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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Make Money Online Cool Tips

Internet has become a very important part of our life. In this era, the use of internet is quite important and do you know that the cyber world can also help you to earn money? In fact there are many people who had quit from their regular jobs to make money online. The best part is that you need not to commute to offices and go through those hassles of traveling. Just imagine the money you can earn in time that we usually waste in commuting to and from office.

Every individual has some hobbies and the best way to make money online would be to use this passion to earn money. Moreover, you would enjoy such work and be able to put your 100% into that job. Flexibility is another important factor when we talk of making money online. Most of the internet job lets you work anytime of the day without any restrictions of time. So, if you are a homemaker, then this is the best option for you.

There are various ways by which you can make money online. All you need to do is to find the way that suits you the best. You may search for various websites that provides various types of online jobs to make money online. Just type "make money online" on your Google page and you would be amazed with the amount of results that you get. Your first task should be to find websites that are legitimate and can provide you regular work. If website requires you to pay some membership fee, then make sure that the information you provide is protected and the website is a verified one. You may have to browse through various websites to find the one that suits you the best in terms of work and remuneration.


One of the most important points that you should remember while starting to make money online is that you should use more than one stream. This would help you to earn more money than you would have earned with a single money making stream. Also, you need to have thorough knowledge of the subject in which you wish to deal. Try to read as much about the subject as possible.


Have you heard about Google Ad words or Ad sense? If not, then consider it once when you plan to start your online business. These can be one of your money making stream that would provide you with constant flow of money. If you are a little good at writing, then you can also get some writing jobs to make money online. It would yield you a good sum of money that can be used to support your growing online business and also add to your experience.

Some other ways to earn or make money online includes selling old backyard items over the internet. There are many websites such as eBay that lets you set up an online store for free. All you need to do is to register on the websites and start purchasing or selling goods. So, if you have some item that is available at a cheaper rate in your area or with your knowledge, then you can sell those items on internet and make a quick buck.


Ideas may be many, but all requires hard work, patience and time. Remember that it takes some time to be rich and nothing good can be done fortnight. So, start working from today to make money online!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Copy Writing

What is copy? Copy is the text you find in advertising, particularly text for catalogs and direct mail solicitations. In other words, it’s the kind of text you want for your eBay auction ads and eBay Store catalog webpages. Copy writing is not necessarily hype like the short phrases in magazine advertisements. It’s persuasive writing in sentences and paragraphs. Copy writing is an art. Those who do it well get paid handsomely. Good copy writing sells merchandise. Can you expect to write your auction ads like a professional copy writer? Probably not. (I know I can’t.) Yet you want to do the best job you can. It ultimately means more money in your pocket. Thus,it pays to learn a few writing guide-lines that can substantially improve your copy writing.

Organize your thoughts before you start writing. If you have time, out-line what you’re going to write. As they say, a good story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. So does a good eBay auction ad. In effect, you tell the story of your product. The story affects the purchasing decision of the buyer. If the story rambles on without any point or is just a list of specifications, it won’t have a lo t of impact. As a result, the prospective buyer may remain undecided. If you write a coherent story and give it a point, it will lead a potential buyer to make a purchasing decision, and you will have achieved your purpose. What’s the point to make in your copy? Here’s the product (describe it). Here’s what it can do. And he re’s what it can do for you. If you can get a potential buyer to make a decision—doesn’t matter whether it’s to buy or not to buy—generally your bids will increase (and the winning bids will be higher).

Here are some priorities for an organized ad:
1. Full information on the product (e.g., specifications)
2. Full information on the condition of the product (if not new)
3. What the product can do
4. Benefits of the product to a buyer
5. Request to bid (or to buy)

With over 22 million items for sale every week, I can only give general guidelines in a chapter on copy writing. Each product is different, and some products may require special treatment for copy writing. But good organization in your writing will take you a long way down the road to writing solid and effective copy.

