. Add some information and tips that help your readers. Tell them why they have to buy your products and ask them for the sale.

Concentrate on selling benefits, not features. A benefit answers the question in the reader's mind: What's in it for me? A really strong benefit uses a psychological and emotional trigger that will also make it hard for the reader to pull away without clicking your link. An example of this is when they might lose out for failing to take action on your offer at that very minute!

Network With Others On Squidoo

Your LensRank is going to take into account how many people rate it and how high it is rated. It is a good idea to join Squidoo groups in order to network with other lensmasters. Join in on the community, ask them to rate your lens, and also rate other people's lenses too. Once you start to be more recognized, there is a likelihood that people will read and rate your lenses. This will increase your bottom line as Squidoo pays in several tiers, with the highest tier making more money per month than the lowest tier. The tier your lens is in is dependent on your LensRank which determines your rating and popularity.

Money From Squidoo Referrals

Squidoo has a referral program to get people to sign up other writers who want to create Squidoo lenses. Just keep in mind that referral income works either as a sign-up bonus, a commission-based bonus, or both. There are no tiers. It's a simple sign-up bonus, and there is a requirement that limits the payout of that sign-up. The people you refer have to make at least $15 in income from their lenses before they will pay you $5 for the referral.

Note: You can also earn income on the referrals from other multi-tiered affiliate programs. Those are the best programs to target and promote on your Squidoo lens.

There is a variety of other methods that space limitations didn't allow us to go into. As you continue to get familiar with the platform and the methods to make money with Squidoo, you should look up Squidoo's sponsorship or “co-op” services to see how to earn money with them too.

Buy Backlinks

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Just make sure to select the right web page to add your links to and you can count on increased traffic, search engine ranking and demand of your website in no time.

Whether you're an online marketer or you own a physical business, having your website rank high in the search engines is a necessity if you wish to generate more traffic and make more money. It's not a secret that owning a website ranked within the top search engine results of Google means much more money and traffic, but most individuals are stumped on how to start getting their website to rank that high.

Maybe you've heard the lies about having to continuously write great quality content, or focus on your on-page SEO so that you can move up in the rankings. Unfortunately, these things might be great for your site and accumulating a user base, but they won't help you make it to the top of the search engine results unless you get Google backlinks simultaneously.

For anybody unfamiliar with what backlinks are, they're basically a vote of confidence from other websites on the Internet. They tell Google that your website is pertinent to the search engine results, and that other websites find your articles compelling.The more you get Google backlinks, the larger you'll rank within the search results (as long as they're quality backlinks from authority sites).

However, for a lot of people, trying to get backlinks can end up being a consuming and difficult task. Getting backlinks involves trying to find authority websites that you can obtain a link from, so it may take days and hours before getting enough backlinks to start ranking in Google. It doesn't need to be this difficult though, there's an easier way.

If you're anything like me, you don't possess the time for you to work on adding new content to your website and to build backlinks at the same time. So, I did some searching and eventually I stumbled on a great backlink service. They focus on helping your website get thousands of quality backlinks from authority sites. I subscribed to their backlink service and saw amazing results inside a matter of weeks!

For a long period of time I had been struggling to get enough backlinks to my website so that I could get on the first page of Google for any lucrative search phrase, and I just couldn't get it done. But after utilizing their service I had my site on the first page of Google two weeks after placing my order. That's incredible considering most other services take months before you see any real results.

Another advantage I found by using a backlink plan to get Google backlinks is the fact that my site stayed on the first page of Google and didn't fall out of the search engine results. One problem a lot of people encounter when building backlinks to their website is that they'll progress in the search results temporarily and then disappear almost as quick. But when you're utilizing a quality backlink service, that's not something you have to worry about.

So to conclude, getting high rankings in Google and therefore making more cash requires that you get high quality backlinks, and the easiest way to achieve that is by using a legitimate service that you could trust.

Backlinks are incoming links to a internet site or web page. Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation nowadays their significance lies in search engine optimization (Seo). The number of backlinks is 1 indication of the reputation or significance of that internet site or page.

by Peter Sosa

Making Money Online: Ask Yourself These Questions Before You Start

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Millions of people everyday all over the world is looking for Ways to Earn Money Online. Some look at supplementing their existing income, while others focus on replacing their salary completely. Others who don’t have a job, who have been laid off, or who never had the opportunity of having been gainfully employed and want to Make Money Online end up failing in the process according to statistics. The question is then asked. What should you do to be successful in online industry? There are some things that will have to be done to protect you from the wide spread disappointment and failure on the part of beginners that characterizes the online money making industry. In this article we will look into some questions you should ask yourself before starting any online business.

