The earn a few thousand bucks a month online is the dream of bloggers. Some can do it, but most fail badly. The basic strategic mistake committed by most is “not any having strategy” at all. Most bloggers do not know what to do: they don’t know where to start, they don’t know what is important, and they don’t even know how to market their good blog. Their marketing strategy is pure machine gunning, shooting everywhere without knowing where the target is. Some bullets hit but most don’t.

To succeed in building a money-making blog is to know the right strategy and to walk the way. In a way, be a sniper, hit the target with less effort! One strategy that is mostly used is to create viral traffic. This strategy has been effectively used by Mark Flavin in his Internet Marketing Blog. Creating viral traffic is about doing things once, and having continual traffic. More traffic basicly means more money.

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Growing traffic and improving your blog’s ranking is possible through natural linking strategies. A link is a validation of your blog’s content quality, newsworthiness of your blog and your reputation as a subject matter expert.

It’s like our own reputation in a community where we live. How would someone recommend us as a good doctor, consultant, accountant or businessman? Only when we have developed a reputation in our domain, would friends, colleagues and neighbors recommend us to someone. That’s exactly the way Google sees a link to your site – as a validation of the quality of content.

Your blog’s ranking on search engines like Google is in some ways determined by the links to your blog. The value of the links is determined by the quality, relevance and quantity of the sites or blogs linking to you.

Quality of the site that Links

The quality of the blog or site that links to you is important. The site must be focused on your subject; or atleast related to your blog content. The number of links into that site is also key to determining the quality of the link to your blog. How the site or blog links – whether it’s a small comment or complete review of your site, just a recommended link among many other links or a quote from your blog post.

So when you write to webmasters or bloggers seeking a link on their site, first find out the relevance of the site and its quality.

Beware of those who try to cheat search engines by using black hat techniques – submitting to a large number of sites using a software, adopting cloaking, scraping someone’s content, linking to porn or adult sites, linking to illegal sites or doing sneaky re-directs etc. Don’t touch them with even a barge pole. Don’t link to them.

Quantity of Links matter in Google ranking a blog

Yes, the quantity certainly matters in ranking your blog higher in search engine results pages. The best way to get a good number of natural links is to write good and original content, post frequently and build your authority on the subject. Once people see that you have quality content, they’ll start linking to your blog.

When you have built a fair number of pages of content, only then should you write to other bloggers and sites seeking a link.

Relevance of the link determines the ranking too

This means that if you have a blog that teaches users to play golf, then a link from a site that has news of the latest happenings in the golf circuit, sells golf accessories, a golf forum or a golf club is relevant. If it’s from a blog or site on Barbie dolls, self help, online money making, fashion or some personal ramblings of a blogger, it’s not relevant to users of those sites.

The inbound link should fall within the subject of your blog post or blog. Then it’s a relevant link. The reason being the link becomes useful to users who are looking for such content. For shoppers on a furniture site, a link to your golf blog is not useful or relevant; therefore Google and other search engines are likely to give it less weightage.

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The ranking of the site that has the inbound link matters a lot in ranking

The relevance of the subject and context of the blog or site

Where the link is placed – home page or inner page

The anchor text (the words used to hyperlink your blog url)

Whether it’s a review of your blog or just an article link

The number of inbound links to that site

The traffic to the site or blog

The number of users who click from there and land up on your site

The quality and relevance of other links on that page

While blogging, remember all these are important in getting a high rank on Google and improving traffic to your blog.

For college students and other people who feel burned out trying to balance paying the bills and living at the same time, ads like these can prove to be irresistible. Many of them make perfect sense and easily hook you based on good concepts. Unfortunately, many times the product or service does not match the brilliance of a great idea for making money from home or through the Internet. As I?ve learned myself, the further you go down this road, the more excited you get. You basically get hooked, and if you aren?t careful, you will end up working hard and falling further into debt than you can imagine. Much like gambling, the lure of easy money and independence can make just about anyone fall prey to work at home scams that feed off your dreams to get to your wallet so they can go on to the next victim.

Hopefully, you will never fall victim to these scam artists. However, the fact of the matter is that these scammers would not be wasting their time if they were not making any money. And as long as people continue to get mixed up in this business, these scammers are going to stick around to trick more and more people.

The best way to keep a scammer?s claws away from your credit card is to do thorough research on each opportunity that you are considering. This means doing much more than simply reading a bit about it online. In my personal experience, I have been taken by companies who were savvy enough to pollute the Internet with staged testimonials, guarantees, questionable references to big name endorsements, and even appearances in the Better Business Bureau.

A colleague of mine who invested in vending machine placement services even went so far as to physically go to the manufacturing plant to tour the warehouse as well as contact the Better Business Bureau of that state. What he received, in return, were twenty malfunctioning candy machines with a list of local businesses who had apparently agreed to receive them. Not only did none of these businesses know what he was talking about, many of them were hostile when he showed up to place them.