Remember, the Web is an informational medium. There is no shortage of space to tell the story of your product. This is not a classified ad where you pay by the word. You can us e as many words as you need to, and the price for the space is the same. In a mail order catalog, the descriptions of products are short because space is limited, but you will notice that the descriptions are much longer and more informational than in the hype of a magazine or newspaper display ad. In direct mail solicitations (junk mail), the descriptions of products are particularly long and informational because even more space is avail-able for one price. Good copy writers take advantage of the space avail-able to make a thorough sales pitch to the reader. They focus on the benefits of the product’ s features to the buyer. The reading space usu-ally consists of whatever paper the seller can cram into one ounce (the smallest unit of weight and the lowest postage). That’s the equivalent of four 8.5 x 11 sheets.


Direct mail is very effective. We tend to discount this fact, because we don’t read direct mail in which we are not interest ed. But when a solicitation arrives in the mail for a product we happen to want or need that day, we read it. And often the solicitation is quite enticing. Generally eBay product descriptions should be somewhere in length between a catalog description and a direct mail solicitation. You can justify writing longer ads for more expensive or more complex products. Your time is the real limitation here. The space is available.

Having told you to make it long, I’m going to tell you to keep it short. What’s going on here? In this case, focus on your actual writing, not the amount of content. Use short words, short sentences, and short paragraphs. More people understand—and are comfortable reading short words rather than long words. Short sentences read faster and are more understandable than long sentences. And reading short paragraphs goes faster and is less tedious than reading long paragraphs. So, write as much as you need to, but write it in short chunks with simple words.

Then too, you don’t have to use the all space available, which is practically unlimited. The objective is to say what you need to about a product to give a prospective buyer enough solid information to make a buying decision, no more and no less. For some products that may be two sentences and for other products it may be twenty or even two hundred sentences. Say what you need to and end it there.

Don’t try to make your writing conform to some pretentious stereotype. For instance, you don’t want your ad to sound like a lawyer wrote it. No one will read it. Write in your own voice. Give your writing some personality. In other words, you don’t want to make your writing abstract and impersonal.

We all talk with numerous people every day, and we differentiate them by their personalities. We are very skilled at doing so. We feel comfortable with information that has a human voice. We get bored with or even become suspicious of impersonal communications.

That doesn’t mean that you have to overwhelm prospective buyers with your down home dialog and charm, but it does mean that you can be yourself when you write your eBay auction ads. Write naturally as you would talk. That’s the best way to make your writing personal,
and that’s the best way you can write.

People are much more interested in who did what to whom than they are in what is. Use action verbs wherever possible and avoid the passive.

Action (active): John taped the package.
Inactive: The package is taped.
Passive: The package was taped by John.

Action moves reading along and gives power to the message. The passive puts readers to sleep. It’s not always possible to write with action verbs when copy writing, but use action verbs as much as possible.

Use plain language. This is similar to keeping it short. Use short words instead of long words wherever you can, and your language will be plainer. More people understand short words, and short words are easier to read for everyone. But it’s more than keeping your words short. Don’t use jargon or technical language. Your object here is to present information on the product to the greatest number of prospective buyers. Your objective is not to inform readers that you are a member of the in-group (associated with the product) by tossing around technical terms and jargon. When you use plain language, you focus your message on the product and on informing readers. When you use lots of jargon, you are, in effect, focusing the message on yourself and leaving many readers baffled. Sure, for many products you need to include technical information, product specifications (containing technical information), and industry jargon. But keep it to a minimum, and when you use anything but plain language, explain it to your readers.

You can argue that for certain technical items, the only bidders will be prospective buyers who will understand the industry jargon. I don’t buy that argument. For instance, I’m not an electrician or an electronics technician, but I bought a voltmeter a few years back. It was a one-project purchase, and I wanted to pay the lowest price possible. Yet I needed to be assured that I bought the right voltmeter to get the job done. Jargon didn’t help me—it hindered me—in making my purchasing decision. In fact, I couldn’t find an informative eBay ad for a voltmeter among the many auction ad s on eBay for voltmeters. Consequently, I bought the voltmeter offline at Radio Shack.