Why are you looking for a money making opportunity? What do you intend to achieve?

A lot of people go into Internet Home Business because they need some extra money. But this is not the only reason why they are doing it. Some want to let their creativity shine and bring in well earned rewards. Some a way to express themselves among friends, while others are looking for more time to spend with there kids and families. Freedom to work from anywhere in the world (if you have access to electricity and internet) is also a very strong factor. Or maybe you’re tired of commuting to work every day or want to be your own boss. The list of different motives is much longer than these I have here, but you have to think about what your real reason is for working from home and how much money you want to make in the process.

What are you good at?

Here you have to make an honest inventory of your strongest and weakest points. Take a S.W.O.T analysis of yourself. S.W.O.T simply means Strength-Weakness-Opportunities-Threats. You could write a list of things you enjoy doing. Maybe you are good at writing or design. Do you like talking to people? Selling? Do you like to help others to achieve there goals, to provide support, advice and training? Do you like Motivation, Sports, and Journalism etc? You could ask yourself if you like doing new things. The internet is ever changing and it will be a life long learning journey for you. Your imagination would be of great help to you as well. Some original, creative ideas would serve you very well. By doing so you will find out that you have a lot of different things you could offer. It is your chance to do something you’d always dreamed about and there is no limit to the amount of money you can be making on the internet.

What are you willing to give to get money?

Perhaps you already have a product or service that you would like to offer to the market. It could be your time, your expertise in a certain topic, your extensive knowledge of something for example your profession, hobby (golf, fishing, singing). You should give people something of good quality something that has a real value and importance for them.

Try as much as possible to give yourself clear answers to these questions then it will be so much easier for you to choose the right opportunity or right program.

Are you patient?

To become established online, it takes patients, determination, focus, and lots and lots of learning. A lot of the gurus who are well established in online business tend to paint the picture as simple to make money on the internet which truly is not. This is done in other to convince you to buy a certain product they are putting up for sale. As a newbie you jump into the idea and end up frustrated and discouraged because you were uninformed about the benefits derivable from buying such a product. That’s what they tell you. Now what you have to know is the fact that it has taken quite a while to build their business, but this you are not told in order for them not to discourage you. The truth is it takes an average of between 2 to 5 years before you can be fully established and there is no guarantee you would be earning in the 4 figure range. What I usually do is advice newbies to be focus, patient and put in the work because there is a lot of that to be done and then you can watch the money pile and grow.

Note: It is possible to start making money almost immediately. it all depends on the individual involved and the level of work he/she is putting into it.

Are you a Leader?

Have you got some leadership skills? Can you start a venture and stick to it till it’s complete? Are you a good manager? Are you creative? Are you good at time management? These are some of the questions you will have to ask yourself here. In trying to be you own boss you have to be ready to determine where you want to take your business and how much you intend to earn within a specified period of time. You have to project into the future and see the business’s continuity and growth. As a leader you chart the course and others follow and this no different from making money online.

Do You Have The Mind Set?

I personally believe that online money making has got a lot to do with your mind set. Just like I said above that it is not as easy as they say it is to make money online. Your mind immediately stores that piece of information and constantly reminds you of the difficulty involved in earning money online. As soon as you are able to change this mind set the sooner you will discover the secrets to making money on the internet. So start by telling yourself it is possible for you to make a lot of money online like others are already making.

I believe this information to be useful only if action is taken.

SEO Link Building - The Difference Between Dofollow and Nofollow Links

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People in common are mystified about the actual meaning of do-follow and the no-follow links. If you are not an expert in web-promotion or have taken up the SEO work recently, you may not understand the value of it totally. You must have been using these links in the anchor text in a common manner. There is a whole lot of difference in characteristics of these two types of links. You need to understand the effect on search engine results due to the difference. It relates to page rank, which is a popular term with all the people connected with online business.