What you want to do is check message boards such as the ASK section of Yahoo.com. Another simple method of weeding out the scams from the genuine opportunities is to go to a search engine and simply type in the company name followed by the word ?scam?. If you do this, and you are barraged by an endless list of complaints, you my friend have found a nugget of gold in a sea of mud.

In terms of the Better Business Bureau, it is best to contact them directly to ask about any complaints, and also find out how long a company has been listed. The Better Business Bureau operates state by state. They will be able to tell you if they have any complaints on file. If they do, you will want to avoid the opportunity at all costs. But if it appears that a company is doing business the right way, you can continue your own research.

Being in the Business Bureau is not necessarily that hard to accomplish. Many scammers can use their money and connections to set up a front to initially qualify for the Better Business Bureau just long enough for them to collect their cash from unsuspecting victims, close shop, create a new identity and start again.

Before you decide to do anything, attempt to get in touch with the company that you are interested in. Can you get a human being on the phone? Do they have an actually physical address? How long does it take them to respond to your e-mails, if at all? If you cannot even talk to the company before you start, there is not chance that they will be around when you really need them. I once made quite a bit of money selling vacation vouchers on auction sites. The marketing plan was sound, and the money saving vouchers was a hit. Only problem was, I could never get in touch with their customer service department to handle my customer inquiries and complaints once I realized that the promises that existed in writing on the vouchers were misleading at best. This proved to be such a problem that it took me over a year to recover from the negative publicity on my auction site.

Of course, there are legitimate home based businesses out there. With the Internet and all the low cost, web producing tools available, there seems to be a renaissance in entrepreneurship. Basically, just find a product or service you can market online, and do your research. Sell on EBay if you don?t want to build your own website. You can have a website their and all search engine marketing is already done by EBay. The Small Business Association has an office in downtown Tacoma and contains invaluable information on their website http://www.sba.com. Since small business is the backbone of our country economically, sources such as these are eager to help you create a plan with realistic expectations.

However, like anything else worthwhile, you have to do your homework and work hard at it. The problem is that too many people make you think you can practically go online and make money just clicking on a mouse. You want to steer clear of any business that asks to you to pay for their ?Top Secret? e-book that will teach you how to make an automated income.?

Think about it, if you are in dire need of cash, can you imagine any other situation in which you would not only work for free, but pay for the privilege to work. There are no magic formals or secrets worth paying for. All of the information in these e-books can be found for free through your own research if you have common internet skills.

If you don?t want to work hard and just make a few easy extra bucks without donating your blood or volunteering to be a guinea pig, it is possible to make some good extra money filling out online surveys or through mystery shopping. There are real opportunities out there which require no fee to get started. Not only that, several of them will even give you a $5 bonus just for signing up. If a company such as this is legitimate, they would be making lots of money through the success of its members. Companies that require that $49.97 start up fee only make money through the fee and only want to teach you how to get other people to do the same. The products are all useless lists and general information that anyone with a functioning mind could figure out on their own, or get for free by doing their own research.

In 12 years of trying to make a living on the Internet, the following are the best companies I have ever encountered for making a few extra bucks filling out surveys, playing games and mystery shopping. They probably won?t pay the rent, but if you?re interested in making an extra $400 or $500 a month or eating out at nice restaurants and going to movies for free, you may want to check these out:

Mystery Shopping Providers Association: .” target=new>http://www.mysteryshop.org/shoppers/“>.

This site contains all the information you will ever need on starting up as a mystery shopper. It is also a portal for the best sites to go to for mystery shopping jobs online, and they don?t require that you invest a penny.

InboxDollars.com. (you can sign up for free and get $5 just for signing up. You can make a few hundred dollars in one day, theoretically, if you are willing to use a credit card to sign up for free or paid trials. Just make sure you have the patience to fill out the long surveys and keep detailed records so you can remember to cancel your free trials before you get charged. Also, you can fill out surveys to make a dollar or two which are completely free. I?ve made about $400 with this site.

http://www.sendearnings.com.(almost identical to InboxDollars.com)

http://www.treasuretrooper.com. (a lot of free surveys and cool games).

http://www.tiktikcash.com. By far the best of the survey sites. The free surveys are tremendous. You can make a dollar or two in one minute. This site has the shortest, most painless surveys. I made over thirty bucks in less than after signing up.

Number one question online: how to start your home based online business? Surveying, researching and learning of how this business work will help you a lot before you start this business by yourself.

Search the internet and you will find out the right work from home that suit you the most. Search results on Google for work from home now list?s over 1,920,000,000 results and Yahoo list?s 1,300,000,000 work from home results, from this number you can see many research providers waiting for you to give you their best service everywhere on internet world.

Search Engines are constantly on the “look out” for freshly written content that has been submitted online. You don?t have time to spend weeks or months searching for a real work at home job opportunity. So, those providers on internet will help you out and you can choose any of professional research companies to help you to reach your goal.