Good copy writing takes time. Time’s not money, but it’s still a finite commodity. You have to write your copy (or hire it done). You might as well learn to do a good job since you need to write copy one way or another. But you need to conserve your time too. Perhaps the best approach is to develop a strategy that limits the amount of time you spend writing. Here are some things you can do:

1. Give priority for writing good copy to products you will sell
again and again.

2. Give priority to your most expensive products.

3. Use links to manufacturers’ websites to supplement your product information wherever possible. In other words, if a manufacturer provides it, use it . Don’t reinvent the wheel.

4. Copy product literature from packages or product flyers wherever possible. (You may be violating a copyright, but this is a widespread practice on eBay. I don’t recommend that you do
this, but if you do, limit it to one time sales. For repeat sales of products, write your own copy, particularly for eBay Stores and Froogle.)

The trouble with doing a cost-effectiveness review regarding copy
writing is that the cost-effectiveness analysis applies only to that portion of the time it takes you to do a good job over and above the time it takes you to do a mediocre job. It’s this extra time that you need to consider in your cost-effectiveness evaluation. Since you will improve with learning and practice, you will become more efficient in writing good copy over time. Considering the importance of good copy, I have to conclude that competent copy writing is time well spent on marketing your products.

by: Amanda Peet

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

New Datafeed Marketplaces for Your eBay Retail Business

Talk about cost-effectiveness, it doesn’t get any better than this. If you can send a datafeed to an additional Web marketplace to create catalog entries, and if it doesn’t cost anything, this process is about as cost-effective as you can get. When the additional marketplace is Froogle, you can potentially increase your sales by a huge amount with nominal effort and expense. What a deal! This is something you can’t afford to overlook if you’re serious about your eBay retail business.

How it Works?
You already have data for your eBay auction listings and eBay Store listings. That data fills a webpage template with information and becomes the eBay auction ad or the eBay Store catalog webpage (ad). Why not use the same data for other online listings and catalogs such as Froogle or Yahoo Shopping? In fact, you can do this easily. Just take a subset (i.e ., a portion) of the data you already have and send it to the website (e.g., Froogle) where you want to sell your items. You export the data to the target website. Another way of saying this is that you provide a datafeed to the target website.

Froogle and Yahoo
Google is the leading search engine with a market share that’s over 50 percent. Yahoo runs a distant second with a market share that’s about 20 percent. Both Google and Yahoo have created strictly retail searches (search that return only products for sale. Google calls its special search Froogle. Yahoo calls its special search Yahoo Shopping. From your point of view, you can send a datafeed to each and expand your sales. Froogle is currently free. However, Yahoo Shopping charges for each click-through and can be expensive. Froogle is a huge opportunity for you. Clearly it’s the biggest and most cost-effective marketing and sales opportunity you have online in addition to eBay and eBay Stores. If you pass it up, you’re leaving money on the table. Go to http://www.google.com and click on the Froogle link and start your search, or go to http://www.froogle.com and search for an item you want to buy. Froogle will deliver a series of item listings to you, in effect a catalog. You simply decide where you want to buy, and one click will get you to the selling website. It’s simple and effective.

For a long time many people have been using Google to shop. Since it’s impossible to track sales through Google, no one knows how many sales are made through Google. My best guess is that the sales volume is equal to if not greater than eBay. Unfortunately, to sell effectively on Google, your website has to be found by the Google search engine. It may not be cost-effective for you. With Froogle, however, your website doesn’t have to get found. You provide a datafeed to Froogle, and your listings (items) will appear in the Froogle catalog (webpages). It’s simple, and it’s free. Froogle started its beta test in December of 2002. Yahoo copied it soon thereafter with Yahoo Product Search, which was in beta until the fall of 2003. Yahoo Product Search was free to retailers while in beta.