The page rank system is an innovation of Google that denotes the standing of the specific website in the internet. It also explains the cost of the website in terms of sale value. The page rank is the effective result of a large quantity of backlinks that are created on authority sites or high pr sites. These backlinks point to the targeted website, which is when gets a page rank from Google. Therefore, the page rank denotes the strength of the website relating quality and quantity of backlinks that the targeted website contains on other websites. Hence, backlinks are considered votes from other websites, which ultimately determine the page rank of a specific website.

Many experts define the difference in several technical terms, which are not easy for the common website owner to understand due to unavailability of expert knowledge in the topic. In simple words, do-follow links enable the targeted website to get votes in favor of search engine rankings, where as the no-follow links do not provide any favor at all in affecting the search engine result. There is a great ambiguity in this arrangement, which Google observes with extreme care and does not favor the related tactic to get higher search engine rankings as employed by certain webmasters. With a big investment, a website owner can purchase huge backlinks on high pr sites to enhance the possibility of getting higher rankings in Google, which does not work at all and instead gets penalized. The exploitation of backlnks in obtaining page ranks is minimized under the strict vigilance.

It is considered that Google prefers free backlinks, which are products of the natural process and hence are termed as natural links. You can easily create natural do-follow links at the end of an article in the author-bio when you involve article submission service to different high pr article directories. You can do so by generating backlinks through blog commenting service or through quality link building service.

Therefore, the presence of do-follow links is immensely beneficial to websites that need to promote in the internet to get high rankings in search engines along with actual traffic to the website to obtain business. It accelerates the process of inducting page rank through these backlinks to a specific website.

The necessity of do-follow link is beyond any question as you offer various authors or blog commentators to create comments on the post to provide a link to their website in a selective manner. It is the process of creating a structural connection in the internet, which is the lifeblood of internet marketing. You are able to enjoy a better coverage of visitors and many people come to know your product, which is the backbone of improved business. Here, you need to be careful about spammers that waste all the advantage that you get through the process of link building strategy. Understanding the difference of do-follow and no-follow links, is the prime attribute when you are creating backlinks for high search engine rankings to achieve success in online marketing.

About the Author

Birendra Mohan Bhattacharjee

Understand the importance of blog commenting service for the success in internet marketing.

How to Achieve Quality Twitter Following

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Tweeter is no longer something new. Today, everybody knows about Twitter; your folks, friends and even grannies are all twitting. If you have an online business, how can you take advantage of Twitter to grow your online business?

Here are tips and tricks that work.

Real Photos Count a Lot

Social platform users prefer to connect with real faces, not logos or some images. So, use your real photo in your Twitter page instead of company image or logo. Besides, using a business logo would only create the impression that it is all about boring sales tone, this is a huge turn off for most social network users.

Your Bio Line

Your bio line comes before your tweets; people would want to know if you are worth following through your bio line. Remember, only 160 characters are available for your bio line, so don't blab, ensure that you maximize it. Avoid using a sales pitch or making it spammy. Just use the right words to describe yourself and your business. You can also include the URL to your blog or website.

Tips on Getting People to Follow You on Twitter

Your email list or business contacts serve as viable tool for achieving twitter following. If these people are Twitter users already, invite them to follow you. Include your Twitter URL on your site, in your email signature as well as blogs - you are indirectly asking people to follow you on twitter. Other places you can incorporate your Twitter URL include your flyers, business cards and other conventional business materials.

A helpful thing to do is to register at twellow.com for free - this is the Yellow Pages of Twitter users. You will be listed in a Twitter directory in your business niche. Take advantage of every opportunity to spread the news about your presence on Twitter. Include your Twitter URL in your Facebook page and get the link spreading as you share it for your friends on Facebook.

The most beneficial following on Twitter is when you follow the authorities as well as regular Twitter users in your specific niche. This will help you to know how you can enhance your result and you will get to interact more with like-minds.

By nature, humans are very curious. They would want to know who is following who, so they will regularly follow the links to know the caliber of people following those in their niche. Thus, concentrate more on seeking followers who share the same business line and interest with you. Don't be passive, be part of the conversations and give your own advice.

Establish yourself as an authority in your niche and watch followers flow naturally to you.