You have to learn more by surveying and researching and pick up the best companies to match with your target. For example, if you want to start your business by publishing your article, you have to be the best article writer, but how. There?re a lot of tool you can find out to help you to write the best article like a professional.

If you want to use SEO, you will need to find out the best SEO provider for you on this matter. You can start with the search engine optimization area and you may learn from forum that people have a specific discussion or you may learn from newsletter of website that have the same business and the same goal and you do. And the important thing is you need to learn how they do and manage to give you more variety experiences from others.

If you do not currently work for a company that allows employees to telecommute, you can begin searching for those that do. I’ve also searched like you, but all the companies asked some money even before they actually give us the work. Since every website needs to make it to the top in the search engines, this job is in high demand. So, this is already making your process easier and you will find a lot of information out there online.

Here is an example on home based online business run by Ester from Toronto Canada, Walk Through Money Online Journal. It is a simple website about “teach and earn”. Ester shares a lot of information on how to she makes money online.

The world is flat according to Thomas L. Friedmen, the famous writer of “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”. With the introduction of internet, now almost everything are possible. Distance is not a barrier anymore. People from miles apart can play bridge with ease. No traveling and physical meeting required.

Online consultation is now a trend. Take an example of a clinic for plastic surgery in Beverly Hills. Knowing the fact that flying to beverly hills for consultation might be time consuming, inconvenient, and expensive , this clinic is offering “Long Distance” online consultation. The procedure is pretty is simple, just email the completed form and photographs of concerned area. Assesment will be done without requiring the potential patient to come to the clinic. The patient Care Consultant will the contact the patient to discuss pre-operative care, costs, recovery, local accommodations and any questions related to the procedure.

I am further impressed by the before and after surgery photo gallery for breast augmentation, breast lift, breast reduction, tummy tuck, liposuction, otoplasty, rhinoplasty, eye lift, face lift, and brow lift. These gallery worth more than a thousand words. Well, you can click to the link above if you want to know more.

Just want to share a bit of what i bumped into this morning.

There is this company called EcoQuest International (ecoquestintl.com). This company has a very creative business idea where it sells health-related products through an affiliate marketing programs. The products mostly are air and water purification systems for the home, vitamins and supplements, and household cleaning products.

I was curious how this website with this kind actually performs online. Checking through EcoQuest Intl alexa data, I found out that ecoquestintl.com actually does pretty well. Being online since January 2000, it now has a traffic rank pretty close to 100,000. EcoQuest has a google page rank of 4/10, with 833 pages indexed with google as of today (September 13, 2008). The backlinks for this page is also quite good, which is close to 100.

Additional information that are found in alexa.com is that this company is privately held with revenue within $1M-$10M. The site speed is categorised as fast (74% of sites are slower than Ecoquest.

Ramon provides more marketing information, especially created for the IT VAR industry but also applies to everyone who wants to improve their sale

Business means projects. Getting a project is one thing, managing and finishing a project successfully is another thing. Getting a project means money flowing in to our company. However, things might turn around if we could not finish the project on time or to the requirements of our client.

These are a few problems we might face during a project: getting everybody updated on what everybody has done; client’s emails containing important information ending up with the wrong member; difficulty in estimating true project costs because time spent on project tasks are not tracked down properly; communication issue as clients and working partners are miles away. Often, failure to manage the problems will result in redundancies and time wasting, subsequently high productivity cost.

A good project needs a good project management software for tasks and getting things done. I found out that Peletonics provides an easy to use project dashboard, and most importantly it can enable us to handle all the challenges above. Remember that good project management means good productivity and ,of course, profit.

This is how Pelotonics works perfectly for projects:

1. Projects can easily be categorised into TO DO and MILETONES, and be added into the CALENDAR. Relevant Parties will be informed automatically such that everyone will know the updated status for all the tasks. If we need reports, well they are all ready for printing.

2. Pelotonics has an effective messaging system. All updates, comments and relevant files submitted by team and clients will be sent to the management portal, after which relevant parties will be informed.

3. Pelotonics provides special feature for time-tracking. We can easily identify bottlenecks and adjust accordingly before they become problems.

4. I like the friendly Overview and Dashboard pages which is best for checking updates, submitting files and messages. We can access this pages from everywhere we want. Pelotonics seems to work on all platforms (but IE7 is most recommended). Best, there is no software downloading or data synchronizing.

5. Peletonics is all about transparency and trust between project team and clients. The software accommodates the fast and updated information that can be accessed by both team and clients. Team can get prompt reply by posting a message to the client via the project management portal.

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About The Author
Giovanni Gallucci

With over a decade of expertise building communities online and search engine technology, I am recognized as a social media expert, new media producer, and a leader in search engine marketing. My areas of expertise encompass community building, web design and development, website architecture, online marketing, new media, natural web site optimization, online viral marketing, and social media consulting.