When Yahoo Product Search emerged from beta in September 2003 and started operation officially as a feature of Yahoo, it was renamed Yahoo Shopping. Yahoo then started charging retailers for listings with a substantial fee for every click-through on an item. Froogle completed beta in March of 2004 at which time it officially became a feature of Google. Froogle is still free for retailers, even though it’s not in beta any longer. Although still in its infancy, Froogle is destined to grow in popularity comparable to its parent Google. So long as it’s free, it’s a great opportunity for cost-effective retail sales.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Free Backlinks Building Info for Newbies

Building backlinks is one of the most important things you must do for your website. Basically, backlinks are links from other websites that are pointing back to your site. It's also known as incoming links and inbound links. As an internet marketer, backlinks are vitally important to your success. Your website will move up in importance on search engine pages with the help of backlinks. With a large quantity of backlinks, your website will move up in the rankings for your selected keywords. The more backlinks you have to your site, the better your site will be. However, not all backlinks are created equally!

When websites first started linking to each other, backlinks were used by webmasters to suggest other websites that he or she enjoyed and wanted to pass on to the visitors. This still happens quite a bit but these days backlinks are an important part of a webmaster's Internet marketing strategy.

Google search engine use the number of backlinks a website has in order to determine its relevance. If your site has 10 other sites pointing to it with a link and the keyword phrase "make money online," the search engines spiders will be able to determine that your site has to do with making money online. If you have a hundred sites pointing to your site and using the keyword phrase "make money online", that is even better! The sites that are linking back to your site have to meet certain standards in order to be counted as "votes" for your site and that keyword phrase. In this report, you will learn the most effective linking strategies in order to quickly and efficiently move your site up in the rankings.

Google also gives you the added benefit of the page ranking system. Google has a way of evaluating each website and giving it a page rank of anywhere from 1 to 10. The higher the page rank, the more important a website is in the eyes of Google. This is important when you are building backlinks. When a high page rank website links to your site, Google will begin to see your site as more important as well. In the Internet marketing world, this is known as passing along "link juice." You will get more link juice from having a PR 5 website link to you than having a PR 1 website link to you. Links come in different varieties - one way links and reciprocal links. One-way links are links from another website to you with no link going the other way. Reciprocal
links occur when both you and the other website are linked to one another, kind of like in a "scratch my back I'll scratch your" type situation.

Google will also look for the relevancy of the websites that are linking to your site. This is called "link relevancy" and it is an important thing to remember when you are looking for backlinks. For example, if you have parenting, home repair and relationship advice blogs pointing to your make money online blog, these links won't be seen as valuable as other make money online blogs pointing to you.

However, the most important thing to do is get backlinks. If it comes down between having irrelevant links and no links at all, always go with the irrelevant links.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Proper Blogging Software

The popularity of blogging is increasing by the minute. Because of this, the need for blogging software is also increasing. Blogging software can simplify the entire blogging process. The task of selecting a software package is overwhelming because there are many packages available.

The process of choosing the most appropriate blogging software is not as difficult as it may seem. Since you’re a blogger, you spend a great deal of your time online. Do some research and you can find helpful websites that can simplify the process of decision making. These websites can provide you with comparison charts so that you can compare the different blogging software packages.

You can save a lot of time by making use of the comparison charts because they have all the information you’ll need in choosing the right software. However, for the purpose of choosing the appropriate software using the charts, you need to look for other important information such as the methods used for comparing the software, understanding the charts, and some helpful tips in selecting software.

Before you attempt to compare the different blogging software available, you must understand certain software criteria. You have to understand the minimum requirements for the server, post editor, and data storage. If you can understand these things, you can already compare the different software packages.

You will install the software in the server. The blog software can operate properly depending on the particular software used. You will have additional costs for the license requirements and the software as well.