About the Author

Jeff Matthews is a freelance writer who writes about Internet marketing ideas To know about this subject and Jeff please visit http://www.aceinternetmarketing.net/

Who Can I Trust? A Guide to Internet Marketing for Newbie's

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I have compiled this article as a path for the new Internet Marketer, who wants to work from home and is looking for a real way to earn a substantial income online while avoiding the pitfalls and hype.
YOU know there is an easier way to earn a living than going out to work every day, and that comes from selling online, whether that is using online auctions, affiliate marketing or producing your own product and marketing it yourself.

Personally, I have had loads of jobs, Miner, Public House Manager, DJ, Driver, Factory Worker, Shop Assistant, Take Away Shop Owner, Nightclub Manager, Licensee and Cash and Valuables in Transit crewmember. But have always had that "feeling" there was more to life than the 9am to 5pm or even the 5pm to 4am.

So 3 years ago I discovered Internet Marketing and decided to get out of the "rat race".
With so many Marketers are trying to get to you to part with your hard earned cash, they put a fortune
into reaching the first page on the major search engines and the new Internet Marketer has a myriad of information and scams to negotiate, in an attempt to find his or her way to making money online.

As well as attempting to find that Magic Button (IT DOES NOT EXIST), that will earn you over $1,000,000 overnight, finding that product, which the salesletter doesn't inform you that you also need this ($19 month) and that ($97) and the other ($197) just to make it work, this is why over 95% of online businesses fail, the newbie marketer finds a push button solution to their desires and spends their first $47 and thinks I'm set, not realising that this will never work, so after attempting to apply this information and failing they move onto the next product, this time at $97 the same happens again, so they buy into a huge offer $5000 this offers everything they think they need and $20,000 of bonuses sounds great but this is where information overload takes place, you receive so much information in one go you just cannot process it all and put it into a workable order, and so it continues until you have spent well in excess of $10,000 then you realise that this is all hype and give up, go back the 9 to 5 and their old life.

There are also the upsells, this is where the salespage has convinced you to part with your cash, then you get the - ONE TIME SPECIAL OFFER - upgrade to this, upgrade to that etc. Now don't get me wrong here these can be really good offers, but what I would recommend is completing one course and when you are making money off what you have learned then upgrade. This has 2 advantages, 1 you will know that what you are being taught is working, BEFORE you throw more money at another product, and 2 you reinvest the money you have made from the first course through to the end and if you are making a profit you know that it works for you.

What we all really need is a course that can be followed from step 1 to step 2, step 2 to step 3 and so on, there are numerous courses from "real" internet marketers who will show you exactly how they did it, all you have to do is follow their instructions.

BUT THE BIG QUESTION - HOW DO I KNOW WHO I CAN TRUST???

In the US there are numerous websites recommending trusted trades people in specified States and in the UK, there has recently popped up "The Good Garage Scheme", "Trusted Tradesman Scheme" and various other schemes for this and that, however there are no real review sites as such for internet marketing, there are the likes of the Warrior Forum, which is great for asking for help and seeing where the scams are and what the new ones are.

7 Tips To Get More Readers for Your Articles

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There are many people who dread having to write papers or articles. Many just feel like it seems to be too much work and it all just goes to waste when no one reads. To some people, reading articles seems like work, especially if the article is boring and is of little value. Well, articles are supposed to be read, that’s their purpose to impart your message and information. If it is not read then it is a waste of time and effort.

But all the same, articles have to be written to be read. It’s just a matter of making them good. Making a good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and straining. There are just some points needed to be reminded of, and some guides to follow. Once you get the hang of it, writing articles could be fun, as well as profitable for you and your site.
Of course, writing articles must be about something you know about, that’s why if you own a site, you probably are knowledgeable about that certain topic and theme. When you write about it, you won’t have a hard time because you already know what it is and what it’s about. It’s just a matter of making your articles creative and interesting.

To make sure that your articles are read and enjoyed, here are 7 red hot tips to get your articles read. These tips will make your articles readable and interesting.

1) Use short paragraphs.

When the paragraph are very long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader just looking at it. It can get quite confusing and too much of a hard work to read. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are good to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!

2) Make use of numbers or bullets.

As each point is stressed, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, readers will know that this is where the tips start and getting stressed. Format you bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of square paragraphs. Add a little bit of flair and pizzazz to your articles shape.

3) The use of subheadings

Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in the page. Doing this will break each point into sections but still would be incorporated into one whole article. It would also be easy for the reader to move on from one point to another; the transition would be smooth and easy. You will never lose your readers attention as well as the point and direction to where the article is pointing.

4) Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header.

If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re already halfway in getting a person to read your article. Use statements and questions that utilize keywords that people are looking for. Provide titles or headers that describe your articles content but should also be short and concise.
Use titles like, “Tips on making more money”, or “How to make her swoon and blush” .You could also use titles that can command people, for example, “Make her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles reach out to a persons’ emotions and makes them interested.

5) Keep them interested from the start to the finish.

From your opening paragraph, use real life situations that can be adopted by the reader. Use good descriptions and metaphors to drive in your point, just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.

6) Utilize figures when necessary.

Using specific facts and figures can heighten your article because it makes it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it should be light and easy in them and flow. Like a friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager student.
7) Present Valuable content

This seems to be the most difficult to do. Since what keeps them in the first place is the value they get from your articles. You will be needing more work here. But one thing you should remind yourself is the fact that the more you see yourself doing it the better. This is the only way you can present yourself as an expert and then those who follow you can use your recomendations which in turn translates into affiliate commissions. This is the beauty of operating an Internet Home Business.

There are alot more you can consider in the process of of improving on the quality and readership of your blog or site.

How To Get Paid To Upload Files!

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Making Money Online is increasingly getting easy by the day – and
payouts sky rocketing. Simply upload files and get people to download them, and earn an average of 40 to 80 cents per download, sometimes up to $7.50!

It will please you to know that there are thousands of websites on the internet that offer cash rewards for uploading personal files which are in turn downloaded by other users. One of such sites is ShareCash.

ShareCash is a revolutionary, next-generation upload site, where you get paid CASH for every download you get from files uploaded on their site.

They offer the highest payouts per download, as well as provide a set of great tools, tutorials, and support to get you earning in no time. Simply register, upload files, and let the cash start rolling in!

You can make your choice from four options for payouts: Paypal, Check, AlertPay, or a Wire Transfer. For people requesting a non-US check, your request should be at least $100. You can only request payment via Wire Transfer if you are requesting more than $100.

What makes Share cash different

Unlike other upload websites that give you insanely low prices, such as $10 for 1000 US downloads; they give you an average of between 40 to 80 cents per download! That’s $800 for 1000 downloads - eighty times more than any other upload cash website! The best part is while they pay atleast 40 cents, there are many offers that go above the 80 cent upper average, all the way

up to $7.50 per download! There is a guarantee you will earn more with sharecash than any other paid-to-upload website - their revolutionary platform provides you with everything you need, from great features to the highest payouts around, to start making money with ease!

Here are some features:

* They offer the highest download rates around - at least 40 cents for any US, UK, CAN, or AUS download, and at least 25 cents for any international download. Remember, 40 cents is a base rate. Most downloads earn you over 60 cents, sometimes up to $7.50! You will earn the most with them, guaranteed.
* They are the pioneers of the high paying upload site concept. Therefore you can be sure you are with the most sophisticated and professional PPD site around!
* They have an unmatched system which is elegantly coded to incorporate all the features you need, while at the same time making it as easy as possible for you to earn money!
* Premium Memberships - downloaders can buy a premium membership

with them. If they buy one after visiting your file, you get 30% of the price!

* Affiliate messaging system - you can now talk to and train your affiliate army to make you even more cash!

* No "scrubbing" - nearly every other high paying download sites will "scrub" off perfectly good downloads, or not count them, and then even claim that they don't do it. Not Sharecash! Here you get paid for every download!

* They have a dedicated team of administrators and programmers who constantly release new features and optimizations!
* Friendly, 24/7 Online Community Forum, Live Chat, TeamSpeak, and Ventrillo!

* Their Affiliate System lets you refer users and get 10% of what they earn!
* Simple sign up - Start earning in less than 30 seconds!
* Low cashout limit - get your money after earning only $10!
* Super secure - your details, files, and earnings are safe!
* International downloads - get paid for any country!

* High-tech FTP, Direct, and Remote Uploader!
* Easy-to-use folder-based uploads manager!
* Payouts are constantly on the rise

* Flexible, on time payments!
* Accepts any file type!