To evaluate the software, you must look into the data storage of the blogging software. There are some options included in the software such as data file, flat file, or database. The last criterion is the post editor and this pertains to the editor type that is used on the blogs to fill-in listed posts. You can find post editor with options like JAVA or HTML.

In comparing the different blogging software in the market, you must be able to find the most superior software package. Be sure to identify your blogging needs so that you can choose the appropriate software package. By doing so, you can identify the different criteria that is relevant to your blogs.

Once you’ve evaluated the packages, you can install the right blogging software for you. This is a very important decision and so you need to think things out carefully. By this time, you’ve already looked into the different software packages and checked their server requirements, storage space, post editors, etc.

However, as an educated consumer, you shouldn’t forget about versatility and cost. You must admit it that some bloggers have limitations when it comes to the budget allocated for such blogging software. There are free software packages as well as paid packages. You need to choose between free packages or purchase one that can exactly meet your blogging needs. Well of course, you can only do this after considering the money in your hands.

A good place to start is wordpress.com, it's free and probably the most versatile blogging software available. It also has a ton of plugins to enhance the features.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Ranking Well at Search Engines With This Cool 5 Tips

Do you have a product or services that you want to sell on the Internet? If so, there are a few fundamental components that you must know. Putting your product or service up for sale is easy. You can find a cheap hosting plan and get a 1-5 page site up within a few hours. But what happens next?

Unfortunately, most businesses will never sell their product successfully on the Internet. Their sites may be flashy, but they are not receiving visitors. To receive an endless supply of free, targeted, leads from the search engines you should consider a few of the 5 tips below by Lynn VanDyke. A great read for those just starting out and a great reminder to the old pro's about how simple, effective processes can still work wonders.

Tip #1- Provide High Quality Content

Providing content does more than give out generic information. Providing content builds trust between you and your visitor. The more content you give, the bigger the bond. Your content should focus around very specific keywords. Each page on your website should be optimized and focused on one keyword.

Finding keywords is a task in and of itself. I will be the first to admit that hunting down keywords with a high demand and low supply is not the easiest task in the world. It can be boring and repetitive. After awhile the numbers will blend together and you will feel a bit dazed. But do not stop now! Keywords are the foundation for your content pages and for your business.

Tip #2- Find Relevant Linking Partners

The days of trading links with any old site are gone. There was a period in time when search engines counted how many links in you had to your site. They factored that and determined if your site was good or not. So if your site had 300 other sites linking to it, search engines would have probably considered it a better site than one with only 10 incoming links.

Search engines have wised up since those days. Now search engines place more emphasis on relevant links. Your site should only link to other sites that are high quality and relevant. If your site is about cookies then you should not be linking to a site about gambling. It doesn't make sense for your site visitors, and it doesn't make sense to the search engines.

When you trade links with a relevant, high quality site be sure you specify where your link should be placed, for how long, and what it should say. I often see people exchange links and within a few days the linking partner has taken down the link. Only do business with trusted webmasters.

Tip #3- Submit Your Site to Site Directories

This is a great way to get high quality and high ranked sites to link to you. Think of a link to your site as a vote of confidence. Site directories are less popular than search engines, but their link to you helps you increase in search engine rankings. Be wary of any site directory that makes you pay for submission. There are plenty of great directories that allow you to submit your site for free.

Getting as specific as possible with site directories is a great idea. If your site is about cookies, you should try to find a site directory that only deals with desserts or foods. General directories are fine, but be sure you submit your site to the appropriate category. General directories tend to have a category for almost any topic.

Some site directories will ask you to link to them first. This is your choice. I do not link or pay to get into any site directory. There are too many free ones that do not require a link back. Remember to place only relevant links on your site. Would your cookie site visitors want to click on a link for a site directory?