You Can Make Even More Cash
You don't only get paid per download! Every time a user who goes to download your file buys a premium membership with them, you get 30% of that price! Imagine how much that could stack up in the long run, and then add the insane money you can make from normal downloads, and you will soon realize that you can make more with them than with any other upload website!

TIPS FOR GETTING DOWNLOADS - AND CASH!

1) Seed files on bittorent
Hundreds of thousands of people use bittorent daily, creating endless oppurtunities for you! For example, you can create a zip file with a passworded zip inside. Leave a readme.txt saying to retrieve the password you have to download it at your download link on sharecash! You'd be surprised at how many people will start downloading your text file!

2) Post to forums
There are a plethora of web forums on the internet with millions of users. Many forums have sections for downloads, and some are even dedicated to solely providing files. Upload a file that you know will be popular and post it to some active file sharing boards, and let the downloads - and cash - roll in!

3) What kind of files?
There are millions of uploaded files on the internet, but you want to find the one that will be the most popular and get the most downloads. These normally are videos of some popular event, like a soccer tournament, pdf's or free ebooks, game demos, game cheats, music files... the list goes on and on. Just make sure the file isn't copyrighted or sexually explicit!

4) Use YouTube
YouTube is the new frontier for internet marketing. By simply creating a video about a program, a song, a band, etc, and giving the user a download link in the video description will score you thousands of downloads, and dollars!

5) Peer-to-peer file sharing
Many people use peer-to-peer file sharing networks, like limewire or emule, to share files. You can use this as a spinoff of the bittorent technique, but instead of seeding your file just share it on these networks and let the downloads start rolling in!

If you’ve got stuffs you want people to download, why put it on your web page or blog register here to upload files and start to earn money online.

How to Make Money With Google Adsense Without a Website

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This is especially for all the people who are interested in knowing How to Earn Revenue Online from programs like Google Adsence but have no website to start and also do not have the time or technicalities to create and optimize one; there is good news for you.

I have in this post outlined some ways in which anyone who wants to Make Money with Google Adsence without a web site can go about it.

Adsence Revenue Sharing is a system that exists in the Google Revenue Program. In this system what you do is write article posts for these sites and you qualify to share in the revenue that accrues from the adverts displayed near the content you posted. The revenue from this program is shared at an equal ratio, some times slightly higher and some other times 100% depending on the website. Your Adsence publisher ID will be needed for this program. If you do not have an Adsence publisher ID then you have to open a Google account by going to www.google.com and registering for one. But if you do have then, just check at the right hand corner of your Google Adsence Account homepage for your ID.

Here I have outlined some websites you can begin with if you really want to increase your share in the Google adsence revenue that is raking in billions of dollars every year for webmasters all over the world.

I have made this list available with nonconformity to any criteria or ranking in terms of neither importance nor superiority. Also worth noting is the fact that program policies do change; these are the accepted norms as at when this post was made. So, check for policy updates if there has been any.

I huge you to try them out by registering for these sites and share in the Google Adsence revenue sharing program.

1. Article Muse

Article Muse is a news article directory where webmasters and individuals publish articles and partake in the sharing of revenues that is gained from placing Google ads beside the main content of the post.

Here your Ads will be displayed in every article you have submitted 100% of the time. That is your Ads will be displayed in every article you submit right from your very fist post beginning from the day you sign up for an account with them.

2. Blogger party

Bloggerparty is a blogging community that is involved in the revenue sharing adsence program where you can make money by sharing your thoughts, ideas, rants, daily journals, reviews, and life with people from

all over the world.

You can write about what you want, when you want; meet people, and have fun. When your readers click on any of the Google Adsense on your writings you make a share of the Adsense Revenue.

3. Cybersist

Cybersist is the place to go if you want to share your photos and blog. They also offer free webmail, file storage and more.

Here, Ads from Google will be displayed in 7 different locations on your blog and photo pages.

The Ads that are placed are specifically optimized to allow for better penetration to increase the click through rates for the Ads. Once Ads are clicked by visitors you earn from the revenue generated from the Ads placement.

4. Digital Point Forums

Digital Point is a webmasters forum site where you can learn about everything that pertains to websites. Tips, tools, trends and all that is needed for everyday maintenance, design, techniques for optimization and traffic generation, programming and the list goes on…

The forum also create the opportunity for members who have Adsence account to earn revenue from ads placed on the treads they start or participate in aside from making business contacts, doing joint ventures or advertizing personal products and services.

This forum displays one advertisement in the upper right area as well as in line when viewing a thread. Google Adsence is used to automatically serve relevant ads for the content on the page. Adsence publishers are paid by Google on a per click as well as per impression basis.

5. Flixya

Flixya is a video sharing site that allows you to share your videos from YouTube, Google Video, Daily Motion and other video sharing sites.

Here revenue is shared on a 50-50 basis. You will be making 50% of the revenue generated from the videos you submit to this site. If you video succeeds in driving lots of traffic, the more Ads will be displayed which translates to the more money your video will be earning for you.

So, the idea here is to submit videos with high capacity to generate a lot of traffic so that the clicks you get on the Ads will earn you more Adsence revenue.

6. Hub Pages

Here your articles are known as hub and this site share 60% revenue with their users. This means that for ten page views, your ads will display six times and theirs four times. This site has more than 8 million page impression per month. You can participate in the forum and can ask questions and get answers from forum members. This site also shares earnings from amazon and kontera ads.

7. Meshplex.org

The website allows you to submit tutorials for people to view from which you can profit in a big way.

You are able to post your full Google adsense code directly on your articles. This means that when a visitor clicks on your ad you receive 100% of the revenue.

8. Oocuz

Oocuz.com bring together a community of writers, an article database and a place where people can write about their websites, themselves or just about anything they have a knowledge of and when you submit articles as a publisher, your Adsense will be shown 100% of the time and without any limits. This site also creates opportunities for people who love to write to earn extra income to the adsence account.

9. Simply

Simply is a social bookmarking site that has support for Google adsence as a third party.

Each simply member has his/her main page on simply. (For example hectorboss). Every simply member then goes ahead to enter their Google Adsence Id into his/her page and it will immediately start showing Ads that corresponds to the post made with their Id.

The earnings from the displayed Ads go to the member whose id was used to display the Ads.

10. Squidoo

Squidoo is free if you want to use their site. Writers get half the advertising revenue they get from google. Any time someone stops by your writings, called lens and buys a product you recommend or clicks on a google ad, you get 50% of the earnings. Squidoo keeps 45% for the company up keep and send the remaining 5% to charity of choice.

This is a great place to be for you have more opportunities of making money with them.

11. Suite 101

Suite 101 is a top online magazine of independent journalism and expert advice. Its network comprises over 1,000 freelance writers and more than

7 million monthly readers worldwide.

Suite101 provides opportunities for freelance writers, non-fiction authors, journalism students, band knowledge junkies who can publish 10 articles every 3 months to: write for targeted readers on their chosen subjects of expertise and get paid a direct share of lifelong advertising revenue for their work, get free training on writing for the Web and work 1-on-1 with an editor.

Once you publish an article on Suite101, you get paid every time a reader clicks on one of the ads next to your article. How much money you earn monthly depends on: the value of each Google ad clicked; how many articles you've published; and how many visitors your articles attract.

The average Suite101 writer earns an equivalent of $3.50/1000 page views. According to suite101 some of their writers earn well over $1000 per month.

12. Swicki

Swicki is a site that allows you to create custom searches. Here you are allowed to save your own Ads program preferences. Ads will immediately start appearing on your swicki’s search result pages. For each active Ad program on swicki, you will be credited with 50% of the Ad impressions and clicks. The balance will be credited to Eurekster.

13. Xomba

Xomba.com allows you to publish articles and receive 50% of the adsense revenue generated from the articles. You are allowed to write or publish articles on any subject of your choice, especially on subjects you are passionate about.

When you sign up with them, like any other site that offers sharing of adsense revenue, your earning is computed this way: If it is 50-50 sharing ratio, it means that Google will display your adsense 50% of the time in a day, while it displays the site’s owner’s adsense for the other 50% of the day.
Xomba has two types of posts: Xombytes and Xomblurbs.

Xombytes are posts of 100 words or more in length that can be anything from a blog entry to a movie review or a how to guide.

Xomblurbs are social bookmarks that allow you to share an interesting link with the rest of the Xomba community. You write out a brief, descriptive paragraph and share the URL. Xomba also holds contests for money and prizes, giving you another opportunity to make money from them.

I hope this has been informational. These are some of the various ways you can start earning money from Google Adsence without a web site.

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