Tip #4- Add a Site Map

A site map is a single webpage that contains links to all the other pages on your site. Adding a map will help your visitors find information quickly. Besides being a helpful tool for visitors a site map also helps search engines find pages. When a search engine spider visits your site it crawls through a page. It visits all the links on your page and it checks for keywords. This is why keywords and relevant linking partners are recommended above.

Once the search engine spider finds the site map it will find all of your other pages. Search engine spiders do not like to dig very deep into sites. They like to search through 2 or 3 'levels' of information. So pages that are hard to find will not rank well or they will take much longer to rank well. A site map helps the engines find all your pages at once.

Tip #5- Be Patient and Find Other Means of Traffic

Waiting for the search engines to scour your site and rank it could take a bit of time. I recommend a lot of patience. When I post a new content page on my website, it takes a few weeks to get noticed. Some search engines are fast and rank the page immediately. Others are a bit slower.

While you wait for your pages to rank well I recommend finding alternative ways to drive traffic to your site. You can look into PPC (pay-per-click advertising), article writing, off-line ads, buying ad space in newsletters, doing a joint venture with a fellow webmaster or post in relevant forums.

These 5 tips to ranking well at the search engines are tried and true methods. I have built a site using these 5 tips and can personally attest to their sheer power. Patience is the hardest part. Keep building relevant content, link to relevant partners, submit to site directories, add a site map and then keep going.

Persistence pays off. Building a web business takes time. Your business needs to develop and mature. Using some or all of the above tips can ensure a big payoff down the road.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Great Blog Marketing Techniques

Marketing your blog is not all that hard to do. You have to be persistent and want success however if you want your blog to do well. You cannot just make a post and forget about it. You have to continue updating your blog and marketing it so that it will become popular and one that everyone wants to read. There are other ways as well that are good marketing your blog. Keep reading for more information.

Interviewing people and posting it on your blog is an excellent way to market it. Just be sure that the people that you interview pertain to the market of your blog. You want all of your posts to be relevant, including any interviews that you might do. For example, if your blog market was vacuum cleaners, and you did an interview with the owner of Hoover vacuum cleaner; that would definitely pertain to your market.

If you hear any news on the market of your blog, be sure that you post it. Everyone loves news, and event he readers of your blog will appreciate you blogging about the current events in the market that you are blogging about. Something to keep in mind when blogging about the news is the more current the news, the better. No one wants to reread old news, so it is a great idea to try and stay as current as possible when you are blogging about the news.

Contests are another way that you effectively market your blog. Having contests on various things would be a lot of fun, and something that will keep your readers coming back. Everyone loves to win things, and you can also make the prize that you are giving away relevant to the market you are promoting on your blog.

While good content is something that you will need for your blog, you also want to ensure that it is original content as well. You can market a blog with something that is copied and that you do not own the rights. Plagiarism will get you in trouble with Google as well as the person that originally wrote the content. Be sure that all of your posts are ones that only you own the rights too. This is a great thing to know and do when you are marketing your blog.

Press releases are also an excellent way to market your blog. Sending out a press release or having one made for you is a great idea. You will find that they are even affordable for most budgets, and some companies offer a package deal for example, if you let us write your press release we will submit it for half price. Who could resist a deal such as that? Especially when you are budgeting and trying to get the most from your funds.

Comments on a blog are also a very important aspect of blog marketing. You will want to be sure that you always answer and acknowledge the comments that are made to your blog as well as others. When you show that you are an actual person that can hold a conversation, you are showing others that you are real and that you really and truly have the best intentions for your blog. Make sure that no comment goes unanswered.

Marketing a blog comes naturally for some and can be a little harder to focus on for others. Another important thing that you will want to do for your blog is to be sure that you find links. Exchange links, get one way links, and ask for more and more links. You will never have enough links to your blog. The more links the better in this case.

Blog marketing is not hard to do. Just be sure that you follow all of the proven and tried techniques that others are talking about and you wont go wrong. Just don’t give up and keep on marketing because it will pay off sooner or later.